| shaft of femur | The cylindrical shaft of the thigh bone. Synonym: corpus ossis femoris, body of thigh bone, corpus femoris. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| shaft of fibula | The body of fibula; of the fibula elongated, rod-like portion which accounts for most of its length. Synonym: corpus fibulae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaft of humerus | The elongated rod-like portion of the humerus between the surgical neck proximally and the emergence of the supracondylar ridges distally. Synonym: corpus humeri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaft of radius | The triangular body of the radius located between the expanded proximal and distal extremities of the bone. Synonym: corpus radii. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaft of tibia | The triangular body of tibia between its expanded proximal and distal ends. Synonym: corpus tibiae, body of tibia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaft of ulna | The shaft of the ulna between the proximal extremity and the head. Synonym: body of ulna. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shag | 1. Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair. "True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn." (Gay) 2. A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap. 3. A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine. 4. <zoology> Any species of cormorant. Origin: AS. Sceacga a bush of hair; akin to Icel. Skegg the beard, Sw. Skagg, Dan. Skjg. Cf. Schock of hair. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shagbark | <botany> A rough-barked species of hickory (Carya alba), its nut. Called also shellbark. See Hickory. The West Indian Pithecolobium micradenium, a legiminous tree with a red coiled-up pod. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shaggy | Rough with long hair or wool. "About his shoulders hangs the shaggy skin." (Dryden) 2. Rough; rugged; jaggy. "[A rill] that winds unseen beneath the shaggy fell." (Keble) Origin: From Shag. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shaggy aorta | A colloquial but fitting description for severe arterial degeneration of the aorta, the surface of which is extremely friable and likely to cause atheroembolism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaggy chorion | The part of the chorion where the villi persist, forming the foetal part of the placenta. Synonym: shaggy chorion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaggy heart | <radiology> Basilar interstitial lung disease, characteristic of: asbestosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| shaggy kinase | <enzyme> From drosophila; shares homology with mammalian glycogen synthase kinase 3; appears to be important for the normal seggregation of bristle precursor cells in the imaginal epithelium; can also function as negative regulators of jun-ap-1 Registry number: EC 2.7.1.- Synonym: sgg kinase, shaggy gene product, sgg protein, zw3 protein, zw3 gene product, zeste-white 3 kinase, zeste-white 3 (26 Jun 1999) |
| shaggy pericardium | Acute pericarditis with fibrinous exudate. See: bread-and-butter pericardium. Synonym: hairy heart, pericarditis villosa, shaggy pericardium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shagreen | 1. A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes. 2. The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts. Origin: F. Chagrin, It. Zigrino, fr. Turk. Saghri the back of a horse or other beast of burden, shagreen. Cf. Chagrin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |