| FAN | fuchsin, amido black, and naphthol yellow |
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| FD | familial dysautonomia; family doctor; fan douche; fatal dose; fetal danger; fibrin derivative; fibro... |
| MSWYE | modified sea water yeast extract |
| SBH | sea-blue histiocyte |
| SEA | sheep erythrocyte agglutination; shock-elicited aggression; soluble egg antigen; spontaneous electri... |
| ASW | Artificial sea water |
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| SMSV | San Miguel sea lion virus |
| SST | Sea Surface Temperature |
| SW | Sea Water |
| SEA | Soluble Egg Antigen |
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| sea fan | <zoology> Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| fan | 1. To move as with a fan. "The air . . . Fanned with unnumbered plumes." (Milton) 2. To cool and refresh, by moving the air with a fan; to blow the air on the face of with a fan. 3. To ventilate; to blow on; to affect by air put in motion. "Calm as the breath which fans our eastern groves." (Dryden) 4. To winnow; to separate chaff from, and drive it away by a current of air; as, to fan wheat. 5. To excite or stir up to activity, as a fan axcites a flame; to stimulate; as, this conduct fanned the excitement of the populace. Fanning machine, or Fanning mill, a machine for separating seed from chaff, etc, by a blast of air; a fanner. Origin: Cf. OF. Vanner, L. Vannere. See Fan, Van a winnowing machine. 1. An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface; as: An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc, and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle. <machinery> Any revolving vane or vanes used for producing currents of air, in winnowing grain, blowing a fire, ventilation, etc, or for checking rapid motion by the resistance of the air; a fan blower; a fan wheel. An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away. Something in the form of a fan when spread, as a peacock's tail, a window, etc. A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind. "Clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan." (Is. Xxx. 24) 2. That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion. 3. A quintain; from its form. Fan blower, a wheel with vanes fixed on a rotating shaft inclosed in a case or chamber, to create a blast of air (fan blast) for forge purposes, or a current for draft and ventilation; a fanner. Fan cricket, an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.'s chapel in Westminster Abbey. It is peculiar to English Gothic. Fan wheel, the wheel of a fan blower. Fan window. Same as Fan light (above). Origin: AS. Fann, fr. L. Vannus fan, van for winnowing grain; cf. F. Van. Cf. Van a winnowing machine, Winnow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| fan palm | <botany> Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fan sign | <clinical sign> The spreading apart of the toes in the complete Babinski's sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fan-tailed | <zoology> Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| mean sea level | <marine biology> A tidal datum: the arithmetic mean of hourly water elevations observed over a specific 19-year cycle. Points on land can be referenced to a mean sea level, in which case the datum assumes zero elevation. (09 Oct 1997) |
| San Miguel sea lion virus | A calicivirus, family Caliciviridae, first isolated from sea lions on San Miguel island off the California coast, which is indistinguishable from the vesicular exanthema of swine virus both biophysically and clinically in terms of the vesicular disease syndrome that it produces in swine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sea | <oncogene> An oncogene, identified in bird sarcoma, encoding a receptor tyrosine kinase. (18 Nov 1997) |
| sea acorn | <zoology> An acorn barnacle (Balanus). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea adder | <zoology> The European fifteen-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus spinachia); called also bismore. The European tanglefish, or pipefish (Syngnathus acus). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea amenone | <zoology> Any one of numerous species of soft-bodied Anthozoa, belonging to the order Actrinaria; an actinian. They have the oral disk surrounded by one or more circles of simple tapering tentacles, which are often very numerous, and when expanded somewhat resemble the petals of flowers, with colours varied and often very beautiful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea anemones | Numerous almost invariably solitary polyps of the order actiniaria. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sea ape | <zoology> The thrasher shark. The sea otter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea apple | <botany> The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea arrow | <zoology> A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea-bar | <zoology> A tern. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sea fan | corals having a treelike or fan-shaped horny skeleton |
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