| Alexander's disease | A rare, fatal central nervous system degenerative disease of infants, characterised by psychomotor retardation, seizures, and paralysis; megaloencephaly is associated with widespread leukodystrophic changes, especially in the frontal lobes. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Alexander, Gustav | <person> Austrian otolaryngologist, *1873. See: Alexander's deafness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Alexander, W. Stewart | <person> 20th century New Zealand pathologist. See: Alexander's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alexia | <neurology> Loss of the ability to understand printed words or sentences (27 Sep 1997) |
| alexic | Pertaining to alexia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alexin | An obsolete term for the bactericidal substances of cell-free serum, the activity of which is destroyed by heating at 56캜; applied by Bordet to the heat-labile substance normally present in serum and distinct from the sensitizing substance (antibody) produced by infection or immunization. In this sense it is synonymous with complement. Origin: G. Alexo, to ward off (05 Mar 2000) |
| alexin unit | The smallest amount (highest dilution) of complement that will cause haemolysis of a unit of red blood cells in the presence of a haemolysin unit. Synonym: alexin unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alexipharmac | 1. Synonym: antidotal. 2. An antidote. Origin: G. Alexipharmakos, preserving against poison (05 Mar 2000) |
| alexipharmic | <medicine> An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alexipharmical | <medicine> Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal. Origin: Gr. Keeping off poison; to keep off + drug, poison: cf. F. Alexipharmaque. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alexipyretic | <medicine> Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile. A febrifuge. Origin: Gr. + burning heat, fever, fire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alexiteric | <medicine> A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Origin: Gr. A remedy, an amulet: cf. F. Alexitere, LL. Alexiterium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alexiterical | <medicine> Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic. Origin: Gr. Fit to keep off or help, fr. One who keeps off, helper; to keep off: cf. F. Alexitere. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| alexithymia | Difficulty in recognizing and describing one's emotions, defining them in terms of somatic sensations or behavioural reactions. Origin: G. A-priv. + lexis, word, + -thymia, feelings, passion (05 Mar 2000) |
| aleydigism | Aplasia of Leydig cells, seen in hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Alexander, |
Anarchist of Russian origins. Life-long companion of Emma Goldman. Committed suicide in Nice, France, in 1936, shortly before the outbreak of the Spanish civil war.
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| Alexander, |
English poet and author of the Essay on Man, in which he called the age-old assumption of the reality of a hierarchy in nature the "vast chain of being."
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| alendronate sodium |
A drug that affects bone metabolism. It is used in treating osteoporosis and Paget's disease, and is being studied in the treatment of hypercalcemia (abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood) and in treating and reducing the risk of bone pain caused by cancer. Alendronate sodium belongs to the family of drugs called bisphosphonates.
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| aleurioconidium |
a terminal conidium, often thick-walled and pigmented, but sometimes thin-walled and hyaline, developed at the end of a conidiogenous cell or hypha, and from which it is not shed or shed only with difficulty; aleuriospore.
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| aleurone |
The proteinaceous and fatty material of the outer-most cell layer of the enodsperm of ripe, small grains.
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| ALE | an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger |
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| ALE | a warning serves to make you more alert to danger |
| ALE | condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action |
| ALE | warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness |
| ALE | very attentive or observant |
| ALE | (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness |
| ALE | not unconscious |
| ALE | mentally responsive |
| ALE | a warning serves to make you more alert to danger |
| ALE | a state of readiness to respond |
| ALE | in an alert manner |
| ALE | lively attentiveness |