| SHAFT | sad, hostile, anxious, frustrating, tenacious [patient] syndrome |
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| btw | by the way |
| PR | by way of the rectum [Lat. per rectum]; far point [of accommodation] [Lat. punctum remotum]; palindr... |
| way shaft | 1. <machinery> A rock shaft. 2. <chemical> An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| way | 1. That by, upon, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine. "To find the way to heaven." "I shall him seek by way and eke by street." (Chaucer) "The way seems difficult, and steep to scale." (Milton) "The season and ways were very improper for his majesty's forces to march so great a distance." (Evelyn) 2. Length of space; distance; interval; as, a great way; a long way. "And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail." (Longfellow) 3. A moving; passage; procession; journey. "I prythee, now, lead the way." (Shak) 4. Course or direction of motion or process; tendency of action; advance. "If that way be your walk, you have not far." (Milton) "And let eternal justice take the way." (Dryden) 5. The means by which anything is reached, or anything is accomplished; scheme; device; plan. "My best way is to creep under his gaberdine." (Shak) "By noble ways we conquest will prepare." (Dryden) "What impious ways my wishes took!" (Prior) 6. Manner; method; mode; fashion; style; as, the way of expressing one's ideas. 7. Regular course; habitual method of life or action; plan of conduct; mode of dealing. "Having lost the way of nobleness." "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." (Prov. Iii. 17) "When men lived in a grander way." (Longfellow) 8. Sphere or scope of observation. "The public ministers that fell in my way." (Sir W. Temple) 9. Determined course; resolved mode of action or conduct; as, to have one's way. 10. Progress; as, a ship has way. The timbers on which a ship is launched. 11. <machinery> The longitudinal guides, or guiding surfaces, on the bed of a planer, lathe, or the like, along which a table or carriage moves. 12. Right of way. See below. By the way, in passing; apropos; aside; apart from, though connected with, the main object or subject of discourse. By way of, for the purpose of; as being; in character of. Covert way. A space left for the passage of the rounds between a rampart and the wall of a fortified town. Way pane, a pane for cartage in irrigated land. See Pane. Way passenger, a passenger taken up, or set down, at some intermediate place between the principal stations on a line of travel. Ways of God, his providential government, or his works. Way station, an intermediate station between principal stations on a line of travel, especially on a railroad. Way train, a train which stops at the intermediate, or way, stations; an accommodation train. Way warden, the surveyor of a road. Synonym: Street, highway, road. Way, Street, Highway, Road. Way is generic, denoting any line for passage or conveyance; a highway is literally one raised for the sake of dryness and convenience in traveling; a road is, strictly, a way for horses and carriages; a street is, etymologically, a paved way, as early made in towns and cities; and, hence, the word is distinctively applied to roads or highways in compact settlements. "All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray." (Spenser) "There is but one road by which to climb up." (Addison) "When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine." (Milton) Origin: OE. Wey, way, AS. Weg; akin to OS, D, OHG, & G. Weg, Icel. Vegr, Sw. Vag, Dan. Vei, Goth. Wigs, L. Via, and AS. Wegan to move, L. Vehere to carry, Skr. Vah. Cf. Convex, Inveigh, Vehicle, Vex, Via, Voyage, Wag, Wagon, Wee, Weigh. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Way, Stanley | <person> British obstetrician-gynecologist. See: Stanley Way procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stanley Way | See: Way. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Stanley Way procedure | A radical vulvectomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| two-way catheter | A catheter with two lumens, allowing irrigation and aspiration. Synonym: two-way catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterolateral surface of shaft of humerus | The surface of the humerus lateral to the intertubercular groove. Synonym: facies anterior lateralis corporis humeri, facies anterolateralis corporis humeri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anteromedial surface of shaft of humerus | The surface of the humerus between the anterior and medial borders of the bone. Synonym: facies anterior medialis corporis humeri, facies anteromedialis corporis humeri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| medulla of hair shaft | The central axis of some hairs, containing a column of large vacuolated and keratinised cells; the medullary portion is surrounded by the cortex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rock shaft | <machinery> A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines. Synonym: rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft. Origin: Cf. Rock, v. I. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| cortex of hair shaft | The principal structural component of the hair shaft, composed of closely packed fusiform keratinised cells and invested by the cuticula pili. (05 Mar 2000) |
| posterior surface of shaft of humerus | The posterior surface of the humerus. Synonym: facies posterior corporis humeri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hair shaft | The non-growing portion of a hair which protrudes from the skin, i.e., from the follicle. Synonym: scapus pili. (05 Mar 2000) |
| shaft | 1. The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. "His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft." (Chaucer) "A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head." (Ascham) 2. The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light. "And the thunder, Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts." (Milton) "Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . Have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule." (V. Knox) 3. That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. <botany> Specifically: (a) The stem or midrib of a feather. The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill. The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. "Thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold . . . His shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same." (Ex. Xxv. 31) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc, as a hammer, a whip, etc. A pole, especially a Maypole. The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base. Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple. A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. "Bid time and nature gently spare The shaft we raise to thee. <machinery> " (Emerson) A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine. 4. <zoology> A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; called also cora humming bird. 5. [Cf. G. Schacht. <chemical> A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. 6. A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft. 7. The chamber of a blast furnace. Line shaft, a furnace, in the form of a chimney, which is charged at the top and tapped at the bottom. Origin: OE. Shaft, schaft, AS. Sceaft; akin to D. Schacht, OHG. Scaft, G. Schaft, Dan. & Sw. Skaft handle, haft, Icel. Skapt, and probably to L. Scapus, Gr, a staff. Probably originally, a shaven or smoothed rod. Cf. Scape, Scepter, Shave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shaft horsepower | A measure of the actual mechanical energy per unit time delivered to a turning shaft. 1 shaft horsepower = 1 electric horsepower = 550 ft-lb/second. (05 Dec 1998) |
| shaft of femur | The cylindrical shaft of the thigh bone. Synonym: corpus ossis femoris, body of thigh bone, corpus femoris. (05 Mar 2000) |
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