| Grandry's corpuscle | General sensory endings in the beak, mouth, and tongue of birds; similar to Merkel's corpuscle's. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Granger projection | G. View, reversed half-axial view; uncommonly used PA view of the skull. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Granger's line | On lateral skull radiographs, the line produced by the groove of the optic chiasm or sulcus prechiasmatis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Granger, Amedee | <person> U.S. Radiologist, 1879-1939. See: Granger's line. (05 Mar 2000) |
| grangerism | The practice of illustrating a particular book by engravings collected from other books. Origin: So called from the Rev. James Granger, whose "Biographical History of England" (1769) was a favorite book for illustration in this manner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| graniferous | Bearing grain, or seeds like grain. Origin: L. Qranifer; granum grain + ferre to bear: cf. F. Granifere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| granilla | Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect. Origin: Sp, small seed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| granins | Family of related acidic proteins (400-600 residues) found in many endocrine cell secretory vesicles. Secretogranin 1 = chromogranin B, secretogranin 2 = chromogranin C. (18 Nov 1997) |
| granisetron | <chemical> A serotonin receptor (5ht-3 selective) antagonist that has been used as an antiemetic for cancer chemotherapy patients. Pharmacological action: antiemetics, serotonin antagonists. Chemical name: 1H-Indazole-3-carboxamide, 1-methyl-N-(9-methyl-9-azabicyclo(3.3.1)non-3-yl)-, endo- (12 Dec 1998) |
| Granit | Ragnar A., Finnish-Swedish neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate, 1900-1991 See: Granit's loop. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Granit's loop | The reflex arc consisting of small anterior horn cells and neuroma, their small fibres projecting to the intrafusal bundle producing its contraction, which initiates the afferent impulses that pass through the posterior root to the anterior horn cells, inducing a stretch reflex. Synonym: gamma motor neurons, gamma motor system, Granit's loop. (05 Mar 2000) |
| granite | <geology> A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red colour. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure. Varieties containing hornblende are common. See also the Note under Mica. Gneissoid granite, granite in which the mica has traces of a regular arrangement. Graphic granite, granite consisting of quartz and feldspar without mica, and having the quartz crystals so arranged in the transverse section like oriental characters. Porphyritic granite, granite containing feldspar in distinct crystals. Hornblende granite, or Syenitic granite, granite containing hornblende as well as mica, or, according to some authorities hornblende replacing the mica. Granite ware. A kind of stoneware. A Kind of ironware, coated with an enamel resembling granite. Origin: It. Granito granite, adj, grainy, p. P. Of granire to make grainy, fr. L. Granum grain; cf. F. Granit. See Grain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| granitiform | <geology> Resembling granite in structure or shape. Origin: Granite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| granivorous | Eating grain; feeding or subsisting on seeds; as, granivorous birds. Seed-eating. Not same as graminivorous? = feeding on grass or the seeds of grass. Latter is for beasts. Origin: L. Granum grain + vorare to devour: cf. F. Granivore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| granny | A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman. Granny's bend, or Granny's knot, a kind of insecure knot or hitch; a reef knot crossed the wrong way. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |