| ACE | acetonitrile; acetylcholine esterase; acute cerebral encephalopathy; acute coronary event; adrenocor... |
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| BCYE | buffered charcoal-yeast extract [agar] |
| BTE | behind the ear [hearing aid]; bovine thymus extract |
| B&W | black and white [milk of magnesia and cascara extract] |
| CEE | Central European encephalitis; chick embryo extract |
| perfect flower | <botany> A flower with both essential and accessory organs. (13 Nov 1997) |
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| noon-flower | <botany> The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| disc flower | The radially symmetrical flowers in the family Compositae, as distinguished from the ligulate ray flowers. (09 Oct 1997) |
| imperfect flower | A flower containing stamen and pistil organs required for pollination but lacking sepals or petals or both of these organs. (09 Oct 1997) |
| joseph's flower | <botany> A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flower | The sexual reproductive structure of the angiosperms, typically consisting of gynoecium, androecium and perianth and the main stem bearing these parts. (09 Oct 1997) |
| flower basket of Bochdalek | Part of the choroid plexus of the fourth ventricle protruding through Luschka's foramen and resting on the dorsal surface of the glossopharyngeal nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flower-de-luce | <botany> A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colours, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north temperate zone. Some of the best known are Iris Germanica, I. Florentina, I. Persica, I. Sambucina, and the American I. Versicolour, I. Prismatica, etc. Origin: Corrupted fr. Fleur-de-lis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flower/er | A plant which flowers or blossoms. "Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers." (Darwin) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flower-fence | <botany> A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Caesalpinia, pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers; so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in the West Indies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| flower-gentle | <botany> A species of amaranth (Amarantus melancholicus). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Flower's bone | A sutural bone occasionally present at the pterion or junction of the parietal, frontal, greater wing of the sphenoid, and squamous portion of the temporal bone's. Synonym: Flower's bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Flower's dental index | Relation of the dental length (distance from the mesial surface of the first premolar to the distal surface of the third molar) to the basinasal (basion to nasion) length: (dental length ×100)/basinasal length, a system of numbers for indicating comparative size of the teeth. Synonym: Flower's dental index. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flower-spray ending | One of the two types of sensory nerve ending associated with the neuromuscular spindle (the other being the annulospiral ending); in this type, the fibre branches spread out upon the surface of the intrafusal fibres like a spray of flowers. Synonym: flower-spray organ of Ruffini. (05 Mar 2000) |
| flower-spray organ of Ruffini | One of the two types of sensory nerve ending associated with the neuromuscular spindle (the other being the annulospiral ending); in this type, the fibre branches spread out upon the surface of the intrafusal fibres like a spray of flowers. Synonym: flower-spray organ of Ruffini. (05 Mar 2000) |