| ROT | Right Occipito-Transverse |
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| ext | rot external rotation |
| Int | Rot internal rotation |
| ROT | real oxygen transport; remedial occupational therapy; right occipito-transverse [fetal position] |
| rot | rotating, rotation |
| ROT | Roll-over test |
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| jungle | A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. (Fig) 2. A place of danger or ruthless competition for survival. "It's a jungle out there" 3. Anything which causes difficulty due to intricacy; as a jungle of environmental regulations. (MW10) "The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate." (Balfour (Cyc. Of India)) Jungle bear Any wild species of the genus Gallus, of which several species inhabit India and the adjacent islands; as, the fork-tailed jungle fowl (G. Varius) of Java, G. Stanleyi of Ceylon, and G. Bankiva of India. The latter, which resembles the domestic gamecock, is supposed to be one of the original species from which the domestic fowl was derived. An Australian grallatorial bird (Megapodius tumulus) which is allied to the brush turkey, and, like the latter, lays its eggs in mounds of vegetable matter, where they are hatched by the heat produced by decomposition. Origin: Hind. Jangal desert, forest, jungle; Skr. Jagala desert. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| jungle fever | In humans, the set of diseases caused by infection by the protozoans Plasmodium vivax causing the tertian type, P. Malariae the quartan type and P. Falciparum the quotidian or irregular type of disease, the names referring to the frequency of fevers. The fevers occur when the merozoites are released from the erythrocytes. The organisms are transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito. (18 Nov 1997) |
| jungle yellow fever | A form occurring in South America, transmitted by Aedes leucocelaenus and various treetop mosquitoes of the Haemagogus complex; transmitted normally to primates, occasionally by chance to man to set off a human outbreak of classical yellow fever transmitted by Aedes aegypti. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Barcoo rot | Synonym: desert sore. Origin: Barcoo, a river in S. Australia (05 Mar 2000) |
| rot | 1. To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay. "Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot." (Pope) 2. Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt. "Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons." (Macaulay) "Rot, poor bachelor, in your club." (Thackeray) Synonym: To putrefy, corrupt, decay, spoil. Origin: OE. Rotien, AS. Rotian; akin to D. Rotten, Prov. G. Rotten, OHG. Rozzn, G. Rosten to steep flax, Icel. Rotna to rot, Sw. Ruttna, Dan. Raadne, Icel. Rottin rotten. Cf. Ret, Rotten. 1. Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction. 2. <botany> A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc, below. 3. [Cf. G. Rotz glanders] A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke. "His cattle must of rot and murrain die. <botany>" (Milton) Bitter rot, a disease of grapes, first appearing in whitish pustules on the fruit, caused by the fungus Coniothyrium diplodiella. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pizzle rot | ulcerative posthitis |
| pod rot | <plant biology> A fungal disease (caused by Monilia roreri) which infects cacao plants, causing lesions on the seed pods. (09 Oct 1997) |
| sheath rot | ulcerative posthitis |
| foot rot | <veterinary> A disease of the feet of cattle and sheep, marked by decay of the hoof and an offensive discharge. It is caused by fusobacterium necrophorum in cattle and bacteroides nodosus in sheep. It is common in wet pastures. (12 Sep 2002) |
| jungle rot |
skin disorder induced by a tropical climate
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