| BSS | Bachelor of Sanitary Science; balanced salt solution; Bernard-Soulier syndrome; black silk suture; b... |
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| VABS | Vine-land Adaptive Behavior Scale |
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| ab er-de-vine | <ornithology> The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| vine | <botany> Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes. Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants. "There shall be no grapes on the vine." (Jer. Viii. 13) "And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds." (2 Kings iv. <botany> 89) Vine apple See Vine borer above, and Wound gall, under Wound. Origin: F. Vigne, L. Vinea a vineyard, vine from vineus of or belonging to wine, vinum wine, grapes. See Wine, and cf. Vignette. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| water vine | <botany> Any plant of the genus Phytocrene, climbing shrubs of Asia and Africa, the stems of which are singularly porous, and when cut stream with a limpid potable juice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shot-silk phenomenon | The appearance of numerous wavelike, glistening reflexes, like the shimmer of silk, observed sometimes in the retina of a young person. Synonym: shot-silk phenomenon, shot-silk reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shot-silk reflex | The appearance of numerous wavelike, glistening reflexes, like the shimmer of silk, observed sometimes in the retina of a young person. Synonym: shot-silk phenomenon, shot-silk reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shot-silk retina | The appearance of numerous wavelike, glistening reflexes, like the shimmer of silk, observed sometimes in the retina of a young person. Synonym: shot-silk phenomenon, shot-silk reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| silk | 1. The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori. 2. Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material. 3. That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize. Raw silk, silk as it is wound off from the cocoons, and before it is manufactured. Silk cotton, a cottony substance enveloping the seeds of the silk-cotton tree. <botany> Silk-cotton tree, a climbing plant (Periploca Graeca) of the Milkweed family, having a silky tuft on the seeds. It is native in Southern Europe. Origin: OE. Silk, selk, AS. Seolc, seoloc; akin to Icel. Silki, SW. & Dan. Silke; prob. Through Slavic from an Oriental source; cf. Lith. Szilkai, Russ. Shelk', and also L. Sericum Seric stuff, silk. Cf. Sericeous. Serge a woolen stuff. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| surgical silk | Thread prepared from the cocoon filaments of glutinous gum which are spun by the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori; used as suture material in 14 sizes from 0.025 mm to 1.016 mm in diameter and numbered accordingly from 7-0 to 7. Virgin silk, an extremely fine ophthalmic suture material consisting of two to seven natural silk filaments bonded together by sericin, a natural adhesive. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floss silk | dental floss |
| silk vine | deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill-scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits |
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