| scoliotic | Relating to or suffering from scoliosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| scoliotic pelvis | A deformed pelvis associated with lateral curvature of the spine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scoliotone | An apparatus for stretching the spine and reducing the curve in scoliosis. Origin: G. Skolios, crooked, + tonos, tension (05 Mar 2000) |
| scolithus | <paleontology> A tubular structure found in Potsdam sandstone, and believed to be the fossil burrow of a marine worm. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. A worm + a stone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scolopacine | <zoology> Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidae, or Snipe family. Origin: L. Scolopax a snipe, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scolopendra | 1. <zoology> A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped. 2. A sea fish. Origin: L, a kind of multiped, fr. Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scolopendrine | <zoology> Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scolytid | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively. Origin: Gr. To cut short. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scomber | <zoology> A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel. Origin: L, a mackerel, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scomberoid | <zoology> Same as Scombroid. Origin: Cf. F. Scomneroide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scombriformes | <zoology> A division of fishes including the mackerels, tunnies, and allied fishes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scombroid | <zoology> Like or pertaining to the Mackerel family. Any fish of the family Scombridae, of which the mackerel (Scomber) is the type. Origin: Scomber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scombroid poisoning | Poisoning from ingestion of heat-stable toxins produced by bacterial action on inadequately preserved dark-meat fish of the order Scombroidea (tuna, bonito, mackerel, albacore, skipjack); characterised by epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting, headache, thirst, difficulty in swallowing, and urticaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scomfish | To suffocate or stifle; to smother. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scoop | 1. A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats. 2. A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine. 3. <surgery> A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. 4. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. "Some had lain in the scoop of the rock." (J. R. Drake) 5. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. 6. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling. Scoop net, a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. Scoop wheel, a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum. Origin: OE. Scope, of Scand. Origin; cf. Sw. Skopa, akin to D. Schop a shovel, G. Schuppe, and also to E. Shove. See Shovel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |