| afflictive | Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." "Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain." (Prior) Origin: Cf. F. Afflictif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| affluent | 1. Flowing to; flowing abundantly. "Affluent blood." 2. Abundant; copious; plenteous; hence, wealthy; abounding in goods or riches. "Language . . . Affluent in expression." (H. Reed) "Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore." (Prior) Origin: Cf. F. Affluent, L. Affluens, -entis, p. Pr. See Affluence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| afflux | A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head. Origin: L. Affluxum, p. P. Of affluere: cf. F. Afflux. See Affluence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| affluxion | A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head. Origin: L. Affluxum, p. P. Of affluere: cf. F. Afflux. See Affluence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| afford | 1. To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish. 2. To give, grant, or confer, with a remoter reference to its being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. "His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers." (Addison) "The quiet lanes . . . Afford calmer retreats." (Gilpin) 3. To offer, provide, or supply, as in selling, granting, expending, with profit, or without loss or too great injury; as, A affords his goods cheaper than B; a man can afford a sum yearly in charity. 4. To incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; with an auxiliary, as can, could, might, etc.; to be able or rich enough. "The merchant can afford to trade for smaller profits." (Hamilton) "He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer." (Wordsworth) Origin: OE. Aforthen, AS. Geforian, forian, to further, accomplish, afford, fr. For forth, forward. The prefix ge- has no well defined sense. See Forth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| afforestation | The act of converting into forest or woodland. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| affusion | The act of pouring upon, or sprinkling with a liquid, as water upon a child in baptism. <medicine> Specifically: The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Origin: Cf. F. Affusion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| afibrillar | Denoting a biological structure that does not contain fibrils. (05 Mar 2000) |
| afibrillar cementum | Cementum which, with the electron microscope, appears as laminated, electron-dense reticular material that sometimes overlies the enamel of the tooth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| afibrinogenaemia | <biochemistry> A rare blood disease where the blood has difficulty clotting due to the lack of fibrinogen, or clotting factor I, in the blood. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Afipia felis | A cause of cat-scratch disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aflatoxicosis | A disease caused by ingestion of aflatoxin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aflatoxin | <chemical, microbiology, oncology> A fungal toxin which is a powerful liver carcinogen, found particularly in undeveloped and developing countries. A group of closely related toxic metabolites that are designated mycotoxins. They are produced by aspergillus flavus and a. Parasiticus. Members of the group include aflatoxin b1, aflatoxin b2, aflatoxin g1, aflatoxin g2, aflatoxin m1, and aflatoxin m2. Pharmacological action: carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens. (27 Jun 1999) |
| aflatoxin b1 | <chemical> A potent hepatotoxic and hepatocarcinogenic mycotoxin produced by the aspergillus flavus group of fungi. It is also mutagenic, teratogenic, and causes immunosuppression in animals. It is found as a contaminant in peanuts, cotton seed meal, corn, and other grains. The mycotoxin requires epoxidation to aflatoxin b1 2,3-oxide for activation. Microsomal monooxygenases biotransform the toxin to the less toxic metabolites aflatoxin m1 and q1. Pharmacological action: carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens. Chemical name: Cyclopenta(c)furo(3',2':4,5)furo(2,3-h)(1)benzopyran-1,11-dione, 2,3,6a,9a-tetrahydro-4-methoxy-, (6aR-cis)- (27 Jun 1999) |
| aflatoxin B1 aldehyde reductase | <enzyme> Catalyses the conversion of the dialdehydic form of aflatoxin b1-dihydrodiol to the dialcohol form Registry number: EC 1.1.1.- Synonym: aflatoxin b1-aldehyde reductase, afb1-ar (26 Jun 1999) |