cuboid bone

One of the seven tarsal bones, the most lateral of the bones in the distal row of the tarsus, and roughly cubical in shape.


phalange

Borrowed from Middle French phalange. Doublet of phalanx, planch, plancha, planche, and plank.

doublet

(anatomy) A phalanx ("one of the bones of the finger or toe").


distal phalange

en-noun

distal phalange (plural distal phalanges)

Any of the phalanx bones at the tip of the fingers or toes.


hamate bone

One of the eight bones of the wrist (carpals).


unciform

/ˈʌnsɪfɔːɹm/


hyoid

Borrowing from French hyoïde, from New Latin hȳoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ῡ̔οειδής (hūoeidḗs, “shaped like the letter "υ"”), from ὖ (û, “the Greek letter upsilon”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).

af

the vulture, relinquishing its title, surely in natural justice gave me a right to this femur, this curiously distorted hyoid?


hyoid bone

(anatomy) A U-shaped bone or complex of bones that is situated between the base of the tongue and the larynx and that supports the tongue, the larynx, and their muscles.


incus

The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles[…] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup").

2010, Elaine N. Marieb, Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, page 576:

(anatomy) A small anvil-shaped bone in the middle ear.


ossicle

Late 16th century, from Latin ossiculum (“little bone, ossicle”) from os (“bone”).

uder

The incus is one of the three auditory ossicles.

(anatomy) A small bone (or bony structure), especially one of the three of the middle ear.

слухова́ кі́сточка f (sluxová kístočka, literally “auditory ossicle”)


malleus

From Latin malleus (“hammer, mallet”). Doublet of maul.

A fracture of the malleus handle is a rare traumatic middle ear lesion.

The tympanic cavity is spanned by the three smallest bones in the body: the auditory ossicles[…] These bones, named for their shape, are the malleus (malʹe-us; "hammer"); the incus (ingʹkus; "anvil"); and the stapes (staʹpēz; "stirrup"). The "handle" of the malleus is secured to the eardrum, and the base of the stapes fits into the oval window.

(anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear.

hamer

the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear


naked eye

Eyesight, unaided by equipment such as a telescope or microscope.

неозбро́єне о́ко n (neozbrójene óko, literally “unarmed eye”)

неозбро́єним о́ком (neozbrójenym ókom, literally “with an unarmed eye”)


stapes

From Medieval Latin stapēs (“stirrup”). Doublet of step.

2010, Elaine Nicpon Marieb, Katja Hoehn, Human Anatomy & Physiology, 8th edition, page 576:

(anatomy, zootomy) A small stirrup-shaped innermost ossicle of the middle ear of mammals, transmitting vibrations from the incus to the inner ear.


metatarsus

The part of the foot between the toes and the ankle, especially its five bones.


metatarsal

en-noun

metatarsal (plural metatarsals or metatarsalia)

metatarsals (plural)
metatarsalia (plural)


astragalus

From Latin astragalus, from Ancient Greek ἀστράγαλος (astrágalos), q.v. Doublet of astragal.


anklebone

From Middle English ancle bone; equivalent to ankle + bone.

And immediatly his fete ãd anclebones receaved ſtrenght / and he ſprange / ſtode / ãd alſo walked / ãd entred with them into the temple walkinge / and leapynge / and laudynge god.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles iij:[7–8], folio clvii, recto:

The bone of the ankle, forming the lower part of the ankle joint and joining with the tibia and fibula.


E

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 誒 /诶 (ê̄), from E ɛ⁵⁵.

A Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Guangxi, China; Kjang E.

誒話 /诶话

a Tai-Chinese mixed language spoken primarily in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County


Johnson

en-proper noun

Johnson (countable and uncountable, plural Johnsons)

⇒ Translingual: johnsoni, johnsonii

A patronymic surname from John + -son, literally “son of John”.
* In the U.S. the name Johnson has been adopted by numerous European immigrant families originally named Johansson, Johnsson, Johansen, Jonsson, etc.
* Doublet of Johansson, Johansen, Jansen, and Hansen.

doublet

A number of places in the United States founded by people with the surname:

An unincorporated community in Whitman County, Washington.

An unincorporated community in Cabell County, West Virginia.


PK

en-noun

PK (countable and uncountable, plural PKs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of protein kinase.


Red

A nickname given to someone who has or had red hair.


Rho

(biochemistry) Any of a family of GTP-binding proteins


Spike

From spike, perhaps a nickname for a tall, thin person.

A surname transferred from the nickname.


T

T (countable and uncountable, plural Ts)

(automotive) The Ford Motor Company's Model T automobile.


poon

Compare Tamil புன்னை (puṉṉai), Malayalam പുന്ന (punna), names for Calophyllum inophyllum. Doublet of punnai.

Any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, yielding a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc.


tarsus

kitax̂

the part of the foot between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus

(anatomy, zootomy) The part between the main part of the hindlimb and the metatarsus in terrestrial vertebrates.

(anatomy) A group of small bones in this part of the foot. The seven bones of the human tarsus form the ankle and upper part of the foot.

глезен

any of the seven bones in this part of the foot


tarsal

From tarsus + -al, cognate to New Latin tarsālis.

(anatomy, zootomy) Ellipsis of tarsal bone.


tarsal bone

(anatomy) Any of the seven bones of the tarsus.


carpus

From New Latin carpus, from Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “wrist”).

(anatomy) The group of bones that make up the wrist.

китка

the group of bones that make up the wrist


carpal bone

(anatomy) Any of the eight bones of the carpus or wrist.


cuneiform bone

(anatomy) Any one of three wedge-shaped bones of the foot.


navicular bone

(anatomy) One of the tarsal bones of the foot or one of the carpal bones of the wrist.


scaphoid

From Latin scaphoides, from Ancient Greek σκᾰφοειδής (skăphoeidḗs, “like a bowl, hollow”), from σκᾰ́φη (skắphē, “boat, trough, bowl”).


scaphoid bone

(anatomy) One of the carpal bones of the wrist.


intermediate cuneiform bone

en-noun

intermediate cuneiform bone (plural intermediate cuneiform bones)

One of the three cuneiform bones of the foot.

中間楔状骨

ちゅうかんけつじょうこつ


lateral cuneiform bone

lateral cuneiform bone (plural lateral cuneiform bones)

(anatomy) One of the three cuneiform bones of the foot.


medial cuneiform bone

medial cuneiform bone (plural medial cuneiform bones)

(anatomy) One of the cuneiform bones of the foot.


zygomatic

From zygoma + -tic. Doublet of zygomaticus.


ethmoid

Borrowing from French ethmoïde, from Ancient Greek ἠθμοειδής (ēthmoeidḗs, “like a strainer, perforated”), from ἠθμός (ēthmós, “strainer, sieve”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).

af

(anatomy) A light spongy cubical bone at the root of the nose, forming much of the walls of the nasal cavity and part of those of the orbits and having many perforations through which the olfactory nerves pass to the nose.


scapula

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-scapula.wav

(anatomy) Either of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder.


ischium

17th century, from Latin ischium, from Ancient Greek ἰσχίον (iskhíon, “hip joint”).

uder

And he still carried, after five or six years, and though he dressed it in a mirror night and morning, on his right ischium a running sore of traumatic origin.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

(anatomy) The lowest of the three bones that make up each side of the pelvis.


peter

US, 1902, presumably from shared initial pe-. Compare the use of other men’s names as slang terms for the penis, e.g., dick, willy, johnson, John Thomas, etc.

You smile, act polite, shake their hands, then cut off their peters and put them in your pocket.” “Yes, Mr. President,” answered O'Brien.

1997, Shelby Scates, Warren G. Magnuson and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America, page 141:

... and you were there, and they acted like you weren't even born yet?' "I'd say, 'Yes, their memories are as long as their peters.'"

1998, Michael Robert Gorman, The Empress Is a Man: Stories from the Life of Jose Sarria, page 199:

“It's to put on their peters when they don't want to make babies,” she said.

2002, Celia H Miles, Mattie's Girl: An Appalachian Childhood, page 64:


peter

en-verb

peter (third-person singular simple present peters, present participle petering, simple past and past participle petered)

peters (present singular third-person)
petering (participle present)
petered (participle past)
petered (past)

Unknown; the following etymologies have been suggested:
* From peter (“to stop (doing or saying something)”) (slang, obsolete, rare).
* Since the word was first used in mining contexts, either:
** from French péter (“to explode; to break wind, fart”) (slang), from pet (“emission of digestive gases from the anus, flatus, fart”) (slang), from Latin pēditum (“flatus, fart”), from pēdō (“to break wind, fart”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pesd- (“to break wind softly”), probably imitative; or
** from (salt)peter, a variant of saltpetre (“potassium nitrate”) (the key ingredient in gunpowder), from Middle English salpeter, salpetre [and other forms] with the first element influenced by salt, from Old French salpetre (modern French salpêtre), from Medieval Latin salpetra, from Latin sāl petrae (literally “salt of stone”) (as potassium nitrate occurs encrusted on some stones), from sāl (“salt”) + petrae (the nominative or vocative plural of petra (“rock; stone”), from Ancient Greek πέτρᾱ (pétrā, “rock formation; stone”)).

der

I found a veinlet about 15 in. wide and very rich in gold. Trenching along its outcrop showed that it extended about 100 ft. and then pinched out altogether. A winze sunk on the veinlet showed that it "petered out" entirely at 25 or 30 ft.

1910 T. Lane Carter: Mining in Nicaragua. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Vol. XLI. 1910. Canal Zone Meeting, October, 1910

Mersey Street is particularly attractive. Running up from the bay, it passes between terraced cottages before petering into a footpath that leads over the headland to a golf course and the dune-backed sands of Black Rock.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 73:

Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.

2014 August 23, Neil Hegarty, “Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin by Karl Whitney, review: ‘a necessary corrective’ [print version: Re-Joycing in Dublin, page R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-20:

My words petered away.

2021, Helen Fisher, Faye, Faraway, page 241:

(intransitive, originally US) Chiefly followed by out: originally (mining), of a vein of ore: to be depleted of ore; now (generally), to diminish to nothing; to dwindle, to trail off.


peter

Clipping of blue peter (“play a high card to call for trump”). See further etymology there.

clipping

(card games, intransitive) Synonym of blue peter; to call for trump by throwing away a high card while holding a lower one.


furrow

From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).

Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.

The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:

A trench cut in the soil, as when plowed in order to plant a crop.

Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal.

When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.

A deep wrinkle in the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.

глубо́кая морщи́на f (glubókaja morščína, literally “deep wrinkle”)

глибо́ка змо́ршка f (hlybóka zmórška, literally “deep wrinkle”)


furrow

en-verb

furrow (third-person singular simple present furrows, present participle furrowing, simple past and past participle furrowed)

furrows (present singular third-person)
furrowing (participle present)
furrowed (participle past)
furrowed (past)

As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows and began to frown.

(transitive) To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.


vomer bone

(anatomy) The small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.


vomer

(anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.


innominate bone

en-noun

innominate bone (plural innominate bones)


os coxae

From Latin os (“bone”) and coxa (“hip”).


sacrum

From Latin os sacrum (“holy bone”), a calque of Ancient Greek ἱερὸν ὀστέον (hieròn ostéon). Apparently so called either because the sacrum was the part of the animal offered in sacrifice or because of a putative belief that it is where a person's soul resides. A third explanation is that the term is a translation of Ancient Greek ἱερόν (hierón), which has two meanings: “holy, sacred”, and “big” — big being a more appropriate description of the sacrum — but compare.

der

ἱερὸν ὀστέον

(anatomy) A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood.


sacral vertebra

en-noun

sacral vertebra (plural sacral vertebrae)

(anatomy) Any of the five vertebra that are fused to form the sacrum.


shinbone

From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-West Germanic *skinubain, from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin + bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).

(anatomy) The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee

قَصَبَة

inner bone of the hind limb below the knee


lumbar vertebra

lumbar vertebra (plural lumbar vertebrae)

(anatomy) Any of the five vertebrae in the loin or lower back region of the spine.


thoracic vertebra

thoracic vertebra (plural thoracic vertebrae or thoracic vertebras)

thoracic vertebrae (plural)
thoracic vertebras (plural)

(anatomy) Any of the twelve vertebrae in the chest region of the spine.


triquetral bone

triquetral bone (plural triquetral bones)


intermediate phalange

intermediate phalange (plural intermediate phalanges)

(anatomy) Any of the phalanx bones in the middle of the fingers or toes; middle phalange


proximal phalange

proximal phalange (plural proximal phalanges)

Any of the phalanx bones of the fingers or toes which are nearest the hand or foot.


pisiform bone

(anatomy) A small knobbly, pea-shaped sesamoid bone of the wrist.


nasal bone

(anatomy, zootomy) Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.


lunate bone

(anatomy) One of the carpal bones of the wrist.


nasal concha

(anatomy) Any one of the three thin bony plates on the lateral wall of the nasal cavity.


inferior nasal concha

inferior nasal concha (plural inferior nasal conchae)

(anatomy) The largest of the three nasal conchae located within the nasal cavity.

cornet inferior

The largest of the three nasal concha located within the nasal cavity


turbinate bone

(anatomy) A scrolled spongy bone of the nasal cavity.


buckle

buckle (countable and uncountable, plural buckles)

Origin uncertain. Probably from Middle English bokelen (“to arch the body”), from Middle French boucler (“to bulge”, literally “to take the shape of a shield boss”), from the same ultimate origin as Etymology 1 above. In some senses, possibly from buck (“to bend, yield, buckle”) + -le (frequentative suffix).

suf

(countable) A distortion; a bend, bulge, or kink.

(roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane, frequently occurring over deck joints or insulation, which may indicate movement of the roof assembly.


lacrimal bone

(anatomy) The smallest and most fragile bone of the face, situated near the eye.


palatine bone

(anatomy) Either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate.

os palatí

either of a pair of bones that are situated behind and between the maxillae, in humans are of extremely irregular form, and make up parts of the eye socket, the nasal cavity, and the hard palate


lacrimal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin lacrimālis, from lacrima (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lachrymal.


palatine

Borrowing from French palatin, from New Latin palātīnus, from palātum (“the palate”) + -īnus (“-ine”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to palate + -ine.


rotula

Learned borrowing from Latin rotula. Doublet of role and roll.


kneepan

by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans.

1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 11:


fanny

en-noun

fanny (countable and uncountable, plural fannies)

19th century. Ultimately from Fanny, pet form of the name Frances. Compare dick, John Thomas, mickey.

Her dress was so short you could nearly see her fanny.

(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, vulgar) The female genitalia.


myology

/mʌɪˈɒlədʒi/

Examination of the myology of the Comephoridae, an endemic fish family in Lake Baikal, has revealed their morphological peculiarities.

2000, M. Yabe, V. G. Sideleva, “Myological peculiarities of the comephoridae: an endeimc fish taxon in Lake Baikal (Pisces: Teleostei)”, in K. Minoura, editor, Lake Baikal: A Mirror in Time and Space for Understanding Global Change Processes, page 306:

Given this, there is an urgent need for detailed compared behavioural and anatomical studies of dasyurids, especially focused on osteology, myology and arthrology.

2003, Christian de Muizon, Christine Argot, “Chapter 4: Comparative anatomy of the Tiupampa didelphimorphs; an approach to locomotory habits of early marsupials”, in Menna Jones, Mike Archer, Chris Dickman, editors, Predators with Pouches: The Biology of Carnivorous Marsupials, page 61:

He greets me as if I'd been waiting all my life to learn the secrets of Bovine Myology and Muscle Profiling.

2008, Betty Harper Fussell, Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef, page 210:

(anatomy) The physiological study of muscles.


ticker

A teacher now is a typist, a printer, a laboratory assistant, a designer of work sheets and booklets, a form-filler, a ticker of boxes and a sender of returns to faculty heads, to head teachers, to education authorities and to the Ministers […]


epistropheus

The union of the atlas and epistropheus is described in this section because (1) there is often a direct communication between the synovial cavity of the transverse epistropic and the occipito-atlantal joints; (2) the rotatory movements of the head take place around the dens (odontoid process); and (3) important ligaments from the dens pass over the atlas to the occiput.

1914, Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise, page 215:

(anatomy) The second cervical vertebra of the spine which forms the pivot upon which the first cervical vertebra (the atlas), which carries the head, rotates.


TWA

Trans World Airlines
w:Trans World Airlines


TWA

1956 "Brown Eyed Handsome Man" (Lyrics) - Chuck Berry
Flying across the desert in a TWA, / I saw a woman walking across the sand / She been a-walkin' thirty miles en route to Bombay. / To get a brown-eyed handsome man


sesamoid bone

(anatomy) A small bone embedded within a tendon, typically found in locations where a tendon passes over a joint.


pull teeth

en-verb

pull teeth (third-person singular simple present pulls teeth, present participle pulling teeth, simple past and past participle pulled teeth)

pulls teeth (present singular third-person)
pulling teeth (participle present)
pulled teeth (participle past)
pulled teeth (past)

(dentistry) To extract teeth, usually because they are decayed or damaged.


iridology

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(alternative medicine) A form of alternative medicine involving the diagnosis of body ailments through the examination of the iris of the human eye.


mop head

The end of a mop, to which the thrums or rags are fastened.

A type of thick rounded haircut similar to that worn by the Beatles in the early 1960s.

(derogatory) A person with unkempt hair that stands away from the head.


nervure

(zoology) A vein in the wing of an insect.


cutis

I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]

1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).

1883, Alfred Swaine Taylor, Thomas Stevenson, The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence:

(anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.


corium

(anatomy) The layer of skin between the epidermis and the subcutaneous tissues; the dermis.

verinahka

(anatomy) The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.

Passing by the Corium Bubulum of the Classical Ancients, we see in an old charter, dated 1036, "Stallus Sutoris Vaccæ," i. e. the stall of a shoe-maker who used cow-skin.

1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopaedia of antiquities, and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval:

(historical) Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans.


corium

From core + -ium. Apparently coined in 1974 by Martin Peehs, a German nuclear engineer.

1974, Martin Peehs, “Investigations of molten "corium" phases”, in Thermodynamics of Nuclear Materials, volume 1, Vienna: International Atomic Agency IAEA-SM-190/10:

Mexico was given $100,000 to do a series of experiments in which small amounts (10 to 20 grams) of stainless steel and corium (a mixture of 55 percent iron, 10 percent zirconium, and 35 percent uranium dioxide) will be melted and then flooded with water in an arc-melting chamber.

1975 21 October, Hearings on the Nuclear Initiative: Technological Concerns in Nuclear Reactor Safety, Sacramento (CA): California Legislature Assembly Committee on Resources, Land Use, and Energy:

Previous studies of the thermal behavior of corium in a degraded nuclear reactor have focussed primarily on the process of heat transfer within the corium.

1991, Sheau-Wen Shiah, Fan-bill B. Cheung, Dae-Ho Cho, Michael J. Tan, Louis Baker Jr., “Numerical Modeling of Corium/Steel Structure Interaction with Downfacing Boiling Boundary Conditions”, in Chung, Franklin, Hochreiter, Larry E., editors, Numerical Modelling of Basic Heat Transfer Phenomena in Nuclear Systems, presented at the 28th National Heat Transfer Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-31, 1991, New York (NY): American Society of Mechanical Engineers, page 31:

2009, Wei Wei, Xing-rong Cao, “The Simulation of Corium Dispersion in Direct Containment Heating Accidents”, in Zero Carbon Energy Kyoto 2009:

The materials of the nuclear reactor—nuclear oxide fuel and fission products, cladding, metallic alloys, moderator, absorbers, structural materials, coolants, concrete, and so on, could melt to form complex, multiphases, and aggressive mixtures known by the general term corium.

2011, Pascal Piluso, “Appendix 1: Corium Thermodynamics and Thermophysics, 2. Corium Thermophysics”, in Bal Raj Seghal, editor, Nuclear Safety in Light Water Reactors: Severe Accident Phenomenology, Waltham (MA): Academic Press, →ISBN, page 664:

CORIUM: INIS: 1977-10-17; ETDE: 1977-06-02 Molten mixture of fuel, cladding and other core structural material resulting from a meltdown accident.

2019 October, INIS [International Nuclear Information System] Thesaurus, Multilingual version, IAEA-INIS Reference Series IAEA-INIS-01 (2019/10), Vienna: IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], →ISSN, page 264:

(nuclear physics) A lavalike mixture of fissile material created in a nuclear reactor's core during a nuclear meltdown.


hypodermis

en-noun

hypodermis (plural hypodermes or hypodermises)

hypodermes (plural)
hypodermises (plural)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hypodermis.wav

An epidermal layer of cells that secretes an overlying chitinous cuticle, as in arthropods.

(anatomy) A subcutaneous layer of loose connective tissue containing fat cells, lying beneath the dermis.


epithelium

epithelium (plural epitheliums or epithelia)

/ˌɛpɪˈθiːlɪəm/

the passenger's roving eyes paused for a moment as he listened inwardly to a nether itch, which he supposed to be (correctly, thank Log) only a minor irritation of the epithelium.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 25:

The sap of this species was able to cause loss of corneal epithelium 16 h after direct exposure to the sap in a 60-year-old male.

2014 May 30, Victor Kuete, Toxicological Survey of African Medicinal Plants, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 505:

(anatomy) A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and externally being the skin.


endothelium

From endo- + -thelium, as in epithelium.

(anatomy) A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines the heart, serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels.


eczema

eczema (countable and uncountable, plural eczemata or eczemas)

Learned borrowing from Latin eczema, from Ancient Greek ἔκζεμᾰ (ékzemă, “cutaneous eruption”), from ἐκζέω (ekzéō, “to boil out, break out”) + -μᾰ (-mă, nominal suffix).

أَكْزِيمَا

atopic dermatitis
atopic dermatitis#English

(biology, medicine) A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.


mastoid

Borrowed from New Latin mastoīdēs, from Ancient Greek μᾰστοειδής (măstoeidḗs, “like a breast”), from μᾰστός (măstós, “a woman's breast”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).


mastoid process

en-noun

mastoid process (plural mastoid processes)

(anatomy) The conical, nipplelike projection of the petrous part of the temporal bone, that is situated behind the ear in humans and many other vertebrates, and serves as a site of muscle attachment.


hog

en-verb

hog (third-person singular simple present hogs, present participle hogging, simple past and past participle hogged)

hogs (present singular third-person)
hogging (participle present)
hogged (participle past)
hogged (past)

From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to beat, hew, forge”).
Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English hēawan (English hew). Hog originally meant a castrated male pig, hence a sense of “the cut one”. (Compare hogget for a castrated male sheep.) More at hew.
Alternatively from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- and thus cognate with Welsh hwch (“sow”) and Cornish hogh (“pig”).

der

Some, perhaps, would wish to plait or shave the tail and crimp or hog the mane to complete the picture.

1880, William Day, The Racehorse in Training:

(transitive) To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly.

ко́ротко подстригать

to clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly

(machining) To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.


python

From Latin pȳthon, from Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), the name of the mythological enormous serpent at Delphi slain by Apollo, probably from Πυθώ (Puthṓ), older name of Delphi.

(zoology) A type of large constricting snake.


antidiuretic hormone

en-noun

antidiuretic hormone (plural antidiuretic hormones)

(biochemistry) a hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland


walleye

(plural "walleye" or "walleyes") A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.


cross-eyed

en-adj

cross-eyed (comparative more cross-eyed, superlative most cross-eyed)

more cross-eyed (comparative)
most cross-eyed (superlative)

(British) Having both eyes oriented inward, especially involuntarily.


retainer

You give me head / It makes it worse / Take out your fuckin' retainer / Put it in your purse

1981, “Too Drunk to Fuck”, performed by Dead Kennedys:

(dentistry) A device that holds teeth in position after orthodontic treatment.


bacon-faced

(idiomatic, archaic, vulgar) having a fat, sleek face.


gherkin

From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ἀγγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”). The underlying Dutch form may be a diminutive (gurkijn) or perhaps more probably the plural (gurken), which was then associated with the English suffix -kin (itself incidentally from Dutch or Low German). Compare German Gurke.

der

Informal nickname for the well-known tall office building situated 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3 ("The Gherkin").


invertase

en-noun

invertase (usually uncountable, plural invertases)

The costs incurred for the processing of sucrose with invertase could be considerably reduced with the introduction of immobilised invertases, by adopting technology similar to that developed for glucose isomerase.

1995, L. F. J. Woods, S. J. Swinton, “8: Enzymes in the starch and sugar industries”, in Gregory A. Tucker, L.F.J. Woods, editors, Enzymes in Food Processing, page 257:

The disaccharide sucrose and the trisaccharide raffinose are both substrates of invertase. Invertase is encoded by the SUC genes from which six unlinked loci have been identified (SUC1-SUC5, SUC7), which are dipersed through the yeast genome (Lampen, 1968; Ouwehand and van Wijk, 1972; Ottolenghi, 1971).

1997, Karl-Dieter Entian, Hans-Joachim Schüller, “Chapter 13: Genetics of Di- and Trisaccharide Utilization”, in Friedrich K. Zimmermann, Karl-Dieter Entian, editors, Yeast Sugar Metabolism, page 226:

Up-regulation of these invertases is a common response to infection (Hall and Williams, 2000).

2004, J. S. C. Clark, P. T. N. Spencer-Phillips, “The Compatible Interaction in Downy Mildew Infections”, in Peter Spencer-Phillips, Michael J. Jeger, editors, Advances in Downy Mildew Research, volume 2, page 18:

2013, Maria Kamiko Kadowaki, Rite de Cássia Garcia Simão, Jose Luís da Conceição Silva, Clarice Aoki Osaku, Luis Henrique Souza Guimarāes, 1: Biotechnical Advances in Fungal Invertases, Maria de Lourdes T. M. Polizeli, Mahendra Rai (editors), Fungal Enzymes, page 14,
The methods used for the immobilization of fungal invertases include adsorption, covalent binding, cross-linking and entrapment (Uzun et al. 2011).
Nelson and Griffin (1916) reported that invertase was the first enzyme to be immobilized, and it was bound on charcoal and aluminium hydroxide. Subsequently, mant fungal invertases have been immobilized onto a variety of media […] .

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose (invert sugar), used by bees to produce honey and in the food industry to soften chocolate.


tartar

tartar (countable and uncountable, plural tartars)

From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct.

A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.


hairball

A small wad of fur or mass of hair formed in the digestive system of a cat or other animal, from hair ingested while grooming.


craniology

craniology (usually uncountable, plural craniologies)

The study of the physical characteristics of the human skull.

kraniologia

the study of the physical characteristics of the human skull


doodle

Extracted from Labradoodle, itself a blend of labrador and poodle

Any crossbreed of a poodle with a different breed of dog.


juice box

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Ashleigh opened her legs without hesitation giving him a nice view of her juice box

2016, Ty Marshall, Keys to the Kingdom, page 142:

She raised one leg up on the edge of the tub, giving him full access to her juice box.

2017, Blake Karrington, Single Ladies 2, unnumbered page:

I started making a trail of kisses down her belly until I made it to her juice box.

2018, Dawn Jiles, If I Can't Have You, unnumbered page:

(African-American Vernacular, slang, vulgar) The vagina.


sunblock

sunblock (countable and uncountable, plural sunblocks)

sun protection factor
sun protection factor

A sunscreen with a high sun protection factor (SPF).


sunscreen

sunscreen (countable and uncountable, plural sunscreens)

Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.
"Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy, unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.

2009, Elisabeth Hyde, In the Heart of the Canyon, page 55:

As for daytime sun protection, Dr. Bowe said mineral sunscreens made with zinc oxide may be gentler on sensitized skin than chemical formulas.

2023 December 6, Jessica DeFino, “Too Many Products Can Stress Out Your Skin. Here’s How to Scale Back.”, in The New York Times:

A topical product for the skin containing organic compounds that absorb, and/or titanium dioxide that reflects the sun's ultraviolet radiation.

حَاجِبَة اَلْأَشِعَّة اَلشَّمْسِيَّة

cream that protects the skin from the sun


upsweep

(oceanography) The unidentified sound detected on the American NOAA's equatorial autonomous hydrophone arrays, consisting of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds in duration.


TGIF

transforming growth interacting factor#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of transforming growth interacting factor.


ACTH

adrenocorticotropic hormone
adrenocorticotropic hormone#English

(endocrinology, biochemistry) Initialism of adrenocorticotropic hormone.


urokinase

urokinase (countable and uncountable, plural urokinases)

deep vein thrombosis
deep vein thrombosis

(biochemistry) A protease, found in the urine, which converts plasminogen to plasmin, and is used in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis.


curling iron

A heated cylindrical device for curling the hair.

كلَابَات اَلتَّمْوِيج

a heated cylindrical device for curling the hair


LHRH

luteinizing hormone
luteinizing hormone#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone.


DHT

DHT (countable and uncountable, plural DHTs)

(uncountable, biochemistry) Initialism of dihydrotestosterone.


adaptive enzyme

adaptive enzyme (plural adaptive enzymes)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that is present in the cell only under conditions in which it is clear of adaptive value.


serotonin

serotonin (countable and uncountable, plural serotonins)

/ˌsɛɹəˈtəʊnɪn/

/ˌsɛɹəˈtoʊnɪn/

Notably, mouse lines targeting genes codifying for serotonin receptors, for enzymes involved in 5-HT synthesis as Tph1 and Tph2, in its metabolism as monoaminoxidase A (MAOA) or in its re-uptake as serotonin transporter (SERT), have been generated.

2015 August 21, “Generation of a Tph2 Conditional Knockout Mouse Line for Time- and Tissue-Specific Depletion of Brain Serotonin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(biochemistry) An indoleamine neurotransmitter, 5-hydroxytryptamine, that is involved in depression, appetite, etc., and is crucial in maintaining a sense of well-being, security, etc.


gingivitis

gingivitis (usually uncountable, plural gingivitides or gingivites)

gingivitides (plural)
gingivites (plural)

/ˌd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɪˈvaɪtəs/

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(pathology) Inflammation of the gums or gingivae.


neurotransmitter

Together with this is the influence of an infinite number of neurotransmitters, neurohormones, environmental hazards, and accidental programmings.

2016, David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden, page 142:

(biochemistry, neuroscience) Any substance, such as acetylcholine or dopamine, responsible for sending nerve signals across a synapse between two neurons.

نَاقِل عَصَبِيّ

substance responsible for sending nerve signals across a synapse between two neurons

神経伝達物質

しんけいでんたつぶっしつ

нейромедіа́тор m (nejromediátor, literally “neuromediator”)


DO

DO (countable and uncountable, plural DOs)

(dentistry) Initialism of disto-occlusal.


talker

From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.

(marketing) A table talker or shelf-talker.


sebum

sebum (countable and uncountable, plural sebums or seba)

Learned borrowing from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease; suet”).

lbor

‘I mean, it is not simply adolescent acne caused by the over-excretion of sebum.’

2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 387:

(physiology) A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.


uvea

From Medieval Latin, from Latin uva (“grape”), partial loan translation of Greek ῥαγοειδής χιτών (rhagoeidḗs khitṓn, “[covering] like a grape”), from ῥάξ (rháx, “grape”) .

(anatomy) The middle of the three concentric layers that make up the eye; it is pigmented and vascular, and comprises the choroid, the ciliary body, and the iris.

střední vrstva oční koule

the middle of the three concenctric layers that make up the eye


puss

en-noun

puss (countable and uncountable, plural pusses)

Probably from Middle Low German pūs, pūskatte or Dutch poes (“puss, cat”, slang for “vulva”), ultimately from a common Germanic word for cat, perhaps ultimately imitative of a sound made to get its attention (compare Arabic بسة (bissa)).
Akin to West Frisian poes, Low German Puus, Puuskatte, Danish pus, dialectal Swedish kattepus, Norwegian pus.
Found also in several other European, North African and Asian languages; compare Romanian pisică, Persian پیشی (piši), Tamil பூசை (pūcai), Tagalog pusa
and Sardinian pisittu.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(vulgar, slang) The vulva (female genitalia).


sputum

en-noun

sputum (countable and uncountable, plural sputums or sputa)

From New Latin, from Latin sputum (“that which is spit out, spittle”), from spuere (“to spit”).

der

In the early 1890s the work in the laboratory consisted of postmortems, urinalyses, and examination of sputums.

2018, Louis Rosenfeld, Four Centuries of Clinical Chemistry:

At the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the boy’s sputum sat for a month, waiting for its turn in a slow process of antibody-matching analysis.

2020 February 24, James Hamblin, “You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus”, in The Atlantic:

(physiology) Matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth, composed of saliva and discharges from the respiratory passages such as mucus, phlegm or pus.

խորխ

matter coughed up and expectorated from the mouth


rheum

en-noun

rheum (countable and uncountable, plural rheums)

From Middle English reume, rewme, from Anglo-Norman reume, from Late Latin rheuma, from Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, humour”). Doublet of stream.

der

You that did voide your rume vpon my beard, / And foote me as you ſpurne a ſtranger curre / Ouer your threſhold, […]

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 166:

[T]thronging theaters of people (as well Aliens as Engliſhmen) hiued thither about the ſelling of fiſh and Herring, from Saint Michael to Saint Martin, and there built ſutlers booths and tabernacles, to canopie their heads in from the rhewme of the heauens, or the clouds diſſoluing Cataracts.

1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 10:

He wore about his shoulders a heavy cloak; his pale face was drawn and his voice broken with rheum.

1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter III, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 123:

(uncountable) Thin or watery discharge of mucus or serum, especially from the eyes or nose, formerly thought to cause disease.

And not as ſome yeeres ſince, I ſaw a Deane of S. Hillarie of Poictiers, reduced by reaſon and the incommoditie of his melancholy to ſuch a continuall ſolitarineſſe, that when I entered into his chamber he had never remooved one ſteppe out of it in twoo and twenty yeares before: yet had all his faculties free and eaſie, onely a rheume excepted that fell into his ſtomake.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Recompences or Rewards of Honour”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 227:

Illness or disease thought to be caused by such secretions; a catarrh, a cold; rheumatism.

Rich. And ſay, what ſtore of parting tears were ſhed? / Aum. Faith none for me: except the Northeaſt wind / Which then grew bitterly againſt our face, / Awak’d the ſleepie rhewme, and ſo by chance / Did grace our hollow parting with a teare.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 27, column 2:


simper

en-verb

simper (third-person singular simple present simpers, present participle simpering, simple past and past participle simpered)

simpers (present singular third-person)
simpering (participle present)
simpered (participle past)
simpered (past)

Uncertain; compare (probably from) Danish simper / semper (“coy”), German zimper (“elegant, dainty”).

How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!

1915, Harold MacGrath, chapter 24, in The Voice In The Fog:

a whimpering, simpering child

1940, “Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered”, Lorenz Hart (lyrics), Richard Rodgers (music):

But where daft Nell simpers at him and tries to muss his slicked hair and pull it forward over his broad, Christian brow, my little Dot is looking nowhere but at the ground, still praying, praying even while she stands, and Rick has actually to touch her forearm with his finger in order to alert her to his Godlike nearness.

(intransitive) To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, obsequious, or smug manner.

Yet can I mark how stars above / Simper and shine.


simper

Yes, another world it was, when these black ruins, white in their new mortar and fresh chiselling, first saw the sun as walls, long ago. Gauge not, with thy dilettante compasses, with that placid dilettante simper, the Heaven's—Watchtower of our Fathers, the fallen God's—Houses, the Golgotha of true Souls departed!

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Ch. 2, St. Edmundsbury”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper.

1972, Eric Ambler, The Levanter, published 2009, →ISBN, page 158:

A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.


attrition

en-noun

attrition (countable and uncountable, plural attritions)

15th century, from Middle English attricion, attricioun, from Middle French attricion, attrition and its etymon, Latin attrītiō (“a rubbing against”), from the verb attrītus, past participle of atterō (“to wear”), from ad- (“to, towards”) + terō (“to rub”). By surface analysis, attrit + -ion.

(dentistry) The wearing of teeth due to their grinding.


dink

Origin unknown. Attested since the 1960s. Compare Chink, a derogatory term for a Chinese person.

unknown

Origin unknown

Our job was to go out on night patrols and stay behind to zap any dinks we caught sneaking back to their holes at dawn.

1989, Craig Roberts, Charles W. Sasser, The Walking Dead: A Marine's Story of Vietnam, page 197:

(US, military slang, derogatory, dated) A North Vietnamese soldier.


curette

Borrowed from French curette, from curer (“to clean out, scrape out”).

Curettes are used for the subgingival removal of dental deposits and for root planing. They can also be used supragingivally. The working tip of a curette is more slender than that of a scaler.

2008, Cecilia Gorrel, Small Animal Dentistry, Elsevier (Saunders), page 223:

Beginning in the 1880s, the curette quickly became the popular choice for those doctors on the lookout for instrumental aid in cases of pregnancy loss.

2019, Shannon Withycombe, Lost: Miscarriage in Nineteenth-Century America, Rutgers University Press, unnumbered page:

2020, Yu Matsumoto, 10: Bone Curette Handle for Improved Bone Removal in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Seiji Kakehata, Tsukasa Ito, Daisuke Yamauchi (editors), Innovations in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, Springer, page 86,
Curettes with an octagonal-shaped shaft are readily available and widely distributed in Japan.

(medicine, dentistry) A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue.

مِجْرَفة

surgical instrument used for cleaning tissue


testosterone

en-noun

testosterone (countable and uncountable, plural testosterones)

From test(is) + -o- + -sterone (“steroid hormone”).

af

Mammalian testes contain almost no testosterone because it is sent out into the body as quickly as it is made.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 168:

(biochemistry, steroids) A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.


cochlea

Borrowed from Latin cochlea (“a snail”), from Ancient Greek κόχλιας (kókhlias, “a snail with a spiral shell”).

der

(anatomy) The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.


rennet

en-noun

rennet (countable and uncountable, plural rennets)

From Middle English rennet, from Old English *rynnet, *ġerynnet, from Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu (“coagulation, curdling, rennet”), cognate with Old Saxon girunnida (“a running together, coagulation”), Old High German girunnida (“rennet, coagulation”), Middle High German gerinnede (“that which is curdled”).
Compare also Middle English renelesse, renels, renlys, rendlys (“rennet”), Middle Dutch rinsel, runsel (“rennet”), Middle English irennen (“to curdle; to run”), Old English ġerennan (“to coagulate”), Old High German girunst (“rennet”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).

cog

An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.


dong

Borrowed from Vietnamese đồng, from Middle Chinese 銅 (duŋ, “copper”), from Old Chinese 銅 (*doːŋ). Cognate with Mandarin 銅 /铜 (tóng, “copper”).

The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫

(historical) The currency of South Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: Đ.


dong

Unknown. Perhaps from The Dong with a Luminous Nose, an 1894 poem by Edward Lear about a mythical creature. Attested since the 1930s.

(slang, by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis.


dong

en-verb

dong (third-person singular simple present dongs, present participle donging, simple past and past participle donged)

dongs (present singular third-person)
donging (participle present)
donged (participle past)
donged (past)

To make a low-pitched, metallic ringing sound.


dong

From Korean 동(洞) (dong, “neighborhood”).

A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea.


lactation

en-noun

lactation (countable and uncountable, plural lactations)

Borrowed from Latin lactātiō, lactātiōnis. Equivalent to lactate + -ion.

The period of time that a mother lactates to feed her young; lactation period.


tea bag

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Making a cup of tea wasn’t an easy task in this household. The kettle had been taken away by the hard-faced men, and the family were too poor to afford tea bags or milk.

2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “All Bag and No Tea”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 99:


tea bag

en-verb

tea bag (third-person singular simple present tea bags, present participle tea bagging, simple past and past participle tea bagged)

tea bags (present singular third-person)
tea bagging (participle present)
tea bagged (participle past)
tea bagged (past)


tooth fairy

/ˈtuːθ ˌfɛə̯ɹi/

/ˈtuθ ˌfɛə̯ɹi/

Anna was concerned that telling her child about the tooth fairy, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny would cause him to believe his mother was a liar later in life.

A figure of modern myth said to give children a small amount of money (or sometimes a present) in exchange for a milk tooth when it falls out of a child's mouth.

tandemuis

figure of modern myth said to give children a small amount of money in exchange for a milk tooth


dental floss

en-noun

dental floss (usually uncountable, plural dental flosses)

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A cord of thin filaments used to clean the gaps between the teeth.


floss

floss (countable and uncountable, plural flosses)

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *flos (attested in Middle English Flosmonger (a surname)), related to English fleece. Alternatively from French floche (“tuft of wool”), from floc, from Old French flosche (“down, velvet”), from Latin floccus (“piece of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokkō (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkô (“down, piece of wool, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”).
Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”), Dutch flos (“plush”) (tr=17c.).

der

A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.

خَيْط أَسْنَان

a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth

(British) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".

A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.


floss

en-verb

floss (third-person singular simple present flosses, present participle flossing, simple past and past participle flossed)

flosses (present singular third-person)
flossing (participle present)
flossed (participle past)
flossed (past)

(intransitive) To perform the floss dance move.


floss

Origin obscure. Perhaps of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian flos, flus (“rind, scale, strip peeled off”).

unk

obscure

Juncus effusus
Juncus effusus#Translingual

(Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).


toothpick

A small, usually wooden, stick, often pointed at both ends, for removing food residue from between the teeth.

عُود تَخْلِيل أَسْنَان

stick for removing food residue from the area between the teeth


toothless

en-adj

toothless (comparative more toothless, superlative most toothless)

more toothless (comparative)
most toothless (superlative)

From Middle English totheles, toþeles, from Old English tōþlēas, from Proto-Germanic *tanþlausaz (“toothless”), equivalent to tooth + -less. Cognate with Dutch tandeloos (“toothless”), German Low German tannlos (“toothless”), German zahnlos (“toothless”), Danish tandløs (“toothless”), Swedish tandlös (“toothless”), Icelandic tannlaus (“toothless”).

a toothless old man

She goes on to explain the difficulty she's having getting visas for Lawrence and for Robert, the 14-year-old who is her older brother and is, amazingly, the last child of the toothless tiny woman who buzzes around us. (I find out later that she is only in her mid-fifties.)

1983 December 24, Andrea Loewenstein, “"What's Freedom Without Food In Your Stomach?" -- A Trip to Haiti”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 8:


incisor

Borrowing from New Latin incīsor, from incīdō (“to cut into, cut through”) + -tor (“-er, -or”, agent noun suffix).

af

(anatomy, zootomy) A narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth of mammals, between the canines and adapted for cutting; in humans there are four in each jaw.


tuppence

en-noun

tuppence (countable and uncountable, plural tuppences)

By surface analysis, two + pence, collective plural of penny.
Same for the definition: "Short for tuppence worth (“one’s opinion”)." however, this idiom is derived from this fact; in Britain it used to cost two pence ("tuppence") to post a letter, usually holding one's opinion.

short for

Milk has gone up to tuppence ha’penny a pint.

In less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who ’ad been made the seckitary.

1909, W. W. Jacobs, “Prize Money,”, in Sailor's Knots:

‘Miss Brindle rich?’ said Aunt Maggie. ‘Bless you, she hasn’t tuppence to rub together.’

1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 11:

(UK, Ireland, informal, dated) Two pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency).

(UK, Ireland, idiomatic) Short for tuppence worth (“one’s opinion”).

"Fucksticks!" When some smart-arse bastard gives me my comeuppance / "Fucksticks!" When it’s ages since I’ve seen a lady’s tuppence

2011, Kunt and the Gang, Fucksticks (song)

The lady confided to the nurse helping her up off the examination couch, and told her “He put his hand up me funnel and made me tuppence bleed!”

2012, Richard Johns, Diagnosis of the Soul: The Long Road to the Beginning:

(UK, Ireland, slang, euphemistic, usually childish) The vulva or vagina.


sphincter

Etymology tree
Late Latin sphinctērlbor.
English sphincter
Learned borrowing from Late Latin sphinctēr (“the muscle of the anus”), from Ancient Greek σφῐγκτήρ (sphĭnktḗr, “lace, band; contractile muscle”), ultimately of Pre-Greek origin. Possibly related to sphinx (“the strangler”).

der

the sphincter of the bladder

the iris sphincter in the eye

She decided that she would force him to climax first by the sheer strength of her young animal control, the strength of her sphincters […]

1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (The Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, page 836:

(anatomy) A ringlike band of muscle that surrounds a bodily opening (such as the anus or the openings of the stomach), constricting and relaxing as required for normal physiological functioning.


teething troubles

A reference to teething (“the eruption, through the gums, of the milk teeth”) and the accompanying discomfort, which occur during early life.

No doubt the new form of drive will have its teething troubles and this may be expected; but even if each ship manages to unload one cargo where it is badly needed and then it is beached, mechanical troubles will be comparatively unimportant provided all the crew are safe.

1941 October, “Novel Armed Freighter Adopted by Navy”, in T. Orchard Lisle, editor, The Log, volume 36, number 13, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman, Inc., →OCLC, page 58, column 1:

But we think that, for something which is so new, it is far better and easier for them to recoup if it is only a 16,000 run. If it is up in the millions it is a bigger problem, and it is far better to get your teething troubles out of the way on a smaller one.

1961 October 16, R. Emerick, “Mr. R. Emerick, Mr. S. Clegg, Mr. T. Warburton, on Behalf of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers”, in Royal Commission on the Press: Minutes of Oral Evidence […] (Cmnd. 1812), volumes II (Witnesses: Trades Unions and Associations, […]), London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, published September 1962, →OCLC, paragraph 9041, page 25:

He admitted that in their early days these units suffered a number of teething troubles, which, he said, "one may now look back upon with some wonder", as their causes were not hard to find.

1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Diesel performance improving”, in Trains Illustrated, page 642:

They have survived four nights in the forest, and after a few teething troubles they are getting on surprisingly well.

2015, Paula Lichtarowicz, “The Nice New Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Ape-ish Folk”, in Creative Truths in Provincial Policing, paperback edition, London: Windmill Books, Penguin Random House, →ISBN, page 293:

He was on his way to Cleveland, Ohio to visit the steelworks there, review their working practices and sort out any problems. He knew there would be some, they had recently installed a new casting system that he had helped to develop, and the plant back home had experienced some teething troubles.

2015, Liz Vincent, chapter 14, in Meddling Mother Madge + Dutiful Daughter Alice = Malice, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 135:

Teething troubles with software forced the brief return of the old Class 507/508 stock at the beginning of March, but the issues are understood to have been quickly resolved.

2023 March 22, “Network News: New Class 777s make inroads on Merseyside”, in RAIL, number 979, page 12:

(idiomatic) Problems that are to be expected with any new and untried product, system, or venture.

dětské nemoci

problems that are expected with any new and untried product, venture, etc.


unibrow

Actually - the unibrow look was never in.

2008, Insults and Comebacks, Venice, California: Knock Knock, page 24:

A pair of eyebrows which meet in the middle.


baby tooth

a tooth which will be replaced as a child ages, as opposed to an adult permanent tooth; a milk tooth


sudor

(physiology) Sweat; the salty fluid excreted by the sweat glands.


conjunctiva

en-noun

conjunctiva (plural conjunctivas or conjunctivae)

conjunctivas (plural)
conjunctivae (plural)

From 1540s late Middle English, borrowing from Medieval Latin conjūnctīva (“serving to connect, connective”, feminine), ellipsis of membrāna conjūnctīva (“conjunctive membrane”).

ellipsis

There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.

1884, Elliott Coues, “§ 4.—An Introduction to the Anatomy of Birds.”, in Key to North American Birds. […], 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Estes and Lauriat, →OCLC, part II (General Ornithology), page 180:

(anatomy) A clear mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball or sclera.


MAO

monoamine oxidase
monoamine oxidase#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of monoamine oxidase.


lymphatic system

en-noun

lymphatic system (plural lymphatic systems)

(anatomy) In mammals, including humans, a network of lymph vessels and lymph nodes that transport fluid, fats, proteins, and lymphocytes to the bloodstream as lymph, and remove microorganisms and other debris from tissues.

جِهَاز لِمْفَاوِيّ

network of lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes


trypsin

trypsin (countable and uncountable, plural trypsins)

From Ancient Greek τρῖψις (trîpsis, “rubbing”) + -in, since the substance was first found on rubbing down the pancreas with glycerine.

af

(biochemistry) A digestive enzyme that cleaves peptide bonds (a serine protease)


eye socket

(anatomy, ophthalmology) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.


cunny

en-adj

cunny (comparative more cunny, superlative most cunny)

more cunny (comparative)
most cunny (superlative)

Nevertheless, she was a "cunny Jamaican woman" who knew 'what side her bread was buttered on.'

2000, Donna Maxine Weir, Beyond Binaries: Creolized Forms of Resistance in African-American and Caribbean Literatures, page 175:


saddle

→ Japanese: サドル (sadoru)

Homer Tunnel
Milford Sound
Oxford English Dictionary

From Middle English sadel, from Old English sadol, from Proto-West Germanic *sadul, from Proto-Germanic *sadulaz (“saddle”). Further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sod-dʰlo-, from *sed- (“to sit”) + *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting instruments or tools)), though the Oxford English Dictionary says this “presents formal difficulties”.
Cognates
* Danish sadel
* Dutch zadel
* German Sattel
* Icelandic söðull
* Low German Sadel
* Russian седло́ (sedló)
* Saterland Frisian Soadel
* Scots sadil
* Swedish sadel
* West Frisian seal

saal

seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal

satula

something resembling a saddle in appearance or shape

satula

depression located along the axial trend of an anticline

Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.

(dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.


horsehair

en-noun

horsehair (countable and uncountable, plural horsehairs)

From Middle English hors her, horshere, hors-here, hors heer (also hors-hore), equivalent to horse + hair. Compare Old Norse hross-hár (“horsehair”).

The hair of a horse, especially from the mane and tail, used for upholstery.


philtrum

Borrowed from the Latin philtrum (“a love potion”), from Ancient Greek φῐ́λτρον (phĭ́ltron, “a love charm; the dimple in the upper lip”). Doublet of philter.

bor

Oral intercommissural distance (mouth width) and philtrum length are useful measurements for diagnosis of wide or large mouth (macrostomia), small mouth (microstomia), long philtrum and short philtrum and form ‘good handles’ in syndromic delineation.

2005, M. L. Kulkarni, Physical Examination of Children (Clinical Methods in Paediatrics; 2B), India: Jaypee Brothers, page 142:

Upper lip reconstruction is more difficult than lower lip reconstruction because the upper lip has a central structure, the philtrum.[…]Wounds adjacent to the philtrum that are closed primarily may shift the philtrum to the affected side. However, with time, the philtrum will tend to return to its midline position.

2007, Loren J. Borud, Arin K. Greene, “Chapter 24: Lip Reconstruction”, in Josef E. Fischer, Kirby I. Bland, Mark P. Callery, editors, Mastery of Surgery, 5th edition, volume 1, page 301, column 3:

If the philtrum is long and deep, then these people are very romantic, sexual, lively and friendly.

2011, Hrishikesh Dubey, Mysteries of Vedic Face Reading, Categorization of the Philtrum According to Its Length:

(anatomy) The shallow vertical groove running from the nasal septum to the center of the upper lip.


friseur

From French friseur, from friser (“to curl, frizz”).

As for poor Owen, could the bob-wig which he then wore have uncurled itself, and stood on end with horror, I am convinced the morning's labour of the friseur would have been undone, merely by the excess of his astonishment at this enormity.

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 35:


floater

From float + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

kelluja

person who physically floats in a gas or liquid

kelluva esine

thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid

leijuri

thing which moves from place to place, as if floating

(figurative) A person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role.

(US) A person who votes illegally in various electoral districts or polling places, either under a false voter registration or under the name of a properly registered voter who has not yet voted.


dumb blonde

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Have you found the canonical list of dumb blonde jokes on the Internet yet?

My friends say she's a dumb blonde but they don't know she dyes her hair.

(derogatory) A common stereotype of a blonde as a woman with low intelligence.


peroxide blonde

en-noun

peroxide blonde (plural peroxide blondes)

Coordinate term: peroxide blond

A person, especially a woman, who bleaches their hair extremely white-blonde.


vitreous humour

vitreous humour (plural vitreous humours)

(ophthalmology, British, Canada) The clear gel that fills the eyeball between the lens and the retina.


nervous system

Meronyms: brain, brainstem, ganglion, nerve, spinal cord

Sudden anger rose in him. “What I’m looking for,” he barked, “is to be left in peace.” His voice trembled with a rage far bigger than her intrusion merited, the rage which shocked him whenever it coursed through his nervous system, like a flood.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:

Biotics manipulate mass effect fields using dozens of element zero nodules within their nervous system that react to electric stimuli from the brain. Amplifiers allow biotics to synchronize the nodules so they can form fields large and strong enough for practical use.

2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Biotic Amps Codex entry:

An organ system whose principal constituent is nervous tissue that coordinates the activities of muscles, monitors organs, constructs and processes data received from the senses, and initiates actions.

جِهَاز عَصَبِيّ

system which coordinates the activity of the body


IF

IF (countable and uncountable, plural IFs)

intermediate filament
intermediate filament#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of intermediate filament.


nictitating membrane

nictitating membrane (plural nictitating membranes)

2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text
As the wildebeest shrinks, the circle of sated birds lounging in the short grass expands. With bulging crops, the vultures settle their heads atop folded wings and slide their nictitating membranes shut.

A transparent protective fold of skin acting as an inner eyelid in birds, reptiles and some mammals.


pince-nez

Borrowed from French pince-nez (literally “pinch-nose”).

bor

Lord Belpher, leaning against the wall and trying to decide whether his right or left foot hurt him the more excruciatingly, became aware that a curate was standing before him, regarding him through a pair of gold-rimmed pince-nez with a disapproving and hostile expression.

1919, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 15, in A Damsel in Distress:

Shabet took a pince-nez from his breast pocket and settled it on the bridge of his nose.

Furst, Alan 2000 Kingdom of Shadows, p170

Templeless eyeglasses that clip to the bridge of the nose.


dinger

The starting pitcher gave up three dingers.

He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers.

1989 June, John Holway, “Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs”, in Baseball Digest:

Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season. You get that little extra smile on his face.

1997, Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball, University of Nebraska Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 264:

For you youngsters out there, hitting 50 dingers in the pre-steroid craze days of the early 90s was an actual accomplishment; the only questionable substance Fielder was putting in his body were McRib sandwiches.

2008, Mike Stone, Art Regner, The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists, Running Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 209:


PKC

protein kinase C
protein kinase C#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of protein kinase C.


filling

I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.

My temporary filling fell out and got lost.

(dentistry) Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.


zymase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the fermentation of simple carbohydrates to ethanol and carbon dioxide.


Fu Manchu

The first book with the character was The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, from 1913.


alveolus

Borrowed from Latin alveolus (“a small hollow or cavity”), diminutive of alveus (“a hollow, cavity”).

(anatomy, dentistry) The bony socket in which the root of a tooth resides.


split end

I've got so many split ends – I think I must be working too hard.

A hair which has split at the end, usually from dryness or poor nutrition.

Help! I've got split ends!

(in the plural) The condition of having hairs with split ends.

Jones played split end.

offensive line of scrimmage
offensive line of scrimmage

(American football) The position which lines up wide and on the offensive line of scrimmage, whose primary job is to serve as a wide receiver.

The split end ran deep.

(American football) A player playing the position of split end.


hyperopia

en-noun

hyperopia (countable and uncountable, plural hyperopias)

(pathology) A disorder of the vision where the eye focuses images behind the retina instead of on it, so that distant objects can be seen better than near objects.


trammel

From Middle English trameyle, from Old French tramail (“net for catching fish”), from Late Latin tremaculum, from tri- (“tri-”) + macula (“spot, speck; mesh, cell”). Cognate with Italian tramaglio (“trammel”), Spanish trasmallo (“drift net”).


flexor

From New Latin flexor, agent noun of flectō (“I bend”).

Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.

2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual:

A muscle whose contraction acts to bend a joint or limb.


biceps brachii

en-noun

biceps brachii (plural biceps brachiorum or biceps brachii)

biceps brachiorum (plural)
biceps brachii (plural)


immune system

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(anatomy, immunology) The system that differentiates self from non-self and protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing an immune response. It includes organs such as the thymus, the spleen and lymph nodes; tissue such as bone marrow, and lymphoid tissues such as the tonsils; cells such as lymphocytes including the B cells and T cells, and cell products such as antibodies.

իմունային համակարգ

system that protects the body from foreign material and organisms


scaler

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(dentistry) A dentistry tool with two hooks.


seta

setas (plural)
setae (plural)
setæ (plural)

From Latin seta, from saeta. Doublet of soy (“silk”).

The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long setae.

1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volumes 31-32, page 83:


rug

Uncertain; probably of North Germanic origin; perhaps inherited via Middle English *rugge (suggested by Middle English ruggy (“hairy, shaggy, bristly”) and rugged (“hairy, shaggy, rugged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“shagginess, tuft”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwō (“long wool”), probably related to *rūhaz (“rough”), related to English rag and rough.
Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rugga (“coarse coverlet”), Swedish rugg (“rough entangled hair”), related to English rag and rough. Compare also Old English rȳhe (“rug, rough covering, blanket”).


meso-

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From Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”). Doublet of mid- and medio-.

mesocone is a conule in the median mure where the mesoloph is attached to it, mesoflexus is a flexus between the mesoloph and the paracone, mesoloph is a crest in front of the metaflexus, connected to the median mure

(dentistry) The forward side of a tooth.


eicosanoid

From Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi, “twenty”) + -ane (“an alkane”) + -oic (“a carboxylic acid”) + -oid (“-like”).

af

polyunsaturated fatty acid
polyunsaturated fatty acid

epoxyeicosatrienoic acid
epoxyeicosatrienoic acid

(organic chemistry) Any of a family of naturally-occurring substances derived from 20-carbon polyunsaturated fatty acids; they include the prostaglandins, thromboxanes, leukotrienes and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids; they function as hormones.


muffin

→ Chinese: 瑪芬 /玛芬 (mǎfēn)

→ Danish: muffin

→ Esperanto: mafino

→ Finnish: muffini, muffinssi, muffinsi

→ French: muffin

→ German: Muffin

→ Japanese: マフィン (mafin)

→ Korean: 머핀 (meopin)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: muffins

→ Polish: muffin

→ Portuguese: muffin

→ Russian: ма́ффин (máffin)

→ Swedish: muffins

→ Yiddish: מאָפֿין (mofin)

From earlier moofin, probably a diminutive of Low German Muffe ("small cake"; Muffen (plural)), from Middle Low German muffe (“small pastry”). An alternative, and phonologically less plausible theory suggests a connection to Old French (pain) moflet (“roll”, literally “soft (bread)”).

gl

"small cake"; <i class="Latn mention" lang="nds">Muffen</i> (plural)

ncog

I wanna be stuffin' Martha's muffin!

1986, “Stuffin' Martha's Muffin”, in Frenzy, performed by Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper:

(vulgar, slang) The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.


parting

en-noun

parting (countable and uncountable, plural partings)

The parting of the way.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 21:21:

Bridge End is the border station and the scene of many a sad parting between enterprising shoppers and their purchases—for it is a stronghold of the Customs !—and half an hour is allowed in the timetable for examination and shunting.

1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:


steamer

From steam + -er. The steamer duck or steamer (sense 6.2) is apparently named for its resemblance to a paddle steamer when swimming rapidly.

(British, Scotland, slang) A drinking session.


front bottom

Never before had she experienced the excitement that ebbed and flowed inside her. Her panties were soaking. In the past few months lovemaking with Angus had been a problem because she could not summon any fluid in her front bottom.

2009, David Silverman, Twinkle, page 107:

[…] and made her less interested in sex than usual, he supposed. That had never been a problem with Lalla. Nothing was a problem with Lalla—she could even fire ping-pong balls out of her front bottom, […]

2010, Wendy Holden, Farm Fatale: A Comedy of Country Manors, page 128:

(British, slang, euphemistic) The female genitalia; the vulva.


polypeptide

(biochemistry) A small protein containing up to 100 amino acids; see also oligopeptide.

多肽

biochemistry: a small protein containing up to 100 amino acids


actinomycin

actinomycin (countable and uncountable, plural actinomycins)

(biochemistry, pharmacology) Any of a class of toxic polypeptide antibiotics found in soil bacteria of genus Streptomyces.

اکتینومایسین

antibiotic found in bacteria of genus Streptomyces


extraction

extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)

From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.

(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.


bite wing

(dentistry) A holder for X-ray film, in which the film is held in place by a small tab on which the patient bites.


DNA polymerase

DNA polymerase (countable and uncountable, plural DNA polymerases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that assists DNA replication.


cockle

From Middle English cokel, cokkel, kokkel, cocle, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a diminutive of Middle English cokke, cok (“cockle”), from Old English cocc (found in sǣcocc (“cockle”)) + -le; or perhaps from Old French coquille, from Vulgar Latin *cocchilia, from conchylia, from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (konkhúlion), diminutive of κογχύλη (konkhúlē, “mussel”), of Pre-Greek substrate origin.

(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker


naps

The short “naps” of the average Sister do not sway in the wind as that of a blonde.

2009, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 171:


merm

(hairdressing, informal) A permanent for a man.


goggle

gargle (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)

From 14th century Middle English gogelen (“to roll (eyes), to look sideways”). Earlier source is unknown. The noun is attested from the 17th century. Compare Irish gog (“a nod, a slight motion”).

inh

Come and have a goggle at Fauzia’s new car!

A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.

(in the plural) A pair of protective eyeglasses.


cistern

From Middle English cisterne, from Old French cisterne (Modern French citerne) from Latin cisterna, from cista (“box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”). Doublet of cisterna.

1913, A.C. Cotter, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wells in Scripture",
Their extreme necessity is attested by the countless number of old, unused cisterns with which the Holy Land is literally honeycombed.

On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.

1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211:

Cisterns (bôr, bō'r), mentioned frequently in the Bible, are artificial reservoirs, usually cut into bedrock, for collecting and conserving rain runoff from roofs and courtyards.

2001, Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager, chapter 3, in Life in Biblical Israel, →ISBN, page 126:

A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.


spittle

en-noun

spittle (countable and uncountable, plural spittles)

Alteration of dialectal spattle (by association with spit (noun)), from Old English spātl, which is related to spǣtan (whence spit (verb)).


milky

en-adj

milky (comparative milkier, superlative milkiest)

milkier (comparative)
milkiest (superlative)

From Middle English mylky, melky, equivalent to milk + -y. Cognate with German milchig (“milky”), Swedish mjölkig (“milky”). Doublet of milchig.

his sword,
Which was declining on the milky head
Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

The Pails high-foaming with a milky Flood,

1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “(please specify the book of the Iliad or chapter quoted from)”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 267, line 780:

1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 3, Prop. 3, p. 51,
[…] some Plants upon breaking their Vessels yield a milky Juice; others a Yellow of peculiar Tastes and Qualities.

[…] the kind, slightly milky odour of cattle […]

1928, Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness, Book One, Chapter Three, 3:

She wheels her gaze from the wall on to me. The black irises are set off by milky whites as clear as a child’s.

1980, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Waiting for the Barbarians, Penguin, published 1999, pages 37–38:

Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.


sex organ

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(anatomy) An organ used in sexual reproduction or sexual stimulation.

عُضْو جِنْسِيّ

organ used in sexual reproduction — see also genitalia


milk tooth

Any tooth of the first set of teeth of young people (or animals).


RDH

(medicine) Initialism of registered dental hygienist.


stubble

en-noun

stubble (usually uncountable, plural stubbles)

From Middle English stuble, from Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel.

(countable and uncountable) Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.


strawberry blonde

en-adj

strawberry blonde (comparative more strawberry blonde, superlative most strawberry blonde)

more strawberry blonde (comparative)
most strawberry blonde (superlative)

strawberry blonde:

An uncommon orange hair colour; it is characterized as a combination of pale light yellow (often called blonde) and red. Strawberry blonde hair appears blonde in dim light, but when exposed to sun or a bright light, the hair may assume a slight tinge of pink or red color.


strawberry blonde

en-noun

strawberry blonde (plural strawberry blondes)

A cocktail comprising one part vodka to two parts cherry brandy to three parts cola topped with a dash of cream and stirred gently with a swizzle stick before serving.


buzzcut

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(US, Canada) A closely-cropped military-style haircut.


hardon

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unshaven

He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:

She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:

Not having shaved; not shaven; untrimmed.


follicle

He could feel the follicles in his inner ear go crazy.

1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 345:

(anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle.


bleached

en-adj

bleached (comparative more bleached, superlative most bleached)

more bleached (comparative)
most bleached (superlative)

bleached cotton


brunet

From French brunet. Compare also Middle English brunet, burnet (“brown”), from Old French brunet, which is the same word.

(rare) Of a man or boy, having brown or dark brown hair.


breadbasket

[I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's.

1990, Joshua M. Epstein, Raj Gupta, Controlling the Greenhouse Effect: Five Global Regimes Compared (Brookings Occasional Papers), Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, →ISBN, page 7:

Canada at the turn of the century had become the breadbasket of the British Empire and industrialised Europe and wheat grown on the prairies was consolidated in elevator at Fort William, Ontario to await shipment overseas.

1997, Peter Pigott, “C. D. Howe: Mister Trans-Canada Airlines”, in Flying Canucks II: Pioneers of Canadian Aviation, Toronto, Ont., Headington, Oxford: Hounslow Press, →ISBN, pages 71–72:

(agriculture) A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.


putz

Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Putz; compare German Putz (“ornament, decoration, finery”), putzen (“to clean; decorate”). Compare the above.

cog

The American custom of erecting a putz seems to have originated with the Moravians but the custom long ago spread to non-Moravian households. Essentially, the putz is a landscape, built on the floor or on a table or portable platform.

1995, Joe L. Wheeler, Christmas in My Heart, Book 4, pages 12-13:

A decoration or ornament in the Nativity tradition, usually placed under a Christmas tree.


egghead

But at the top of the "egghead", the blood vessels become pinched and the flow is blocked.

1962, The Pakistan Review - Volume 10, page Page 43:

At one point he even lifts his cap to reveal an egghead bald-cap atop white hair and spectacles.

2002, Robert Ross, The Complete Terry Thomas, page 87:

Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over.

2010, Jena Pincott, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?:, page 81:

His shoulders were so misshapen they almost met over his sunken chest and they were topped by a pointy egghead, bald but for a few short sproutings of hair.


sinew

From Middle English synwe, synewe (“tendon; ligament or other connective tissue; muscle; nerve; leaf vein”), from Old English sinu (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinwō, *senawō (“sinew”), from Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”), from *(s)neh₁- (“to twist (threads), spin, weave”).
The word is cognate with sinnow (“sinew”), Scots senon, sinnon, Saterland Frisian Siene (“sinew”), West Frisian senuw, sine (“sinew; nerve”), Dutch zenuw (“nerve, sinew”), German Sehne (“tendon, sinew; cord”), Icelandic sin (“tendon”), Swedish sena (“sinew”), Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭 (snāuuar, “tendon, sinew”), Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “tendon; nerve; cord”), Latin nervus (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), Sanskrit स्नावन् (snāván, “sinew, tendon; muscle”), Tocharian B ṣñor (“sinew”). Doublet of nerve and neuron.

cog

(figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.

