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| soldier's patches | White plaques of hyalinised fibrous tissue situated in the epicardium overlying the right ventricle of the heart where it is not covered by lung. Synonym: soldier's patches. White macroscopic areas in the omentum, due to accumulation of macrophages and lymphocytes. Synonym: tache laiteuse. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| water soldier | <botany> An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet-shaped leaves. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| soldier | 1. One who is engaged in military service as an officer or a private; one who serves in an army; one of an organised body of combatants. "I am a soldier and unapt to weep." (Shak) 2. Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer. "It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier." (Spenser) 3. A brave warrior; a man of military experience and skill, or a man of distinguished valor; used by way of emphasis or distinction. 4. <zoology> The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini) 5. <zoology> One of the asexual polymorphic forms of white ants, or termites, in which the head and jaws are very large and strong. The soldiers serve to defend the nest. See Termite. Soldier beetle, a large geometrid moth (Euschema militaris), having the wings bright yellow with bluish black lines and spots. <botany> Soldier orchis, a kind of orchis (Orchis militaris). Origin: OE. Souldier, soudiour, souder, OF. Soldier, soldoier, soldeier, sodoier, soudoier, soudier, fr. L. Solidus a piece of money (hence applied to the pay of a soldier), fr. Solidus solid. See Solid, and cf. Sold. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| soldier's heart | An obsolete term for neurocirculatory asthenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bayer's patches | Sites of adhesion between the outer and cytoplasmic membranes of gram-negative bacteria. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Gottron's patches | <clinical sign> Gottron's patches are scaly, patchy redness over the knuckles and is seen in patients with dermatomyositis, an inflammatory muscle disorder. (see polymyositis). (20 Sep 2002) |
| Peyer's patches | Lymphoid organs located in the sub mucosal tissue of the mammalian gut containing very high proportions of IgA secreting precursor cells. The patches have B and T dependent regions and germinal centres. A specialised epithelium lies between the patch and the intestine. Involved in gut associated immunity. (18 Nov 1997) |
| cotton-wool patches | <clinical sign, ophthalmology> White, fuzzy areas on the surface of the retina (accumulations of cellular organelles) caused by damage (usually infarction) of the retinal fibre layer. Synonym: cotton-wool spots. (05 Mar 2000) |
| salmon patches | Red or purple-coloured vascular skin markings that develop shortly after birth. most are usually painless and benign. Some lesions (cavernous haemangiomas) will disappear or become harder to see as the child approaches school age. Localised steroid injections have been used successfully to reduce the size of a birthmark. (27 Sep 1997) |
| shagreen patches | <radiology> Normal-coloured plaques on trunk with firmer texture than normal skin, associated with tuberous sclerosis (12 Dec 1998) |
| smoker's patches | An obsolete term for leukoplakia. (05 Mar 2000) |
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