| gastric stump | That portion of the stomach remaining after gastric surgery, usually gastrectomy or gastroenterostomy for cancer of the stomach or peptic ulcer. It is a common site of cancer referred to as stump cancer or carcinoma of the gastric stump. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| stump | 1. The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub. 2. The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom. 3. The legs; as, to stir one's stumps. 4. One of the three pointed rods stuck in the ground to form a wicket and support the bails. 5. A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc, in powder. 6. A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt, except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key; a fence; also, a pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece. Leg stump, a term used to describe late German Gothic tracery, in which the molded bar seems to pass through itself in its convolutions, and is then cut off short, so that a section of the molding is seen at the end of each similar stump. To go on the stump, or To take the stump, to engage in making public addresses for electioneering purposes; a phrase derived from the practice of using a stump for a speaker's platform in newly-settled districts. Hence also the phrases stump orator, stump speaker, stump speech, stump oratory, etc. Origin: OE. Stumpe, stompe; akin to D. Stomp, G. Stumpf, Icel. Stumpr, Dan. & Sw. Stump, and perhaps also to E. Stamp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stump cancer | Carcinoma of the stomach developing after gastroenterostomy or gastric resection for benign disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stump hallucination | The sensation, after amputation of a limb, that the absent part is still present; there may also be paresthesias, transient aches, and intermittent or continuous pain perceived as originating in the absent limb. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stump neuralgia | Pain experienced as coming from an absent part, caused by irritation of neuromas in the scarred tissue of an amputation stump. (05 Mar 2000) |
| stump sprouting | <botany> Sprouts developing from the region between the stem base and the root crown (on the root neck of cut trees). (09 Oct 1997) |
| stump-tailed | Having a short, thick tail. <zoology> Stump-tailed lizard, a singular Australian scincoid lizard (Trachydosaurus rugosus) having a short, thick tail resembling its head in form. Synonym: sleeping lizard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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