| Stargardt's disease | Fundus flavimaculatus initiated with atrophic macular lesions. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Stargardt, Karl | <person> German ophthalmologist, 1875-1927. See: Stargardt's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stargaser | 1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer. 2. <zoology> Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidae. The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and Astroscopus guttatus. So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward. (26 Nov 1998) |
| stargasing | 1. The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy. 2. Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stark | 1. Stiff; rigid. "Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark." (Spenser) "His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone." (Spenser) "Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies." (Shak) "The north is not so stark and cold." (B. Jonson) 2. Complete; absolute; full; perfect; entire. "Consider the stark security The common wealth is in now." (B. Jonson) 3. Strong; vigorous; powerful. "A stark, moss-trooping Scot." (Sir W. Scott) "Stark beer, boy, stout and strong beer." (Beau. & Fl) 4. Severe; violent; fierce. "In starke stours." 5. Mere; sheer; gross; entire; downright. "He pronounces the citation stark nonsense." (Collier) "Rhetoric is very good or stark naught; there's no medium in rhetoric." (Selden) Origin: OE. Stark stiff, strong, AS. Stearc; akin to OS. Starc strong, D. Sterk, OHG. Starc, starah, G. & Sw. Stark, Dan. Staerk, Icel. Sterkr, Goth. Gastaorknan to become dried up, Lith. Stregti to stiffen, to freeze. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stark effect | <radiobiology> The effect an electric field has on the spectral lines emitted from excited atoms. The effect may arise from externally-applied electric fields, from internal fields due to the presence of neighboring ions or atoms (pressure), or from the electric field associated with the Lorentz (v cross B) force (motional stark effect). Spectroscopic measurements of plasmas using the pressure-based and motional Stark effects are useful for diagnostic purposes. (09 Oct 1997) |
| starlike | 1. Resembling a star; stellated; radiated like a star; as, starlike flowers. 2. Shining; bright; illustrious. "The having turned many to righteousness shall confer a starlike and immortal brightness." (Boyle) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| starling | 1. <ornithology> Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra. 2. <zoology> A California fish; the rock trout. 3. A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; called also sterling. Rose-coloured starling. Origin: OE. Sterlyng, a dim. Of OE. Stare, AS. Staer; akin to AS. Stearn, G. Star, staar, OHG. Stara, Icel. Starri, stari, Sw. Stare, Dan. Staer, L. Sturnus. Cf. Stare a starling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Starling's curve | A graph in which cardiac output or stroke volume is plotted against mean atrial or ventricular end-diastolic pressure; with increasing venous return and atrial pressure the output proportionately increases until further increments overload the heart and the output falls. Synonym: Frank-Starling curve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Starling's hypothesis | The principle that net filtration through capillary membranes is proportional to the transmembrane hydrostatic pressure difference minus the transmembrane oncotic pressure difference; although well established, it is called Starling's hypothesis to distinguish it from Starling's law of the heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Starling's law | The energy liberated by the heart when it contracts is a function of the length of its muscle fibres at the end of diastole. Synonym: Starling's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Starling's reflex | Tapping the volar surfaces of the fingers causes flexion of the fingers; analogous to Rossolimo's reflex, for the toes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Starling, Ernest | <person> English physiologist, 1866-1927. See: Starling's curve, Starling's hypothesis, Starling's law, Starling's reflex, Frank-Starling curve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| starn | <ornithology> The European starling. (26 Nov 1998) |
| starnose | <zoology> A curious American mole (Condylura cristata) having the nose expanded at the end into a stellate disk. Synonym: star-nosed mole. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |