| shepherdess | A woman who tends sheep; hence, a rural lass. "She put herself into the garb of a shepherdess." (Sir P. Sidney) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| shepherdia | Origin: NL. So called from John Shepherd, an English botanist. <botany> A genus of shrubs having silvery scurfy leaves, and belonging to the same family as Elaeagnus; also, any plant of this genus. See Buffalo berry, under Buffalo. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sherbet | 1. A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc. 2. A flavored water ice. 3. A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc, variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; called also sherbet powder. Origin: Ar. Sherbet, shorbet, sharbat, properly, one drink or sip, a draught, beverage, from shariba to drink. Cf. Sorbet, Sirup, Shrub a drink. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sherman unit | Unit of vitamin C, minimum protective dose; the minimum amount of vitamin C which, fed daily, will protect a 300-g guinea pig from scurvy for 90 days; equivalent to 0.5 to 0.6 mg of ascorbic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sherman, Henry | <person> U.S. Biochemist, 1875-1955. See: Sherman unit, Sherman-Bourquin unit of vitamin B2, Sherman-Munsell unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sherman-Bourquin unit of vitamin B2 | The amount of vitamin B2 required in the diet daily to sustain an average weekly gain of 3 g for 8 weeks in standard test rats; one unit is equivalent to 1 to 7 ug (0.001 to 0.007 mg) of riboflavin, depending on the deficiency diet used in the above assay. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sherman-Munsell unit | A rat growth unit; the daily amount of vitamin A which sustains a rate of gain amounting to 3 g a week in standard test rats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sherrington phenomenon | After the muscles of the leg have been deprived of their motor innervation by sectioning the ventral roots containing fibres for the sciatic nerve, and allowing time for the degeneration of the fibres to occur, stimulation of the sciatic nerve causes slow contraction of the muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sherrington's law | Every dorsal spinal nerve root supplies a particular area of the skin, the dermatome, which is, however, invaded above and below by fibres from the adjacent spinal segments. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sherrington, Sir Charles | <person> English physiologist and Nobel laureate, 1857-1952. See: Sherrington phenomenon, Sherrington's law, Schiff-Sherrington phenomenon, Liddell-Sherrington reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sherry wine | A wine of amber colour, obtained originally from Jerez, Spain, containing about 20% alcohol; used in preparation of medicinal wine's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shibley's sign | <clinical sign> On auscultation of the chest, the spoken sound "e" is heard as "ah" over an area of pulmonary consolidation or immediately above a pleural effusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shide | A thin board; a billet of wood; a splinter. Origin: OE. Shide, schide, AS. Scide; akin to OHG. Scit, G. Scheit, Icel. Ski, and E. Shed, v.t. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shield | 1. To cover with, or as with, a shield; to cover from danger; to defend; to protect from assault or injury. "Shouts of applause ran ringing through the field, To see the son the vanquished father shield." (Dryden) "A woman's shape doth shield thee." (Shak) 2. To ward off; to keep off or out. "They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured." (Spenser) 3. To avert, as a misfortune; hence, as a supplicatory exclamation, forbid! "God shield that it should so befall." (Chaucer) "God shield I should disturb devotion!" (Shak) Origin: AS. Scidan, scyldan. See Shield. 1. A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler. "Now put your shields before your hearts and fight, With hearts more proof than shields." (Shak) 2. Anything which protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection. "My council is my shield." 3. Figuratively, one who protects or defends. "Fear not, Abram; I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward." (Gen. Xv. 1) 4. <botany> In lichens, a Hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci. 5. The escutcheon or field on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms. Cf. Lozenge. 6. <chemical> A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses. 7. A spot resembling, or having the form of, a shield. "Bespotted as with shields of red and black." 8. A coin, the old French crown, or ecu, having on one side the figure of a shield. <botany> Shield fern, any fern of the genus Aspidium, in which the fructifications are covered with shield-shaped indusia; called also wood fern. Origin: OE. Sheld, scheld, AS. Scield, scild, sceld, scyld; akin to OS. Scild, OFries. Skeld, D. & G. Schild, OHG. Scilt, Icel. Skjoldr, Sw. Skold, Dan. Skiold, Goth. Skildus; of uncertain origin. Cf. Sheldrake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shield-bearer | 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. 2. <zoology> Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shaft |
a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer shot: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) beam: a column of light (as from a beacon) diaphysis: the main (mid) section of a long bone cock: obscene terms for penis spear: a long pointed rod used as a weapon a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column a vertical passage into a mine rotating shaft: a revolving rod that transmits power or motion equip with a shaft quill: the hollow spine of a feather cheat: defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
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| shoulder blade |
scapula: either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings
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| shaking chill |
a chill in which there is a definite tremor.
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| shared psychotic disorder |
[DSM-IV] a delusional system that develops in one or more persons as a result of a close relationship with someone who already has a psychotic disorder with prominent delusions. Most commonly it involves two people and is called folie ?deux. Involvement of three people would be folie ?trois and so on.
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| sham rage |
an outburst of behavior in a decorticated animal, resembling fear or anger; a similar phenomenon may be observed in humans with insulin-induced hypoglycemia or carbon monoxide poisoning.
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| SH | a shaky motion |
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| SH | the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements |
| SH | a shaky motion |
| SH | vibrating slightly and irregularly |
| SH | a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination |
| SH | tall hat |
| SH | English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616) |
| SH | the female or generative principle |
| SH | worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva |
| SH | a Hindu sect worshiping Shakti |
| SH | worshipper of Shakti |
| SH | not secure |