| spatter | 1. To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. "Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people." (Burke) 2. To distribute by sprinkling; to sprinkle around; as, to spatter blood. 3. To injure by aspersion; to defame; to soil; also, to throw out in a defamatory manner. Origin: From the root of spit salvia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| spatter-dock | <botany> The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spattling-poppy | <botany> A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects. Origin: Prov. E. Spattle to spit + E. Poppy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spatula | A flat blade, like a knife blade but without a sharp edge, used in pharmacy for spreading plasters and ointments and as an aid to mixing ingredients with a mortar and pestle. Origin: L. Dim. Of spatha, a broad, flat wooden instrument, fr. G. Spathe (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatula needle | A minute needle with a flat (non-cutting) concave surface, used by eye surgeons. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatulate | 1. Shaped like a spatula. 2. To manipulate or mix with a spatula. 3. To incise the cut end of a tubular structure longitudinally and splay it open, to allow creation of an elliptical anastomosis of greater circumference than would be possible with conventional transverse or oblique (bevelled) end-to-end anastomoses. Synonym: spatulated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatulated | 1. Shaped like a spatula. 2. To manipulate or mix with a spatula. 3. To incise the cut end of a tubular structure longitudinally and splay it open, to allow creation of an elliptical anastomosis of greater circumference than would be possible with conventional transverse or oblique (bevelled) end-to-end anastomoses. Synonym: spatulated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spatulation | Manipulation of material with a spatula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Spatz, Hugo | <person> German neurologist and psychiatrist, 1888-1969. See: Hallervorden-Spatz disease, Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |