| snowman sign | <radiology> Supracardiac TAPVR, (total anomalous pulmonary venous return), return to persistent left superior vena cava, aka: vertical vein (12 Dec 1998) |
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| snowshoe | A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; used by persons for walking on soft snow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| snowshoe hare virus | A member of the California group of arboviruses (family Bunyaviridae) causing fever, severe headache, and nausea in humans in North America. (05 Mar 2000) |
| snowy | 1. White like snow. "So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows." 2. Abounding with snow; covered with snow. "The snowy top of cold Olympus." 3. Pure; unblemished; unstained; spotless. "There did he lose his snowy innocence." (J. Hall (1646)) 4. <ornithology> Snowy heron, a small plover (aegialitis nivosa) of the western parts of the United States and Mexico. It is light gray above, with the under parts and portions of the head white. (11 Mar 1998) |