xylanase

(biochemistry) Any of various enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of xylan


pick one's nose

en-verb

pick one's nose (third-person singular simple present picks one's nose, present participle picking one's nose, simple past and past participle picked one's nose)

picks one's nose (present singular third-person)
picking one's nose (participle present)
picked one's nose (participle past)
picked one's nose (past)

You can pick your friends; you can pick your nose; but you can't pick your friends' noses.

(idiomatic) To insert a finger or other object into one's nostril to remove obstructions, especially dried mucus.


syncytin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of captive retroviral envelope proteins involved in human placental morphogenesis


eyehole

Holonym: eyepiece

The hole to which the viewer places his or her eye in a device such as a telescope.


epimerase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having more than one center of asymmetry.


moptop

While young women loved the Beatles' hair, British adults found it “unsightly, unsafe, unruly, and unclean.” Factories suspended young apprentices who dared to show up in a moptop.

2022, W. David Marx, “Introduction”, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

(dated) A style of haircut popularized by the Beatles.


maneless

The scientists had partly suspected that the maneless males were adolescents mistaken for adults by amateur observers.

2002 April, Philip Caputo, “Maneless Lions”, in National Geographic:


coronin

(biochemistry) An actin binding protein which also interacts with microtubules


kisspeptin

en-noun

kisspeptin (countable and uncountable, plural kisspeptins)

Named after the gene KISS1, itself named after the confectionery Hershey's Kisses because it was discovered in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

(biochemistry) A protein-coupled ligand that plays a role in puberty


teledentistry

information technology
information technology

The use of information technology and telecommunications for dental primary care, consultation, education, and public awareness in the same manner as telehealth and telemedicine.

telestomatológia

the use of information technology and telecommunications for dental primary care, consultation, education, and public awareness in the same manner as telehealth and telemedicine


transglutaminase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the reaction of lysine and glutamine groups in proteins and have a function in blood coagulation.


asialoglycoprotein

(biochemistry) Any glycoprotein from which the sialic acid residues have been removed

asialoglicoproteína

any glycoprotein from which the sialic acid residues have been removed


calnexin

calnexin (countable and uncountable, plural calnexins)

endoplasmic reticulum
endoplasmic reticulum

(biochemistry) A chaperone protein of the endoplasmic reticulum.


calreticulin

calreticulin (countable and uncountable, plural calreticulins)

(biochemistry) A multifunctional protein that binds calcium ions.


caltractin

(biochemistry) A calcium-binding protein found in Chlamydomonas


centrin

centrin (usually uncountable, plural centrins)


cullin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins that have a role in protein degradation and ubiquitinylation


cylindromatosis

(biochemistry) A cytoplasmic protein that functions as a deubiquitinating enzyme


desulfurase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the removal of sulfur (or the elements of hydrogen sulfide) from a molecule


dynamin

dynamin (countable and uncountable, plural dynamins)

(biochemistry) A hydrolase responsible for endocytosis in eukaryotic cells


erasin

(biochemistry) A ubiquitin-containing protein that is involved in the degradation of the proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum


glycanase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a glycan


vulval

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In John and Salomé, Salomé's nipples are angry blossoms, her black navel vulval, tendrilous, vaguely insectimorphic.

Pythagoras, she suggests, venerated three-sided figures for their vaginal symbolism; Upper Palaeolithic dips in rock are chipped away by cavemen into vulval icons.

2003, Jenny Diski, “It's so beautiful”, in London Review of Books, XXV.22:


isopeptidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of an isopeptide bond, especially that between the terminal diglycine attached to ubiquitin


mannosidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of mannose glycosides.


mannosyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a mannose group between molecules


oligosaccharyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an oligosaccharide


epilate

en-verb

epilate (third-person singular simple present epilates, present participle epilating, simple past and past participle epilated)

epilates (present singular third-person)
epilating (participle present)
epilated (participle past)
epilated (past)

Cæsar was proud of his physical beauty, and, like some modern inverts, he was accustomed carefully to shave and epilate his body to preserve the smoothness of the skin.

1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):

To remove hair from the body by mechanical, chemical or other means.


procaspase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins that are the precursors of caspase


rhodanese

(biochemistry) A mitochondrial enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of cyanide to thiocyanate


signalosome

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins, complexes of which are involved in the regulation of protein degradation.


sulfurtransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of sulfur-containing groups between molecules


trypanin

(biochemistry) A protein found in the cytoskeleton of eukaryotic cells


tuberin

(biochemistry) A protein found in potatoes

(biochemistry) The tuberous sclerosis protein (known as TSC2)


vimentin

From Latin vīmentum (“osier, withy”) + -in (“protein”).

af

(biochemistry) Any of a group of polypeptides that polymerize to form filaments in the cytoskeleton.

vimentine

any of a group of polypeptides that polymerize to form filaments in the cytoskeleton


emorata

(East Africa) A Masai ceremony of manhood, involving circumcision.


flippase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme located in the membrane responsible for aiding the movement of phospholipid molecules between the two leaflets that compose a cell's membrane (transverse diffusion).


phytocyanin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of blue, copper-containing proteins present in many plants


chromoprotein

(biochemistry) Any protein, such as haemoglobin, that has a metal-containing pigmented group such as haem.


bloodletter

One who performs bloodletting (the removal of blood in the hope of curing illness).


dystroglycan

en-noun

dystroglycan (countable and uncountable, plural dystroglycans)

(biochemistry) A glycoprotein associated with dystrophin.


enterokinase

(biochemistry) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin


flotillin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins responsible for creating ordered platforms (or rafts) of lipids.


lyticase

(biochemistry) A complex of endoglucanase and protease catalyzes yeast cell lysis


endoglucanase

(biochemistry) Any glucanase/cellulase that is active within the organism that produced it.


macerozyme

(biochemistry) An enzyme used experimentally to digest cell walls prior to organelle isolation.


plugger

A dental instrument used to insert fillings.


neuroglobin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of vertebrate globins involved in cellular oxygen homeostasis


pectolyase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that degrade pectin


vacuolin

(biochemistry) Any of several small proteins that bind to cytoplasmic surfaces


glutaminase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of glutamine to glutamic acid and ammonia


pyrophosphohydrolase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of pyrophosphate


pro-protein

posttranslational modification
posttranslational modification

(biochemistry) Any inactive protein that can be activated by posttranslational modification


pro-peptide

(biochemistry) Any inactive peptide that can be activated by posttranslational modification


polyamine oxidase

polyamine oxidase (plural polyamine oxidases)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of a polyamine, but especially of acetylspermine to acetylspermidine and aminopropanal


mesioproximal

mesiodistal

near neither the speaker nor the addressee but not far off

(dentistry, prosthodontics) Of or relating to the mesial and the proximal surfaces of a tooth.


resolvase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that repress transposases


aerodontalgia

aerodontalgia (countable and uncountable, plural aerodontalgias)

(dentistry) Pain in the teeth caused by changes in air pressure.


unclipped

From Middle English unclipped, equivalent to un- + clipped.

unclipped toenails

The thick growth of the fine old trees, and the unclipped shrubs, shut out all but the small portion of shrubbery, which was like one bright and blooming spot in a wilderness.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 91–92:


quinoprotein

(biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins that have quinones as cofactors.


boat race

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang


kallikrein

kallikrein (countable and uncountable, plural kallikreins)

From Ancient Greek κᾰλλίκρεᾰς (kăllíkreăs, “sweetbread, pancreas”) + -in, from κᾰλλι- (kălli-, “beautiful”) + κρέᾰς (kréăs, “flesh, meat”).

af

(biochemistry) A hypotensive protease that liberates kinins from blood plasma proteins and is used therapeutically for vasodilation.


kininogen

(biochemistry) Any of a set of proteins defined by their primary role as precursors for kinin


marumage

A round knotted hairstyle traditionally worn by married women in Japan.


articulator

(dentistry) A mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed, reproducing recorded positions of the mandible in relation to the maxilla.

artikulaattori

dentistry: mechanical device to which casts of the teeth are fixed


limaille

This absence of blood, which was in accordance with the external phenomena, led to the disuse of mercury, and to the substitution of the internal use of iron, ( limaille porphyrisée, ) in the dose of a “gros" daily, under the form of opiate, with tonics.

1833, John Forbes, The Cyclopaedia of Practical Medicine:

[I]f, therefore, a measured half-pint of limaille be submitted to the process, however rich or poor in quality, four fluid ounces of hydrochloric acid and sixteen of water would be such proportions as I think would meet every case.

1858, Transactions of the Odontological Society of Great Britain, page 19:

I have with much pleasure listened to Mr. Bennett's paper on refining gold, and the reduction of limaille, but as I consider every dentist may not have the means of applying the dry process, allow me to state the mode I recommend, as being the less elaborate, and the less expensive. Limaille generally consists of gold, silver, iron, lead, tin, zinc, and bone filings.

1858, Quarterly Journal of Dental Science - Volume 1, page 379:

(dentistry, obsolete) Bits of waste metal mixed with bone, dust, etc.; lemel.


parvalbumin

en-noun

parvalbumin (countable and uncountable, plural parvalbumins)

(biochemistry) A small albumin protein of the nervous system that binds calcium.


creatine kinase

creatine kinase (plural creatine kinases)

adenosine triphosphate
adenosine triphosphate

adenosine diphosphate
adenosine diphosphate

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the phosphorylation of creatine and uses adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to create phosphocreatine and adenosine diphosphate (ADP).


undereye

Lips that have thinned over time may cause a person to appear irritable or tense, a naturally elevated brow may suggest judgment or skepticism, and undereye shadows can make a person appear weary and burdened.

2007 August 2, Laurel Naversen Geraghty, “I Am Not a Crab: When Wrinkles Lie”, in New York Times:


hirudin

hirudin (countable and uncountable, plural hirudins)

(biochemistry) A peptide, obtained from the salivary glands of leeches, that is used as an anticoagulant.

هيرودين

peptide obtained from the salivary glands of leeches


sialyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of sialic acid moieties (especially to certain glycolipids)


genioglossus

/d͡ʒɪˌnʌɪ.əˈɡlɒs.əs/

Borrowed from New Latin genīoglōssus, clipping of musculus genīoglōssus (“genioglossal muscle”).

clipping

(anatomy) A flat, fan-shaped muscle that originates from the superior mental spine and inserts onto the undersurface of the tongue and onto the hyoid bone, acting mainly to extend, protrude or depress the tongue.


soymilk

en-noun

soymilk (countable and uncountable, plural soymilks)

Childless readers who fear the un-cooling effects of parenthood will be relieved to learn kids, born slam dancers, really dig the Ramones, and will be heartened to see that Pollack, despite drinking chai with soymilk and listening to NPR, hasn’t become Mr. Rogers in a Black Sabbath T-shirt.

2007 January 7, Elissa Schappell, “Exile on Sesame Street”, in New York Times:

Soybeans can be used to make soyburgers, souffles, fritters, casseroles, soysages, soymilk, ice bean, tofu (Japanese bean curd), tempeh (Indonesian cultured soy cake), spreads, dips and soups and many more.

2013, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Whole Dry Soybeans:


crepey

en-adj

crepey (comparative more crepey, superlative most crepey)

more crepey (comparative)
most crepey (superlative)

Mix a little moisturiser with foundation under the eyes and over the neck if the skin is crepey: this will thin out the foundation a little...

2003, Janet Simms, A practical guide to beauty therapy:

The patient had a crepey appearance of skin prior to blepharoplasty.

2004, Joseph A Mauriello, Techniques in Cosmetic Eyelid Surgery:

My fat cells went condo and my skin is all crepey.

2007 January 14, Henry Alford, “Books on Broadway”, in New York Times:

(of skin) Saggy and crinkly, like crepe paper.


vocalis

Borrowed from Latin vōcālis (“sounding, vocal”), clipping of mūsculus vōcālis (“vocal muscle”). Doublet of vocal and vowel.

clipping

thyroarytenoid muscle
thyroarytenoid muscle

(anatomy) A triangular band of muscle that is the medial part of the thyroarytenoid muscle, originates in the lamina of the thyroid cartilage, and inserts into the vocal process of the arytenoid cartilage; it lies parallel with the vocal ligament to which it is adherent and modulates the tension of the true vocal cords.


reticulin

(biochemistry) A scleroprotein, similar to collagen, found in lymphatic connective tissue


scleroprotein

(biochemistry) Any of many fibrous proteins found in connective tissue etc.


buccinator

en-noun

buccinator (plural buccinators or buccinatores)

buccinators (plural)
buccinatores (plural)

Borrowed from Latin buccinātor (“trumpeter”), from buccinō (“blow the trumpet”) + -tor (“-ator, -er”).

af

Until now there has been no definitive anatomical study describing the area where the parotid duct enters the buccinator muscle.

(anatomy) A thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek.


lipoprotein lipase

en-noun

lipoprotein lipase (plural lipoprotein lipases)

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a lipoprotein


amicyanin

(biochemistry) A specific protein that plays a role in electron transfer, containing a copper atom.


plastocyanin

plastocyanin (countable and uncountable, plural plastocyanins)

(biochemistry) An important copper-containing protein, involved in electron transfer


blowdryer

(US, Philippines) Alternative spelling of blow-dryer


aldolase

(biochemistry) An enzyme, present in some tissue, that catalyses the conversion of phosphates of fructose to those of glyceraldehyde and dihydroxyacetone


sandek

From Yiddish סנדק (sandek), from Hebrew סַנְדָּק (sandák), most likely from Ancient Greek σύντεκνος (súnteknos, literally “companion of child”), from συν- (sun-) + τέκνον (téknon).

der

(Judaism) A person honoured at a Jewish brit milah by holding the baby boy in his lap as the mohel performs the circumcision.


diphosphatase

(biochemistry, especially in combination) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of the diphosphate of a specific nucleotide or other biochemical compound


euglobulin

(biochemistry) A fraction of serum proteins obtained as a precipitate by adjusting salt levels and pH.


wedding tackle

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This is a coy way of describing a bulbous false proboscis that makes Tom Mannion's visage look, shall we say, very well-hung. As a cubist caprice, Dame Nature here seems to have stationed his wedding tackle between his eyes.

1992 September 26, Paul Taylor, “Theatre: Who're you looking at, Jacques?: Communicado's Glaswegian production of Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2020-07-11:

The poor guy even got painfully kicked in the groin, or the "wedding tackle" — as it was called on the Mike & Mike show.

2013 November 26, Maureen Dowd, “Pigskin Pride and Prejudice”, in New York Times, retrieved 2020-07-11:

(colloquial, humorous) The male genitals.


barber pole

A type of sign indicating a barber's shop, most traditionally a pole with a helix of red and white stripes, in the US including blue, sometimes moving.


nonshedding

So-called designer dogs became popular a decade ago, beginning with the Labradoodle and other poodle crosses that sought to affix the poodle’s relatively nonshedding coat to other breeds.

2007 February 4, Jon Mooallem, “The Modern Kennel Conundrum”, in New York Times:

However, unless you have a nonshedding, nonlicking breed, there's no such thing as a truly hypoallergenic dog. How about a nice goldfish instead?

2017, Howard Bennett, The Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick & How You Get Sick:


bug out

en-verb

bug out (third-person singular simple present bugs out, present participle bugging out, simple past and past participle bugged out)

bugs out (present singular third-person)
bugging out (participle present)
bugged out (participle past)
bugged out (past)

Attested 1950, popularized in the Korean War (1950–53) in such phrases as “bug-out fever” (rout) and “the big bug out” (November/December 1950 retreat) and entered civilian slang by mid 1950s. Likely originated in World War II, perhaps based on 1930s cartoons featuring bugs fleeing an impending foot or boot. Ultimately based on the rapid, disorderly flight of bugs when discovered, particularly their scattering if several are discovered at once, such as under a rock or can. Compare chicken out.

She gets her nails done every Friday, so I know she's bugging out by now because her polish has moved up from the cuticle just a tiny bit, indicating that her nails ain't fresh. “Mickey, how the hell I'm just gone walk up to someone and[…]

2006 September 26, L. Divine, Drama High: The Fight, Dafina Young Adult, →ISBN:

"That's 'cause I'm taking the train into the city right now," I said, "and she's bugging out about my missing it."

2012 November 13, 50 Cent, Laura Moser, Playground, Penguin, →ISBN, page 89:

(slang, intransitive) To freak out, to go crazy, e.g. from worry.


jelly roll

(US) A cylindrical cake containing jelly (jam).

(by extension, US slang) The female genitalia, sexual intercourse, or a lover.

a male hairstyle, common in the 1950s USA, a roll of greased hair longitudinally aligned front to back at the middle of the head

(finance) An options position consisting of two calls and two puts, which can be seen as a combination of synthetic long and short positions with different expiries, or a combination of a put time spread and a call time spread.


