| Shope, Richard | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1902-1966. See: Shope fibroma, Shope fibroma virus, Shope papilloma, Shope papilloma virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| shopwoman | A woman employed in a shop. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shore | The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river. "Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore." (Shak) "The fruitful shore of muddy Nile." (Spenser) In shore, near the shore. On shore. See On. Shore birds, the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). Origin: OE. Schore, AS. Score, probably fr. Scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to OD. Schoore, schoor. See Shear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shorlaceous | <chemical> See Schorl, Schorlaceous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shorling | 1. The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. 2. A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| short | 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. "The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it." (Isa. Xxviii. 20) 2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. "The life so short, the craft so long to learn." (Chaucer) "To short absense I could yield." (Milton) 3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water. 4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; usually with of; as, to be short of money. "We shall be short in our provision." (Shak) 5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith. 6. Not distant in time; near at hand. "Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short." (Spenser) "He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day." (Clarendon) 7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. "Their own short understandings reach No farther than the present." (Rowe) 8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); with of. "Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war." (Landor) 9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question. 10. Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry. 11. <chemistry> Brittle. Metals that are brittle when hot are called ot-short; as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account of the presence of phosphorus. 12. Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, and To sell short. In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time after being presented to the payer. 13. Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, 22. Short is much used with participles to form numerous self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed, short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired, short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed, short-winged, short-wooled, etc. at short notice, in a brief time; promptly. Short rib, any suit having only three cards, or less than three. To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See Come, Cut, etc. Origin: OE. Short, schort, AS. Scort, sceort; akin to OHG. Scurz, Icel. Skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. Shear, v. T. Cf. Shirt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| short abductor muscle of thumb | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, tubercle of trapezium and flexor retinaculum; insertion, lateral side of proximal phalanx of thumb; action, abducts thumb; nerve supply, median. Synonym: musculus abductor pollicis brevis, short abductor muscle of thumb. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short adductor muscle | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, superior ramus of pubis; insertion, upper third of medial lip of linea aspera; action, adducts thigh; nerve supply, obturator. Synonym: musculus adductor brevis, short adductor muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short bone | One whose dimensions are approximately equal; it consists of a layer of cortical substance enclosing spongy substance and narrow. Compare: long bone. Synonym: os breve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short bowel syndrome | <syndrome> A malabsorption syndrome resulting from extensive operative resection of small bowel. (12 Dec 1998) |
| short central artery | <anatomy, artery> A branch of the precommunical part of the anterior cerebral artery. Synonym: arteria centralis brevis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short chain | In bacteriology, a string of two to eight cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short ciliary nerve | <anatomy, nerve> One of a number of branches of the ciliary ganglion, supplying the ciliary muscles, iris, and tunics of the eyeball. Synonym: nervus ciliaris brevis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short crus of incus | The short crus of incus; the process of the incus that fits into a depression (fossa incudis) in the epitympanic recess. Synonym: crus breve incudis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short extensor muscle of great toe | <anatomy, muscle> The medial belly of extensor digitorum brevis musculus, the tendon of which is inserted into the base of the proximal phalanx of the great toe. Synonym: musculus extensor hallucis brevis, short extensor muscle of great toe. (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Impingement Syndrome, Shoulder, Impingement Syndrome, Subacromial, Impingement Syndromes, Shoulder, Impingement Syndromes, Subacromial, Shoulder Impingement Syndromes, Subacromial Impingement Syndromes, Syndrome, Shoulder Impingement
Synonyms : Glenohumeral Joints, Joint, Glenohumeral, Joint, Shoulder, Joints, Glenohumeral, Joints, Shoulder, Shoulder Joints
Synonyms : Pain, Shoulder, Pains, Shoulder, Shoulder Pains
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| shot |
an attempt to score in a game stroke: (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot require good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot" shooting: the act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but accurate" a chance to do something; "he wanted a shot at the champion" injection: the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe; "the nurse gave him a flu shot" a solid missile discharged from a firearm; "the shot buzzed past his ear" snapshot: an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera; "my snapshots haven't been developed yet"; "he tried to get unposed shots of his friends" scene: a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film informal words for any attempt or effort; "he gave it his best shot"; "he took a stab at forecasting" an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" a blow hard enough to cause injury; "he is still recovering from a shot to his leg"; "I caught him with a solid shot to the chin" nip: a small drink of liquor; "he poured a shot of whiskey" sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put; "he trained at putting the shot" a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot); "he is a crack shot"; "a poor shooter" blastoff: the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination an explosive charge used in blasting guess: an estimate based on little or no information changeable: varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; "changeable taffeta"; "chatoyant (or shot) silk"; "a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent"
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| short bone |
a bone that is of approximately equal dimension in all directions
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| short-winded |
blown: breathing laboriously or convulsively
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| shortsighted |
short: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" nearsighted: unable to see distant objects clearly ill-considered: not given careful consideration; "ill-considered actions often result in disaster"; "an ill-judged attempt"
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| shoulder |
the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm lift onto one's shoulders a cut of beef from the shoulder of the animal push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd" a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden"
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| SHO | in a shocking manner or to a shocking degree |
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| SHO | United States physicist (born in England) who contributed to the development of the electronic transistor (1910-1989) |
| SHO | wearing footgear |
| SHO | used of certain religious orders who wear shoes |
| SHO | wearing footgear |
| SHO | in a shoddy manner |
| SHO | the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction |
| SHO | the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better |
| SHO | reclaimed wool fiber |
| SHO | of inferior workmanship and materials |
| SHO | cheap and shoddy |
| SHO | restraint provided when the linings of the brake shoes are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to stop its rotation |