| sedimentation rate | A sedimentation rate, or sed rate , is a blood test that detects and monitors inflammation activity. It is measured by recording the rate at which red blood cells (rbcs) sediment in a tube over time. It increases (the rbcs sediment faster) with more inflammation. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| sedimentation velocity | The rate of movement of a substance, typically a macromolecule, in centrifugation; these centrifugation studies provide data on the structure of the macromolecule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sedimentator | A centrifuge. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sedimentometer | A photographic apparatus for the automatic recording of the blood sedimentation rate. Origin: sediment + G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000) |
| sedimentum | Synonym: sediment. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sedimentum lateritium | A sediment of urates in the urine. Synonym: sedimentum lateritium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sedition | 1. The raising of commotion in a state, not amounting to insurrection; conduct tending to treason, but without an overt act; excitement of discontent against the government, or of resistance to lawful authority. "In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition." (Shak) "Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition." (Macaulay) 2. Dissension; division; schism. "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, . . . Emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies." (Gal. V. 19, 20) Synonym: Insurrection, tumult, uproar, riot, rebellion, revolt. See Insurrection. Origin: OE. Sedicioun, OF. Sedition, F. Sedition, fr. L. Seditio, originally, a going aside; hence, an insurrectionary separation; pref. Se-, sed-, aside + itio a going, fr. Ire, itum, to go. Cf. Issue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sedoheptulose | <biochemistry> Seven carbon sugar, whose phosphate derivatives are involved in the pentose phosphate pathway and the Calvin Benson cycle. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sedoheptulose-bisphosphatase | <enzyme> Chemical name: sedoheptulose 1,7-diphosphate phosphatase Registry number: EC 3.1.3.37 Synonym: sedoheptulose diphosphatase, sedoheptulose-1,7-biphosphatase (26 Jun 1999) |
| seducer | One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. "He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love." (Dryden) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| seduction | 1. The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity. 2. That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth. Origin: L. Seductio: cf. F. Seduction. See Seduce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| seductress | A woman who seduces. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sedulous | Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee. "What signifies the sound of words in prayer, without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?" (L'Estrange) Synonym: Assiduous, diligent, industrious, laborious, unremitting, untiring, unwearied, persevering. Sed"ulously, Sed"ulousness. Origin: L. Sedulus, perhaps from sedere to sit, and so akin to E. Sit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sedum | <botany> A genus of plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop. Origin: NL, fr. L. Sedere to sit; so called in allusion to the manner in which the plants attach themselves to rocks and walls. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |