| oblatum | Origin: NL. See Oblate. <geometry> An oblate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its minor axis. Cf. Oblongum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| obligate | Without an alternative system or pathway. Origin: L. Ob-ligo, pp. -atus, to bind to (05 Mar 2000) |
| obligate aerobe | An organism which cannot live or grow in the absence of oxygen. (05 Mar 2000) |
| obligate parasite | A parasite that cannot lead an independent nonparasitic existence, in contrast to facultative parasite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblige | 1. To attach, as by a bond. "He had obliged all the senators and magistrates firmly to himself." (Bacon) 2. To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something. "The obliging power of the law is neither founded in, nor to be measured by, the rewards and punishments annexed to it." (South) "Religion obliges men to the practice of those virtues which conduce to the preservation of our health." (Tillotson) 3. To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate. "Thus man, by his own strength, to heaven would soar, And would not be obliged to God for more." (Dryden) "The gates before it are brass, and the whole much obliged to Pope Urban VIII." (Evelyn) "I shall be more obliged to you than I can express." (Mrs. E. Montagu) Origin: OF. Obligier, F.obliger, L. Obligare; ob (see Ob-) + ligare to bind. See Ligament, and cf. Obligate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oblique | 1. Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined. "It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion." (Cheyne) 2. Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister. "The love we bear our friends. Hath in it certain oblique ends." (Drayton) "This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power." (De Quincey) "Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye. That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy." (Wordworth) 3. Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. "His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak." (Baker) Oblique angle, Oblique ascension, etc. See Angle,Ascension, etc. Oblique arch, that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. Oblique leaf. <botany> A system in which the coordinate axes are oblique to each other. Origin: F, fr. L. Obliquus; ob (see Ob-) + liquis oblique; cf. Licinus bent upward, Gr slanting Alternative forms: oblike. <geometry> An oblique line. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| oblique amputation | Amputation in which the line of section through an extremity is at other than a right angle; this yields an oval appearance to the cut surface (hence sometimes, though rarely, referred to as an oval amputation). (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique arytenoid | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, muscular process of arytenoid cartilage; insertion, summit of arytenoid cartilage of opposite side and continuing as the aryepiglottic muscle in the aryepiglottic fold to the epiglottis; action, narrows the interarytenoid portion of the rima glottidis; nerve supply, recurrent laryngeal. Synonym: musculus arytenoideus obliquus, arytenoideus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique auricular muscle | <anatomy> A thin band of oblique muscular fibres extending from the upper part of the eminence of the concha to the convexity of the helix, running across the groove corresponding to the inferior crus of the anthelix. Synonym: musculus obliquus auriculae, oblique muscle of auricle, Tod's muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique bandage | A bandage in which the successive turns proceed obliquely up or down the limb. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique bundle of pons | A bundle of fibres in the ventral surface of the pons running from the anterior mesial portion outward and backward. Synonym: fasciculus obliquus pontis, oblique bundle of pons. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique cord | A slender band extending from the lateral part of the coronoid process of the ulna distad and laterad to the radius immediately distal to the bicipital tuberosity. Synonym: chorda obliqua, oblique cord, round ligament of elbow joint, Weitbrecht's cord, Weitbrecht's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique diameter | A measurement across the pelvic inlet from the sacroiliac joint of one side to the opposite iliopectineal eminence. Synonym: diameter obliqua. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique facial cleft | Congenital facial cleft from mouth to the inner canthus of the eye. Synonym: oblique facial cleft. Origin: prosopo-+ G. Schisis, fissure (05 Mar 2000) |
| oblique fibres of stomach | The smooth muscle fibres of the innermost layer of the muscular coat of the stomach; the fibres occur chiefly at the cardiac end of the stomach and spread over the anterior and posterior surfaces. Synonym: fibrae obliquae gastrici. (05 Mar 2000) |
| obturator |
a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
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| obligate anaerobe |
an organism that cannot grow in the presence of oxygen
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| obtuse |
of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees of a leaf shape; rounded at the apex lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin dense: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"
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| obliterate |
kill: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" obscure: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" blotted out: reduced to nothingness do away with completely, without leaving a trace
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| obese |
corpulent: excessively fat; "a weighty man"
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| OB | a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated |
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| OB | punishment intended as a warning to others |
| OB | the object governed by a preposition |
| OB | the object that receives the direct action of the verb |
| OB | a fully compiled or assembled program ready to be loaded into the computer |
| OB | the visual perception of familiar objects |
| OB | a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition |
| OB | a database management system designed to manage an object-oriented database |
| OB | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure |
| OB | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure |
| OB | the act of representing an abstraction as a physical thing |
| OB | a concrete representation of an abstract idea or principle |