| shola | <botany> See Sola. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Shone's anomaly | Coarctation of the aorta, subaortic stenosis, and stenosing ring of the left atrium found in association with a parachute mitral valve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shone's complex | An obstructive lesion of the mitral valve complex with left ventricular outflow obstruction and coarctation of the aorta. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shone's syndrome | <syndrome> The association of obstructive lesions of the mitral valve complex, including supravalvar ring and parachute mitral valve, with left ventricular outflow obstruction and coarctation of the aorta. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shone, John | <person> 20th century English cardiologist. See: Shone's anomaly, Shone's complex, Shone's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shooi | <zoology> The Richardson's skua (Stercorarius parasiticus);- so called from its cry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shook jong | A culture-specific acute delusional syndrome occurring mostly in the malay people and southern chinese. The syndrome is characterised by the individual's sudden experience of depersonalization depicted by the belief that his penis is shrinking into his abdomen and that he will die when this occurs. Although generally classified as a culture-specific syndrome, koro may be no more than a variant of castration anxiety (anxiety, castration) as it has been described in non-asian patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| shoot | A young branch which sprouts from the main stock. (09 Oct 1997) |
| shooting | Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting. Shooting board, a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true. Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season. Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms. Shooting iron, a firearm. Shooting star. <astronomy> A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, called also falling star. Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. at certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids. <botany> A tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shop | 1. A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc, are sold by retail. "From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter." (Cowper) 2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop. "A tailor called me in his shop." (Shak) Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc. To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or profession. To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment. Synonym: Store, warehouse. See Store. Origin: OE. Shoppe, schoppe, AS. Sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse, stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. Schup a shed, G. Schoppen, schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. Scopf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shop typhus | A mild form of typhus occurring in urban areas, reported in Mediterranean areas. Synonym: urban typhus. Siberian tick typhus, tick-borne rickettsiosis caused by infection with Rickettsia sibirica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shope fibroma | A connective tissue tumour of cottontail rabbits caused by a poxvirus of the genus Leporipoxvirus and found by Shope to be transmissible with cellular suspensions or Berkefeld filtrates; it is related to myxomatosis and is used in Europe as a source of vaccine to protect against the myxoma virus. Synonym: rabbit fibroma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shope fibroma virus | <virology> Poxvirus associated with the production of benign skin tumours in rabbits. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Shope papilloma | A papillomatous growth found in wild cottontail rabbits that is caused by a virus in the family Papovaviridae and can be transferred to domestic rabbits where it will cause similar growths. A high percentage of these growths may become malignant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Shope papilloma virus | <virology> Papovavirus that produces papillomas (warts) in rabbits. (18 Nov 1997) |