| GPAIS | guinea pig anti-insulin serum |
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| GPC | gastric parietal cell; gel permeation chromatography; giant papillary conjunctivitis; glycophorin C;... |
| GPE | guinea pig embryo; granulocyte colony-stimulating factor promoter element |
| GPGG | guinea pig gamma-globulin |
| GPHV | guinea pig herpes virus |
| tail-specific protease | <enzyme> Selectively degrades proteins with nonpolar c termini Registry number: EC 3.4.99.- Synonym: tsp protease, prc protein, prc gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
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| tail vertebrae | The four terminal segments of the vertebral column, usually fused to form the coccyx. Synonym: vertebrae coccygeae, tail vertebrae. (05 Mar 2000) |
| teeter-tail | <zoology> The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| triple-tail | <zoology> An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Synonym:, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| two-tail test | A statistical test based on the assumption that the data are distributed in both directions from some central value. (05 Mar 2000) |
| faun tail nevus | A circumscribed growth of hair of the lumbosacral area, associated with diastematomyelia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fish-tail | Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail burner, a gas burner that gives a spreading flame shaped somewhat like the tail of a fish. Fish-tail propeller, a propeller with a single blade that oscillates like the tail of a fish when swimming. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lion's tail | <botany> A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lizard's tail | <botany> A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. Cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acorn-tipped catheter | A catheter used in ureteropyelography to occlude the ureteral orifice and prevent backflow from the ureter during and following the injection of an opaque medium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| angiography catheter | A thin-walled tube suitable for percutaneous puncture and powered injection of contrast media for radiography; catheter diameter is measured on the French scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balloon catheter | A catheter used in arterial embolectomy or to float into the pulmonary artery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| balloon-tip catheter | A tube with a balloon at its tip that can be inflated or deflated without removal after installation; the balloon may be inflated to facilitate passage of the tube through a blood vessel (propelled by the bloodstream) or to occlude the vessel in which the tube alone would allow free flow; such catheter's are used to enter the pulmonary artery to facilitate haemodynamic measurements or to enter arteries and then remove them while inflated to withdraw clots (embolectomy catheter). See: Swan-Ganz catheter. Synonym: Fogarty catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bicoudate catheter | Catheter bicoude, an elbowed catheter with a double bend. Origin: bi + Fr. Coude, bent (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bozeman-Fritsch catheter | A slightly curved double-channel uterine catheter with several openings at the tip. (05 Mar 2000) |