| symbological | Pertaining to a symbology; versed in, or characterised by, symbology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| symbologist | One who practices, or who is versed in, symbology. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| symbology | <study> The art of expressing by symbols. Origin: Symbol. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| symbrachydactyly | Condition in which abnormally short fingers are joined or webbed in their proximal portions. Origin: sym-+ G. Brachys, short, + daktylos, finger (05 Mar 2000) |
| symbranchii | <zoology> An order of slender eel-like fishes having the gill openings confluent beneath the neck. The pectoral arch is generally attached to the skull, and the entire margin of the upper jaw is formed by the premaxillary. Synonym: Symbranchia. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. With + a gill. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Syme's amputation | Amputation of the foot at the ankle joint, the malleoli being sawed off, and a flap being made with the soft parts of the heel. Synonym: Syme's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Syme's operation | Amputation of the foot at the ankle joint, the malleoli being sawed off, and a flap being made with the soft parts of the heel. Synonym: Syme's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Syme, James | <person> Scottish surgeon, 1799-1870. See: Syme's amputation, Syme's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Symington's anococcygeal body | <anatomy> A musculofibrous band that passes between the anus and the coccyx. Synonym: ligamentum anococcygeum, anococcygeal body, raphe anococcygea, Symington's anococcygeal body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symmelia | Synonym: sirenomelia. Origin: sym-+ G. Melos, limb (05 Mar 2000) |
| Symmers' fibrosis | A characteristic pipe-shaped fibrosis formed around hepatic portal veins in some cases of long-continued heavy infection with Schistosoma mansoni; thought to be induced by the presence of large numbers of schistosome eggs in the hepatic tissues. Synonym: Symmers' clay pipestem fibrosis, Symmers' fibrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Symmers, Douglas | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1879-1952. See: Brill-Symmers disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Symmers, W | <person> British pathologist, 1863-1937. See: Symmers' clay pipestem fibrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symmetric adenolipomatosis | Accumulation and progressive enlargement of collections of adipose tissue in the subcutaneous tissue of the head, neck, upper trunk, and upper portions of the upper extremities; seen primarily in adult males and of unknown cause. Synonym: Launois-Bensaude syndrome, Madelung's disease, symmetric adenolipomatosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| symmetric asphyxia | <syndrome> Idiopathic paroxysmal bilateral cyanosis of the digits due to arterial and arteriolar contraction; caused by cold or emotion. See: Raynaud's phenomenon. Synonym: Raynaud's disease, symmetric asphyxia. (05 Mar 2000) |