| scallop | 1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Synonym: fan shell. See Pecten. The common edible scallop of the Eastern United States is Pecten irradians; the large sea scallop, also used as food, is P. Clontonius, or tenuicostastus. 2. One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. 3. One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell. Origin: OF. Escalope a shell, probably of German or Dutch origin, and akin to E. Scale of a fish; cf. D. Schelp shell. See Scale of a fish, and cf. Escalop Alternative forms: scollop. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| scalloper | One who fishes for scallops. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalloping | A series of indentations or erosions on a normally smooth margin of a structure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scalp | 1. That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair. "By the bare scalp of Robin Hodd's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction!" (Shak) 2. A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory. 3. The top; the summit. Scalp lock, a long tuft of hair left on the crown of the head by the warriors of some tribes of American Indians. Origin: Perhaps akin to D. Schelp shell. Cf. Scallop. 1. To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of. 2. <surgery> To remove the skin of. "We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]" (J. S. Wells) 3. To brush the hairs of fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling. Origin: Scalped; Scalping. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalp contusion | A bruise to the scalp with no internal damage. Features include scalp swelling (scalp haematoma) and tenderness that is often difficult to distinguish from skull fracture. (27 Sep 1997) |
| scalp haematoma | <surgery> A collection of blood in the soft tissues adjacent the skull. A frequent finding in those with a scalp contusion. (06 Mar 1998) |
| scalp hair | A hair of the head. Synonym: capillus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scalp infection | An infection external to the galea; e.g., folliculitis or cellulitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scalp laceration | A tear of the dermis or underlying tissues and galea aponeurotica of the scalp. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scalp muscle | <anatomy> Composed of the epicranial aponeurosis and the muscles inserting into it, i.e., the occipitofrontalis musculus and temporoparietalis musculus. Synonym: musculus epicranius, epicranial muscle, scalp muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scalpel | <surgery> A small knife with a thin, keen blade, used by surgeons, and in dissecting. Origin: L scalpellum, dim. Of scalprum a knife, akin to scalpere to cut, carve, scrape: cf. F. Scalpel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalper | 1. One who, or that which, scalps. 2. <surgery> Same as Scalping iron, under Scalping. 3. A broker who, dealing on his own account, tries to get a small and quick profit from slight fluctuations of the market. 4. A person who buys and sells the unused parts of railroad tickets. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalping | <surgery> Scalping iron, an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory. Scalping knife, a knife used by north American Indians in scalping. (06 Mar 1998) |
| scalpriform | <anatomy> Shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents. Origin: L. Scalprum chisel, knife. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalpriform incisors | The cutting or gnawing incisor's of a rodent. (05 Mar 2000) |