scorpaenoid | (noun) fishes having the head armored with bony plates | Synonyms: scorpaenoid fish |
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sepaloid | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a sepal | Synonyms: sepaline |
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sesamoid | (noun) any of several small round bones formed in a tendon where it passes over a joint | Synonyms: os sesamoideum, sesamoid bone |
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sigmoid | (adjective) of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine | Synonyms: sigmoidal |
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(adjective) curved in two directions (like the letter S) | - |
sigmoidal | (adjective) of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine | Synonyms: sigmoid |
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sigmoidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of part or all of the sigmoid colon (usually to remove a malignant tumor) | - |
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sigmoidoscope | (noun) an endoscope (a flexible fiberoptic probe) for examining the sigmoid colon | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscope |
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sigmoidoscopy | (noun) visual examination (with a sigmoidoscope) of the lower third of the colon in a search for polyps | Synonyms: flexible sigmoidoscopy |
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sinusoid | (noun) tiny endothelium-lined passages for blood in the tissue of an organ | - |
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(noun) the curve of y=sin x | Synonyms: sine curve |
sinusoidal | (adjective) having a succession of waves or curves | - |
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sinusoidally | (adverb) in a sinusoidal manner | - |
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solenoid | (noun) a coil of wire around an iron core; becomes a magnet when current passes through the coil | - |
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spermatozoid | (noun) a motile male gamete of a plant such as an alga or fern or gymnosperm | Synonyms: antherozoid |
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sphecoid | (noun) any of various solitary wasps | Synonyms: sphecoid wasp |
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sphenoid | (noun) butterfly-shaped bone at the base of the skull | Synonyms: os sphenoidale, sphenoid bone |
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spheroid | (noun) a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes | Synonyms: ellipsoid of revolution |
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spheroidal | (adjective) having the nature or shape of an ellipsoid | Synonyms: ellipsoid, ellipsoidal |
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sternocleidomastoid | (noun) one of two thick muscles running from the sternum and clavicle to the mastoid and occipital bone; turns head obliquely to the opposite side; when acting together they flex the neck and extend the head | Synonyms: musculus sternocleidomastoideus, sternocleido mastoideus, sternocleidomastoid muscle |
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steroid | (noun) any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings; many have important physiological effects | - |
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(noun) any hormone affecting the development and growth of sex organs | Synonyms: sex hormone, steroid hormone |
steroidal | (adjective) of or relating to steroid hormones or their effects | - |
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tabloid | (noun) newspaper with half-size pages | Synonyms: rag, sheet |
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(noun) sensationalist journalism | Synonyms: tab, yellow journalism |
thalloid | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling or consisting of a thallus | - |
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thyroid | (adjective) suggestive of a thyroid disorder | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroidal |
(noun) located near the base of the neck | Synonyms: thyroid gland |
thyroidal | (adjective) of or relating to the thyroid gland | Synonyms: thyroid |
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thyroidectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the thyroid gland | - |
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thyroiditis | (noun) inflammation of the thyroid gland | - |
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tineoid | (noun) small dull-colored moth with chewing mouthparts | Synonyms: tineoid moth |
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toroid | (noun) a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle | Synonyms: torus |
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(noun) the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus | - |
toroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or shaped like a toroid; doughnut shaped | - |
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toxoid | (noun) a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin | Synonyms: anatoxin |
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trapezoid | (noun) the wrist bone between the trapezium and the capitate bones | Synonyms: os trapezoideum, trapezoid bone |
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(noun) a quadrilateral with two parallel sides | - |
trapezoidal | (adjective) resembling a trapezoid | - |
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triploid | (adjective) of a cell or organism having three complete sets of chromosomes | - |
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tuberculoid | (adjective) resembling tuberculosis | - |
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typhoid | (noun) serious infection marked by intestinal inflammation and ulceration; caused by Salmonella typhosa ingested with food or water | Synonyms: enteric fever, typhoid fever |
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unavoidability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctability |
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unavoidable | (adjective) impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: ineluctable, inescapable |
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unavoidably | (adverb) by necessity | Synonyms: ineluctably, inescapably, inevitably |
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viroid | (noun) the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat | Synonyms: virusoid |
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virusoid | (noun) the smallest of viruses; a plant virus with its RNA arranged in a circular chromosome without a protein coat | Synonyms: viroid |
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void | (adjective) containing nothing | - |
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(adjective) lacking any legal or binding force | Synonyms: null |
(noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacancy, vacuum |
(noun) the state of nonexistence | Synonyms: nihility, nothingness, nullity |
(verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, evacuate |
(verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: invalidate, vitiate |
(verb) clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle) of something | - |
(verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, quash |
voidable | (adjective) capable of being rescinded or voided | Synonyms: rescindable |
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voidance | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, evacuation |
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voider | (noun) a hamper that holds dirty clothes to be washed or wet clothes to be dried | Synonyms: clothes basket, clothes hamper, laundry basket |
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(noun) a piece of chain mail covering a place unprotected by armor plate | Synonyms: gusset |
(noun) an official who can invalidate or nullify | Synonyms: invalidator, nullifier |
(noun) a person who defecates | Synonyms: defecator, shitter |
voiding | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion |
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zooid | (noun) one of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan | - |
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zymoid | (adjective) resembling an enzyme | - |
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