| tidal prism | The change in the volume of water covering an area, such as a wetland, between a low tide and the subsequent high tide. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| tidal regime | The range of elevations in a wetland experiencing a specific pattern of tidal inundation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| tidal volume | The volume of air inspired or expired during each normal, quiet respiratory cycle. Common abbreviations are tv or v with subscript t. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tidal waters | Those waters that rise and fall in a predictable and measurable rhythm or cycle due to the gravitational pulls of the moon and sun. Tidal waters end where the rise and fall of the water surface can no longer by practically measured in a predictable rhythm due to masking by hydrologic, wind, or other effects. Source: 33 CFR |
| tidal wave | The wave between the percussion wave and the dicrotic wave in the downward limb of the arterial pulse tracing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tide | <marine biology> A situation in which the level of the ocean and associated bodies of water periodically fluctuates due to the action of lunar (moon) and solar (sun) forces upon the rotating earth. (09 Oct 1997) |
| tidley | <zoology> The wren. The goldcrest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tidology | <study> A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides. Origin: Tide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tidy | <zoology> The wren; called also tiddy. "The tidy for her notes as delicate as they." (Drayton) This name is probably applied also to other small singing birds, as the goldcrest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tidytips | <botany> A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tie | 1. To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. "Tie the kine to the cart." "My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck." (Prov. Vi. 20,21) 2. To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot. "We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument." 3. To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold. "In bond of virtuous love together tied." (Fairfax) 4. To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine. "Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind." (Dryden) 5. To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them. 6. To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with. To ride and tie. See Ride. To tie down. To fasten so as to prevent from rising. To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action. To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action. Origin: OE. Tien, teyen, AS. Tigan, tiegan, fr. Teag, teah, a rope; akin to Icel. Taug, and AS. Teon to draw, to pull. See Tug, and cf. Tow to drag. Origin: AS. Tege, tge, tige. 64. See Tie. 1. A knot; a fastening. 2. A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance. "No distance breaks the tie of blood." (Young) 3. A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig. 4. An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc, which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race. 5. A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place. 6. A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature. 7. Low shoes fastened with lacings. Bale tie, a fastening for the ends of a hoop for a bale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tie receptor tyrosine kinase | <enzyme> From human leukaemia cells; expressed in developing vascular endothelial cell; has homology with egf, bfgf, csf-1, pdgf and stem cell factor receptors; ligand and biologic function not known as of 12/92; tie-1 receptor tyrosine kinase is rat homolog of tie receptor tyrosine kinase; aa sequence known Registry number: EC 2.7.10.- Synonym: tie-1 receptor tyrosine kinase, tie-1 rtk (26 Jun 1999) |
| TIE-2 receptor tyrosine kinase | <enzyme> Expressed in developing vascular endothelial cells; unlike tie-1, also expressed in lens epithelium and heart epicardium; has the same organization of amino acid sequence motifs characteristic of tie-1; aa sequence of the intracellular and extracellular regions of tie-1 and tie-2 are 79% and 32% identical, respectively; aa sequence of both kinases given in first source Registry number: EC 2.7.10.- Synonym: tie-2-rtk (26 Jun 1999) |
| tie-over dressing | A dressing placed over a skin graft or other sutured wound and tied on by the sutures which have been left of sufficient length for that purpose. Synonym: bolus dressing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Tieche, Max | <person> Swiss dermatologist, 1878-1938. See: Jadassohn-Tieche nevus. (05 Mar 2000) |