| Smith-Robinson operation | Interbody spinal fusion through an anterior cervical approach. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| smither | 1. Light, fine rain. 2. Fragments; atoms; finders. "Smash the bottle to smithers." (Tennyson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smithereens | Fragments; atoms; smithers. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smithery | 1. The workshop of a smith; a smithy or stithy. 2. Work done by a smith; smithing. "The din of all his smithery may some time or other possibly wake this noble duke." (Burke) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smithsonite | <chemical> Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown colour. See Note under Calamine. See: Smithsonian. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smithy | The workshop of a smith, especially. A blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy. Alternative forms: smiddy] "Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands." (Lonfellow) Origin: AS. Smie, fr. Smi; akin to D. Smidse, smids, OHG. Smitta, G. Schmiede, Icel. Smija. See Smith. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smock | 1. A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise. "In her smock, with head and foot all bare." (Chaucer) 2. A blouse; a smoock frock. Origin: AS. Smoc; akin to OHG. Smocho, Icel. Smokkr, and from the root of AS. Smgan to creep, akin to G. Schmiegen to cling to, press close. MHG. Smiegen, Icel. Smjga to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through; cf. Lith. Smukti to glide. Cf. Smug, Smuggle. Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock; hence, of or pertaining to a woman. Smock mill, a windmill of which only the cap turns round to meet the wind, in distinction from a post mill, whose whole building turns on a post. Smock race, a race run by women for the prize of a smock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smog | A mixture of smoke and fog polluting the atmosphere. (12 Dec 1998) |
| smoke | 1. To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to disinfect, to cure, etc, by smoke; as, to smoke or fumigate infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation. 2. To fill or scent with smoke; hence, to fill with incense; to perfume. "Smoking the temple." 3. To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect. "I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him." (Chapman) "He was first smoked by the old Lord Lafeu." (Shak) "Upon that . . . I began to smoke that they were a parcel of mummers." (Addison) 4. To ridicule to the face; to quiz. 5. To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar. 6. To subject to the operation of smoke, for the purpose of annoying or driving out; often with out; as, to smoke a woodchuck out of his burrow. 1. The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like. The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot. 2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist. 3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk. 4. The act of smoking, especially. Of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. Forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc. Smoke arch, the smoke box of a locomotive. Smoke ball, a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck. <botany> Smoke tree, a shrub (Rhus Cotinus) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke. To end in smoke, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing. Synonym: Fume, reek, vapor. Origin: AS. Smoca, fr. Smeocan to smoke; akin to LG. & D. Smook smoke, Dan. Smog, G. Schmauch, and perh. To Gr. To burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith. Smaugti to choke. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smoke inhalation injury | Pulmonary injury following the breathing in of toxic smoke from burning materials such as plastics, synthetics, building materials, etc. This injury is the most frequent cause of death in burn patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| smokehouse | A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smoker's patches | An obsolete term for leukoplakia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| smoker's tongue | An obsolete term for leukoplakia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| smoking | From Smoke. <botany> Smoking bean, the long pod of the catalpa, or Indian-bean tree, often smoked by boys as a substitute for cigars. Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| smoking cessation | Discontinuation of the habit of smoking, the inhaling and exhaling of tobacco smoke. (12 Dec 1998) |