| Moss, Gerald | <person> U.S. Physician, *1931. See: Moss tube. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Moss, Melvin | <person> U.S. Oral pathologist, *1923. See: Gorlin-Chaudhry-Moss syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| moss-lichen wetland | <ecology> A wetland dominated by mosses (mainly peat mosses) and lichens with little taller vegetation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| mossback | A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mossbunker | <zoology> The menhaded. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mosses | A class of plants within the bryophyta comprising the mosses, which are found in both damp (including freshwater) and drier situations. Mosses possess erect or prostrate leafless stems, which give rise to leafless stalks bearing capsules. Spores formed in the capsules are released and grow to produce new plants. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mossiness | The state of being mossy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Mossman fever | A fever, noted especially among sugar cane cutters in the Mossman District of North Queensland, caused by a leptospira. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mosso's sphygmomanometer | An apparatus for measuring the blood pressure in the digital arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mosso, Angelo | <person> Italian physiologist, 1846-1910. See: Mosso's ergograph, Mosso's sphygmomanometer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mossy | 1. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. "Old trees are more mossy far than young." (Bacon) 2. Resembling moss; as, mossy green. Origin: Mossier; Mossiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mossy cell | One of the two types of neuroglia cell's, consisting of a rather large body with numerous short branching processes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mossy fibres | Highly branched nerve fibre's in the cerebellar cortex that terminate in rosette formations and synapse upon granule cell dendrites. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mossy fibres, hippocampal | Axons of certain cells in the dentate gyrus. They project to the polymorphic layer of the dentate gyrus and to the proximal dendrites of pyramidal cells of the hippocampus. These mossy fibres should not be confused with mossy fibres that are cerebellar afferents (see nerve fibres). (12 Dec 1998) |
| mossy foot | A profuse velvety papillomatous growth that develops large warty projections; caused by chronic lymphedema and stasis with maceration and associated infection. Synonym: lymphedematous keratoderma, lymphostatic verrucosis. (05 Mar 2000) |