| salpingostomatomy | Synonym: salpingostomy. Origin: salpingo-+ G. Stoma, mouth, + tome, incision (05 Mar 2000) |
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| salpingostomy | <procedure, surgery> An incision in a fallopian tube, such as to remove an ectopic pregnancy. (09 Oct 1997) |
| salpingotomy | <procedure, surgery> An operation to open a blocked fallopian tube. (09 Oct 1997) |
| salpinx | <anatomy> The Eustachian tube, or the Fallopian tube. Origin: NL, from Gr, a trumpet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salpinx uterina | One of the tubes leading on either side from the upper or outer extremity of the ovary, which is largely enveloped by its expanded infunclibulum, to the fundus of the uterus; it consists of infundibulum, ampulla, isthmus, and uterine parts. Synonym: salpinx uterina, tuba uterina, salpinx, fallopian tube, gonaduct, oviduct, tuba fallopiana, tuba fallopii. (05 Mar 2000) |
| salsafy | <botany> See Salsify. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salsalate | A combination of 2 molecules of salicylic acid in ester linkage. The compound is hydrolyzed during and after absorption to salicylic acid which, like other salicylates, exerts analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects. Synonym: salicylsalicylic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| salsamentarious | Salt; salted; saline. Origin: L. Salsamentarius, fr. Salsamentum brine, pickled fish, fr. Salsus salted, p.p. Of salire to salt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salsify | <botany> See Oyster plant, under Oyster. Origin: F. Salsifis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salso-acid | Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid. Origin: L. Salsus salted, salt + acidus acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salsola | <botany> A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort. Origin: NL, fr. L. Salsus salt, because they contain alkaline salts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salsoline alkaloids | Tetrahydroisoquinolinol alkaloids in both dextro and levo forms, originally from salsola richteri; may be hypotensive due to inhibition of certain brain enzymes; may be formed de novo in brain from dopamine during alcoholism. (12 Dec 1998) |
| salsuginous | <botany> Growing in brackish places or in salt marches. Origin: L. Salsugo, -ginis, saltness from salsus salted, salt: cf. F. Salsugineux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salt | 1. To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle. 2. To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. To salt a mine, to artfully deposit minerals in a mine in order to deceive purchasers regarding its value. To salt away, To salt down, to prepare with, or pack in, salt for preserving, as meat, eggs, etc.; hence, colloquially, to save, lay up, or invest sagely, as money. Origin: Salted; Salting. 1. The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles. 2. Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning. "Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . We have some salt of our youth in us." (Shak) 3. Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt. 4. A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar. "I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts." (Pepys) 5. A sailor; usually qualified by old. "Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts." (Hawthorne) 6. <chemistry> The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol. Except in case of ammonium salts, accurately speaking, it is the acid radical which unites with the base or basic radical, with the elimination of hydrogen, of water, or of analogous compounds as side products. In the case of diacid and triacid bases, and of dibasic and tribasic acids, the mutual neutralization may vary in degree, producing respectively basic, neutral, or acid salts See Phrases below. 7. That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt. "Ye are the salt of the earth." (Matt. V. 13) 8. Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt. 9. Marches flooded by the tide. Above the salt, Below the salt, phrases which have survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferiors, and poor relations. See Saltfoot. "His fashion is not to take knowledge of him that is beneath him in clothes. He never drinks below the salt." (B. <medicine> Jonson) Acid salt, a salt analogous to an oxy salt, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen. Origin: AS. Sealt; akin to OS. & OFries. Salt, D. Zout, G. Salz, Icel, Sw, & Dan. Salt, L. Sal, Gr, Russ. Sole, Ir. & Gael. Salann, W. Halen, of unknown origin. Cf. Sal, Salad, Salary, Saline, Sauce, Sausage. 1. Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water. "Salt tears." 2. Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass. 3. Bitter; sharp; pungent. "I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me." (Shak) 4. Salacious; lecherous; lustful. <chemistry> Salt acid, an American bombycid moth (Spilosoma acreae which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also wooly bear. <botany> Salt-marsh fleabane, a small leguminous tree (Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia. Salt water, water impregnated with salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also tears. "Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here." (Shak) Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner. Salt-water tailor. <zoology> See Bluefish. Origin: AS. Sealt, salt. See Salt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| salt action | Any physicochemical effect produced by hypertonic concentrations of osmotically active electrolytes. (05 Mar 2000) |