| strangurious | <medicine> Of or pertaining to strangury. Origin: L. Stranguriosus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| strangury | 1. <medicine> A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction. 2. <botany> A swelling or other disease in a plant, occasioned by a ligature fastened tightly about it. Origin: L. Stranguria, Gr., a drop + to make water, urine: cf. F. Strangurie. See Strangle, and Urine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strany | <zoology> The guillemot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strap | 1. A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging. "A lively cobbler that . . . Had scarce passed a day without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap." (Addison) 2. Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap. 3. A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, for sharpening a razor; a strop. 4. A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass. <machinery> Specifically: A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine. A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything. 5. <botany> The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy. The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses. 6. A shoulder strap. See Shoulder. Strap bolt, a bolt of which one end is a flat bar of considerable length. Strap head, a flat rail formerly used. Origin: OE. Strope, AS. Stropp, L. Stroppus, struppus, perhaps fr. Gr. A band or cord, fr. To twist, to turn (cf. Strophe). Cf. Strop a strap, a piece of rope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| strap cell | An elongated tumour cell of uniform width that may show cross-striations; found in rhabdomyosarcoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strap muscles | The small, flat muscles inferior to the hyoid bone including the sternohyoid, omohyoid, sternothyroid, thyrohyoid, and levator muscle of the thyroid gland. Synonym: musculi infrahyoidei, strap muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strass | <chemistry> A brilliant glass, used in the manufacture of artificial paste gems, which consists essentially of a complex borosilicate of lead and potassium. Cf. Glass. Origin: So called from its inventor, a German jeweler: cf. F. Stras. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Strassburg's test | A test for bile in the urine; albumin, if present, is precipitated, then cane sugar is added and filter paper is dipped in the fluid and dried; if bile pigments are present in the urine, sulfuric acid will turn the filter paper a reddish violet. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Strassburg, Gustav | <person> German physiologist, *1848. See: Strassburg's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Strassman's phenomenon | In the third stage of labour, failure of placental detachment indicated by transmission of pressure from the fundus uteri to the umbilical vein which becomes engorged; obsolete term. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Strassman, Paul | <person> German gynecologist, 1866-1938. See: Strassman's phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strata | Plural of stratum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| strategy | 1. The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship. 2. The use of stratagem or artifice. 3. A plan of action encompassing the methods to be adopted from beginning to end of a task or endeavor, focussing on the general methods; contrasted with tactics, which is a plan for accomplishing subgoals of lesser extent than the primary goal. Thus, a strategy is a plan for winning a war, and a tactic is a plan for winning a battle. 4. Biol. A behavior evolved and exhibited by a living organism to accomplish some important goal, as a foraging strategy. Origin: Gr., cf. F. Strategie. See Stratagem. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| straticulate | <chemical> Characterised by the presence of thin parallel strata, or layers, as in an agate. Origin: Dim. Fr. Stratum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stratification | The use of chemical and mechanical systems to break dormancy and increase germination. (09 Oct 1997) |