| minimum protein requirement | <nutrition> The age-dependent amount of protein required daily in the diet. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| minimum temperature | In bacteriology, denoting a temperature below which growth will not take place. (05 Mar 2000) |
| minimus | 1. A being of the smallest size. 2. <anatomy> The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes. Origin: L. See Minim. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| minimyosin | <protein> Form of myosin isolated from Acanthamoeba, only 180 kD, but capable of binding to actin. (18 Nov 1997) |
| miniplacental alkaline phosphatase | <enzyme> Engineered human placental alkaline phosphatase; miniplap 208 has the same n- and c-terminal signal peptides as placental alkaline phosphatase Registry number: EC 3.1.3.- Synonym: miniplap, miniplap 208 (26 Jun 1999) |
| minisatellite repeats | Tandem arrays of moderately repetitive DNA sequences found dispersed throughout the genome but clustered near telomeres. Their degree of repetition is two to several hundred at each locus. Loci number in the thousands but each locus shows a distinctive repeat unit. Minisatellite repeats are often called variable number of tandem repeats. (12 Dec 1998) |
| minisegregant cell | <cell biology> Human cells with small amounts of DNA and few chromosomes, obtained experimentally by perturbing cell division. Can readily be fused with whole cells. (18 Nov 1997) |
| minister | To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer. "He that ministereth seed to the sower." (2 Cor. Ix. 10) "We minister to God reason to suspect us." (Jer. Taylor) Origin: OE. Ministren, OF. Ministrer, fr. L. Ministrare. See Minister. 1. To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular. "The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." (Matt. Xx. 28) 2. To supply or to things needful; especially, to supply consolation or remedies. "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?" (Shak) 1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. "Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua." (Ex. Xxiv. 13) "I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes." (Shak) 2. An officer of justice. "I cry out the on the ministres, quod he, That shoulde keep and rule this cite." (Chaucer) 3. One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs. "Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man." (Bacon) 4. A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business. Ambassadors are classed (in the diplomatic sense) in the first rank of public ministers, ministers plenipotentiary in the second. "The United States diplomatic service employs two classes of ministers, ministers plenipotentiary and ministers resident." 5. One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorised or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments. Synonym: Delegate, official, ambassador, clergyman, parson, priest. Origin: OE. Ministre, F. Ministre, fr. L. Minister, orig. A double comparative from the root of minor less, and hence meaning, an inferior, a servant. See 1st Minor, and cf. Master, Minstrel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ministress | A woman who ministers. Origin: Cf. L. Ministrix. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| minium | <chemistry> A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Synonym: red lead. Origin: L. Minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque arminea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| minivet | <zoology> A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidae. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |