| moschus | Musk. Origin: G. Moschos, musk (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Mosenthal test | An infrequently used test to evaluate renal concentrating ability by measuring the density of urine every two hours during the ingestion of a controlled diet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mosenthal, Herman Otto | <person> American physician, 1878-1954. See: Mosenthal test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mosler's diabetes | Inosituria with excretion of large quantities of water. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mosler's sign | <clinical sign> Tenderness over the sternum in a patient with acute myeloblastic anaemia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mosler, Karl | <person> German physician, 1831-1911. See: Mosler's diabetes, Mosler's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| moslings | Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mososaurus | <paleontology> Same as Mosasaurus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mosquito | Origin: Sp. Mosquito, fr. Moscafly, L. Musca. Cf. Musket. <zoology> Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic. Alternative forms: musquito] Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, used for beds and windows. Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels. <zoology> Mosquito hawk, a dragon fly; so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes. Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito bars. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mosquito clamp | A small haemostat, straight or curved, with or without teeth; used to hold delicate tissue or for haemostasis. Synonym: mosquito forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mosquito control | The reduction or regulation of the population of mosquitoes through chemical, biological, or other means. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mosquito forceps | A small haemostat, straight or curved, with or without teeth; used to hold delicate tissue or for haemostasis. Synonym: mosquito forceps. (05 Mar 2000) |
| moss | To cover or overgrow with moss. "An oak whose boughs were mossed with age." (Shak) Origin: Mossed; Mossing. 1. <botany> A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc, and a few in running water. The term moss is also popularly applied to many other small cryptogamic plants, particularly lichens, species of which are called tree moss, rock moss, coral moss, etc. Fir moss and club moss are of the genus Lycopodium. See Club moss, under Club, and Lycopodium. 2. A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border. Moss is used with participles in the composition of words which need no special explanation; as, moss-capped, moss-clad, moss-covered, moss-grown, etc. Black moss. See Black, and Tillandsia. Bog moss. See Sphagnum. Feather moss, any moss branched in a feathery manner, especially. Several species of the genus Hypnum. Florida moss, Long moss, or Spanish moss. See Tillandsia. Iceland moss, a lichen. See Iceland Moss. Irish moss, a seaweed. See Carrageen. Moss agate, a bryozoan. <botany> Moss berry, a rush of the genus Juncus (J. Squarrosus). Scale moss. See Hepatica. Origin: OE. Mos; akin to AS. Meos, D. Mos, G. Moos, OHG. Mos, mios, Icel. Mosi, Dan. Mos, Sw. Mossa, Russ. Mokh', L. Muscus. Cf. Muscoid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| moss starch | <chemistry> A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, especially. From Iceland moss. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Moss tube | A triple-lumen, nasogastric, feeding-decompression tube, that utilises a gastric balloon to occlude cardioesophageal junction, with simultaneous oesophageal aspiration and intragastric feeding, a double-lumen, gastric lavage tube, that provides continuous delivery of saline via a small bore, with simultaneous aspiration of fluid and some particles via a large bore. (05 Mar 2000) |