| verticillaster | <botany> A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed of two opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. Origin: NL, fr. L. Verticillus a whirl + aster a star. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| verticillate | <botany> Arranged in one or more whorls. (09 Oct 1997) |
| verticillated | <botany> Arranged in a transverse whorl or whorls like the rays of a wheel; as, verticillate leaves of a plant; a verticillate shell. See: Verticil. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verticillium | <fungus> Verticillium is a genus of fungi (class Hyphomycetes) that cause many different wilt diseases in plants and infections in humans. (09 Oct 1997) |
| verticillus | <botany> A whorl; a verticil. Origin: L, a whirl. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verticomental | Relating to the crown of the head and the chin; denoting a diameter in craniometry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| verticosubmental view | Radiographic projection devised to obtain direct visualization of the base of the skull. Synonym: axial view, base projection, submental vertex projection, submentovertical projection, verticosubmental view. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vertiginous | Relating to or suffering from vertigo. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vertigo | <neurology, symptom> An illusion of movement, a sensation as if the external world were revolving around the patient (objective vertigo) or as if he himself were revolving in space (subjective vertigo). The term is sometimes erroneously used to mean any form of dizziness. Origin: L. Vertigo (18 Nov 1997) |
| vertigo ab aure laeso | Vertigo dependent upon chronic middle ear lesions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vertisols | <ecology> Shrinking and swelling dark clay soils. (09 Oct 1997) |
| vertometer | Synonym: lensometer. Origin: vertex + G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |
| verumontanitis | Synonym: colliculitis. Origin: see verumontanum (05 Mar 2000) |
| verumontanum | <anatomy> An elevation, or crest, in the wall of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter it. This is sometimes written veru montanum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vervain | <botany> Any plant of the genus Verbena. <botany> Vervain mallow, a species of mallow (Malva Alcea) with rose-coloured flowers. Origin: OE. Verveine, F. Verveine, fr. L. Verbena, pl. Verbenae sacred boughs of laurel, olive, or myrtle, a class of plants; cf. Verbenaca vervain. Cf. Verbena. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |