| Vicia |
the vetches, a genus of climbing plants of the family Leguminosae.
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| vicine |
a pyrimidine-based glycoside occurring in species of Vicia; in fava beans it is cleaved by an endogenous β-glucosidase to form the toxic compound divicine.
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| vicious c. |
a cicatrix that causes deformity or impairs the function of an extremity.
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| vicious u. |
union of the ends of a fractured bone so as to produce deformity.
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| Vickers hardness n. |
a number indicative of the degree of relative hardness of materials, determined by measuring the long diagonals of indentation made by pressing the pyramidal point of a diamond into the surface of the material being tested; equal to the load in kilograms divided by the area, in square millimeters, of the recovered indentation; called also diamond pyramid hardness.
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