| verdin | <zoology> A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; called also goldtit. Origin: Cf. Sp. Verdino bright green, F. Verdin the yellow-hammer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| verdine | <chemistry> A commercial name for green aniline dye. Origin: F. Verd, vert, green. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verditer | <chemistry> Verdigris. Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite. Verditer blue, a pale greenish blue colour, like that of the pigment verditer. Origin: F. Vert-de-terre, literally, green of earth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verdoglobin | An obsolete term for choleglobin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| verdohemochrome | An intermediate stage in haemoglobin degradation to yield the bile pigments, i.e., haemoglobin yields choleglobin (verdohemoglobin) and the loss of globin leaves verdohemochrome, the precursor of biliverdin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| verdohemoglobin | <protein> A protein which is formed from the breakdown of haemoglobin (a protein that carries oxygen in the blood) and is a precursor to the bile pigment biliverdin. (09 Oct 1997) |
| verdoperoxidase | A peroxidase, occurring in leukocytes, that contains a greenish ferriheme; responsible for the peroxidase activity of pus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| verdoy | Charged with leaves, fruits, flowers, etc.; said of a border. Origin: F. Verdoyer to become green. See Verdant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vere | The true. (09 Jan 1998) |
| Veress needle | A needle equipped with a spring loaded obturator that is used for insufflation of the abdomen in laparoscopic surgery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| veretillum | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of club-shaped, compound Alcyonaria belonging to Veretillum and allied genera, of the tribe Pennatulacea. The whole colony can move about as if it were a simple animal. Origin: L, dim. Of veretrum the private parts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| verfication | 1. The act of verifying, or the state of being verified; confirmation; authentication. 2. Confirmation by evidence. A formal phrase used in concluding a plea. <mathematics> Verification of an equation, the operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it expresses truly the conditions of the problem. Origin: Cf. F. Verification. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Verga's ventricle | An inconstant, horizontal, slitlike space between the posterior one-third of the corpus callosum and the underlying commissura fornicis (commissura hippocampi; psalterium) resulting from failure of these two commissural plates to fuse completely during foetal development; like the cavity of the septum pellucidum, the space is not a true ventricle in the sense that it did not develop from the central canal of the neural tube. Synonym: cavum psalterii, cavum vergae, sixth ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Verga, Andrea | <person> Italian neurologist, 1811-1895. See: Verga's ventricle, cavum vergae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| vergaloo | <botany> See Virgalieu. Origin: Cf. Virgouleuse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |