| sarmentose | Producing slender, prostrate branches or runners. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| sarmentous | <botany> Sarmentose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| saros | <astronomy> A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sarpo | <zoology> A large toadfish the Southern United States and the Gulf of Mexico (Batrachus tau, var. Pardus). Origin: Corruption of Sp. Sapo a toad. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sarracenia | <botany> A genus of American perrenial herbs growing in bogs; the American pitcher plant. They have hollow pitcher-shaped or tubular leaves, and solitary flowers with an umbrella-shaped style. Sarracenia purpurea, the sidesaddle flower, is common at the North; S. Flava, rubra, Drummondii, variolaris, and psittacina are Southern species. All are insectivorous, catching and drowning insects in their curious leaves. Origin: NL. So named after a Dr. Sarrazin of Quebec. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sarsaparilla | <botany> Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax. The bitter mucilaginous roots of such plants, used in medicine and in sirups for soda, etc. The name is also applied to many other plants and their roots, especially to the Aralia nudicaulis, the wild sarsaparilla of the United States. Origin: Sp. Zarzaparrilla; zarza a bramble (perhaps fr. Bisc. Zartzia) + parra a vine, or Parillo, a physician said to have discovered it. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| SART | <abbreviation> Sinoatrial recovery time. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sartorial | 1. Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work. "Our legs skulked under the table as free from sartorial impertinences as those of the noblest savages." (Lowell) 2. <anatomy> Of or pertaining to thesartorius muscle. See: Sartorius. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sartorius | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, anterior superior spine of ilium; insertion, medial border of tuberosity of tibia; action, flexes thigh and leg, rotates leg medially and thigh laterally; nerve supply, femoral. Synonym: musculus sartorius, tailor's muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sartorius bursae | Sometimes separate from the anserine bursa, located between the tendons of the sartorius, semitendinosus, and gracilis muscles. Synonym: bursae subtendineae musculi sartorii. (05 Mar 2000) |
| saruplase | <chemical> Pharmacological action: fibrinolytic agents Synonym: prourokinase (enzyme-activating), recombinant unglycosylated single-chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator, pro-uk, pro-urokinase, a-74187 (26 Jun 1999) |