| TBAN | transbronchial aspiration needle |
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| TTNA | transthoracic needle aspiration |
| TTNB | transthoracic needle biopsy |
| sea cock | 1. In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea. 2. <zoology> The black-bellied plover. A gurnard, as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sea cocoa | <botany> A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea colander | <botany> A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea colewort | <botany> Sea cabbage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea coot | <zoology> A scoter duck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea corn | <zoology> A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cow | <zoology> The mantee. The dugong. The walrus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea crawfish | <zoology> Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. Vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea crayfish | <zoology> Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as the European spiny lobster (P. Vulgaris), which is much used as an article of food. See Lobster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea crow | <zoology> The chough. The cormorant. The blackheaded pewit, and other gulls. The skua. The razorbill. The coot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cucumber | <zoology> Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. Frondosa). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea cucumbers | A class of echinodermata characterised by long, slender bodies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sea dace | <zoology> The European sea perch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea daffodil | <botany> A European amarylidaceous plant (Pancratium maritimum). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea devil | <zoology> Any very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox. Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish. The angler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |