| acidulent | Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous. "With anxious, acidulent face." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| acidulous | Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture. Acidulous mineral waters, such as contain carbonic anhydride. Origin: L. Acidulus, dim. Of acidus. See Acid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| aciduria | 1. Excretion of an acid urine. 2. Excretion of an abnormal amount of any specified acid. Individual types of aciduria are prefixed by the specific acid; e.g., aminoaciduria, ketoaciduria. Origin: acid + G. Ouron, urine (05 Mar 2000) |
| aciduric | Pertaining to bacteria that tolerate an acid environment. Origin: acid + L. Duro, to endure (05 Mar 2000) |
| acierage | The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling. Origin: F. Acierage, fr. Acier steel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acinaceous | <botany> Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them. Origin: L. Acinus a grape, grapestone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acinaciform | <botany> Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf. Origin: L. Acinaces a short sword: cf. F. Acinaciforme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acinar | Pertaining to the acinus. Synonym: acinic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acinar carcinoma | <tumour> An adenocarcinoma arising from secreting cells of a racemose gland, particularly the salivary glands. Synonym: acinar carcinoma, acinic cell carcinoma, acinose carcinoma, acinous carcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acinar cell | Any secreting cell lining an acinus, especially applied to the cell's of the pancreas that furnish pancreatic juice and enzymes to distinguish them from the cell's of ducts and the islets of Langerhans. Synonym: acinous cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acinar cell tumour | A solid and cystic tumour of the pancreas, occurring in young women; tumour cells contain zymogen granules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acinesia | <medicine> Same as Akinesia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acinetae | <zoology> A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Immovable. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acinetiform | <zoology> Resembling the Acinetae. Origin: Acinetae. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| acinetobacter | A genus of gram-negative bacteria of the family neisseriaceae, found in soil and water and of uncertain pathogenicity. (12 Dec 1998) |