| TWHF | Tripterygium Wilfordii Hook F |
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| wind-sucker | 1. (Far) A horse given to wind-sucking 2. <zoology> The kestrel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| sucker | 1. One who, or that which, sucks; especially, one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. 2. A suckling; a sucking animal. 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. 5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; used by children as a plaything. 6. <botany> A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant. 7. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of North American fresh water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. Teres), the hog sucker (C. Nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel. The remora. The lumpfish. The hagfish, or myxine. A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish; called also bagre. 8. A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above. "They who constantly converse with men far above their estates shall reap shame and loss thereby; if thou payest nothing, they will count thee a sucker, no branch." (Fuller) 9. A hard drinker; a soaker. 10. A greenhorn; one easily gulled. 11. A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See Carp, Cherry, etc. Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. Sucker rod, a pump rod. See Pump. <zoology> Sucker tube, one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, usually terminated by a sucker and used for locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| calvarial hook | An instrument used in prying off the top of the skull after it has been sawed around, at autopsies and dissections. (05 Mar 2000) |
| palate hook | An instrument for pulling forward the soft palate in order to facilitate posterior rhinoscopy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hook | Basal portion of bacterial flagellum, to which is distally attached the flagellin filament. Proximally the hook is attached to the rotating spindle of the motor. In some bacteria (Myxobacteria) the rotation of the hook itself (without an attached flagellum) may directly cause forward gliding movement. (18 Nov 1997) |
| hook-billed | <zoology> Having a strongly curved bill. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hook of hamate bone | A hooklike process on the distal and medial part of the palmar surface of the hamate bone. Synonym: hamulus ossis hamati. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hook of spiral lamina | The upper hooklike termination of the bony spiral lamina at the apex of the cochlea. Synonym: hamulus laminae spiralis, hamulus cochleae, hook of spiral lamina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hook-shaped cataract | Congenital cataract with hook-like figures between the foetal and embryonic nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sliding hook | A movable attachment used on an orthodontic wire for the application of elastic traction or headgear force. (05 Mar 2000) |
| squint hook | A surgical instrument used to lift ocular muscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tracheotomy hook | Right-angled hook used in holding the trachea steady during tracheotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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