| teletherapy | Radiation therapy administered with the source at a distance from the body. Compare: interstitial therapy. Synonym: teleroentgentherapy. Origin: G. Tele, distant, + therapeia, treatment (05 Mar 2000) |
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| telethermometer | <physics> An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, as by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise. Origin: Gr. Far off + E. Thermometer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| teleutospore | <botany> The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. Origin: Gr. Completion + E. Spore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| television | The transmission and reproduction of transient images of fixed or moving objects. An electronic system of transmitting such images together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound. (12 Dec 1998) |
| television microscope | <instrument> A microscope in which the image is observed by a television camera that produces a television display; it is used for quantitative studies, display to a large audience, or examinations in ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| TeLinde | Richard W., U.S. Gynecologist, *1894. See: TeLinde operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| TeLinde operation | An extended hysterectomy in which a portion of the upper vagina is removed; the ureters are exposed and pulled back laterally without dissection from the ureteral bed. Synonym: TeLinde operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| teliospore | A type of spore formed by a rust known as the over-wintering stage.The teliospore is a sexual spore. In Puccinia graminis thisspore is found on the barberry plant. Compare: uredospore. (09 Oct 1997) |
| tell | 1. To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money. "An heap of coin he told." "He telleth the number of the stars." (Ps. Cxlvii. 4) "Tell the joints of the body." (Jer. Taylor) 2. To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate. "Of which I shall tell all the array." (Chaucer) "And not a man appears to tell their fate." (Pope) 3. To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge. "Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?" (Gen. Xii. 18) 4. To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform. "A secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promised to tell me of?" (Shak) 5. To order; to request; to command. "He told her not to be frightened." (Dickens) 6. To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one colour ends and the other begins. 7. To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate. "I ne told no dainity of her love." (Chaucer) Tell, though equivalent in some respect to speak and say, has not always the same application. We say, to tell truth or falsehood, to tell a number, to tell the reasons, to tell something or nothing; but we never say, to tell a speech, discourse, or oration, or to tell an argument or a lesson. It is much used in commands; as, tell me the whole story; tell me all you know. To tell off, to count; to divide. Synonym: To communicate, impart, reveal, disclose, inform, acquaint, report, repeat, rehearse, recite. Origin: AS. Tellan, from talu tale, number, speech; akin to D. Tellen to count, G. Zahlen, OHG. Zellen to count, tell, say, Icel. Telja, Dan. Tale to speak, taelle to count. See Tale that which is told. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tellen | <zoology> Any species of Tellina. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tellina | <zoology> A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely coloured shells. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A kind of shellfish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| telltale | Telling tales; babbling. "The telltale heart." 1. One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress. 2. A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted. 3. A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm. A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course. 4. <machinery> A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted. 5. <zoology> The tattler. See Tattler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tellurate | <chemistry> A salt of telluric acid. Origin: Cf. F. Tellurate. See Tellurium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| telluret | <chemistry> A telluride. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tellureted | <chemistry> Combined or impregnated with tellurium; tellurized. <chemistry> Alternative forms: telluretted Tellureted hydrogen, hydrogen telluride, H2Te, a gaseous substance analogous to hydrogen sulphide. Synonym: tellurhydric acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |