agranulocytosis | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulosis, granulocytopenia |
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agranulosis | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, granulocytopenia |
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alphanumerics | (noun) a character set that includes letters and digits and punctuation | Synonyms: alphanumeric characters |
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amanuensis | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: shorthand typist, stenographer |
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anuran | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: batrachian, frog, salientian, toad, toad frog |
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anuresis | (noun) inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuria |
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anuria | (noun) inability to urinate | Synonyms: anuresis |
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anus | (noun) the excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal | - |
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arcanum | (noun) information known only to a special group | Synonyms: secret |
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campanula | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bellflower |
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canulation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulisation, canulization, intubation |
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canulisation | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulization, intubation |
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canulization | (noun) the insertion of a cannula or tube into a hollow body organ | Synonyms: cannulation, cannulisation, cannulization, canulation, canulisation, intubation |
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cleanup | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleaning, cleansing |
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(noun) (baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team) | Synonyms: cleanup position, cleanup spot |
(noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: killing |
cocoanut | (noun) large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk | Synonyms: coconut |
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cyanuramide | (noun) a white crystalline organic base; used mainly in making melamine resins | Synonyms: melamine |
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galbanum | (noun) a bitter aromatic gum resin that resembles asafetida | Synonyms: gum albanum |
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granularity | (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: coarseness, graininess |
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granulation | (noun) the act of forming something into granules or grains | - |
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(noun) new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process | Synonyms: granulation tissue |
granulator | (noun) a machine that forms material (such as plastics, bottles, organics, etc.) into granules. | Synonyms: granulator machine |
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granule | (noun) a tiny grain | - |
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granulocyte | (noun) a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm | - |
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granulocytopenia | (noun) an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes | Synonyms: agranulocytosis, agranulosis |
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granuloma | (noun) a tumor composed of granulation tissue resulting from injury or inflammation or infection | - |
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hanuman | (noun) langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India | Synonyms: entellus, Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus |
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labdanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: ladanum |
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(noun) a dark brown to greenish oleoresin that has a fragrant odor and is used as a fixative in perfumes; obtained as a juice from certain rockroses | Synonyms: gum labdanum |
ladanum | (noun) a soft blackish-brown resinous exudate from various rockroses used in perfumes especially as a fixative | Synonyms: labdanum |
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lanthanum | (noun) a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth | Synonyms: atomic number 57, La |
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lanugo | (noun) the fine downy hair covering a human fetus; normally shed during the ninth month of gestation | - |
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laudanum | (noun) narcotic consisting of an alcohol solution of opium or any preparation in which opium is the main ingredient | Synonyms: tincture of opium |
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lymphogranuloma | (noun) swelling of a lymph node | - |
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manual | (noun) (military) a prescribed drill in handling a rifle | Synonyms: manual of arms |
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(noun) a small handbook | - |
manubrium | (noun) the upper part of the breastbone | - |
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manufactory | (noun) a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing | Synonyms: factory, manufacturing plant, mill |
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manufacture | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: industry |
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(noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing |
manufacturer | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: maker, manufacturing business |
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(noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: producer |
manufacturing | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacture |
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manul | (noun) small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia | Synonyms: Felis manul, Pallas's cat |
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manumission | (noun) the formal act of freeing from slavery | - |
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manumitter | (noun) someone who frees others from bondage | Synonyms: emancipator |
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manure | (noun) any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material | - |
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manus | (noun) the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb | Synonyms: hand, mitt, paw |
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manuscript | (noun) the form of a literary work submitted for publication | Synonyms: ms |
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(noun) handwritten book or document | Synonyms: holograph |
nanus | (noun) a person who is markedly small | Synonyms: dwarf, midget |
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olibanum | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: frankincense, gum olibanum, thus |
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origanum | (noun) any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings | - |
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pandanus | (noun) any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and edible conelike fruits and leaves like pineapple leaves | Synonyms: screw pine |
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(noun) fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats) | - |
peanut | (noun) pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms | Synonyms: earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut |
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(noun) a young child who is small for his age | - |
(noun) widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground | Synonyms: Arachis hypogaea, peanut vine |
(noun) underground pod of the peanut vine | - |
peanuts | (noun) an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount | - |
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planula | (noun) the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates | - |
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ranula | (noun) a cyst on the underside of the tongue | - |
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tetanus | (noun) a sustained muscular contraction resulting from a rapid series of nerve impulses | - |
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(noun) an acute and serious infection of the central nervous system caused by bacterial infection of open wounds; spasms of the jaw and laryngeal muscles may occur during the late stages | Synonyms: lockjaw |
thysanuron | (noun) primitive wingless insects: bristletail | Synonyms: thysanuran insect |
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tympanum | (noun) a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it | Synonyms: kettle, kettledrum, timpani, tympani |
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(noun) the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound | Synonyms: eardrum, myringa, tympanic membrane |
(noun) the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear | Synonyms: middle ear, tympanic cavity |