| angoumois moth | <zoology> A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell. Origin: So named from Angoumois in France. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| angstrom | <unit> A unit of length equal to 10-8 centimetres, used to measuremolecules. (12 Nov 1997) |
| Angstrom scale | A table of wavelengths of a large number of light rays corresponding to as many Fraunhofer's lines in the spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Angstrom's law | A substance absorbs light of the same wavelength as it emits when luminous. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Angstrom, Anders | <person> Swedish physicist, 1814-1874. See: angstrom, Angstrom's law, Angstrom unit, Angstrom scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anguilliform | Eel-shaped. The "Anguillaeformes" of Cuvier are fishes related to thee eel. Origin: L. Anguilla eel (dim. Of anguis snake). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Anguillula | Old name for a genus of free-living nematodes. See: Turbatrix. Origin: Mod. L. Dim. Of L. Anguilla, eel (05 Mar 2000) |
| angular | 1. Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure. 2. Measured by an angle; as, angular distance. 3. Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female. Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing. Origin: L. Angularis, fr. Angulus angle, corner. See Angle. <anatomy> A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| angular acceleration | The rate of change of angular velocity; e.g., when a centrifuge rotor is speeding up, or when there is a simultaneous change in velocity and direction, as in an aircraft in a tight spin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angular aldehyde | The aldehyde group attached to carbon 13 (between rings C and D) of the steroid nucleus in aldosterone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angular aperture | The angle, in air, of light that passes from the object to the ends of the diameter of the front lens of the microscope objective. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angular artery | <anatomy, artery> The terminal branch of the facial artery; distribution, muscles and skin of side of nose; anastomoses, lateral nasal, and dorsal artery of nose and palpebrals from the ophthalmic artery, thereby providing an external-internal carotid arterial anastomosis. Synonym: artery of angular gyrus. Synonym: arteria angularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angular cheilitis | Inflammation and fissuring radiating from the commissures of the mouth secondary to predisposing factors such as lost vertical dimension in denture wearers, nutritional deficiencies, atopic dermatitis, or Candida albicans infection. Synonym: angular stomatitis, commissural cheilitis, perleche. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angular conjunctivitis | A subacute bilateral conjunctival inflammation sometimes caused by the Moraxella bacillus, marked by redness of the lateral canthi and scanty, stringy discharge that adheres to the lashes. Synonym: Moraxella conjunctivitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angular convolution | angular gyrus |
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| ANG | cause anguish or make miserable |
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| ANG | suffer great pains or distress |
| ANG | experiencing intense pain especially mental pain |
| ANG | having angles or an angular shape |
| ANG | measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle |
| ANG | the terminal branch of the facial artery |
| ANG | the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer |
| ANG | the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation |
| ANG | relation by which any position with respect to any other position is established |
| ANG | a shape having one or more sharp angles |
| ANG | a unit of measurement for angles |
| ANG | a short vein formed by the supraorbital vein and the supratrochlear vein and continuing as the facial vein |