TSH

But I had my blood levels taken at the laboratory about a month ago, and I had an unusually high concentration of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)—about ten times the normal amount—which means that the lithium is wreaking havoc on my glands, which means that I could end up in a really bad physical state.

1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:

thyroid-stimulating hormone
thyroid-stimulating hormone#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of thyroid-stimulating hormone.


beardy

en-adj

beardy (comparative beardier or more beardy, superlative beardiest or most beardy)

beardier (comparative)
more beardy (comparative)
beardiest (superlative)
most beardy (superlative)

From beard + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian boartich (“bearded”), Dutch baardig (“bearded”), German bärtig (“bearded”).

The plump John Bull, the sallow Frenchman, the beardy Italian, and still more-beardy Jew, the high-boned Scotchman the merry-faced Irishman, the turbaned Turk — a specimen of the human animal from almost every clime under heaven — are passing and repassing before you in the course of every ten minutes.

1852, William Kidd, Kidd's Own Journal: For Inter-Communications on Natural History, Popular Science, and Things in General, volume 2, page 31:

His beard covered his face and rested upon his still more beardy bosom, but its darkness gave an excellent color to his deep-red face.

1855, By John Ballou, The Lady of the West: Or, The Gold Seekers, page 391:

1967 May, The Siege of Witch-Hobble Island, Boys' Life, page 44,
But his left foot was caught in that blame noose in the end of the rope, so only his beardy head went underwater and he was dragged along like that for a few wet yards.

"Very hairy, beardy, toothy kinds of heads," said Ardan. "I remember them, and they used to get hairier and beardier and toothier every second day.

1970, James Stephens, Deirdre, page 152:

The biggest, oldest, beardiest, reddest-faced of them addressed Professor Bellbuckle.

2008, Howard Whitehouse, Bill Slavin, The Island of Mad Scientists: Being an Excursion to the Wilds of Scotland, page 42:


trimethyltransferase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyses the transfer of three methyl groups


supereruption

/ˌsuːpəɹɨˈɹʌpʃn̩/

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urinary meatus

en-noun

urinary meatus (plural urinary meatuses)

(anatomy) The external orifice of the urethra, from which urine is ejected during urination and semen is ejected during ejaculation.


stache

Only one show has succeeded in keeping a kid in the lead for a decade: "The Simpsons" with the animated Bart Simpson. Watching Bart never mature is considered a key to its enduring appeal. "Early on, I know that the powers that be decided that no one would age," said Tim Long, the show's current head writer. "A kid with a starter ‘stache, that would just be unpleasant," he added.

2003 July 28, “Don't Wanna Grow Up Cuz Puberty Isn't Funny”, in The New York Times:

[The candidate] may face an entirely different challenge in his quest for the mayoralty: his mustache. [...] The perils of the ‘stache may be hard to define, but analysts say that looks matter in politics, where facial hair is frequently considered verboten.

2005 May 23, “Democrats Still Searching for a Stronger Challenger”, in The New York Times:


galectin

(biochemistry) A lectin that binds galactosides


safety razor

A razor, designed for safety, that protects the skin from all but the very edge of the blade (as opposed to a straight razor).


shoulder bone

From Middle English schuldre bon; equivalent to shoulder + bone.


moon-eyed

en-adj

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

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

From moon + eyed; parallel to the cognate, but non-synonymous, Dutch maanoog.

His moon-eyed gaze was disarming and mysterious.


amylopsin

(biochemistry) A pancreatic form of amylase.


colicin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins, secreted by certain strains of bacteria, that kill but do not lyse other strains


pseudocholinesterase

en-noun

pseudocholinesterase (countable and uncountable, plural pseudocholinesterases)

(biochemistry) One of the two types of cholinesterase (the other being acetylcholinesterase), found primarily in the liver where it hydrolyses butyrylcholine.


cryoglobulin

A protein that becomes insoluble at low temperatures.


blood donor

A person who donates blood for use in transfusion.


racemase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having only one center of asymmetry.


halorhodopsin

halorhodopsin (countable and uncountable, plural halorhodopsins)

(biochemistry) A light-driven ion pump, specific to chloride ions, found in phylogenetically ancient archaea known as halobacteria.


to a hair

/tuː‿ə ˈhɛə/

A reference to the very small diameter of a strand of hair: compare hair's breadth.

