| flesher | 1. A butcher. "A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down." (Macaulay) 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| fleshflies | Members of the order Diptera, whose larvae (maggots) develop in putrefying or living tissues. Maggots of the latter group produce myiasis; these include screw-worms (both primary and secondary invaders); wool maggots of sheep; botflies or skin maggots of man and domestic animals (including warble or heel flies); head or nasal botflies of sheep and goats, horses, camels, and deer; and horse botflies (or gadflies) whose larvae develop in the stomach, duodenum, or rectum of horses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fleshly | 1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." 2. Animal; notvegetable. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms." (Milton) 4. Carnal; wordly; lascivious. "Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." (1 Pet. Ii. 11) Origin: AS. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fleshy | 1. Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross. "The sole of his foot is fleshy." (Ray) 2. Human. "Fleshy tabernacle." 3. <botany> Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants. Origin: Fleshier; Fleshiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fleshy mole | A uterine mass occurring after foetal death and consisting of blood clots, foetal membranes, and placenta. Synonym: blood mole, carneous mole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fleshy polyp | A polyp that consists of benign neoplastic tissue derived from nonstriated (smooth) muscle. Synonym: fleshy polyp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Fletcher factor | <chemical> A plasma protein which is the precursor of kallikrein. Plasma that is deficient in prekallikrein has been found to be abnormal in thromboplastin formation, kinin generation, evolution of a permeability globulin, and plasmin formation. The absence of prekallikrein in plasma leads to fletcher factor deficiency, a congenital disease. Chemical name: Kallikreinogen (12 Dec 1998) |
| fleur-de-lis | Origin: F, flower of the lily. Cf. Flower-de-luce, Lily. 1. <botany> The iris. See Flower-de-luce. 2. A conventional flower suggested by the iris, and having a form which fits it for the terminal decoration of a scepter, the ornaments of a crown, etc. It is also a heraldic bearing, and is identified with the royal arms and adornments of France. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flex | To bend; to move a joint in such a direction as to approximate the two parts which it connects. Origin: L. Flecto, pp. Flexus, to bend (05 Mar 2000) |
| Flexibase | <chemical> Soft denture liner (26 Jun 1999) |
| flexibilitas cerea | The rigidity of catalepsy which may be overcome by slight external force, but which returns at once, holding the limb firmly in the new position. Origin: L. Waxy flexibility (05 Mar 2000) |
| flexible | 1. Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle. "When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks." (Shak) 2. Willing or ready to yield to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate; tractable; manageable; ductile; easy and compliant; wavering. "Phocion was a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people." (Bacon) "Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible." (Shak) 3. Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. "This was a principle more flexible to their purpose." (Rogers) Synonym: Pliant, pliable, supple, tractable, manageable, ductile, obsequious, inconstant, wavering. Flex"ibleness, Flex"ibly. Origin: L. Flexibilis: cf. F. Flexible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flexible collodion | A mixture of camphor, castor oil, and collodion, or a mixture of castor oil, Canada turpentine, and collodion, used for the same purposes as collodion, but its film possesses the advantage, for certain conditions, of not contracting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flexicostate | <anatomy> Having bent or curved ribs. Origin: L. Flexus bent + E. Costate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fleximeter | 1. An instrument for measuring angles. 2. An appliance for the static test of labyrinthine disease, which consists of a plank, one end of which may be raised to any desired height; as one end of the plank is gradually raised, the point at which a patient loses balance is noted. 3. A calibrated device designed to measure the arc or range of motion of a joint. Synonym: arthrometer, fleximeter, pronometer. Origin: G. Gonia, angle, + metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |