| spot | 1. A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discoloured. "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" (Shak) 2. A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish. "Yet Chloe, sure, was formed without a spot." (Pope) 3. A small part of a different colour from the main part, or from the ground upon which it is; as, the spots of a leopard; the spots on a playing card. 4. A small extent of space; a place; any particular place. "Fixed to one spot." "That spot to which I point is Paradise." (Milton) ""A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."" (Wordsworth) 5. <zoology> A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak. 6. <zoology> A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife. The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail. See Redfish. 7. Commodities, as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery. Crescent spot, the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa haemastica). Spots on the sun. <astronomy> See Sun spot, ander Sun. On, or Upon, the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place. "It was determined upon the spot." (Swift) Synonym: Stain, flaw, speck, blot, disgrace, reproach, fault, blemish, place, site, locality. Origin: Cf. Scot. & D. Spat, Dan. Spette, Sw. Spott spittle, slaver; from the root of E. Spit. See Spit to eject from the mouth, and cf. Spatter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| spot desmosome | <cell biology> Macula adherens: See: desmosome. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (18 Nov 1997) |
| spot film | A radiograph made during the course of an examination under fluoroscopic control, with a device attached to the fluoroscope. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spot seeding | Seeding of woody plant seeds on random spots to blend in with the landscape. (09 Oct 1997) |
| spot test for infectious mononucleosis | A slide test widely used for the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis, based on the principle that the heterophil antibodies that occur in the serum of patients with infectious mononucleosis are absorbed by beef red cells but not by guinea pig kidney cells; thus, when horse red cells (which provoke heterophil antibodies) are mixed with patient serum and agglutination occurs in the presence of beef red cells, the presumptive diagnosis is infectious mononucleosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spot-film radiography | An X-ray of a localised region, usually under study by fluoroscopy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spotted | Marked with spots; as, a spotted garment or character. "The spotted panther. <medicine> " Spotted fever, a name applied to various eruptive fevers, especially. To typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis. <botany> Spotted tree, an Australian tree (Flindersia maculosa); so called because its bark falls off in spots. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spotted fever | <infectious disease> An acute febrile (feverish) disease initially recognised in the Rocky Mountain states, caused by Rickettsia rickettsii transmitted by hard-shelled (ixodid) ticks. Occurs only in the Western Hemisphere. The disease is characterised by sudden onset of headache, chills and fever which can persist for 2-3 weeks, muscle pain. A characteristic rash appears on the extremities and trunk about the 4th day of illness. The rickettsiae grow within damaged cells lining blood vessels which may become blocked by clots. Blood vessel inflammation (vasculitis) is widespread Early recognition of the condition and prompt antibiotic treatment is important in reducing mortality. Synonym: spotted fever, tick fever, and tick typhus. (25 Jun 1999) |
| spotted sickness | An infectious disease of the skin caused by treponema carateum that occurs only in the western hemisphere. Age of onset is between 10 and 20 years of age. This condition is characterised by marked changes in the skin colour and is believed to be transmitted by direct person-to-person contact. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spotting | A slight discharge of blood via the vagina, especially as a side effect of oral contraceptives. (18 Nov 1997) |
| spouse | 1. A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. "At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That that lady to my spouse had won." (Spenser) 2. A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. "At which marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man." (Fabyan) Origin: OF. Espous, espos, fem. Espouse, F. Epoux, epouse, fr. L. Sponsus, sponsa, prop. P.p. Of spondere, sponsum, to promise solemnly, to engage one's self. Cf. Despond, Espouse, respond, Sponsor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spouse abuse | Deliberate severe and repeated injury to one domestic partner by the other. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spouses | Men or women joined in wedlock; married persons; husbands or wives. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spout | 1. To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. "Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee?" (Chaucer) "Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide." (Creech) 2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. "Pray, spout some French, son." (Beau. & Fl) 3. To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch. Origin: Cf. Sw. Sputa, spruta, to spout, D. Spuit a spout, spuiten to spout, and E. Spurt, sprit, v, sprout, sputter; or perhaps akin to E. Spit to eject from the mouth. 1. To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery. "All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills." (Thomson) 2. To eject water or liquid in a jet. 3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spoutfish | <zoology> A marine animal that spouts water; applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporotrichosis |
an infection with a fungus acquired through a skin wound; causes an ulcer at the site of infection and small, rounded masses of tissue near it
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| spondee |
A two syllable foot that is comprised of two accented syllables. Usually this is done in poetry by using one syllable words (ie, rock, bird, snow) in a row. This is the opposite of the anapestic foot.
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| sporodochium |
A cushion-shaped spore-producing body of a fungus. Sporogenous - Capable of forming spores.
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| sporangiophore |
A sporangium-bearing hypha.
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| sporangium |
A fruiting body that produces asexual spores within a more or less spherical wall.
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| spo | the trail left by a person or an animal |
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| spo | recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances |
| spo | in a sporadic manner |
| spo | stalk bearing one or more sporangia |
| spo | organ containing or producing spores |
| spo | an oral antifungal drug (trade name Sporanox) taken for cases of fungal nail disease |
| spo | small usually single-celled reproductive body produced especially by certain bacteria and algae and fungi and nonflowering plants |
| spo | specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia |
| spo | organ containing or producing spores |
| spo | cell from which a spore develops |
| spo | organ containing or producing spores |
| spo | trademark for a plastic eating utensil that has both tines and a bowl like a spoon |