| Sorensen, Soren | <person> Danish chemist, 1868-1939. See: Sorensen scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Soret band | The absorption band of all porphyrins at about 400 nm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Soret's phenomenon | In a solution kept in a long, upright tube at room temperature, the upper part, being the warmer, is also the more concentrated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Soret, C | <person> French radiologist, +1931. See: Soret band, Soret's phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sorex | <zoology> A genus of small Insectivora, including the common shrews. Origin: L, a shrew. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorghum | <botany> A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass (see Johnson grass), and S. Vulgare, the Indian millet (see Indian millet, under Indian). A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane. Origin: NL, probably of Chinese origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorgne | <zoology> The three-beared rocking, or whistlefish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorgo | <botany> Indian millet and its varieties. See Sorghum. Origin: Cf. It. Sorgo. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| soricine | <zoology> Like a shrew in form or habits; as, the soricine bat (Glossophaga soricina). Origin: L. Sorricinus, fr. Sorex a shrew. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sorocarp | <plant biology> Fruiting body formed by some cellular slime moulds, has both stalk and spore mass. (18 Nov 1997) |
| soroche | Synonym: altitude sickness. Origin: Sp. (orig. Ore, formerly attributed to toxic emanations of ores in mountains) (05 Mar 2000) |
| sorosis | <botany> A fleshy fruit formed by the consolidation of many flowers with their receptacles, ovaries, etc, as the breadfruit, mulberry, and pineapple. (04 Mar 1998) |
| sorption | Adsorption or absorption. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sorption detoxification | Elimination of toxic or biologically active substances from body fluids by interaction with a sorbent medium. The types of media include absorbents, adsorbents, ion-exchange materials, and complexing agents. Detoxification can be extracorporeal (haemodialysis, haemofiltration, haemoperfusion, plasmapheresis), or occur inside the body (enterosorption, peritoneal dialysis). (12 Dec 1998) |
| sorrel | Of a yellowish or redish brown colour; as, a sorrel horse. Origin: F. Saur, saure, OF. Sor, sore, probably of Teutonic origin; cf. D. Zoor dry, LG. Soor; the meaning probably coming from the colour of dry leaves. See Sear, and cf. Sorel. <botany> One of various plants having a sour juice; especially, a plant of the genus Rumex, as Rumex Acetosa, Rumex Acetosella, etc. Mountain sorrel. Any plant of the genus Oxalis. Origin: F. Surelle, fr. Sur sour, fr. OHG. Sr sour. See Sour. (04 Mar 1998) |
| sore throat |
inflammation of the fauces and pharynx
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| sorption |
the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption)
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| Sorghum |
Sorghum, also known as jowar, (Sorghum vulgare or Sorghum bicolor) is a grass (Family Poaceae) which is used for food, fodder, and the production of alcoholic beverages. It is drought tolerant and especially important in arid regions. It is an important food crop in Africa, Central America, and South Asia, and is the fifth major cereal crop grown in the world (470,000 km² harvested in 1996). ...
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| soroche |
Spanish term for the mountain sickness experienced on the plateaus of the Andes.
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| sori |
the curved eaves line of a Japanese roof
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| sor | transform or change by means of sorcery |
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| sor | possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers |
| sor | the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world |
| sor | meanly avaricious and mercenary |
| sor | foul and run-down and repulsive |
| sor | unethical or dishonest |
| sor | morally degraded |
| sor | in a sordid or squalid way |
| sor | sordid dirtiness |
| sor | a mute for a violin |
| sor | an open skin infection |
| sor | (informal) roused to anger |