| silicosis | Inflammation of the lung caused by foreign bodies (inhaled particles of silica): leads to fibrosis but unlike asbestosis does not predispose to neoplasia. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| silicotic granuloma | Granulomatous nodule resulting from deposition of silica particles, usually occurring in lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| silicotuberculosis | Tuberculosis of the silicotic lung. (12 Dec 1998) |
| silicotungstic | <chemistry> Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of a series of double acids of silicon and tungsten, known in the free state, and also in their salts (called silicotungstates). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| silicula | A short siliqua, not more than twice as long as its width. (09 Oct 1997) |
| silicule | <botany> A silicle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| siliculose | 1. <botany> Bearing silicles; pertaining to, or resembling, silicles. 2. Full of, or consisting of, husks; husky. Origin: NL. Siliculosus, fr. L. Silicula: cf. F. Siliculeux. See Silicle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| siliqua | A dry, dehiscent fruit formed from a superior ovary of two carpels, with two parietal placentas and divided into two loculi by a false septum between the placentas. (09 Oct 1997) |
| siliqua olivae | The arcuate fibres, which appear to encircle the inferior olive in the medulla oblongata. Origin: L. The husk of the olive (05 Mar 2000) |
| silique | The long, narrow pod of plants of the mustard family, Cruciferae, with valves which fall away from a frame bearing the seeds. (09 Oct 1997) |
| siliquosa | <botany> A Linnaean order of plants including those which bear siliques. Origin: NL. See Siliquose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| siliquous | <botany> Bearing siliques; as, siliquose plants; pertaining to, or resembling, siliques; as, siliquose capsules. Origin: NL. Siliquosus: cf. F. Siliqueux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| siliqyiform | <botany> Having the form of a silique. Origin: Silique: cf. F. Siliquiforme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| silk | 1. The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori. 2. Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material. 3. That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize. Raw silk, silk as it is wound off from the cocoons, and before it is manufactured. Silk cotton, a cottony substance enveloping the seeds of the silk-cotton tree. <botany> Silk-cotton tree, a climbing plant (Periploca Graeca) of the Milkweed family, having a silky tuft on the seeds. It is native in Southern Europe. Origin: OE. Silk, selk, AS. Seolc, seoloc; akin to Icel. Silki, SW. & Dan. Silke; prob. Through Slavic from an Oriental source; cf. Lith. Szilkai, Russ. Shelk', and also L. Sericum Seric stuff, silk. Cf. Sericeous. Serge a woolen stuff. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| silkweed | <botany> Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates whose seed vessels contain a long, silky down; milkweed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |