| dulc | sweet [Lat. dulcis] |
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| SS | disulfide; sacrosciatic; saline soak; saline solution; saliva sample; saliva substitute; Salmonella-... |
| SS | Sweet syndrome |
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| 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) |
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| birch | 1. A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. Alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwarf birch (B. Glandulosa); the paper or canoe birch (B. Papyracea); the yellow birch (B. Lutea); the black or cherry birch (B. Lenta). 2. The wood or timber of the birch. 3. A birch twig or birch twigs, used for flogging. The twigs of the common European birch (B. Alba), being tough and slender, were formerly much used for rods in schools. They were also made into brooms. "The threatening twigs of birch." (Shak) 4. A birch-bark canoe. Birch of Jamaica, a species (Bursera gummifera) of turpentine tree. Birch partridge. <zoology> See Ruffed grouse. Birch wine, wine made of the spring sap of the birch. Oil of birch. An oil obtained from the bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), and used in the preparation of genuine (and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odour. An oil prepared from the black birch (B. Lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold. Origin: OE. Birche, birk. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Birch-Hirschfeld | Felix V., German pathologist, 1842-1899. See: Birch-Hirschfeld stain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Birch-Hirschfeld stain | <technique> An obsolete stain for demonstrating amyloid, using Bismarck brown and crystal violet; amyloid is usually stained a bright ruby red, whereas the cytoplasm of cells is not stained and nuclei are brown. (05 Mar 2000) |
| birch tar | Pyroligneous oil obtained by the dry distillation of the wood of Betula alba and rectified by steam distillation; used externally in the treatment of skin diseases. Synonym: birch tar. (05 Mar 2000) |
| birch tar oil | Pyroligneous oil obtained by the dry distillation of the wood of Betula alba and rectified by steam distillation; used externally in the treatment of skin diseases. Synonym: birch tar. (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 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) |
| 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) |
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| sweet birch | common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture |
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