| ergastic substance | Metabolically inert products of photosynthesis, such as starch grains and fat globules. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| exophthalmos-producing substance | A factor found in crude extract of pituitary tissue that produced exophthalmos in laboratory animals (especially fish). Its existence and role in producing exophthalmopathy in Graves' disease is questioned. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kendall's substance | A group of corticosteroids. Kendall's compound A (11-dehydrocorticosterone); Kendall's compound B (corticosterone); Kendall's compound E (cortisone); Kendall's compound F (cortisol). Synonym: Kendall's substance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| united states substance abuse and mental health services administration | An agency of the public health service concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to substance abuse and mental health. It is commonly referred to by the acronym samhsa. On 1 october 1992, the united states alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health administration (adamha) became samhsa. (telephone communication with samhsa 7 april 1992) (12 Dec 1998) |
| zymoplastic substance | <haematology> Traditional name for substance in plasma that converts prothrombin to thrombin. Now known not to be a single substance. (See thrombin). (18 Nov 1997) |
| filar substance | A filamentous plasmatic material, beaded with granules, demonstrable by means of vital staining in the immature red blood cells. Synonym: alpha substance, filar mass, filar substance, substantia reticularis, substantia reticulofilamentosa. Synonym: reticular formation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior intermediate groove | A furrow occasionally seen in the adult between the anterior median fissure and the anterior lateral sulcus of the spinal cord but usually present only in the foetus. It indicates the lateral border of the anterior corticospinal fasciculus. Synonym: anterior intermediate groove, sulcus intermedius anterior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior intermediate sulcus | A furrow occasionally seen in the adult between the anterior median fissure and the anterior lateral sulcus of the spinal cord but usually present only in the foetus. It indicates the lateral border of the anterior corticospinal fasciculus. Synonym: anterior intermediate groove, sulcus intermedius anterior. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ganglion of intermediate nerve | The sensory ganglion of the facial (7th cranial) nerve. The geniculate ganglion cells send central processes to the brainstem and peripheral processes to the taste buds in the anterior tongue, the soft palate, and the skin of the external auditory meatus and the mastoid process. (12 Dec 1998) |
| reaction intermediate | <biochemistry> Any biomolecule which iscreated and destroyed during the course of of a particular reaction pathway. (09 Oct 1997) |
| ventral intermediate nucleus of thalamus | The composite middle third of the ventral nucleus receiving in its various parts distinctive projections from the contralateral half of the cerebellum (by way of the superior cerebellar peduncle) and the ipsilateral globus pallidus; nearly all parts of the nucleus projects to the motor cortex. Synonym: nucleus ventralis intermedius thalami, nucleus ventralis lateralis, ventral lateral nucleus of thalamus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| ventral posterior intermediate nucleus of thalamus | Intermediate part of the ventrobasal nuclear complex. See: ventral posterior nucleus of thalamus. Synonym: ventral posterior intermediate nucleus of thalamus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| replicative intermediate | <molecular biology, virology> Intermediate stage in the replication of a RNA virus, a copy of the original RNA strand or of a single strand copy of the first replicative intermediate. Essentially an amplification strategy. (18 Nov 1997) |
| mitochondrial intermediate peptidase | <enzyme> Removes the octapeptide from the amino terminus of the intermediate protein processed from the protein precursor of certain mitochondrial proteins by the mitochondrial processing peptidase; smip from schizophyllum commune; rmip from rat; ymip from saccharomyces cerevisiae Registry number: EC 3.4.24.59 Synonym: mip peptidase, smip peptidase, rmip peptidase, ymip peptidase (26 Jun 1999) |
| common intermediate | <biochemistry, chemistry> A molecule that is shared by two chemical reactions as a product of the first and a reactant in the second. (09 Oct 1997) |