| Trolard | Paulin, French anatomist, 1842-1910. See: Trolard's vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Trolard's vein | <anatomy, vein> A large communicating vein between the superficial middle cerebral vein and the superior sagittal sinus; it passes upward from the lateral sulcus, often following the line of the central sulcus (Rolando's fissure). Synonym: vena anastomotica superior, Trolard's vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| troleandomycin | <chemical> A macrolide antibiotic that is similar to erythromycin. Pharmacological action: antibiotics, macrolide. Chemical name: Oleandomycin, triacetate (ester) (12 Dec 1998) |
| troll | 1. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. "To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye." (Milton) 2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. "Then doth she troll to the bowl." (Gammer Gurton's Needle) "Troll the brown bowl." (Sir W. Scott) 3. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely. "Will you troll the catch ?" (Shak) "His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud." (Hudibras) 4. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure. 5. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. "With patient angle trolls the finny deep." (Goldsmith) 1. To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six. 2. To move rapidly; to wag. 3. To take part in trolling a song. 4. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water. "Their young men . . . Trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish." (Bancroft) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. Troll flower. <botany> Same as Globeflower . Origin: OE. Trollen to roll, F. Troler, Of. Troller to drag about, to ramble; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. G. Trollen to roll, ramble, sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps for trotler, fr. F. Trotter to trot (cf. Trot). Cf. Trawl. Origin: Icel. Troll. Cf. Droll, Trull. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trollop | A stroller; a loiterer; especially, an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore. Origin: From Troll to roll, to stroll; but cf. Also Trull. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trolly | A form of truck which can be tilted, for carrying railroad materials, or the like. A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. <machinery> A truck from which the load is suspended in some kinds of cranes. <physics> A truck which travels along the fixed conductors, and forms a means of connection between them and a railway car. (e) An elongated structure along a roadway containing conducting wire suspended from insulated supports at some height above the street, to provide electrical power for a trolley car. (f) A trolley car. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trolnitrate phosphate | Triethanolamine trinitrate diphosphate;an organic nitrate with mild but persistent vasodilator action on smooth muscle of the smaller vessels of postarteriolar vascular beds; used to prevent attacks of angina pectoris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Troltsch | Anton F. Von, German otologist, 1829-1890. See: Troltsch's corpuscles, Troltsch's fold, Troltsch's pockets, Troltsch's recesses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Troltsch's corpuscles | Minute spaces, resembling corpuscle's, between the radial fibres of the drum membrane of the ear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Troltsch's fold | One of two ligamentous bands, anterior and posterior, making folds on the tympanic side of the tympanic membrane extending from each extremity of the tympanic notch to the malleolar prominence; they mark the boundary between the tense and the flaccid portions of the tympanic membrane. Synonym: plica mallearis, plica membranae tympani, Troltsch's fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Troltsch's pocket | Synonym: anterior recess of tympanic membrane, posterior recess of tympanic membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Troltsch's recesses | A slitlike space on the tympanic wall between the anterior malleolar fold and the tympanic membrane. Synonym: recessus membranae tympani anterior, Troltsch's pockets, Troltsch's recesses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trombicula | The chigger mite, a genus of mites (family Trombiculidae) whose larvae (chiggers, red bugs) include pests of humans and other animals, and vectors of rickettsial and probably viral diseases. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Trombicula akamushi | leptotrombidium akamushi |
| Trombicula alfreddugesi | A species common in second growth and grassy brush areas of the Americas; the larvae attack humans (as well as reptiles, birds, and wild and domestic animals), causing an intensely itching dermatitis. (05 Mar 2000) |