| minisatellite repeats | Tandem arrays of moderately repetitive DNA sequences found dispersed throughout the genome but clustered near telomeres. Their degree of repetition is two to several hundred at each locus. Loci number in the thousands but each locus shows a distinctive repeat unit. Minisatellite repeats are often called variable number of tandem repeats. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| minisegregant cell | <cell biology> Human cells with small amounts of DNA and few chromosomes, obtained experimentally by perturbing cell division. Can readily be fused with whole cells. (18 Nov 1997) |
| minister | To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer. "He that ministereth seed to the sower." (2 Cor. Ix. 10) "We minister to God reason to suspect us." (Jer. Taylor) Origin: OE. Ministren, OF. Ministrer, fr. L. Ministrare. See Minister. 1. To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular. "The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." (Matt. Xx. 28) 2. To supply or to things needful; especially, to supply consolation or remedies. "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?" (Shak) 1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument. "Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua." (Ex. Xxiv. 13) "I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes." (Shak) 2. An officer of justice. "I cry out the on the ministres, quod he, That shoulde keep and rule this cite." (Chaucer) 3. One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs. "Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man." (Bacon) 4. A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business. Ambassadors are classed (in the diplomatic sense) in the first rank of public ministers, ministers plenipotentiary in the second. "The United States diplomatic service employs two classes of ministers, ministers plenipotentiary and ministers resident." 5. One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorised or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments. Synonym: Delegate, official, ambassador, clergyman, parson, priest. Origin: OE. Ministre, F. Ministre, fr. L. Minister, orig. A double comparative from the root of minor less, and hence meaning, an inferior, a servant. See 1st Minor, and cf. Master, Minstrel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ministress | A woman who ministers. Origin: Cf. L. Ministrix. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| minium | <chemistry> A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Synonym: red lead. Origin: L. Minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque arminea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| minivet | <zoology> A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidae. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mink | <zoology> A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink (P. Vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Synonym: minx, nurik, and vison. Origin: Cf. 2d Minx. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mink cell focus-inducing viruses | Murine leukaemia viruses discovered in 1976 by hartley, wolford, old, and rowe and so named because the viruses originally isolated had the capacity to transform cell foci in mink cell cultures. Mcf viruses are generated in a multi-step process by recombination with other viral types including akr, friend, moloney, and rauscher. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mink enteritis virus | A parvovirus that causes enteritis of mink. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory | A questionnaire type of psychological test for ages 16 and over, with 550 true-false statements coded in 4 validity and 10 personality scales which may be administered in both an individual or group format. Synonym: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory test | A questionnaire type of psychological test for ages 16 and over, with 550 true-false statements coded in 4 validity and 10 personality scales which may be administered in both an individual or group format. Synonym: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. (05 Mar 2000) |
| minnow | 1. <zoology> A small European fresh water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys. 2. <zoology> Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog. Origin: OE. Menow, cf. AS. Myne; also OE. Menuse, OF. Menuise small fish; akin to E. Minish, minute Alternative forms: minow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| minny | <zoology> A minnow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mino bird | <zoology> An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words. Origin: Hind. Maina. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| minocycline | <chemical> (4s-(4 alpha,4a alpha,5a alpha,12a alpha))-4,7-bis(dimethylamino)-1,4,4a,5,5a,6,11,12a-octahydro-3,10,12,12a-tetrahydroxy-1,11-dioxo-2-naphthacene carboxamide. A semisynthetic antibiotic effective against tetracycline-resistant staphylococcus infections. Pharmacological action: antibiotics, tetracycline. Chemical name: 2-Naphthacenecarboxamide, 4,7-bis(dimethylamino)-1,4,4a,5,5a,6,11,12a-octahydro-3,10,12,12a-tetrahydroxy-1,11-dioxo-, (4S-(4alpha,4aalpha,5aalpha,12aalpha))- (12 Dec 1998) |