| trot | 1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. "The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot." 2. A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying. 3. One who trots; a child; a woman. "An old trot with ne'er a tooth." (Shak) Origin: F. See Trot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| trou-de-loup | A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle. The pits are called also trapholes. Origin: F. Trou = hole, de = of, loup = wolf. (28 Oct 1998) |
| troubadour | One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterised by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain. Origin: F. Troubadour, fr. Pr. Trobador, (assumed) LL. Tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr. Tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. Tropus a trope, a song, Gr. A turn, way, manner, particular mode in music, a trope. See Trope, and cf. Trouvre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trouble | 1. To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate. "An angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water." (John v. 4) "God looking forth will trouble all his host." (Milton) 2. To disturb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. "Now is my soul troubled." (John xii. 27) "Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring." (Shak) "Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure." (Locke) 3. To give occasion for labour to; used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter. 1. The state of being troubled; disturbance; agitation; uneasiness; vexation; calamity. "Lest the fiend . . . Some new trouble raise." (Milton) "Foul whisperings are abroad; unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles." (Shak) 2. That which gives disturbance, annoyance, or vexation; that which afflicts. 3. <chemical> A fault or interruption in a stratum. To get into trouble, to get into difficulty or danger. To take the trouble, to be at the pains; to exert one's self; to give one's self inconvenience. "She never took the trouble to close them." (Bryant) Synonym: To disturb, perplex, afflict, distress, grieve, harass, annoy, tease, vex, molest, affliction, disturbance, perplexity, annoyance, molestation, vexation, inconvenience, calamity, misfortune, adversity, embarrassment, anxiety, sorrow, misery. Origin: F. Troubler, OF. Trobler, trubler, tourbler,fr. (assumed) LL. Turbulare, L. Turbare to disorderly group, a little crowd; both from turba a disorder, tumult, crowd; akin to Gr, and perhaps to E. Thorp; cf. Skr. Tvar, tur,o hasten. Cf. Turbid. (28 Oct 1998) |
| trough | 1. A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel. 2. Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc. Trough gutter, a rectangular or V-shaped gutter, usually hung below the eaves of a house. Trough of the sea, the depression between two waves. Origin: OE. Trough, trogh, AS. Trog, troh; akin to D, G, & Icel. Trog, Sw. Trag, Dan. Trug; probably originally meaning, made of wood, and akin to E. Tree. & 241. See Tree, and cf. Trug. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trough-shell | <zoology> Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. See Mactra. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trounce | To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate. Origin: F. Tronce, tronche, a stump, piece of wood. See Truncheon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| troupial | <ornithology> Any one of numerous species of bright-coloured American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America. Alternative forms: troopial. Origin: F. Troupiale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Trousseau | Armand, French physician, 1801-1867. See: Trousseau's point, Trousseau's sign, Trousseau's spot, Trousseau's syndrome, Trousseau-Lallemand bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trousseau's point | A painful point, in neuralgia, at the spinous process of the vertebra below which arises the offending nerve. Synonym: apophysary point, apophysial point. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trousseau's sign | <clinical sign> In latent tetany, the occurrence of carpopedal spasm accompanied by paresthesia elicited when the upper arm is compressed, as by a tourniquet or a blood pressure cuff. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trousseau's spot | A line of redness resulting from drawing a point across the skin, especially notable in cases of meningitis. Synonym: tache cerebrale, tache meningeale, Trousseau's spot. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trousseau's syndrome | <syndrome> Thrombophlebitis migrans associated with visceral cancer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trousseau-Lallemand bodies | Old term for small gelatinoid concretions sometimes observed in seminal fluid, old term for Bence Jones cylinders. Synonym: Trousseau-Lallemand bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| trout | 1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of fishes belonging to Salmo, Salvelinus, and allied genera of the family Salmonidae. They are highly esteemed as game fishes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity. The most important European species are the river, or brown, trout (Salmo fario), the salmon trout, and the sewen. The most important American species are the brook, speckled, or red-spotted, trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) of the Northern United States and Canada; the red-spotted trout, or Dolly Varden (see Malma); the lake trout (see Namaycush); the black-spotted, mountain, or silver, trout (Salmo purpuratus); the golden, or rainbow, trout (see under Rainbow); the blueback trout (see Oquassa); and the salmon trout (see under Salmon) The European trout has been introduced into America. 2. <zoology> Any one of several species of marine fishes more or less resembling a trout in appearance or habits, but not belonging to the same family, especially the California rock trouts, the common squeteague, and the southern, or spotted, squeteague; called also salt-water trout, sea trout, shad trout, and gray trout. See Squeteague, and Rock trout under Rock. <zoology> Trout perch, a small fresh water American fish (Percopsis guttatus), allied to the trout, but resembling a perch in its scales and mouth. Origin: AS. Truht, L. Tructa, tructus; akin to Gr. A sea fish with sharp teeth, fr. To gnaw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trop- |
(French) too much; also non troppo, not too much
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| trocar |
Surgical instrument passed through the body, used to allow easy exchange of endoscopic instruments during endoscopic surgery.
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| trophoblast |
G. trophe = nourishment + blastos = germ; outermost layer of chorion in a growing conceptus; with two sublayers (cytotrophoblast and syncytiotrophoblast).
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| trophectoderm |
In early embryos at the blastocyst stage, the outer layer of cells that will give rise to the placenta.
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| trophoblast |
The extraembryonic tissue responsible for implantation, developing into the placenta, and controlling the exchange of oxygen and metabolites between mother and embryo. (NIH)
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| TRO | a concave shape with an open top |
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| TRO | censure severely or angrily |
| TRO | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict |
| TRO | beat severely with a whip or rod |
| TRO | the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows |
| TRO | a sound defeat |
| TRO | organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical) |
| TRO | an actor who travels around the country presenting plays |
| TRO | garment designed for or relating to trousers |
| TRO | a clip worn around a cyclist's ankles that keeps trousers from becoming caught in the bicycle chain |
| TRO | a cuff on the bottoms of trouser legs |
| TRO | the leg of a pair of trousers |