| melittin | <protein> The major component of bee venom, responsible for the pain of the sting. A 26 amino acid peptide, that has a hydrophobic and a positively charged region. Can lyse cell membranes and activate phospholipase A2 enzymes, it has a very high affinity for calmodulin but the biological relevance of this is unclear. (13 Nov 1997) |
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| melituria | An obsolete term for glycosuria. Origin: G. Meli, honey, + ouron, urine (05 Mar 2000) |
| Melkersson, Ernst | <person> Swedish physician, 1898-1932. See: Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| melkersson-rosenthal syndrome | <syndrome> A syndrome often beginning in childhood or adolescence, characterised by chronic facial oedema, recurrent peripheral facial paralysis, sometimes fissured tongue, and ophthalmological involvement. It is also called granulomatous cheilitis or cheilitis granulomatosa. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mellate | <chemistry> A mellitate. Origin: L. Mel, mellis, honey. Cf. Mellitate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mellic | <chemistry> See Mellitic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mellitate | <chemistry> A salt of mellitic acid. Origin: Cf. F. Mellitate. See Mellitic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mellite | <chemical> A mineral of a honey colour, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina. Origin: L. Mel, mellis, honey: cf. F. Mellite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mellitic | <chemistry> Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes. Pertaining to, or derived from, the mineral mellite. <chemistry> Mellitic acid, a white, crystalline, organic substance, C6(CO2H)6, occurring naturally in combination with aluminium in the mineral mellite, and produced artificially by the oxidation of coal, graphite, etc, and hence Synonym: graphitic acid. Origin: Cf. F. Mellitique. See Mellite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mellitose | <biochemistry, plant biology> A nonreducing trisaccharide found in sugar beet and many seeds, consisting of the disaccharide sucrose bearing a D galactosyl residue linked _(1-6) to its glucose group. (18 Nov 1997) |
| mellitum | A pharmaceutical preparation with honey as an excipient. Origin: L. Neut. Of mellitus, honeyed (05 Mar 2000) |
| mellone | <chemistry> A yellow powder, C6H3N9, obtained from certain sulphocyanates. It has acid properties and forms compounds called mellonides. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mellow | To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. "Prosperity begins to mellow." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| melluco | <botany> A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Melnick, John | <person> U.S. Radiologist, *1928. See: Melnick-Needles syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |