| french | Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants. Origin: AS. Frencisc, LL. Franciscus, from L. Francus a Frank: cf. OF. Franceis, franchois, franois, F. Franais. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| French chalk | <chemical> A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish colour, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety. Indurated talc, an impure, slaty talc, with a nearly compact texture, and greater hardness than common talc. Synonym: talc slate. Origin: F. Talc; cf. Sp. & It. Talco, LL. Talcus; all fr. Ar. Talq. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| French flag problem | The French flag (tricolour) is used to illustrate a problem in the determination of pattern in a tissue, that of specifying three sharp bands of cells with discrete properties that do not have blurred edges using, for example: a gradient of a diffusible morphogen. (18 Nov 1997) |
| French flap | A rectangular flap raised in an elastic area, with its free end adjacent to a defect; the defect is covered by stretching the flap longitudinally until the end comes over it. Synonym: advancement flap, French flap. (05 Mar 2000) |
| French polio | Colloquialism for Guillain-Barre syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| french pressure cell | A device used to cause cells to burst (or lyse) with hydrostatic pressure. The cells are suddenly forced into low pressure after being in high pressure. (09 Oct 1997) |
| French proof agar | A culture medium for fungi containing neopeptone or polypeptone agar and glucose, with final pH 5.6; it is the standard, most universally used medium in mycology and is the international reference. Modified Sabouraud's agar (Emmons modification) with less glucose is better for pigment development in the colonies. Synonym: French proof agar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| French scale | A scale for grading sizes of sounds, tubules, and catheters as based on a measurement of 1/3 mm and equaling 1 fr on the scale (e.g., 3 fr = 1 mm); grading to scale is carried out using a metal plate with holes ranging from 1/3 mm to 1 cm in diameter. Synonym: Charriere scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| French-American-British classification | <haematology> The classification of acute myeloid leukaemia on the basis of bone marrow and peripheral blood features. M0: Acute myeloid leukaemia with minimal evidence of myeloid differentiation. M1: Acute myeloblastic leukaemia. M2: Acute myeloblastic leukaemia with differentiation. M3: Acute promyelocytic leukaemia. M4: Acute myelomonocytic leukaemia. M5: Acute monocytic leukaemia. M6: Acute erythroleukaemia. M7: Acute megakaryocytic leukaemia. Acronym: FAB (07 Apr 1998) |
| frenectomy | Removal of any frenum. Origin: frenum + G. Ektome, excision (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frenkel's anterior ocular traumatic syndrome | <syndrome> An obsolete term for traumatic iridoplegia, which consists of mydriasis, hyphema, small iris tears near the pupil, discrete punctate opacities of the lens, and occasionally iridodialysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frenkel's symptom | Lowered muscular tonus in tabetic neurosyphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frenkel, Heinrich | <person> Swiss neurologist, 1860-1931. See: Frenkel's symptom. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Frenkel, Henri | <person> French ophthalmologist, 1864-1934. See: Frenkel's anterior ocular traumatic syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| frenoplasty | Correction of an abnormally attached frenum by surgically repositioning it. Origin: frenum + G. Plastos, formed (05 Mar 2000) |
| free energy |
Perpetual motion machines (the Latin term perpetuum mobile is not uncommon) are a class of hypothetical machines which would produce useful energy in a way which would violate the established laws of physics. It is generally accepted that perpetual motion machines cannot exist. In particular, perpetual motion machines would violate either the first or second laws of thermodynamics. ...
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| frequency distribution |
In statistics, a frequency distribution is a list of the values that a variable takes in a sample. It is usually a list, ordered by quantity, showing the number of times each value appears. ...
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| freudian |
Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. He became interested in hypnotism and how it could be used to help the mentally ill. He later abandoned hypnotism in favor of free association and dream analysis in developing what is now known as "the talking cure." These became the core elements of psychoanalysis. ...
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| Freud |
Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian psychiatrist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. He became interested in hypnotism and how it could be used to help the mentally ill. He later abandoned hypnotism in favor of free association and dream analysis in developing what is now known as "the talking cure." These became the core elements of psychoanalysis. ...
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| French |
French (fran?is, spelled fran?is until 1835, both pronounced in standard French, but often heard pronounced ), or French language (langue fran?ise, formerly langue fran?ise, both pronounced ), is the third of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese. ...
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| FRE | grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to |
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| FRE | not literal |
| FRE | (chemistry and physics) unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion |
| FRE | not fixed in position |
| FRE | able to act at will |
| FRE | not held in servitude |
| FRE | not occupied or in use |
| FRE | not taken up by scheduled activities |
| FRE | costing nothing |
| FRE | without restraint |
| FRE | (sports) the state of a professional athlete who is free to negotiate a contract to play for any team |
| FRE | someone acting freely or even irresponsibly |