| Luer | German instrument maker, +1883. See: Luer syringe, Luer-Lok syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Luer syringe | A glass syringe with a metal tip and locking device to secure the needle; used for hypodermic and intravenous purposes. Synonym: Luer-Lok syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luer-Lok syringe | A glass syringe with a metal tip and locking device to secure the needle; used for hypodermic and intravenous purposes. Synonym: Luer-Lok syringe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lues | <medicine> Disease, especially of a contagious kind. Lues venerea, syphilis; called also simply lues. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lues venerea | <microbiology> A sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete, Treponema pallidum. May also be acquired prenatally (foetal infection). (27 Sep 1997) |
| luetic | Syphilitic: affected with, caused by or pertaining to syphilis. (18 Nov 1997) |
| luetic mask | A dirty brownish yellow pigmentation, blotchy in character, resembling that of chloasma, occurring on the forehead, temples, and sometimes the cheeks in patients with tertiary syphilis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luft's disease | A metabolic disease due to relative uncoupling of phosphorylation in skeletal muscle causing myopathy and general hypermetabolism; a mitochondial myopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luft's potassium permanganate fixative | A fixative useful in electron microscopy for cytologic preservation of lipoprotein complexes in membranes and myelin, because of its oxidative properties. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luft, John | <person> U.S. Histologist, *1927. See: Luft's potassium permanganate fixative. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Luft, Rolf | <person> 20th century Swedish endocrinologist. See: Luft's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lug | 1. The ear, or its lobe. 2. That which projects like an ear, especially. That by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug. 3. <machinery> A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc. 4. The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up. 5. <zoology> The lugworm. <machinery> Lug bolt, a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt. Origin: Sw. Lugg the forelock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lugger | <zoology> An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Lugol's iodine solution | An iodine-potassium iodide solution used as an oxidizing agent, for removal of mercurial fixation artifacts, and also in histochemistry and to stain amoebas. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Lugol, Jean | <person> French physician, 1786-1851. See: Lugol's iodine solution. (05 Mar 2000) |