| glaucosuria | An obsolete term for indicanuria. Origin: G. Glaukos, bluish green, + ouron, urine (05 Mar 2000) |
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| glaucous | Blue-green in colour, with a whitish bloom. (09 Oct 1997) |
| glaucus | <marine biology> A genus of nudibranchiate mollusks, found in the warmer latitudes, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully coloured with blue and silvery white. Origin: L, sea green. (19 Mar 1998) |
| glazer | 1. One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. 2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung cutlers and lapidaries, a wooden wheel covered with emery, or having a band of lead and tin alloy, for polishing cutlery, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Glc | <abbreviation> Gas-liquid chromatography. Symbols for the radicals of d-glucose, gluconic and glucuronic acid, glucosamine, N-acetylglucosamine, and glucuronic acid, respectively. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gleam | <veterinary> To disgorge filth, as a hawk. Origin: Cf. OE. Glem birdlime, glue, phlegm, and E. Englaimed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gleason's score | A classification of adenocarcinoma of the prostate by evaluation of the pattern of glandular differentiation; the tumour grade, know as Gleason's score, is the sum of the dominant and secondary patterns, each numbered on a scale of 1 to 5. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gleason's tumour grade | A classification of adenocarcinoma of the prostate by evaluation of the pattern of glandular differentiation; the tumour grade, know as Gleason's score, is the sum of the dominant and secondary patterns, each numbered on a scale of 1 to 5. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gleason, Donald | <person> U.S. Pathologist, *1920. See: Gleason's tumour grade, Gleason's score. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gleby | Pertaining to the glebe; turfy; cloddy; fertile; fruitful. "Gleby land." Origin: Cf. L. Glaebosus cloddy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| glede | <zoology> The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. Alternative forms: glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide. Origin: AS. Glida, akin to Icel. Glea, Sw. Glada. Cf. Glide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gleeman | Origin: Glee + man; AS. Gleoman. A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gleet | <medicine> A transparent mucous discharge from the membrane of the urethra, commonly an effect of gonorrhea. Origin: OE. Glette, glet, glat, mucus, pus, filth, OF. Glete. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gleisation | <ecology> A process in saturated or nearly saturated soils which involves the reduction of iron, its segregation into mottles and concretions, or its removal by leaching from the gleyed horizon. (17 Dec 1997) |
| Glenn | William W., *1914. See: Glenn shunt. (05 Mar 2000) |