| thick-winded | <veterinary> Affected with thick wind. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| thicken | To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. To strengthen; to confirm. "And this may to thicken other proofs." (Shak) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows. Origin: Thickened; Thickening. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thickened duodenal folds | <radiology> Inflammatory, peptic ulcer (most common cause), Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, Crohn disease, infection (TB, parasites, cryptosporidia in AIDS), neoplastic, lymphoma, infiltrative, Whipple disease, amyloidosis, eosinophilic enteritis, vascular, intramural haematoma, ischemia, oedema, hypoproteinaemia, portal hypertension, congestive heart failure (12 Dec 1998) |
| thickened gastric folds | <radiology> Hyperacidic state, peptic ulcer disease, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, hypoproteinaemia, lymphoma, pseudolymphoma, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, varices, Menetrier disease, inflammatory bowel disease (UC and Crohn), TB, syphilis (12 Dec 1998) |
| thicket | A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc, closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Origin: AS. Iccet. See Thick. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thickhead | 1. A thick-headed or stupid person. 2. <ornithology> Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright-coloured. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| thickset | 1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. 2. Having a short, thick body; stout. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thief | Origin: OE. Thef, theef, AS. Eof; akin to OFries. Thiaf, OS. Theof, thiof, D. Dief, G. Dieb, OHG. Diob, Icel. Jofr, Sw. Tjuf, Dan. Tyv, Goth. Iufs, iubs, and perhaps to Lith. Tupeti to squat or crouch down. Cf. Theft. 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. "There came a privy thief, men clepeth death." (Chaucer) "Where thieves break through and steal." (Matt. Vi. 19) 2. A waster in the snuff of a candle. Thief catcher. Same as Thief taker. Thief leader, one who leads or takes away a thief. Thief taker, one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice. Thief tube, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. Synonym: Robber, pilferer. Thief, Robber. A thief takes our property by stealth; a robber attacks us openly, and strips us by main force. "Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night." (Shak) "Some roving robber calling to his fellows." (Milton) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thiel | The radical -SH; contained in glutathione, cysteine, coenzyme A, lipoamide (all in the reduced state), and in mercaptans (R-SH). Synonym: thiel. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Thiemann's disease | <syndrome> Avascular necrosis of the epiphyses of phalanges of fingers or toes, usually familial, beginning in childhood or adolescence, leading to deformity of fingers; also called familial arthropathy of the fingers or toes. Synonym: Thiemann's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Thiemann's syndrome | <syndrome> Avascular necrosis of the epiphyses of phalanges of fingers or toes, usually familial, beginning in childhood or adolescence, leading to deformity of fingers; also called familial arthropathy of the fingers or toes. Synonym: Thiemann's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thienamycin | The first member of a family of des-thia-carbapenem nucleus antibiotics having a thioethylamine side-chain on the enamine portion of the fused 5-membered ring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| thienamycin cyclase | <enzyme> Isolated from streptomyces lividans Registry number: EC 5.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| thienamycins | Beta-lactam antibiotics that differ from penicillins in having the thiazolidine sulfur atom replaced by carbon, the sulfur then becoming the first atom in the side chain. They are unstable chemically, but have a very broad antibacterial spectrum. Thienamycin and its more stable derivatives are proposed for use in combinations with enzyme inhibitors. (12 Dec 1998) |