| Moll, Jacob | <person> Dutch oculist, 1832-1914. See: Moll's glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mollaret's meningitis | A recurrent aseptic meningitis; febrile illness accompanied by headaches, malaise, meningeal signs, and cerebrospinal fluid monocytes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mollemoke | <zoology> Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar. Alternative forms: mollymawk, malmock, mollemock, mallemocke, etc. Origin: Sw. Mallemucke the stormy petrel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mollicutes | A class of gram-negative bacteria consisting of cells bounded by a plasma membrane. Its organisms differ from other bacteria in that they are devoid of cell walls. It contains a single order, mycoplasmatales. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mollify | 1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. "With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts." (Spenser) 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm. Origin: F. Mollifier, L. Mollificare; mollis soft + -ficare (in comp) to make. See Enmollient, Moil, and -fy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mollipilose | <zoology> Having soft hairs; downy. Origin: L. Mollis soft + pilosus hairy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mollisols | <ecology> Grassland soils of steppes and prairies characterised by deep topsoil (mollic epipedon, common in the Great Plains of the West. (09 Oct 1997) |
| mollities | <medicine> Unnatural softness of any organ or part. Origin: L, softness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mollusc | <marine biology> Same as Mollusk. (19 Mar 1998) |
| mollusca | <zoology> One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve. Formerly the Brachiopoda, Bryzoa, and Tunicata were united with the Lamellibranchiata in an artificial group called Acephala, which was also included under Mollusca. See Molluscoudea. (19 Mar 1998) |
| molluscacides | Agents destructive to snails and other mollusks. (12 Dec 1998) |
| molluscan | <marine biology, zoology> Of or pertaining to mollusks. A mollusk; one of the Mollusca. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| molluscan catch muscle | <biology> Muscle responsible for holding closed the two halves of the shell of bivalves. Specialise d to maintain tension with low expenditure of ATP. Rich in paramyosin. (18 Nov 1997) |
| molluscicide | <pharmacology> A chemical (pesticide) used to kill molluscs or mussels. (09 Oct 1997) |
| molluscicides | <epidemiology> Chemical substances which kill snails or other molluscs. (05 Dec 1998) |