| unesterified free fatty acid | Free fatty acids which occur in plasma as a result of lipolysis in adipose tissue or when plasma triacylglycerols are taken into tissues. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| uneven crossing-over | Unequal crossing-over, crossing-over that happens when the breaks do not occur at precisely homologous points in two chromatid strands, and hence results in localised duplication of genetic material in one chromatid and complementary deletion in the other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unexpressive | 1. Not expressive; not having the power of utterance; inexpressive. 2. Incapable of being expressed; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable. "Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she." (Shak) Unexpress"ively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unfeatured | Wanting regular features; deformed. "Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unfeeling | 1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. 2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. "To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own." (Gray) Unfeel"ingly, Unfeel"ingness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unformed | 1. Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed. 2. Not formed; not arranged into regular shape, order, or relations; shapeless; amorphous. 3. <biology> Unorganised; without definite shape or structure; as, an unformed, or unorganised, ferment. <astronomy> Unformed stars, stars not grouped into any constellation; informed stars. See Sporades. Origin: In sense 1 properly p. P. Of un form; in senses 2 and 3 pref. Un- not + formed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unformed visual hallucination | Hallucination composed of sparks, lights, or bursting spheres of light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unfruitful | Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. Unfruit"fully, Unfruit"fulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ung | Abbreviation of L. Unguentum, ointment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ungka | <zoology> The siamang. Synonym: ungka ape. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ungka-puti | <zoology> The agile gibbon. Synonym: ungka-pati, and ungka-etam. See Gibbon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ungored | Not stained with gore; not bloodied. Origin: Pref. Un- + gore blood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ungual | Relating to a nail or the nails. Synonym: unguinal. Origin: L. Unguis, nail (05 Mar 2000) |
| ungual phalanx | The distal phalanx of each of the digits; so called because of the flattened tuberosity at its termination which supports the nail. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ungual tuberosity | A roughened raised surface of horseshoe shape on the palmar surface of the distal end of the terminal or ungual phalanx of each finger and toe, which serves to support the pulp of the digit. Synonym: tuberositas phalangis distalis, tuberositas unguicularis, ungual tuberosity. (05 Mar 2000) |