| gummous | 1. Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy. 2. <medicine> Of or pertaining to a gumma. Origin: L. Gummosus; cf. F. Gommeux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| gummy | Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum. "Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine." (Milton) "Then rubs his gummy eyes. <medicine> " (Dryden) Gummy tumour, a gumma. Origin: Compar. Gummer; superl. Gummirst. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gumprecht's shadows | Immature leukocytes of any type that have undergone partial breakdown during preparation of a stained smear or tissue section, because of their greater fragility; smudge cell's are seen in largest numbers in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Synonym: basket cell, Gumprecht's shadows, shadow cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gumprecht, Ferdinand | <person> German physician, *1864. See: Klein-Gumprecht shadow nuclei, Gumprecht's shadows. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gums | <dentistry> The pink areas around your teeth. (08 Jan 1998) |
| gun | 1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. "As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne." (Chaucer) "The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out." (Selden) 2. A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon. 3. Violent blasts of wind. Guns are classified, according to their construction or manner of loading as rifled or smoothbore, breech-loading or muzzle-loading, cast or built-up guns; or according to their use, as field, mountain, prairie, seacoast, and siege guns. Armstrong gun, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong. Great gun, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig), a person superior in any way. Gun barrel, the barrel or tube of a gun. Gun carriage, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or moved. <medicine> Gun cotton, to blow a gale. See Gun. Origin: OE. Gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir, Gael) A LL. Gunna, W. Gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L. Canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. Mangonnel, E. Mangonel, a machine for hurling stones. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gunboat | <astronomy> A vessel of light draught, carrying one or more guns. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gunjah | <botany> See Ganja. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Gunn phenomenon | <syndrome> An increase in the width of the eye lids during chewing, sometimes with a rhythmic elevation of the upper lid when the mouth is open and ptosis when the mouth is closed. Synonym: Gunn phenomenon, Gunn's syndrome, jaw-winking phenomenon, jaw-working reflex, Marcus Gunn phenomenon, Marcus Gunn syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gunn pupil | Relative afferent pupillary defect. Synonym: Gunn pupil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gunn's crossing sign | <clinical sign> Retinal arteriovenous crossing with venous compression in hypertensive disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gunn's dots | Minute, highly glistening, white or yellowish specks usually seen in the posterior part of the fundus; nonpathologic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gunn's sign | <clinical sign> Compression of the underlying vein at arteriovenous crossings seen ophthalmoscopically in arteriolar sclerosis, on alternate stimulation with light, the pupil of an eye with optic nerve transmission defect constricts poorly or even dilates when stimulated (a relative afferent pupillary defect). Synonym: Marcus Gunn's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gunn's syndrome | <syndrome> An increase in the width of the eye lids during chewing, sometimes with a rhythmic elevation of the upper lid when the mouth is open and ptosis when the mouth is closed. Synonym: Gunn phenomenon, Gunn's syndrome, jaw-winking phenomenon, jaw-working reflex, Marcus Gunn phenomenon, Marcus Gunn syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gunn, Robert Marcus | <person> British ophthalmologist, 1850-1909. See: Gunn phenomenon, Gunn's dots, Gunn's sign, Gunn's syndrome, Marcus Gunn pupil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gum arabic |
Water-soluble gum, which is obtained from several African acacias, which is used as an adhesive or binder in certain paints.
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| gum |
Sticky, viscous, carbohydrate found in liquid form in plants and certain trees, which dries into an uncrystallized, brittle mass that dissolves or swells in water.
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| gustatory |
Relating to, affecting, associated with, or being the sense of taste.
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| guanine |
one of the purine nucleic acid bases that make up nucleotides, the building blocks of DNA and RNA
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| gum |
turpentine related resin; usually water soluble
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| GU | Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio (1874-1937) |
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| GU | a user interface based on graphics (icons and pictures and menus) instead of text |
| GU | a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam |
| GU | antelope with white markings like a harness and twisted horns |
| GU | the act of setting and holding a course |
| GU | the act of guiding or showing the way |
| GU | direction or advice as to a decision or course of action |
| GU | a model or standard for making comparisons |
| GU | something that offers basic information or instruction |
| GU | someone who shows the way by leading or advising |
| GU | someone who can find paths through unexplored territory |
| GU | someone employed to conduct others |