| syr. | syrupus; syrup |
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| MSU | maple sugar urine; maple syrup urine; medical studies unit; mid-stream urine; monosodium urate; myoc... |
| MSUD | maple syrup urine disease |
| syr | syrup [Lat. syrupus]; syringe |
| wild ginger | An aromatic stimulant and diaphoretic. Synonym: Canada snakeroot, Indian ginger, wild ginger. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| wild mandrake | <botany> A powdered mixture of resins taken from dried seeds and root of the mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), it is typically used as a topical caustic agent. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wild strain | <virology> A viral strain found naturally, as opposed to one created in the laboratory. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wild tobacco | <botany> A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. Cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red colour of its flowers. Origin: NL. So called from Lobel, botanist to King James I. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wild type | <genetics> The naturally-occuring, normal, non-mutated version of a gene. The original parent strain of a virus, bacteria, fruit fly, mouse, or other laboratory test organism. Often refers to how organisms are found naturally, in the wild, before mutations were induced by researchers. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wild-type strain | A strain found in nature or a standard strain. See: auxotrophic strains, prototrophic strains. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wild yeast | Any of the uncultivated forms of yeast's, useless as ferments and sometimes pathogenic. (05 Mar 2000) |