| GA | Gamblers Anonymous; gastric analysis; gastric antrum; general anesthesia; general angiography; gener... |
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| dif-PIPE | diffuse persistent interstitial pulmonary emphysema |
| PIPE | persistent interstitial pulmonary emphysema |
| Ra | Rate of appearance |
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| UNA | Urea nitrogen appearance |
| appearance | 1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me. 2. A thing seed; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition; as, an appearance in the sky. 3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. "And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report." (Milton) 4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state; as, appearances are against him. " There was upon the tabernacle, as it were, the appearance of fire." (Num. Ix. 15) "For man looketh on the outward appearance." (1 Sam. Xvi. 7) "Judge not according to the appearance." (John. Vii. 24) 5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character; as, a person makes his appearance as an historian, an artist, or an orator. "Will he now retire, After appearance, and again prolong Our expectation?" (Milton) 6. Probability; likelihood. "There is that which hath no appearance." (Bacon) 7. The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or proceeding by which a party proceeded against places himself before the court, and submits to its jurisdiction. To put in an appearance, to be present; to appear in person. To save appearances, to preserve a fair outward show. Synonym: Coming, arrival, presence, semblance, pretense, air, look, manner, mien, figure, aspect. Origin: F. Apparence, L. Apparentia, fr. Apparere. See Appear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| stove | 1. To keep warm, in a house or room, by artificial heat; as, to stove orange trees. 2. To heat or dry, as in a stove; as, to stove feathers. Origin: Stoved; Stoving. 1. A house or room artificially warmed or heated; a forcing house, or hothouse; a drying room; formerly, designating an artificially warmed dwelling or room, a parlor, or a bathroom, but now restricted, in this sense, to heated houses or rooms used for horticultural purposes or in the processes of the arts. "When most of the waiters were commanded away to their supper, the parlor or stove being nearly emptied, in came a company of musketeers." (Earl of Strafford) "How tedious is it to them that live in stoves and caves half a year together, as in Iceland, Muscovy, or under the pole!" (Burton) 2. An apparatus, consisting essentially of a receptacle for fuel, made of iron, brick, stone, or tiles, and variously constructed, in which fire is made or kept for warming a room or a house, or for culinary or other purposes. Cooking stove, a stove with an oven, opening for pots, kettles, and the like, used for cooking. Dry stove. See Dry. Foot stove. See Foot. Franklin stove. <botany> Stove plant, a plant which requires artificial heat to make it grow in cold or cold temperate climates. Stove plate, thin iron castings for the parts of stoves. Origin: D. Stoof a foot stove, originally, a heated room, a room for a bath; akin to G. Stube room, OHG. Stuba a heated room, AS. Stofe, Icel. Stofa a room, bathing room, Sw. Stufva, stuga, a room, Dan. Stue; of unknown origin. Cf. Estufa, Stew, Stufa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pipe | 1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." "Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe." (Shak) 2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. 3. A small bowl with a hollow steam, used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. 4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. 5. The key or sound of the voice. 6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. "The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds." (Tennyson) 7. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. 8. <chemical> An elongated body or vein of ore. 9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; so called because put together like a pipe. 10. A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. 11. [Cf. F. Pipe, fr. Pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. Pipare to chirp. See Etymol. Above] A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc, used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe. Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. <botany> Pipe tree, the lilac and the mock orange; so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; called also pipe privet. Pipe wrench, or Pipetongs, a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it. To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, a custom of the American Indians. Origin: AS. Pipe, probably fr. L. Pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife. 1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced." (Matt. Xi. 17) 2. To call, convey orders, etc, by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. 3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. "Oft in the piping shrouds." 4. <chemistry> To become hollow in the process of solodifying; said of an ingot, as of steel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pipe bone | One of the elongated bones of the extremities, consisting of a tubular shaft (diaphysis) and two extremities (epiphyses) usually wider than the shaft; the shaft is composed of compact bone surrounding a central medullary cavity. Compare: short bone. Synonym: os longum, pipe bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipe-smoker's cancer | Squamous cell carcinoma of the lips occurring in pipe smokers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipe stem cirrhosis | Cirrhosis of the liver with finger-like fibrosis predominantly around portal tracts, seen in schistosomiasis. Leads to portal hypertension but rarely to functional failure of the liver. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lead-pipe rigidity | The plastic type of rigidity resembling that of a pipe of lead seen in certain forms of parkinsonism. (05 Mar 2000) |
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