| guild | Group of organisms that exhibit similar habitat requirements and that respond in a similar way to changes in their environment. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| guilding | 1. The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold. 2. Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface. 3. Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine. Gilding metal, a tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Guillain, Georges | <person> French neurologist, 1876-1961. See: Guillain-Barre reflex, Guillain-Barre syndrome, Landry-Guillain-Barre syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Guillain-Barre reflex | Plantar flexion of the foot and toes elicited by tapping the sole near its outer edge; has the same significance as the Rossolimo toe flexion reflex Also called Guillain-Barre, Weingrow's, or sole tap reflex. Synonym: Guillain-Barre reflex, sole tap reflex, Weingrow's reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Guillain-Barre syndrome | <neurology, syndrome> Acute infective polyneuritis that results in a form of peripheral neuropathy with temporary loss of movement and sensation due to inflammation of multiple nerves and loss of myelin. The exact cause is unknown but has been associated with an abnormal immune response to viral infection, particularly cytomegalovirus infection, in which there is cell-mediated immunity to a component of myelin. The disease may be autoimmune in origin and complete recovery can take up to six months. Synonym: Guillain-Barre syndrome (12 Jul 2000) |
| guillemot | <ornithology> One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers. The common guillemots, or murres, belong to the genus Uria (as U. Troile); the black or foolish guillemot (Cepphus grylle, formerly Uria grylle), is Synonym: sea pigeon and eligny. See Murre. Origin: F. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| guillotine | 1. A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim. 2. Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its action a guillotine. Origin: F, from Guillotin, a French physician, who proposed, in the Constituent Assembly of 1789, to abolish decapitation with the ax or sword. The instrument was invented by Dr. Antoine Louis, and was called at first Louison or Louisette. Similar machines, however, were known earlier. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| guillotine amputation | Amputation performed by a circular incision through the skin, the muscles being similarly divided higher up, and the bone higher still. Synonym: guillotine amputation, linear amputation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| guilt | Subjective feeling of having committed an error, offense or sin; unpleasant feeling of self-criticism. These result from acts, impulses, or thoughts contrary to one's personal conscience. (12 Dec 1998) |
| guinea | 1. A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc, are named. 2. A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817. "The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was proclaimed in 1663, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one shillings." (Pinkerton) Guinea corn. <botany> A long and slender African nematoid worm (Filaria Medinensis) of a white colour. It lives in the cellular tissue of man, beneath the skin, and produces painful sores. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| guinea corn yaws | A form of yaws in which the lesions resemble grains of Indian corn. (05 Mar 2000) |
| guinea green B | An acid diaminotriphenylmethane dye, used as an indicator for H-ion determinations (changing at pH 6.0 from magenta to green) and as a fibre cytoplasmic stain in certain Masson trichrome staining procedures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| guinea pig | A rodent with a very short tail that is not visible externally; native to South America, where it is raised for food; used widely as a laboratory animal in bacteriologic, pathologic, and pharmacologic research. Synonym: guinea pig. (05 Mar 2000) |
| guinea pigs | A common name used for the family caviidae. The most common species is cavia porcellus which is the domesticated guinea pig used for pets and biomedical research. (12 Dec 1998) |
| guinea-bissau | A republic in western africa, south of senegal and west of guinea. Its capital is bissau. It was discovered by the portuguese in 1446. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was active in slave trading. Its boundaries were established by convention with france in 1886 and 1902-05 and in 1974 it gained its independence. As a portuguese overseas province, the country was called portuguese guinea; it was named guinea-bissau in 1974. The name guinea is from the tuareg word aginaw, meaning black people. Bissau is from the native name of the people there, the bijuga, whose meaning is uncertain. (12 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms :
Synonyms : Acute Inflammatory Polyradiculoneuropathy, Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy, Acute Inflammatory, Guillaine-Barre Syndrome, Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy, Acute, Inflammatory Polyneuropathy Acute, Polyneuropathy, Acute Inflammatory
Synonyms : Guilts
Synonyms : Guinea, Republic of
Synonyms : Cavia porcellus, Guinea Pig, Pig, Guinea, Pigs, Guinea
| guile |
craft: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception craftiness: the quality of being crafty trickery: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
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closure by compartment: closure imposed on the debate of specific sections of a bill instrument of execution that consists of a weighted blade between two vertical poles; used for beheading people kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; "The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country"
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the state of having committed an offense remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offence
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subject: a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities" stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research
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| guinea worm |
Guinea worm disease: a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
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| GUI | direct the course |
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| GUI | take somebody somewhere |
| GUI | use as a guide |
| GUI | be a guiding force, as with directions or advice |
| GUI | a dog trained to guide the blind |
| GUI | use as a guide |
| GUI | something that offers basic information or instruction |
| GUI | accompanied by a leader or guide |
| GUI | subject to guidance or control especially after launching |
| GUI | a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices |
| GUI | a cruiser that carries guided missiles |
| GUI | a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship |
