| scabrities unguium | Thickening and distortion of the nails. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| scabwort | <botany> Elecampane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scad | <zoology> A small carangoid fish (Trachurus saurus) abundant on the European coast, and less common on the American. The name is applied also to several allied species. The goggler; called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler. The friar skate. The cigar fish, or round robin. Origin: Gael. & ir. Sgadan a herring. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scaffold | 1. A temporary structure of timber, boards, etc, for various purposes, as for supporting workmen and materials in building, for exhibiting a spectacle upon, for holding the spectators at a show, etc. "Pardon, gentles all, The flat, unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object." (Shak) 2. Specifically, a stage or elevated platform for the execution of a criminal; as, to die on the scaffold. "That a scaffold of execution should grow a scaffold of coronation." (Sir P. Sidney) 3. <chemistry> An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf, or dome-shaped obstruction, above the tuyeres in a blast furnace. Origin: OF. Eschafault, eschafaut, escafaut, escadafaut, F. Echafaud; probably oiginally the same word as E. & F. Catafalque, It. Catafafalco. See Catafalque. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scaffold proteins | Proteins that remain when chromosomes are digested with DNase. Many antigenic species have been identified. (18 Nov 1997) |
| scaffold-associated regions | Sites in DNA that bind topoisomerase II and other scaffold proteins; found in introns. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scala | Origin: L, a ladder. 1. <surgery> A machine formerly employed for reducing dislocations of the humerus. 2. <anatomy> A term applied to any one of the three canals of the cochlea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scala media | Spiral tube in the bony canal of the cochlea, lying on its outer wall between the scala vestibuli and scala tympani. (12 Dec 1998) |
| scala tympani | The lower tube of the cochlea, extending from the round window to the helicotrema and containing perilymph. (12 Dec 1998) |
| scala vestibuli | The division of the spiral canal of the cochlea lying on the apical side of the spiral lamina and vestibular membrane. Synonym: vestibular canal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scalar | <mathematics> In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalar electrocardiogram | Electrocardiographic lead output that can be displayed on one plane of the body in contradistinction to vector electrocardiogram in which the display is on two or more planes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scalaria | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The colour is generally white or pale. Synonym: ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap. Origin: L, flight of steps. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalariform | Having a ladder-like pattern. (09 Oct 1997) |
| scald | A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam. One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, etc, among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes. Alternative forms: skald] "A war song such as was of yore chanted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons." (Sir W. Scott) Origin: Icel. Skald. 1. Affected with the scab; scaby. 2. Scurry; paltry; as, scald rhymers. <medicine> Scald crow, a name popularly given to several diseases of the scalp characterised by pustules (the dried discharge of which forms scales) and by falling out of the hair. Origin: For scalled. See Scall. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |