| lochiometritis | Puerperal metritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| lochioperitonitis | Puerperal peritonitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lochiorrhagia | Synonym: lochiorrhoea. Origin: Lochia + G. Rhegnymi, to burst forth (05 Mar 2000) |
| lochiorrhoea | Profuse flow of the lochia. Synonym: lochiorrhagia. Origin: Lochia + G. Rhoia, a flow (05 Mar 2000) |
| loci | Plural of locus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lock | 1. Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened. 2. A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable. "Albemarle Street closed by a lock of carriages." (De Quincey) 3. A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. 4. The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. 5. An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; called also lift lock. 6. That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc. 7. A device for keeping a wheel from turning. 8. A grapple in wrestling. Detector lock, a lock containing a contrivance for showing whether it as has been tampered with. Lock bay, a range of bond stone. Mortise lock, a door lock inserted in a mortise. Rim lock, a lock fastened to the face of a door, thus differing from a mortise lock. Origin: AS. Loc inclosure, an inclosed place, the fastening of a door, fr. Lucan to lock, fasten; akin to OS. Lukan (in comp), D. Luiken, OHG. Luhhan, Icel. Lka, Goth. Lukan (in comp); cf. Skr. Ruj to break. Cf. Locket. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lock and key models | <chemistry, immunology> Specific recognition in biological systems might be mediated through interactions that depend upon very precise steric matching between receptor and ligand or between enzyme and substrate. The commonly used analogy is between lock and key and implies a precise sterically determined interaction. (18 Nov 1997) |
| lock finger | An affection in which the movement of the finger is arrested for a moment in flexion or extension and then continues with a jerk. Synonym: jerk finger, lock finger, snap finger, spring finger, stuck finger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lock hospital | A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lock step | A mode of marching by a body of men going one after another as closely as possible, in which the leg of each moves at the same time with the corresponding leg of the person before him. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lock-and-key model | A model used to suggest the mode of operation of an enzyme in which the substrate fits into the active site of the protein like a key into a lock. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Locke | Frank S., British physiologist, 1871-1949. See: Locke's solutions, Locke-Ringer solution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Locke's solutions | Solution's containing, in varying amounts, NaCl, CaCl2, KCl, NaHCO3, and d-glucose; used for irrigating mammalian heart and other tissues, in laboratory experiments; also used in combination with naturally occurring body substances (e.g., blood serum, tissue extracts) and/or more complex chemically defined nutritive solution's for culturing animal cells. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Locke-Ringer solution | A solution containing NaCl, CaCl2, KCl, MgCl2, NaHCO3, d-glucose, and water; used in the laboratory for physiological and pharmacological experiments. (05 Mar 2000) |
| locked bite | An occlusion in which the cusp arrangement restricts lateral excursions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| local |
relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area; "local taxes"; "local authorities" public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops; "the local seemed to take forever to get to New York" of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood; "local customs"; "local schools"; "the local citizens"; "a local point of view"; "local outbreaks of flu"; "a local bus line" local anesthetic: anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; "local anesthesia"
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| local anesthesia |
loss of sensation in a small area of the body (as when a local anesthetic is injected for a tooth extraction)
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| localization |
a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" localization of function: (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body
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| local cause |
one that is not general or constitutional, but is confined to the site where the effect is produced.
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| local convulsion |
any minor spasm affecting only one muscle or one part or member, as in jacksonian epilepsy.
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| LOC | situated in a particular spot or position |
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| LOC | a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims |
| LOC | a determination of the location of something |
| LOC | the act of putting something in a certain place or location |
| LOC | a point or extent in space |
| LOC | a determination of the location of something |
| LOC | the act of putting something in a certain place or location |
| LOC | the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb |
| LOC | the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb |
| LOC | a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims |
| LOC | Scottish word for a lake |
| LOC | a long narrow inlet of the sea in Scotland (especially when it is nearly landlocked) |