| LCL | Levinthal-Coles-Lillie [body]; lower confidence limit; lower control limit; lymphoblastoid cell line... |
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| UCL | ulnar collateral ligament; upper collateral ligament; upper confidence limit; upper control limit; u... |
| 198AU | Radioactive Gold(used in interstitial radio theraphy) |
| Au | Australia [antigen]; authorization; gold [Lat. aurum] |
| CG | cardiography; cardiogreen; choking gas; choriogenic gynecomastia; chorionic gonadotropin; chromogran... |
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| dextrin limit | The polysaccharide fragments remaining at the end (limit) of exhaustive hydrolysis of amylopectin or glycogen by alpha-1,4-glucan maltohydrolase, which cannot hydrolyze the alpha-1,6 bonds at branch points; accumulates in individuals with type III glycogen storage disease. Synonym: dextrin limit. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| quantum limit | The shortest wavelength found in an X-ray spectrum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| threshold limit value | The maximum concentration of a chemical recommended by the American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists for repeated exposure without adverse health effects on workers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| elastic limit | The greatest stress to which a material may be subjected and still be capable of returning to its original dimensions when the forces are released. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limit | 1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor. "As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed." (Pope) 2. The space or thing defined by limits. "The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally." (Shak) 3. That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. "The dateless limit of thy dear exile." (Shak) "The limit of your lives is out." (Shak) 4. A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance. "I prithee, give no limits to my tongue." (Shak) 5. <logic> A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic a differentia. 6. <mathematics> A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent. Elastic limit. See Elastic. Prison limits, a definite, extent of space in or around a prison, within which a prisoner has liberty to go and come. Synonym: Boundary, border, edge, termination, restriction, bound, confine. Origin: From L. Limes, limitis: cf. F.limite; -or from E. Limit, v. See Limit. To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word. <astronomy> Limiting parallels, those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur. Origin: F. Limiter, L. Limitare, fr. Limes, limitis, limit; prob. Akin to limen threshold, E. Eliminate; cf. L. Limus sidelong. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| limit dextrin | The polysaccharide fragments remaining at the end (limit) of exhaustive hydrolysis of amylopectin or glycogen by alpha-1,4-glucan maltohydrolase, which cannot hydrolyze the alpha-1,6 bonds at branch points; accumulates in individuals with type III glycogen storage disease. Synonym: dextrin limit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limit dextrinase | <enzyme> An enzyme with action similar to that of isoamylase; it cleaves 1,6-alpha-glucosidic linkages in pullalan, amylopectin, and glycogen, and in alpha-and beta-amylase limit-dextrins of amylopectin and glycogen. Compare: isoamylase. Synonym: limit dextrinase, pullulanase, R enzyme. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limit dextrinosis | Glycogenosis due to amylo-1,6-glucosidase deficiency, resulting in accumulation of abnormal glycogen with short outer chains in liver and muscle. Synonym: Cori's disease, debranching deficiency limit dextrinosis, limit dextrinosis, Forbes' disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| limit of resolution | 1. <optics> The resolution of an optical system defines the closest proximity of two objects that can be seen as two distinct regions of the image. This limit depends upon the Numerical Aperture of the optical system, the contrast step between objects and background and the shape of the objects. The often quoted Airy limit applies only to self luminous discs. 2. <genetics> The smallest map distance measurable by an experiment involving a certain number of classified recombinant progency. (10 Mar 1998) |
| antirheumatic agents, gold | Gold salts that are effective in the therapy of rheumatoid arthritis. These compounds usually do not have analgesic activity. Since these compounds are poorly absorbed from the intestinal tract, they are usually given intramuscularly. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mat gold | Powdered gold formed by electrolytic precipitation, compressed into strips, and sintered. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gold | 1. <chemistry> A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow colour, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7. Native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent of silver, but often much more. As the amount of silver increases, the colour becomes whiter and the specific gravity lower. Gold is very widely disseminated, as in the sands of many rivers, but in very small quantity. It usually occurs in quartz veins (gold quartz), in slate and metamorphic rocks, or in sand and alluvial soil, resulting from the disintegration of such rocks. It also occurs associated with other metallic substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite, sylvanite, etc. Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use, and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge. [See Carat] Gold also finds use in gold foil, in the pigment purple of Cassius, and in the chloride, which is used as a toning agent in photography. 2. Money; riches; wealth. "For me, the gold of France did not seduce." (Shak) 3. A yellow colour, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold. 4. Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold. Age of gold. See Golden age, under Golden. Dutch gold, Fool's gold, Gold dust, etc. See Dutch, Dust, etc. Gold amalgam, a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury. Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. <zoology> Gold beetle See Cradle. Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing. Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry. Gold-end man. A buyer of old gold or jewelry. A goldsmith's apprentice. An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." . Gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting. Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold. Gold finder. One who finds gold. One who empties privies. Gold flower, a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating involucral scales, the Helichrysum Stoechas of Southern Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus. Gold foil, thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf. <botany> Gold knobs or knoppes A small evergreen plant (Coptis trifolia), so called from its fibrous yellow roots. It is common in marshy places in the United States. Gold tissue, a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thread. Gold tooling, the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon book covers, or the ornamental impression so made. Gold washings, places where gold found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing. Gold worm, a glowworm. Jeweler's gold, an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper. Mosaic gold. See Mosaic. Origin: AS. Gold; akin to D. Goud, OS. & G. Gold, Icel. Gull, Sw. & Dan. Guld, Goth. Gulp, Russ. & OSlav. Zlato; prob. Akin to E. Yellow. See Yellow, and cf. Gild. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| gold alloys | Alloys that contain a high percentage of gold. They are used in restorative or prosthetic dentistry. (12 Dec 1998) |
| gold casting | A casting made of gold, usually formed to represent and replace lost tooth structure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gold colloid | A purplish suspension of minute particles of metallic gold, made by reducing a solution of bromauric acid or other acid or salt of gold. It is used as a probe in immunochemistry. (12 Dec 1998) |