| morrhuate sodium | The sodium salts of the fatty acids of cod liver oil; a sclerosing agent used in the treatment of varicose veins, mixed with a local anaesthetic. Origin: fr. Gadus morrhua, cod (05 Mar 2000) |
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| morris | <zoology> A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish. Origin: So called from its discoverer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Morrison, Ashton | <person> Irish pathologist in the U.S., *1922. See: Verner-Morrison syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| morrot | <zoology> See Marrot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mors | 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. Local death is going on at times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. Black death. Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Death adder. <zoology> A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); so called from the virulence of its venom. A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidae, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow. Origin: OE. Deth, dea, AS. Dea; akin to OS. D, D. Dood, G. Tod, Icel. Daui, Sw. & Dan. Dod, Goth. Daupus; from a verb meaning to die. See Die, and cf. Dead. (04 Mar 1998) |
| mors thymica | An old term for sudden death in young children, usually the result of infection; formerly erroneously attributed to an enlarged thymus. See: sudden infant death syndrome (05 Mar 2000) |
| morse | <zoology> The walrus. See Walrus. Origin: F. Morse, Russ. Morj'; perh. Akin to E. Mere lake; cf. Russ. More sea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| morse alphabet | A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), -.. (B), -. (D), . (E), . (O), .. (R), (T), etc, or by sounds, flashes of light, etc, with greater or less intervals between them. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| morsicatio | Habitual nibbling of the lips (labiorum), tongue (linguae), or buccal mucosa (buccarum); often produces a shaggy white lesion. Origin: L. Biting, fr. Mordeo, to bite (05 Mar 2000) |
| morsicatio buccarum | White elevations of buccal mucosa caused by the pressure of molar teeth. Origin: L. Chewing of the cheeks (05 Mar 2000) |
| morsulus | Synonym: troche. Origin: Mod. L. Dim. Of L. Morsus, a bite (05 Mar 2000) |
| mort | A woman; a female. "Male gypsies all, not a mort among them." (B. Jonson) Origin: Etym. Uncert. 1. Death; especially, the death of game in the chase. 2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. "The sportsman then sounded a treble mort." (Sir W. Scott) 3. The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease. Mort cloth, the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. Origin: F, death, fr. L. Mors, mortis. <zoology> A salmon in its third year. Origin: Etymol. Uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mortal | 1. Pertaining to or causing death. 2. Destined to die. Origin: L. Mortalis, fr. Mors, death (05 Mar 2000) |
| mortality | The death rate. The ratio of the total number of deaths to the total population. (27 Sep 1997) |
| mortality rate | <statistics> The proportion of deaths in a population or to a specific number of the population. (18 Nov 1997) |