| shielddrake | <zoology> A sheldrake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| shieldtail | <zoology> Any species of small burrowing snakes of the family Uropeltidae, native of Ceylon and Southern Asia. They have a small mouth which can not be dilated. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shieling | A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shift | 1. The act of shifting. Specifically: The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution. "My going to Oxford was not merely for shift of air." (Sir H. Wotton) A turning from one thing to another; hence, an expedient tried in difficalty; often, an evasion; a trick; a fraud. "Reduced to pitiable shifts." "I 'll find a thousand shifts to get away." (Shak) "Little souls on little shifts rely." (Dryden) 2. Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise. 3. The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift. 4. In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc, that are placed in courses so as to break joints. 5. <chemical> A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault. 6. A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin. To make shift, to contrive or manage in an exigency. "I shall make shift to go without him." "[They] made a shift to keep their own in Ireland." (Milton) Origin: Cf. Icel skipti. See Shift. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shift to the left | A marked increase in the percentage of immature cells in the circulating blood, based on the premise in haematology that the bone marrow with its immature myeloid cells is on the left, while the circulating blood with its mature neutrophils is on the right. Synonym: deviation to the left. See: maturation index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shift to the right | In a differential count of white blood cells in the peripheral blood, the absence of young and immature forms. Synonym: deviation to the right. See: maturation index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shifted maxwellian | <radiobiology> Distribution function of the form Exp[-((v-u)/v_thermal)^2], where the ordinary Maxwellian thermal distribution is shifted by some velocity u. (09 Oct 1997) |
| shifter | 1. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. "'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down." (Milton) 2. An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. 3. <machinery> A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shiftiness | The quality or state of being shifty. "Diplomatic shiftiness and political versatility." (J. A. Syminds) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shifting cultivation | A farming method where land is extensively used to cultivate crops for a few years, then allowed to lie fallow for several years, then used again. (09 Oct 1997) |
| shifting dullness | A sign of free peritoneal fluid wherein the dullness of percussion shifts, generally from one to the other, as the patient is turned from side to side. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shifting pacemaker | A disturbance of the normal cardiac rhythm in which the site of the controlling pacemaker shifts from beat to beat, usually between the sinus and A-V nodes, often with gradual sequential changes in P waves between upright and inverted in a given ECG lead. Synonym: shifting pacemaker. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shiga bacillus | A species of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that is extremely pathogenic and causes severe dysentery. Infection with this organism often leads to ulceration of the intestinal epithelium. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Shiga like toxin | <protein> Group of structurally related toxins that block eukaryotic protein synthesis by cleaving the 28S rRNA subunit of ribosomes. Examples: Shiga toxin, Shiga like toxins SLT 1 and SLT 2 of Escherichia coli. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Shiga toxin | <protein> Bacterial toxin from Shigella dysenteriae that blocks eukaryotic protein synthesis. See: Shiga like toxins. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sheep measles |
cysticercosis in sheep.
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| sheep nose bot |
the larva of Oestrus ovis, which is frequently found in the nasal passages of sheep.
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| sheeppox virus |
a virus of the genus Capripoxvirus that is the etiologic agent of sheep-pox.
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| shell crown |
an artificial crown applied like a shell or cap over the remaining natural crown of a tooth; the space between the crown and the shell is filled with cement. Called also cap c.
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| Shepherd's fracture |
fracture of the astragalus, with detachment of the outer protecting edge.
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| SH | inclined to shake as from weakness or defect |
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| SH | vibrating slightly and irregularly |
| SH | a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay |
| SH | oil extracted from oil shale by heating |
| SH | be going to |
| SH | small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries |
| SH | small mild-flavored onion- or garlic-like clustered bulbs |
| SH | type of onion plant producing small clustered mild-flavored bulbs used as seasoning |
| SH | aggregated bulb of the multiplier onion |
| SH | a stretch of shallow water |
| SH | become shallow |
| SH | make shallow |