| EY | egg yolk; epidemiological year |
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| EYA | egg yolk agar |
| HEL | hen egg white lysozyme; human embryonic lung; human erythroleukemia |
| HEP | hemolysis end point; hepatoerythropoietic porphyria; high egg passage [virus]; high-energy phosphate... |
| LD-EYA | Lombard-Dowell egg yolk agar |
| cycles per second | The number of successive compressions and rarefactions per second of a sound wave. The preferred designation for this unit of frequency is hertz. Acronym: cps (05 Mar 2000) |
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| primary egg membrane | See: egg membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Scholander, Per | <person> Norwegian physiologist, 1905-1980. See: Scholander apparatus, Roughton-Scholander apparatus, Roughton-Scholander syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| high-egg-passage vaccine | Living Flury strain rabies virus at the 180th to 190th level egg passage (embryonate eggs), used for vaccination of cattle and cats, low-egg-passage (LEP) vaccine: at the 40th to 50th passage level, containing 103 to 104 mouse LD50; nonpathogenic in dogs but retains some pathogenicity for cattle and cats. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea egg | <zoology> A sea urchin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| secondary egg membrane | See: egg membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| homolecithal egg | An egg in which the total amount of yolk is small and fairly uniformly distributed throughout the cytoplasm. Synonym: isolecithal egg. (05 Mar 2000) |
| displacements per atom | (dpa) This is a measure of the amount of radiation damage in neutron-irradiated materials, for example, 10 dpa means each atom in the material has been displaced from its site within the structural lattice of the material an average of 10 times (due to interactions between the atoms and the energetic neutrons irradiating the material.) (09 Oct 1997) |
| Dorset's culture egg medium | A medium for cultivating Mycobacterium tuberculosis; it consists of the whites and yolks of four fresh eggs and a solution of sodium chloride. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolecithal egg | An egg in which the total amount of yolk is small and fairly uniformly distributed throughout the cytoplasm. Synonym: isolecithal egg. (05 Mar 2000) |
| telolecithal egg | An egg containing a relatively large quantity of deutoplasm concentrated at the abapical pole; e.g., egg's of reptiles and birds. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tertiary egg membrane | See: egg membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| egg | A structure which the females of certain animal species lay as a means of reproduction, it contains a fertilized zygote and nutrition in the form of yolk for the developing offspring, sometimes contains other substances (e.g., the white of a hen's egg), sometimes surrounded by a protective outer shell. (09 Oct 1997) |
| egg albumin | <protein> A major protein constituent of egg white. A phosphoprotein of 386 amino acids (44 kD) with one N linked oligosaccharide chain. Synthesis is stimulated by oestrogen. The gene, of which there is only one in the chicken genome, has eight exons and is of 7.8 kbase, it was one of the first genes to be studied in this sort of detail. (18 Nov 1997) |
| egg-bird | <zoology> A species of tern, especially. The sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaethon flavirostris. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |