| misc | miscarriage; miscellaneous |
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| AFD | accelerated freeze drying; acrofacial dysostosis |
| CPD | calcium pyrophosphate deposition; cephalopelvic disproportion; cerebelloparenchymal disorder; childh... |
| FD | familial dysautonomia; family doctor; fan douche; fatal dose; fetal danger; fibrin derivative; fibro... |
| RACK | Receptors for activated C kinase |
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| CPD | Critical point drying |
| FD | Freeze drying |
| rack | 1. An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. Specifically: An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons. "During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity." (Macaulay) An instrument for bending a bow. A grate on which bacon is laid. A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc, supplied to beasts. A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display; as, a clothes rack; a bottle rack, etc. A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot. <chemical> A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. A distaff. 2. <mechanics> A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. 3. That which is extorted; exaction. Mangle rack. <machinery> See Mangle. Rack block. A toothed rack, laid as a rail, to afford a hold for teeth on the driving wheel of locomotive for climbing steep gradients, as in ascending a mountain. Rack saw, a saw having wide teeth. Rack stick, the stick used in a rack lashing. To be on the rack, to suffer torture, physical or mental. To live at rack and manger, to live on the best at another's expense. To put to the rack, to subject to torture; to torment. "A fit of the stone puts a kingto the rack, and makes him as miserable as it does the meanest subject." (Sir W. Temple) Origin: Probably fr. D.rek, rekbank, a rack, rekken to stretch; akin to G. Reck, reckbank, a rack, recken to stretch, Dan. Raekke, Sw. Racka, Icel. Rekja to spread out, Goth. Refrakjan to stretch out; cf. L. Porrigere, Gr. Cf. Right, Ratch. 1. To extend by the application of force; to stretch or strain; specifically, to stretch on the rack or wheel; to torture by an engine which strains the limbs and pulls the joints. "He was racked and miserably tormented." (Pope) 2. To torment; to torture; to affect with extreme pain or anguish. "Vaunting aloud but racked with deep despair." (Milton) 3. To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion. "The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants." (Spenser) "They [landlords] rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof." (Fuller) "Try what my credit can in Venice do; That shall be racked even to the uttermost." (Shak) 4. <chemical> To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. 5. To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. To rack one's brains or wits, to exert them to the utmost for the purpose of accomplishing something. Synonym: To torture, torment, rend, tear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| critical point drying | <procedure> A method for preparing specimens for the scanning electron microscope that avoids the problems of shrinkage caused by normal drying procedures. Water in the specimen is replaced by an intermediate fluid, for example liquid carbon dioxide, avoiding setting up a liquid/gas interface and then the second fluid is allowed to vaporise by raising the temperature above the critical point, the temperature at which the liquid state no longer occurs. (18 Nov 1997) |
| freeze-drying | <technique> Method commonly adopted to produce a dry and stable form of biological material that has not been seriously denatured. By freezing the specimen, often with liquid nitrogen and then subliming water from the specimen under vacuum, proteins are left in reasonably native form and can usually be rehydrated to an active state. Since the freeze dried material will store without refrigeration for long periods, it is a convenient method for holding back up or reference material or for the distribution of antibiotics, vaccines etc. Synonym: lyophilization. (18 Sep 2002) |
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