Pand[arus]. Youle remember your brothers excuſe? / Par[is]. To a hayre.

c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘A Procession! A Procession!’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 298:

(idiomatic) To a high degree of precision; with the utmost exactness; to a nicety.


atlastin

atlastin (countable and uncountable, plural atlastins)

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins whose function is to fuse cell membranes


neurogranin

(biochemistry) A protein, produced in the brain, that binds calmodulin.


moon-faced

en-adj

moon-faced (comparative more moon-faced, superlative most moon-faced)

more moon-faced (comparative)
most moon-faced (superlative)

The creased moon-faced Chinese grinned above his glass of beer[.]

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 233:

"I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile."

1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 83:


retroussé

retroussé (comparative more retroussé, superlative most retroussé)

more retroussé (comparative)
most retroussé (superlative)

/ɹəˈtɹuːseɪ/

/ˌɹɛtɹuˈseɪ/

From French retroussé, past participle of retrousser (“to hitch up, hike up”), from re- (from Latin re- (“back, backwards; again”), from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”) or *ure- (“back”)) + trousser (“to fold up, hitch up”).

[...] Roxelane [...] would never have been espoused by the Sultan [Suleiman the Magnificent] had not her nose been retroussé, thus[…]. / It may be noted that to this day a retroussé nose is known in France as a nose a la Roxelane.

1903 April, “Sir Oracle” [pseudonym], The Era: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Literature and of General Interest, volume XI, number 4, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry T. Coates & Co., →OCLC, page 303:

"A tight little craft," was Austin's invariable comment on the matron;[…]. Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “A Novice”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 363:

You know, a touch of character – slightly retroussé nose, big mouth, perhaps a couple of freckles.

1967, Michael Gilbert, “Part Two: Tendresse v. Lucille”, in The Dust and the Heat, London: Hodder & Stoughton; republished Looe, Cornwall: House of Stratus, 2004, →ISBN, page 128:

Luminous silver gray eyes outlined in sooty lashes; a pert retroussé nose and faintly carmine tinted lips, slightly full, finished the oval face.

2004, Anita-Louise Johnson, chapter 1, in Faithful, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 3:

She shares with this woman the same retroussé nose and half-moon eyes, the same asymmetrical smile.

2008, Fiona Capp, Musk & Byrne, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN:

I would simply waffle about her small, almost perfectly upswept, retroussé nose, and you'd consider me insane, and put me back.

2009, Jasper Fforde, “The Word”, in Shades of Grey, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC:

Turned up, especially when describing the nose.


syndesmosis

He was diagnosed with syndesmosis in his left ankle, the same injury that cost Ryan Hoffman a place in last year's grand final.

2009 August 19, Russell Gould, “Storm dismisses any talk of Greg Inglis returning”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 2009-08-20:

(anatomy) A slightly movable articulation or joint where the contiguous bony surfaces are rough and are united by an interosseous ligament (e.g. between the fibula and tibia at the ankle).


hyperfusion

Increased perfusion of blood through an organ


reticulon

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins found in the endoplasmic reticulum that have a variety of functions.


fimbrin

(biochemistry) A protein of the calponin family


calponin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins that bind calcium.


formamidase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of formylkynurenine to kynurenine and formate during the metabolism of tryptophan


formyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any transferase that catalyses the transfer of a formyl group


tropomyosin

/ˌtɹəʊ.pəʊˈmʌɪ.əs.ɪn/

/ˌtɹəʊ.pəˈmʌɪ.əs.ɪn/

From Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “turn”, noun) + myosin.

af

(biochemistry) A protein involved in muscle contraction. It is related to myosin and occurs together with troponin in the thin filaments of muscle tissue.

tropomyosine

biochemistry: protein involved in muscle contraction


hydrophobin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of small, cysteine-rich proteins that are expressed only by filamentous fungi, known for their capability of forming a hydrophobic coating on the surface of an object


gyrase

en-noun

gyrase (countable and uncountable, plural gyrases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that supercoils DNA.


overpermed

en-adj

overpermed (comparative more overpermed, superlative most overpermed)

more overpermed (comparative)
most overpermed (superlative)

She looked pretty much as I'd imagined she would: loose cotton smock, overpermed hair, tobacco-stained teeth.

2004, Linda Lael Miller, Never Look Back:


aconitase

en-noun

aconitase (countable and uncountable, plural aconitases)

The enzyme system bringing about the reversible hydration of cisaconitic acid has been shown to be different from fumarase and termed "aconitase".

1939 June 1, William Arthur Johnson, “Aconitase”, in Biochemical Journal, volume 33, number 6, page 1046:

These are: aconitase, isocitric dehydrogenase, alpha-ketoglutaric dehydrogenase, succinic dehydrogenase, fumarase, malic dehydrogenase, DPHN-oxidase, and cytochrome oxidase.

1959, Virginia Commission of Fisheries, Report of the Commission of Fisheries of Virginia, page 54:

The best-characterized member of iron-sulfur isomerases is mitochondrial aconitase.

2000, Louis J. Ignarro, Nitric Oxide: Biology and Pathobiology, page 301:

tricarboxylic acid cycle
tricarboxylic acid cycle

(biochemistry) Aconitate hydratase, an enzyme that catalyses the stereospecific isomerization of citrate to isocitrate via cis-aconitate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle.


hydroxocobalamin

(biochemistry) A natural analog of vitamin B₁₂, a basic member of the cobalamin family of compounds, with an intense red color.


aspartylglucosaminidase

A human gene and amidohydrolase enzyme involved in the catabolism of N-linked oligosaccharides of glycoproteins.


calbindin

calbindin (countable and uncountable, plural calbindins)

(biochemistry) Any of a class of calcium-binding proteins first described as the vitamin D-dependent calcium binding proteins in intestine and kidney.


calretinin

calretinin (countable and uncountable, plural calretinins)

(biochemistry) A vitamin D-dependent calcium-binding protein involved in calcium signalling and abundantly expressed in neurons; it stains mesothelioma and can help to identify lung tumours.


reelin

From reel + -in, from the abnormal gait of reeler mice, later found to be deficient in this protein.

(biochemistry) A protein that helps to regulate processes of neuronal migration and positioning in the developing brain.


protoporphyrinogen oxidase

protoporphyrinogen IX
protoporphyrinogen IX

(biochemistry) An enzyme responsible for the seventh step in heme production, removing hydrogen atoms from protoporphyrinogen IX to form protoporphyrin IX.


phycoerythrocyanin

phycoerythrocyanin (countable and uncountable, plural phycoerythrocyanins)

(biochemistry) A phycobiliprotein involved in photosynthesis, notably in Cyanobacteria and red algae.


ferrochelatase

ferrochelatase (countable and uncountable, plural ferrochelatases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, localized to the mitochondrion, that catalyses the terminal (eighth) step in the biosynthesis of heme, converting protoporphyrin IX into heme


tonsillolith

In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow.

2009 September 1, Elizabeth Svoboda, “In Tonsils, a Problem the Size of a Pea”, in New York Times:

(dentistry) A calculus that forms in the rear of the mouth, in the crevasses of the palatine tonsils.


apyrase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP, releasing phosphate and available energy

apirase

any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ATP


eyestalk

(anatomy) A motile stalk having an eye at the tip.


phototropin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of photoreceptor flavoproteins that mediate phototropism in higher plants.


amphiphysin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of protein associated with the cytoplasmic surface of synaptic vesicles

anfifisina

any of a class of protein associated with the cytoplasmic surface of synaptic vesicles


chondroitinase

Animals that were given the treatment produced an enzyme called chondroitinase which breaks down scar tissue and allows the broken nerves to reconnect with each other.

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans.


endophilin

(biochemistry) An accessory protein that has several functions associated with cell membranes


epsin

(biochemistry) A protein that has a function in maintaining cell membrane curvature


fascin

(biochemistry) An actin-bundling protein.


glycohydrolase

glycohydrolase (countable and uncountable, plural glycohydrolases)

(biochemistry) Any of many enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of glycosides


griffithsin

(biochemistry) A protein, isolated from the red alga Griffithsia, that may have some use as a microbicide.


thermolysin

thermolysin (countable and uncountable, plural thermolysins)

(biochemistry) A thermostable neutral metalloproteinase enzyme produced by the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus thermoproteolyticus.


