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101bougie — /booh jee, zhee, booh zhee /, n. 1. Med. a. a slender, flexible instrument introduced into passages of the body, esp. the urethra, for dilating, examining, medicating, etc. b. a suppository. 2. a wax candle. [1745 55; < F, after Bougie ( < Ar… …
102cell — cell1 cell like, adj. /sel/, n. 1. a small room, as in a convent or prison. 2. any of various small compartments or bounded areas forming part of a whole. 3. a small group acting as a unit within a larger organization: a local cell of the… …
103chondrichthian — /kon drik thee euhn/, n. any member of the class Chondrichthyes, comprising the cartilaginous fishes. [ < NL, equiv. to chondr CHONDR + Gk ichthýes (pl.) fish] * * * ▪ fish class Introduction class name Chondrichthyes, or Selachii any… …
104dilatant — dilatancy, n. /di layt nt, duy /, adj. 1. dilating; expanding. 2. Physical Chem. exhibiting an increase in volume on being changed in shape, owing to a wider spacing between particles. 3. Petrol. (of rock) exhibiting an increase in volume owing… …
105dilate — dilatability, n. dilatable, adj. /duy layt , di , duy layt/, v., dilated, dilating. v.t. 1. to make wider or larger; cause to expand. 2. Archaic. to describe or develop at length. v.i. 3. to spread out; expand. 4. to speak or write at length;… …
106dilation — /duy lay sheuhn, di /, n. 1. the act of dilating; state of being dilated. 2. dilatation. [1590 1600; DILATE + ION] * * * …
107dilator — /duy lay teuhr, di , duy lay /, n. 1. Anat. a muscle that dilates some cavity of the body. 2. Surg. an instrument for dilating body canals, orifices, or cavities. Also, dilater. [1595 1605; DILATE + OR2] * * * …
108drop — droplike, adj. /drop/, n., v., dropped or dropt, dropping. n. 1. a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule. 2. the quantity of liquid contained in such a globule. 3. a very small… …
109hormone — hormonal, hormonic /hawr mon ik, moh nik/, adj. /hawr mohn/, n. 1. Biochem. any of various internally secreted compounds, as insulin or thyroxine, formed in endocrine glands, that affect the functions of specifically receptive organs or tissues… …
110norepinephrine — /nawr ep euh nef rin, reen/, n. 1. Also called noradrenaline. Physiol. a neurotransmitter, released by adrenergic nerve terminals in the autonomic and possibly the central nervous system, that has such effects as constricting blood vessels,… …
