| sweet itch | A pruritic dermatosis of horses caused by an allergic reaction to midges of the genus Culicoides. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sweet precipitate | HgCl;mild mercury chloride; mercury monochloride, protochloride, or subchloride; has been used as an intestinal antiseptic and laxative; replaced by safer agents. Synonym: mercurous chloride, sweet precipitate. Origin: Mediev. L., fr. G. Kalos, beutiful, + melas, black (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sweet's disease | A rare dermatosis, predominant in women, of rapid onset and characterised by plaque-like lesions, usually multiple, on the face, neck, and upper extremities, accompanied by conjunctivitis, mucosal lesions, fever, malaise, arthralgia, and peripheral blood neutrophilia in many cases; biopsy reveals polymorphonuclear infiltrate of the dermis; rapid remission occurs with systemic steroid therapy. Synonym: Sweet's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sweet's syndrome | <syndrome> This rare condition is characterised by red-brown plaques and nodules that are frequently painful and occur primarily on the head, neck and upper extremities. The patients will also have fever and increased white blood cell counts (neutrophils). In approximately 10% of the patients there is an associated malignancy, most commonly acute nonlymphocytic leukaemia. The idiopathic form (unknown cause) of Sweet's syndrome is seen more often in females following a respiratory tract infection. (19 Jan 1998) |
| Sweet, Robert Douglas | <person> 20th century English dermatologist. See: Sweet's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweet-scented | Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. <botany> Sweet-scented shrub, a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweet-sop | <botany> A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See Custard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweetbread | 1. Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck, or throat, sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, especially. Of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus. 2. <anatomy> The pancreas. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweetbrier | <botany> A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweetening agents | Substances that sweeten food, beverages, medications, etc., such as sugar, saccharine or other low-calorie synthetic products. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sweetheart | A lover of mistress. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweethearting | Making love. "To play at sweethearting." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweetmeat | 1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; usually in the plural; a confect; a confection. 2. The paint used in making patent leather. 3. <zoology> A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweetroot | <botany> Licorice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweetwater | <botany> A variety of white grape, having a sweet watery juice; also called white sweetwater, and white muscadine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |