| table salt | <chemical> Table salt, NaCL. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| tablespoon | A large spoon, used as a measure of the dose of a medicine, equivalent to about 4 fluidrams or 1/2 fluidounce or 15 ml. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tablet | 1. A small table or flat surface. 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture. 3. Hence, a small picture; a miniature. 4. A kind of pocket memorandum book. 5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. 6. <pharmacology> A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form. Origin: F. Tablette, dim. Of table. See Table. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tablet triturate | A small, usually cylindrical, molded or compressed disk of varying size, containing a diluent usually consisting of dextrose (glucose) or of a mixture of lactose and powdered sucrose and a moistening agent or excipient, such as dilute alcohol. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tablets | Solid dosage forms, of varying weight, size, and shape, which may be molded or compressed, and which contain a medicinal substance in pure or diluted form. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tablets, enteric-coated | Tablets coated with material that delays release of the medication until after they leave the stomach. (12 Dec 1998) |
| taboo | Any negative tradition or behaviour that is generally regarded as harmful to social welfare and forbidden within a cultural or social group. (12 Dec 1998) |
| taboparesis | A condition in which the symptoms of tabes dorsalis and general paresis are associated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabula | Origin: L. 1. A table; a tablet. 2. <zoology> One of the transverse plants found in the calicles of certain corals and hydroids. Tabula rasa [L], a smoothed tablet; hence, figuratively, the mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tabular | Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of the uses of the word). Specifically: Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock. Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. "Nodules . . . That are tabular and plated." (Woodward) Set in squares. Arranged in a schedule; as, tabular statistics. Derived from, or computed by, the use of tables; as, tabular right ascension. <mathematics> Tabular difference, wollastonite. Origin: L. Tabularis, fr. Tabula a board, table. See Table. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tabulata | <zoology> An artificial group of stony corals including those which have transverse septa in the calicles. The genera Pocillopora and Favosites are examples. Origin: NL, fr. L. Tabulatus floored. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tabule | Synonym: tablet. Origin: L. Tabula (05 Mar 2000) |
| tabun | Dimethylphosphoramidocyanidic acid, ethyl ester;an extremely potent cholinesterase inhibitor; the lethal dose for man is believed to be as low as 0.01 mg per kg; median lethal dosage (respiratory) is about 40 mg. Min/m3 for resting men. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tac | A kind of customary payment by a tenant; a word used in old records. Origin: Cf. Tack, 4. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Tac antigen | An antigenic determinant of the human interleukin 2 receptor that is identified by a murine monoclonal antibody, anti-Tac. Binding of this antigen prevents the proliferation of T-cells, which is normally stimulated by binding interleukin-2. (05 Mar 2000) |