| sandpiper | 1. <ornithology> Any one of numerous species of small limicoline game birds belonging to Tringa, Actodromas, Ereunetes, and various allied genera of the family Tringidae. The most important North American species are the pestoral sandpiper (Tringa maculata), called also browback, grass snipe, and jacksnipe; the red-backed, or black-breasted, sandpiper, or dunlin (T. Alpina); the purple sandpiper (T.maritima: the red-breasted sandpiper, or knot (T. Canutus); the semipalmated sandpiper (Ereunetes pusillus); the spotted sandpiper, or teeter-tail (Actitis macularia); the buff-breasted sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis), and the Bartramian sandpiper, or upland plover. See Upland. Among the European species are the dunlin, the knot, the ruff, the sanderling, and the common sandpiper (Actitis, or tringoides, hypoleucus), called also fiddler, peeper, pleeps, weet-weet, and summer snipe. Some of the small plovers and tattlers are also called sandpipers. 2. <zoology> A small lamprey eel; the pride. Curlew sandpiper. See Curlew. Stilt sandpiper. See Stilt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sandre | <zoology> A Russian fish (Lucioperca sandre) which yields a valuable oil, called sandre oil, used in the preparation of caviare. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sandstone | A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. Different names are aplied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous, etc. <chemical> Flexible sandstone, the finer-grained variety of itacolumite, which on account of the scales of mica in the lamination is quite flexible. Red sandstone, a name given to two extensive series of British rocks in which red sandstones predominate, one below, and the other above, the coal measures. These were formerly known as the Old and the new Red Sandstone respectively, and the former name is still retained for the group preceding the Coal and referred to the Devonian age, but the term New Red Sandstone is now little used, some of the strata being regarded as Permian and the remained as Triassic. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sandstrom's bodies | See: parathyroid gland. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sandstrom, I | <person> Swedish anatomist, 1852-1889. See: Sandstrom's bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sandwich sign | <radiology> Ultrasound: hypoechoic solid mass, around central linear hyperechoic area, CT: soft-tissue density surrounding bowel, most likely to be lymphomatous involvement of mesentery (12 Dec 1998) |
| sandworm | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore. Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters. The chigoe, a species of flea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sandworm disease | An inflammatory eruption on the inner side of the sole, observed in certain parts of Australia, marked by a patch of erythema spreading in spirals, and disappearing spontaneously; probably a form of creeping eruption similar to larva migrans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sandwort | <botany> Any plant of the genus Arenaria, low, tufted herbs (order Caryophyllaceae) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sane | Denoting sanity. Origin: L. Sanus (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sanfilippo's syndrome | <syndrome> An error of the mucopolysaccharide metabolism, with excretion of large amounts of heparan sulfate in the urine and severe mental retardation with hepatomegaly; skeleton may be normal or may present mild changes similar to those in Hurler's syndrome; several different types (A, B, C, and D) have been identified according to the enzyme deficiency; autosomal recessive inheritance. Synonym: type III mucopolysaccharidosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sanfilippo, Sylvester | <person> 20th century U.S. Paediatrician. See: Sanfilippo's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sanfillipo syndrome | <syndrome> Lysosomal disease in which either keratan sulphate sulphatase or N acetyl _ D glucosaminidase is defective: cross correction (complementation) of co cultured fibroblasts from apparently clinically identical patients can therefore occur if a different enzyme is missing in each. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sang-froid | Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness in trying circumstances; indifference; calmness. Origin: F, cold blood. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sangaree | Wine and water sweetened and spiced, a favorite West Indian drink. Origin: Sp. Sangria, lit, bleeding, from sangre, blood, L. Sanguis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |