| ASSR | adult situation stress reaction |
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| ASSX | argininosuccinate synthetase pseudogene |
| assessment | Appraisal. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Assezat's triangle | A triangle formed by lines connecting the nasion with the alveolar and nasal point; used to indicate prognathism in comparative craniology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Assezat, Jules | <person> French anthropologist, 1832-1876. See: Assezat's triangle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assident | <medicine> Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms. Origin: L. Assidens, p. Pr. Of assidre to sit by: cf. F. Assident. See Assession. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assident sign | <clinical sign> A finding frequently but not consistently present in a disease. Synonym: assident sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assident symptom | A symptom that usually but not always accompanies a certain disease, as distinguished from a pathognomonic symptom. Synonym: assident symptom, concomitant symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assimilable | Capable of undergoing assimilation. See: assimilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assimilate | 1. To become similar or like something else. 2. To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body. "Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood." (Arbuthnot) 3. To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others. "I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the church of England." (J. H. Newman) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assimilation | 1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. "To aspire to an assimilation with God." (Dr. H. More) "The assimilation of gases and vapors." (Sir J. Herschel) 2. <physiology> The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. "Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation." (Sir T. Browne) The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. Origin: L. Assimilatio: cf. F. Assimilation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assimilation pelvis | A deformity in which the transverse processes of the last lumbar vertebra are fused with the sacrum, or the last sacral with the first coccygeal body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assimulate | 1. To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. 2. To assimilate. Origin: L. Assimulatus, p. P. Of assimulare, equiv. To assimilare. See Assimilate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assimulation | 1. The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. "To aspire to an assimilation with God." (Dr. H. More) "The assimilation of gases and vapors." (Sir J. Herschel) 2. <physiology> The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals. "Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation." (Sir T. Browne) The term assimilation has been limited by some to the final process by which the nutritive matter of the blood is converted into the substance of the tissues and organs. Origin: L. Assimilatio: cf. F. Assimilation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| assist | To give support or aid, to be present as a spectator. (18 Nov 1997) |
| assist-control ventilation | Artificial respiration in which inspiration is produced automatically after a set interval if the person has not already begun to inspire. Compare: assisted ventilation, controlled ventilation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assisted cephalic delivery | Extraction of a foetus that presents by the head. (05 Mar 2000) |
| assessment |
appraisal: the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth an amount determined as payable; "the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership" the market value set on assets judgment: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"
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| assignment |
a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" grant: (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) appointment: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee"
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| assimilable |
able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues
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| assimilate |
absorb: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" take (gas, light or heat) into a solution become similar in sound; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant"
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| assimilation |
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound acculturation: the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance
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| ASS | state in northeastern India |
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| ASS | leishmaniasis of the viscera |
| ASS | large tropical Asian tree frequently dwarfed as a houseplant |
| ASS | the Magadhan language spoken by the Assamese people |
| ASS | native or inhabitant of the state of Assam in NE India |
| ASS | of or relating to or characteristic of Assam or its people or culture |
| ASS | a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed |
| ASS | a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects |
| ASS | destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation |
| ASS | murder |
| ASS | murdered by surprise attack for political reasons |
| ASS | murder of a public figure by surprise attack |