| acentric | (adjective) lacking a centromere | - |
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| (adjective) not centered or having no center | - |
| adjacency | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: contiguity, contiguousness |
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| adjacent | (adjective) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space | Synonyms: next, side by side |
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| (adjective) having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching | Synonyms: conterminous, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring |
| (adjective) near or close to but not necessarily touching | - |
| aplacental | (adjective) having no placenta | - |
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| commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complacent | (adjective) contented to a fault with oneself or one's actions | Synonyms: self-complacent, self-satisfied |
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| complacently | (adverb) in a self-satisfied manner | - |
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| metacenter | (noun) (shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship | Synonyms: metacentre |
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| metacentre | (noun) (shipbuilding) the point of intersection between two vertical lines, one line through the center of buoyancy of the hull of a ship in equilibrium and the other line through the center of buoyancy of the hull when the ship is inclined to one side; the distance of this intersection above the center of gravity is an indication of the stability of the ship | Synonyms: metacenter |
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| metacentric | (adjective) having two equal arms because of the median position of the centromere | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the metacenter | - |
| nonadjacent | (adjective) not adjacent; not next | - |
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| paracentesis | (noun) centesis of the belly to remove fluid for diagnosis | Synonyms: abdominocentesis |
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| peacenik | (noun) someone who prefers negotiations to armed conflict in the conduct of foreign relations | Synonyms: dove |
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| placenta | (noun) the vascular structure in the uterus of most mammals providing oxygen and nutrients for and transferring wastes from the developing fetus | - |
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| (noun) that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form | - |
| placental | (adjective) pertaining to or having or occurring by means of a placenta | - |
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| (noun) mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | Synonyms: eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental mammal |
| placentation | (noun) arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary | - |
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| (noun) the formation of the placenta in the uterus | - |
| subjacent | (adjective) lying nearby but lower | - |
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| superjacent | (adjective) lying immediately above or on something else | - |
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| thoracentesis | (noun) removal of fluid from the chest by centesis for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes | Synonyms: thoracocentesis |
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| transplacental | (adjective) occurring through or by way of the placenta | - |
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| ultracentrifugation | (noun) centrifugation at very high speeds | - |
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| ultracentrifuge | (noun) a high speed centrifuge used to determine the relative molecular masses of large molecules in high polymers and proteins | - |
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| (verb) subject to the action of an ultracentrifuge | - |