| ORS | olfactory reference syndrome; oral rehydration solution; oral surgery, oral surgeon; Orthopaedic Res... |
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| DSM | dextrose solution mixture; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual [of Mental Disorders]; Diploma in Socia... |
| FDFQ | Food/Drink Frequency Questionnaire |
| CMI | carbohydrate metabolism index; care management integration; case mix index; cell-mediated immunity; ... |
| mb | millibar; mix well [Lat. misce bene] |
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| drink | 1. Liquid to be swallowed; any fluid to be taken into the stomach for quenching thirst or for other purposes, as water, coffee, or decoctions. "Give me some drink, Titinius." (Shak) 2. Specifically, intoxicating liquor; as, when drink is on, wit is out. Drink money, or Drink penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. Drink offering, an offering of wine, etc, in the Jewish religious service. In drink, drunk. "The poor monster's in drink." . Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; especially, liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. " Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging." (Prov. Xx. 1) 1. To swallow (a liquid); to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach; to imbibe; as, to drink milk or water. "There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed." (Spenser) "The bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room." (Thackeray) 2. To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe. "And let the purple violets drink the stream." (Dryden) 3. To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see. "To drink the cooler air, (Tennyson) "My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance." (Shak) "Let me . . . Drink delicious poison from thy eye." (Pope) 4. To smoke, as tobacco. "And some men now live ninety years and past, who never drank to tobacco first nor last." (Taylor (1630)) To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appropriate as in satisfaction of thirst. "Song was the form of literature which he [Burns] had drunk in from his cradle." . To drink off or up, to drink the whole at a draught; as, to drink off a cup of cordial. To drink the health of, or To drink to the health of, to drink while expressing good wishes for the health or welfare of. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bleaching powder | A mixture of varying proportions of complexes of chlorine with calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide. Contains 24-37% available chlorine. Decomposes in moist conditions to liberate chlorine. Strong irritant due to chlorine vapors. Used for disinfecting drinking water, sewage etc.; in the bleaching of wood pulp, linen, cotton, straw, oils, soaps, and laundry; as an oxidiser; in destroying caterpillars; and as a decontaminant for mustard gas and similar substances. Synonym: bleaching powder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| goa powder | A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained. Origin: So called from Goa, on the Malabar coast, whither it was shipped from Portugal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| powder | 1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. "Grind their bones to powder small." (Shak) 2. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder. Atlas powder, Baking powder, etc. See Atlas, Baking, etc. Powder down, a boy formerly employed on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy. Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry. Powder puff. See Puff. Origin: OE. Poudre, pouldre, F. Poudre, OF. Also poldre, puldre, L. Pulvis, pulveris: cf. Pollen fine flour, mill dust, E. Pollen. Cf. Polverine, Pulverize. 1. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily. 2. To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| powder-posted | Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry. (01 Mar 1998) |
| dover's powder | <alchemy> A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic. Origin: From Dr. Dover, an English physician. (04 Mar 1998) |
| james's powder | <medicine> Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician. Synonym: fever powder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| administration, oral | The giving of drugs, chemicals, or other substances by mouth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cancer, oral | Cancer of the mouth area. A sore in the mouth that does not heal can be a warning sign of oral cancer. A biopsy is the only to know whether as abnormal area in the oral cavity is cancer. Oral cancer is caused by tobacco (smoking and chewing) and alcohol use. Surgery to remove the tumour in the mouth is the usual treatment for patients with oral cancer. (12 Dec 1998) |
| candidiasis, oral | Infection of the mucous membranes of the mouth by a fungus of the genus candida. (12 Dec 1998) |
| canine oral papilloma | Warts affecting mucous membranes of young dogs; caused by a papillomavirus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| magnesia and alumina oral suspension | A mixture of magnesium hydroxide and variable amounts of aluminum oxide; used as an antacid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pathology, oral | A dental specialty concerned with pathology of the oral cavity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pharyngo-oral | Relating to the pharynx and the mouth; oropharyngeal. Origin: pharyngo-+ L. Os (or-), mouth (05 Mar 2000) |
| combination oral contraceptive | A mixture of a steroid having progestational activity and an oestrogen. (05 Mar 2000) |
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