| WC | ward clerk; water closet; Weber-Christian [syndrome]; wheel chair; white cell; white cell casts; whi... |
|---|---|
| WT | wall thickness; water temperature; wavelet transform; wild type [strain]; Wilms tumor; wisdom teeth;... |
| FTS | family tracking system; feminizing testis syndrome; fetal tobacco syndrome; fissured tongue syndrome... |
| SLT | left sacrotransverse [fetal position] [Lat. sacrolaeva transversa]; single lung transplantation; smo... |
| STNV | satellite tobacco necrosis virus |
| WT | Wild Type |
|---|---|
| wtPAI-1 | Wild-type PAI-1 |
| wt-p53 | Wild-type p53 |
| WT | wild-type mice |
| ETS | Environmental Tobacco Smoke |
| wild tobacco | <botany> A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. Cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for the deep and vivid red colour of its flowers. Origin: NL. So called from Lobel, botanist to King James I. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
|---|
| animals, wild | Animals considered to be wild or feral or not adapted for domestic use. It does not include wild animals in zoos for which animals, zoo is available. (12 Dec 1998) |
|---|---|
| wild | 1. Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed or domesticated; as, a wild boar; a wild ox; a wild cat. "Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way." (Shak) 2. Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey. "The woods and desert caves, With wild thyme and gadding vine o'ergrown." (Milton) 3. Desert; not inhabited or cultivated; as, wild land. "To trace the forests wild." 4. Savage; uncivilized; not refined by culture; ferocious; rude; as, wild natives of Africa or America. 5. Not submitted to restraint, training, or regulation; turbulent; tempestuous; violent; ungoverned; licentious; inordinate; disorderly; irregular; fanciful; imaginary; visionary; crazy. "Valor grown wild by pride." . "A wild, speculative project." . "What are these So withered and so wild in their attire ?" (Shak) "With mountains, as with weapons, armed; which makes Wild work in heaven." (Milton) "The wild winds howl." (Addison) "Search then the ruling passion, there, alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known." (Pope) 6. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered; as, a wild roadstead. 7. Indicating strong emotion, intense excitement, or ewilderment; as, a wild look. 8. Hard to steer; said of a vessel. Many plants are named by prefixing wild to the names of other better known or cultivated plants to which they a bear a real or fancied resemblance; as, wild allspice, wild pink, etc. See the Phrases below. To run wild, to go unrestrained or untamed; to live or untamed; to live or grow without culture or training. To sow one's wild oats. See Oat. Wild allspice. <botany> See Turkey. Origin: OE. Wilde, AS. Wilde; akin to OFries. Wilde, D. Wild, OS. & OHG. Wildi, G. Wild, Sw. & Dan. Vild, Icel. Villr wild, bewildered, astray, Goth. Wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. Wild game, deer; of uncertain origin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wild ginger | An aromatic stimulant and diaphoretic. Synonym: Canada snakeroot, Indian ginger, wild ginger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wild mandrake | <botany> A powdered mixture of resins taken from dried seeds and root of the mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum), it is typically used as a topical caustic agent. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wild strain | <virology> A viral strain found naturally, as opposed to one created in the laboratory. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wild type | <genetics> The naturally-occuring, normal, non-mutated version of a gene. The original parent strain of a virus, bacteria, fruit fly, mouse, or other laboratory test organism. Often refers to how organisms are found naturally, in the wild, before mutations were induced by researchers. (09 Oct 1997) |
| wild-type strain | A strain found in nature or a standard strain. See: auxotrophic strains, prototrophic strains. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wild yeast | Any of the uncultivated forms of yeast's, useless as ferments and sometimes pathogenic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| green tobacco sickness | An illness of tobacco harvest workers characterised by headache, dizziness and vomiting. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tobacco | 1. <botany> An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste. The name is extended to other species of the genus, and to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco (Nicotiana rustica, and also Lobelia inflata), mountain tobacco (Arnica montana), and Shiraz tobacco (Nicotiana Persica). 2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing, etc, by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various ways. <chemistry> Tobacco box See Nicotianine. Tobacco man, a tobacconist. Tobacco pipe. A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. <botany> The larva of a large hawk moth (Sphinx, or Phlegethontius, Carolina). It is dark green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very injurious to the tobacco crop. Origin: Sp. Tabaco, fr. The Indian tabaco the tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tobacco anionic peroxidase | <enzyme> Has been shown to oxidise a number of significant plant secondary cpds in vitro; from nicotiana tabacum; expressed in highest level in lignifying and epidermal tissue; aa sequence known; genbank l02124 Registry number: EC 1.11.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| tobacco heart | Cardiac irritability marked by irregular action, palpitation, and sometimes pain, believed to occur as a result of the excessive use of tobacco. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tobacco industry | The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tobacco mosaic virus | <virology> Plant RNA virus, the first to be isolated. Consists of a single central strand of RNA (a helix of 6500 nucleotides) enclosed within a coat consisting of 2130 identical capsomeres that, in the absence of the RNA, will self assemble into a cylinder similar to the normal virus but of indeterminate length. Causes mottling of the leaves of the tobacco plant. (18 Nov 1997) |
| tobacco mosaic virus replicase | <enzyme> Involved in resistance of plants to tmv; transgenic plants expressing additional insertion (an is10-like transposable element) in the tmv replicase gene are resistant to tmv Registry number: EC 2.7.7.- Synonym: tmv 183 kD replicase (26 Jun 1999) |
| wild tobacco | tobacco plant of South America and Mexico |
|---|
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¿© |
|---|