| charities | Social welfare organizations with programs designed to assist individuals in times of need. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| charlatan | A medical fraud claiming to cure disease by useless procedures, secret remedies, and worthless diagnostic and therapeutic machines. Synonym: quack. Origin: Fr., fr. It. Ciarlare, to prattle (05 Mar 2000) |
| charlatanism | A fraudulent claim to medical knowledge; treating the sick without knowledge of medicine or authority to practice medicine. Synonym: quackery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Charles Darwin | <person> An English naturalist who lived from 1809 to 1882, he studied and documented the flora and fauna of parts of coastal South America, including the Galapagos Islands, but is most famous for developing the theories of evolution and natural selection. Lived: 1809-1882. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Charles law | All gases expand equally on heating, namely, 1/273.16 of their volume at 0캜 for every degree Celsius. Synonym: Gay-Lussac's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Charles's law | <physics> The statement that the volume of a sample of gas is directly proportional to the temperature of the gas (at constant pressure). (13 Nov 1997) |
| Charles, Jacques | <person> French physicist, 1746-1823. See: Charles law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| charley horse | Localised pain or muscle stiffness following a contusion of a muscle. Origin: slang (05 Mar 2000) |
| Charlouis | M., 19th century Dutch army surgeon in Java. See: Charlouis' disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Charlouis' disease | <medicine> A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterised by yellowish or reddish tumours, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws. Origin: African yaw a raspberry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Charlton | Willy, German physician, *1889. See: Schultz-Charlton phenomenon, Schultz-Charlton reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Charnley | Sir John, English surgeon, 1911-1988. See: Charnley hip arthroplasty. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Charnley hip arthroplasty | A form of total hip replacement consisting of the application of an acetabular cup and a femoral head prosthesis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| charon phage | A cloning vector made from the virus bacteriophage lambda that is used to clone DNA. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Charriere | Joseph F.B., French instrument maker, 1803-1876. See: Charriere scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chartaceous |
of or like paper
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| char | (electronics) any measurable property of a device measured under closely specified conditions |
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| char | a prominent aspect of something |
| char | the integer part (positive or negative) of the representation of a logarithm |
| char | typical or distinctive |
| char | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
| char | in characteristic manner |
| char | acting the part of a character on stage |
| char | the act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features |
| char | a graphic or vivid verbal description |
| char | describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of |
| char | be characteristic of |
| char | of the meaning of words or concepts |