| hairy heart | Acute pericarditis with fibrinous exudate. See: bread-and-butter pericardium. Synonym: hairy heart, pericarditis villosa, shaggy pericardium. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hairy leukoplakia | <dermatology, gastroenterology> A white lesion appearing on the tongue, occasionally on the buccal mucosa, of patients with AIDS, the lesion appears raised, with a corrugated or hairy surface due to keratin projections. (13 Nov 1997) |
| hairy mole | A mole covered with an abundant growth of hair. Synonym: hairy mole. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hairy root culture | A relatively new type of plant culture, which consists of highly branched roots of a plant, covered with a mass of tiny root hairs. These cultures do not require hormones or vitamins to grow, so they can grow on simple media of salts and sugars. Just as importantly, they produce secondary metabolites at levels similar to those made in the original plant, so they can be used as replacement plants for making such compounds as food flavours and fragrances. (14 Nov 1997) |
| hairy shaker disease | Congenital disorder of lambs caused by a virus closely related to or identical with certain strains of bovine viral diarrhoea virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hairy tongue | A tongue with abnormal elongation of the filiform papillae, resulting in a thickened furry appearance. Synonym: glossotrichia, trichoglossia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| haiti | A republic in the greater antilles in the west indies. Its capital is port-au-prince. With the dominican republic it forms the island of hispaniola - haiti occupying the western third and the dominican republic, the eastern two thirds. Haiti belonged to france from 1697 until its rule was challenged by slave insurrections from 1791. It became a republic in 1820. It was virtually an american protectorate from 1915 to 1934. It adopted its present constitution in 1964 and amended it in 1971. The name may represent either of two caribbean words, haiti, mountain land, or jhaiti, nest. (12 Dec 1998) |
| haitic | Pertaining to Ham or his descendants. Hamitic languages, the group of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt, Galla, and Somali Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |