| screw worm infection | Infection with larvae of the blow fly cochliomyia hominivorax (callitroga americanum), a common cause of disease in livestock in the southern and southwestern u.s.a. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| screw-worm | The larva of the botfly, Cochliomyia hominivorax, and other similar forms that cause human and animal myiasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| screwdriver teeth | The teeth of congenital syphilis in which the incisal edge is notched and narrower than the cervical area. See: Hutchinson's crescentic notch. Synonym: notched teeth, screwdriver teeth, syphilitic teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ScrFI modification methylase | <enzyme> From lactococcus lactis subsp. Cremoris uc503; recognises sequence ccngg and forms m(5)ccngg; see also DNA modification methylase dsav and DNA modification methylase ssoii Registry number: EC 2.1.1.- Synonym: scrfi methylase (26 Jun 1999) |
| scribe | 1. To write, trace, or mark by making a line with a marker or pointed instrument, as in surveying a dental cast for a removable prosthesis. 2. To form, by instrumentation, negative areas within a master cast to provide a positive beading in the framework of a removable partial denture, or the posterior palatal seal area for a complete denture. Origin: L. Scribo, pp. Scripto, to write (05 Mar 2000) |
| Scribner shunt | Connection of an artery, customarily the radial, to the cephalic vein via a short extracorporeal catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Scribner, Belding | <person> U.S. Nephrologist, *1921. See: Scribner shunt. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scripturist | One who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavors to regulate his life by them. "The Puritan was a Scripturist with all his heart, if as yet with imperfect intelligence . . . He cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory." (Palfrey) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scrivener's palsy | A dystonia that affects the muscles of the hand and sometimes the forearm and only occurs during handwriting. Similar focal dystonias have also been called typist's cramp, pianist's cramp, musician's cramp, and golfer's cramp. (12 Dec 1998) |
| scRNP | Small cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein. (18 Nov 1997) |
| scrobicula | Origin: NL. See Scrobiculate. <zoology> One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scrobicular | <zoology> Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculae; as, scrobicular tubercles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scrobiculate | Pitted; marked with minute depressions. Origin: L. Scrobiculus; dim. Of scrobis, a trench (05 Mar 2000) |
| scrobiculated | <botany> Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted. Origin: L. Scrobiculus, dim. Of scrobis a ditch or trench. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scrobiculus cordis | Synonym: epigastric fossa. Origin: L. Pit or fossa of the heart (05 Mar 2000) |