| double-entendre | A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate. Origin: F. Double double + entendre to mean. This is a barbarous compound of French words. The true French equivalent is double entente. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| double-masked experiment | A double-blind study conducted so neither the subject nor the observer know the identity of the control or variable. (05 Mar 2000) |
| double-mouthed uterus | Septate uterus in which the cervix is divided into two by a septum. Synonym: double-mouthed uterus, uterus biforis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| double-point threshold | The least degree of separation of two points applied to the body surface that permits of their being felt as two. (05 Mar 2000) |
| double-reciprocal plot | <statistics> A graph made to analyse how fast an enzyme can convert its substrate into its product, depending on how much substrate is present (its concentration) and to determine its maximum speed (after which the enzyme does not get any faster no matter how high the concentration of substrate gets), called Vmax. It is a plot of 1/v versus 1/[S], where v=rate of product formation and [S]=the concentration of the substrate. Synonym: Lineweaver-Burk plot, Woolf-Lineweaver-Burk plot. (05 Mar 2000) |
| double-shock sound | Applied by J. B. Bouillaud to describe the cadence of a split-second heart sound, or of the second sound followed by an opening snap or early third heart sound. Synonym: double-shock sound. Origin: Fr. Drum-beat (05 Mar 2000) |
| double-strand break | A break in double-stranded DNA in which both strands have been cleaved; however, the two strands have not separated from each other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| double-stranded complimentary DNA | <molecular biology> A duplex DNA molecule copied from a copy DNA template. (09 Oct 1997) |
| double-voided specimen | This refers to a urine specimen which is collected after first emptying the bladder and then waiting until another specimen can be collected. These double-voided urine specimens are more accurate for purposes of glucose testing (urinalysis). If you test a urine specimen that has been held in the bladder for an extended period of time, it will not accurately reflect the glucose content in the bloodstream. A freshly, double voided specimen is preferred. (27 Sep 1997) |
| doublehearted | Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| doubler | 1. One who, or that which, doubles. 2. <physics> An instrument for augmenting a very small quantity of electricity, so as to render it manifest by sparks or the electroscope. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| doublet | <microscopy> Two simple lens elements cemented together, for the purpose of giving spherical and chromatic corrections. An achromatic doublet may be composed of a positive crown-glass lens and a negative flint-glass lens. The errors of one element are made to compensate those of the other element. (05 Aug 1998) |
| doublet microtubule | <cell biology> Microtubules of the axoneme. The outer nine sets are often referred to as doublet microtubules, although only one the A tubule) is complete and has 13 protofilaments. The B tubule has only 10 or 11 protofilaments and shares the remainder with the A tubule. A and B tubules differ in their stability and in the other proteins attached periodically to them, it is the dynein affixed to the A tubule attaching and detaching from the B tubule of the adjacent doublet that generates sliding movement in the axoneme. (18 Nov 1997) |
| doublethreaded | 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads. 2. <mechanics> Having two screw threads instead of one; said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |