| stockfish | 1. Salted and dried fish, especially codfish, hake, ling, and torsk; also, codfish dried without being salted. 2. <zoology> Young fresh cod. Origin: Cf. D. Stokvisch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Stockholm syndrome | <syndrome> A form of bonding between a captive and captor in which the captive begins to identify with, and may even sympathise with, the captor. Origin: Stockholm, Sweden, where early case reported (05 Mar 2000) |
| stocking | Oedema of the leg in the horse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stocking anaesthesia | Loss of sensation in the distal lower extremity, i.e., the foot and toes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stockwork | 1. <chemical> A system of working in ore, etc, when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories. 2. <geology> A metalliferous deposit characterised by the impregnation of the mass of rock with many small veins or nests irregularly grouped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories. Origin: G. Stockwerk. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stoechiology | Etc. See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stoechiometry | Etc. See Stoichiology, Stoichiometry, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Stoerk's blennorrhoea | Chronic, first purulent then dry, catarrh of the upper air passages with hypertrophy of the mucous membrane and submucosa, in many cases the same as scleroma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stoerk, Karl | <person> Austrian laryngologist, 1832-1899. See: Stoerk's blennorrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stoffel's operation | Division of certain motor nerves for the relief of spastic paralysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stoffel, Adolf | <person> German orthopedic surgeon, 1880-1937. See: Stoffel's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stoic | 1. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed. 2. Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain. "A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear." (Campbell) School of Stoics. See The Porch, under Porch. Origin: L. Stoicus, Gr, fr, adj, literally, of or pertaining to a colonnade, from a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his successors taught. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stoichiological | Of or pertaining to stoichiology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stoichiology | 1. <study> That part of the science of physiology which treats of the elements, or principles, composing animal tissues. 2. <logic> The doctrine of the elementary requisites of mere thought. 3. The statement or discussion of the first principles of any science or art. Origin: Gr. A first element. Alternative forms: stoechiology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stoichiometric | Pertaining to stoichiometry. (05 Mar 2000) |