զորություն

muscular power, muscle; vigor, vigorous strength


sinew

en-verb

sinew (third-person singular simple present sinews, present participle sinewing, simple past and past participle sinewed)

sinews (present singular third-person)
sinewing (participle present)
sinewed (participle past)
sinewed (past)

And now to London with Triumphant march, / There to be crowned Englands Royall King: / From whence, ſhall Warwicke cut the Sea to France, / And aske the Ladie Bona for thy Queene: / So ſhalt thou ſinow both theſe Lands together, / And hauing France thy Friend, thou ſhalt not dread / The ſcattred Foe, that hopes to riſe againe: […]

c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], pages 157–158:

[I]t were to be wiſhed that we tried the restrictive arts of government, and made law the protector, but not the tyrant of the people. […] [W]e ſhould then find that wretches, now ſtuck up for long tortures, left luxury ſhould feel a momentary pang, might, if properly treated, ſerve to ſinew the ſtate in times of danger; […]

1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], “The Same Subject Continued”, in The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume II, Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 123:

(transitive) To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.


crochet

From French crochet, from Middle French crochet, from Old French crochet, crokét (“curved instrument, hook”), diminutive of Old French croc (“hook”), from Old Frankish *krōk (“hook”) or from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”), Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”). Doublet of crocket, croquet, and crotchet. More at crook, crooked.

doublet

(zoology) A certain crest of enamel on the molar teeth of some rhinoceroses.


ichor

en-noun

ichor (countable and uncountable, plural ichors)

Sense 1 (“liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods”) is borrowed from Medieval Latin ichor, from Ancient Greek ῑ̓χώρ (īkhṓr, “fluid running through the veins of gods, ichor; watery part of blood, lymph, serum; watery part of milk, whey; gravy; pus; naphtha”); further etymology unknown, probably from Pre-Greek.
Sense 2.4 (“fetid, watery discharge from a sore”) is from Middle English icor, icore [and other forms], from Medieval Latin ichor; see further above.

der

(pathology, obsolete) A fetid, watery discharge from a sore; pus.

վէրք

fetid, watery discharge from a sore — see also pus


gooch

en-verb

gooch (third-person singular simple present gooches, present participle gooching, simple past and past participle gooched)

gooches (present singular third-person)
gooching (participle present)
gooched (participle past)
gooched (past)

A corruption of guiche, another slang term for perineum.

2017 Ansi, "Rise and Shine Sleepyhead", Welcome to the Wayne episode 1, 10 minutes
Olly, you gooched it! Fix it!


shikimic acid

(organic chemistry) A naturally occurring organic compound, 3,4,5-trihydroxy-1-cyclohexene-1-carboxylic acid, extracted commercially from star anise; it is the base of very many natural products and is used in the production of the antiviral drug Tamiflu.


hormonal

en-adj

hormonal (comparative more hormonal, superlative most hormonal)

more hormonal (comparative)
most hormonal (superlative)


obliquus

(anatomy) An obliquus muscle; a muscle running obliquely.


riboflavin

en-noun

riboflavin (countable and uncountable, plural riboflavins)

(biochemistry) Yellow or orange-yellow water-soluble compound, a member of the vitamin B complex, that acts as a growth-promoting factor in humans and other animals.


wee-wee

wee-wee (countable and uncountable, plural wee-wees)

Reduplication of wee; onomatopoeic for the sound of urination.

(UK, childish) Urine.
(childish) An act of urination.

“I agree he’s gorgeous,” said his friend, “but someone told me he has the smallest wee-wee in New York.”

1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 2, in Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, page 45:


thighbone

From late Middle English. Equivalent to thigh + bone.

(anatomy) The bone that extends from the pelvis to the knee in humans; the femur.


bearded clam

"In the latrines they predicted the 1209th would go to Osaka, Japan, where the bearded clam ran crosswise..."

1958, Thomas Berger, Crazy in Berlin, page 252:

that night after the dance, he / first touched the bearded clam.

1994, Adrian C. Louis, Blood Thirsty Savages: Poems, →ISBN, page 87:

"No panties, just bearded clam and glorious ass."

2004, Robert Arellano, Don Dimaio of La Plata, →ISBN, page 97:


vertical smile

Making my tongue nice and stiff I entered her ass yet again, moving in and out as I ate her ass like a hungry and starved man. But it was not enough, for I longed for the sweetness of her, and so I moved my mouth and tongue further up to find her vertical smile. There I truly could taste her, enjoy her as I lovely^([sic]) licked at her privates again and again beckoning them to open up to me as I tried to French kiss her delicate lips.

It's all she knows, she bends and twists and works the gaggle of men, enflaming them, enticing them, bringing them erect by revealing more and more of her pink shaven vertical smile.

2004, Michael Glock, Raisin Bread Toast: And Other Collected Tales of Fantastica:

1994, David Farrell Krell, "To the Orange Grove at the Edge of the Sea: Remarks on Luce Iragaray's Amante marine", in Peter J. Burgard (ed.), Nietzsche and the Feminine, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 207,
[…] she […] lowered her hands between her knees her thighs and joined thumb to thumb and index to index forming a diamond windowframe about her smiling not-mouth her notclosed lips her ragged gaping vertical smile […]


stirrup bone

(anatomy) the smallest bone in the human body; it is situated in the ear and passes vibrations from the anvil to cochlea


weft

From Middle English wefte, from Old English wefan (“to weave”), from Proto-West Germanic *weban, from Proto-Germanic *webaną. Equivalent to weave + -th.

Teaching tools include mannequins, slip-ons, hair wefts, rectangles, and profiles.

2009, Cosmetologists: 150 Great Tech Prep Careers, 2nd edition, page 135:

Then, she held up the hair as it would look on my head. She positioned it like a pro, holding wefts of human hair so that it looked like it grew from my scalp.

2011, Ryan Rayston, The Quiet Sound of Disappearing, AuthorHouse, page 289:

In the bonding method of attaching hair extensions, hair wefts or single strands are attached with an adhesive or bonding agent. The adhesive is applied to the weft with an applicator gun.

2012, Cengage Learning, Milady Standard Cosmetology, page 556:

(hairdressing) A hair extension that is glued directly to a person′s natural hair.


male pattern baldness

(dermatology) A genetically predisposed loss of hair from the scalp in males, theorized to be caused by an excessive response to androgens, specifically dihydrotestosterone.


metalloprotein

(biochemistry) a protein, such as haemoglobin or chlorophyll, that contains a metal atom as a cofactor

metalloproteiini

a protein that contains a metal atom as a cofactor


epinephrine

epinephrine (countable and uncountable, plural epinephrines)

From Ancient Greek ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”) + -ine.

At the ER, after deflating me with a cocktail of epinephrine, a steroid and an antihistamine, the doctors scolded me for not coming in more quickly: I could have died of asphyxiation.

2023 November 1, “‘We’re sedating women with self-care’: how we became obsessed with wellness”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(biochemistry, organic chemistry, medicine) A catecholamine hormone and neurotransmitter; as a hormone, secreted by the adrenal gland in response to stress (when it stimulates the autonomic nervous system); as a neurotransmitter, synthesized from norepinephrine. It is also used as a medication.


adrenaline

adrenaline (usually uncountable, plural adrenalines)

→ Catalan: adrenalina

→ Dutch: adrenaline

→ French: adrénaline

→ Spanish: adrenalina

→ Swahili: adrenalini

/əˈdɹɛnəlɪn/

From adrenal + -ine, coined by Japanese chemist Takamine Jōkichi in 1901.

coin

(biochemistry) Epinephrine, the hormone and neurotransmitter.


longus

Borrowed from New Latin longus (“long”), clipping of musculus longus (“long muscle”).


eyeless

From Middle English eyles, eieles, equivalent to eye + -less. Compare West Frisian eachleas (“eyeless”), Dutch oogloos (“eyeless”), German augenlos (“eyeless”), Swedish ögalös (“eyeless”), Icelandic augnalaus (“eyeless”).

Huge eyeless crabs roam the ocean floor around hydrothermal vents.

I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise. I was so much startled that I struggled to withdraw; but the blind man pulled me close up to him with a single action of his arm.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

eyeless needle

(uncommon, of tools or objects, especially suturing needles) Having no eye: having no hole.


antitragus

(anatomy) A projection on the lower posterior portion of the auricle of the ear opposite the tragus.


apico-

classical compound
international scientific vocabulary

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from apex.

e.g. apicocoronal, apicoectomy

(dentistry) Related to the root of a tooth.


merlin

Acronym of moesin-Ezrin-Radixin-like protein + -in (“protein”)

suffix

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">protein</i>

(biochemistry) A cytoskeletal protein active in the suppression of tumors.


chomper

Hollier was a chomper, his jaws working up and down like pistons, and without seeming to be greedy he ate a great deal.

1983, Robertson Davies, The rebel angels:

I am a chomper of teeth and a displayer of feelings.

1993, Esther D Rothblum, Kathleen A Brehony, Boston marriages: romantic but asexual relationships among contemporary lesbians:


headgear

en-noun

headgear (countable and uncountable, plural headgears)

/ˈhɛdɡɪə(ɹ)/

(orthodontics) A type of orthodontic appliance attached to dental braces that aids in correcting severe bite problems.


backcomb

en-verb

backcomb (third-person singular simple present backcombs, present participle backcombing, simple past and past participle backcombed)

backcombs (present singular third-person)
backcombing (participle present)
backcombed (participle past)
backcombed (past)

Her dark-blonde hair, worn long at Oxford, had been cut and backcombed, Diana-style, and quivered when she shook her head.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

To hold hair and comb it towards the head, thus giving it a bushier look.

toupieren

to hold hair and comb it towards the head


backcomb

You and your fit friends anyway / I'd take them all out any day / They all got backcombs anyway


teary

en-adj

teary (comparative tearier, superlative teariest)

tearier (comparative)
teariest (superlative)

From Middle English tery; equivalent to tear + -y.

No wonder Ryan was teary; he missed his parents.

Of a person, having eyes filled with tears; inclined to cry.