| dulc | sweet [Lat. dulcis] |
|---|---|
| SS | disulfide; sacrosciatic; saline soak; saline solution; saliva sample; saliva substitute; Salmonella-... |
| SS | Sweet syndrome |
|---|
| sweet balm | <botany> A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis). Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Melissa a bee, honey. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
|---|
| balm | 1. <botany> An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa. 2. The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs. 3. Any fragrant ointment. 4. Anything that heals or that mitigates pain. "Balm for each ill. <zoology>" Balm cricket, the European cicada. <botany> Balm of Gilead, a small evergreen African and Asiatic tree of the terebinthine family (Balsamodendron Gileadense). Its leaves yield, when bruised, a strong aromatic scent; and from this tree is obtained the balm of Gilead of the shops, or balsam of Mecca. This has a yellowish or greenish colour, a warm, bitterish, aromatic taste, and a fragrant smell. It is valued as an unguent and cosmetic by the Turks. The fragrant herb Dracocephalum Canariense is familiarly called balm of Gilead, and so are the American trees, Populus balsamifera, variety candicans (balsam poplar), and Abies balsamea (balsam fir). Origin: OE. Baume, OF. Bausme, basme, F. Baume, L. Balsamum balsam, from Gr.; perhaps of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. Basam. Cf. Balsam. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
|---|---|
| balm of Gilead | An oleoresin from Commiphora opobalsamum (family Burseraceae), probably the myrrh of the Bible; used in perfumery. Synonym: Mecca balsam, opobalsamum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mountain balm | The dried leaves of Eriodictyon californicum (family Hydrophyllaceae); the fluidextract and the syrup have been used as an expectorant and to mask the taste of bitter substances. Synonym: mountain balm, yerba santa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gordon and Sweet stain | <technique> A stain for reticulin, using acidified potassium permanganate, oxalic acid, iron alum, silver nitrate, formaldehyde, gold chloride, and sodium thiosulfate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweet | 1. Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges. 2. Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odour; sweet incense. "The breath of these flowers is sweet to me." (Longfellow) 3. Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer. "To make his English sweet upon his tongue." (Chaucer) "A voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful." (Hawthorne) 4. Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet colour or complexion. "Sweet interchange Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains." (Milton) 5. Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. 6. Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish. 7. Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners. "Canst thou bind the sweet influence of Pleiades?" (Job xxxviii. 31) "Mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one established rule of Christian working." (M. Arnold) Sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured, sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc. Sweet alyssum. <botany> Sweet gale. Sweet wine. See Dry wine, under Dry. To be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or special interest in, as a young man for a young woman. Synonym: Sugary, saccharine, dulcet, luscious. Origin: OE. Swete, swote, sote, AS. Swete; akin to OFries. Swete, OS. Swoti, D. Zoet, G. Suss, OHG. Suozi, Icel. Saetr, soetr, Sw. Sot, Dan. Sod, Goth. Suts, L. Suavis, for suadvis, Gr, Skr. Svadu sweet, svad, svad, to sweeten. 175. Cf. Assuage, Suave, Suasion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sweet birch oil | Aromatic methyl ester of salicylic acid, produced synthetically or distilled from Gaultheria procumbens (family Ericaceae) or from Betula lenta (family Betulaceae). Used as a component of liniments, used externally and internally for the treatment of various forms of rheumatismit produces heat when rubbed into the skin (counterirritant). Synonym: checkerberry oil, gaultheria oil, sweet birch oil, wintergreen oil. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweet clover disease | A haemorrhagic disease, due to dicumarol which causes marked reduction in prothrombin, occurring in cattle fed on sweet clover fodder, spoiled during curing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweet clover poisoning | A haemorrhagic disease of herbivores, especially cattle, occurring as a result of consuming damaged hay or silage containing sweet clover, but never as a result of eating freshly cut plants or pasturing on sweet clover. The causative agent is the anticoagulant, dicumarol, which is formed in the spoilage process from the harmless coumarin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweet itch | A pruritic dermatosis of horses caused by an allergic reaction to midges of the genus Culicoides. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweet precipitate | HgCl;mild mercury chloride; mercury monochloride, protochloride, or subchloride; has been used as an intestinal antiseptic and laxative; replaced by safer agents. Synonym: mercurous chloride, sweet precipitate. Origin: Mediev. L., fr. G. Kalos, beutiful, + melas, black (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sweet, Robert Douglas | <person> 20th century English dermatologist. See: Sweet's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweet-scented | Having a sweet scent or smell; fragrant. <botany> Sweet-scented shrub, a shrub of the genus Calycanthus, the flowers of which, when crushed, have a fragrance resembling that of strawberries. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sweet's disease | A rare dermatosis, predominant in women, of rapid onset and characterised by plaque-like lesions, usually multiple, on the face, neck, and upper extremities, accompanied by conjunctivitis, mucosal lesions, fever, malaise, arthralgia, and peripheral blood neutrophilia in many cases; biopsy reveals polymorphonuclear infiltrate of the dermis; rapid remission occurs with systemic steroid therapy. Synonym: Sweet's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sweet-sop | <botany> A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See Custard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sweet's syndrome | <syndrome> This rare condition is characterised by red-brown plaques and nodules that are frequently painful and occur primarily on the head, neck and upper extremities. The patients will also have fever and increased white blood cell counts (neutrophils). In approximately 10% of the patients there is an associated malignancy, most commonly acute nonlymphocytic leukaemia. The idiopathic form (unknown cause) of Sweet's syndrome is seen more often in females following a respiratory tract infection. (19 Jan 1998) |
| sweet balm |
lemon balm: bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves; a garden escapee in northern Europe and North America
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
|
|---|
| sweet balm | bushy perennial Old World mint having small white or yellowish flowers and fragrant lemon-flavored leaves |
|---|
Á¦Ç°¸í |
ÆÇ¸Å»ç |
º¸ÇèÄÚµå | ¼ººÐ/ÇÔ·® | ±¸ºÐ/º¸Çè±Þ¿© |
|---|
Á¦Ç°¸í |
ÆÇ¸Å»ç |
º¸ÇèÄÚµå | ¼ººÐ/ÇÔ·® | ±¸ºÐ/º¸Çè±Þ¿© |
|---|