nexin

(biochemistry) A protein that constitutes a link between microtubules in cilia and flagella.


prohibitin

prohibitin (countable and uncountable, plural prohibitins)

(biochemistry) A protein, found in almost all living things, thought to have multiple functions.


tensin

tensin (countable and uncountable, plural tensins)

(biochemistry) A multidomain protein that binds to actin filaments.


innexin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins used to create gap junctions in invertebrates


deiodinase

deiodinase (countable and uncountable, plural deiodinases)

(biochemistry) iodide peroxidase, an enzyme that is involved in the activation or deactivation of thyroid hormones


biceps femoris

biceps femoris (plural biceps femorum or biceps femoris)

biceps femorum (plural)
biceps femoris (plural)

(anatomy) The flexor of the knee, a two-headed muscle in the back of the upper leg.


betaxanthin

betaxanthin (countable and uncountable, plural betaxanthins)

From translingual Beta (“beet genus”) + xanth- + -in.

af

Any of the betalain pigments which appear yellow to orange.


betacyanin

en-noun

betacyanin (countable and uncountable, plural betacyanins)

Amaranthus tricolor
Amaranthus tricolor#Translingual

Any of the betalain pigments which appear reddish to violet, found in beets, chard, and Amaranthus tricolor


reproductive organ

reproductive organ (plural reproductive organs)

Near-synonyms: sex organ, genital

(anatomy) An organ used for sexual reproduction.

عُضُو تَكَاثُر

organ used for sexual reproduction — see also sex organ


nethers

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(female member of the spaceship crew speaking) "We're going on a year now, I ain't had nothing 'twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries."

At the movies, the nethers have become unnestled, and not just in art films.

2009 February 27, Peter Howell, “Doctor Manhattan part of the full-frontal revolution”, in Toronto Star:

The private parts of the body, particularly the sex organs.


glycyrrhizin

From glycyrrhiza (“licorice root”) + -in.

Glycyrrhiza glabra
Glycyrrhiza glabra#Translingual

(organic chemistry) A crystalline glycosidic acid, the main sweet-tasting compound from licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) root, thirty to fifty times as sweet as sucrose (table sugar).


glycyrrhizic acid

(organic chemistry) Synonym of glycyrrhizin.


emerin

(biochemistry) A protein found in the nuclear membrane of vertebrate cells


arylesterase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an aryl ester

arilesterase

any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an aryl ester


pontin

(biochemistry) An ATPase that is a component of telomerase


pyrophosphorylase

(biochemistry) Any pyrophosphate transferase


Jewfro

He raked his fingers through his hair, which had become a Jewfro in the Florida humidity.

2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 160:

A curly, bushy hairstyle worn by some Ashkenazi Jews.


sulfiredoxin

sulfiredoxin (countable and uncountable, plural sulfiredoxins)

(biochemistry) An oxidoreductase enzyme involved in antioxidant metabolism


pudendum muliebre

pudendum muliebre (plural pudenda muliebria)

From Latin pudendum (“a thing to be ashamed of”) + muliebre, neuter form of muliebris (“of a woman”).

uder

(6) Two nights after the birth of the infant, and until the tenth night, a midwife will, in some places, daily thrust her finger into the pudendum muliebre and vagina, for the purpose of removing any clots of blood which may remain in the vagina. This is to vakasilima.
(7) When a mother has, after the birth of an infant, had too early intercourse with her husband, a midwife will be called in, who will vakasilima her by thrusting her finger into the pudendum muliebre and vagina.

1896, Report of the Fiji Commission to Inquire into the Decrease of the Native Population: with appendices, page 168 (E.J. March, Government Printer)

(dated) A woman's pudendum; her vulva; compare pudendum virile.


pulpitis

(dentistry) A reversible or irreversible inflammation of the tooth pulp which is in most cases of endodontic origin but can also be of periodontal origin too. It can lead to apical periodontitis, cysts and tooth loss if not treated.


dispase

(biochemistry) A protease that cleaves fibronectin and collagen


immunophilin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of isomerases active in the immune system.


neurofibromin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins associated with neurofibromatosis


phogrin

(biochemistry) A protein present on insulin-secretory granules of pancreatic beta cells


syncollin

(biochemistry) A small protein found in the exocrine pancreas


flavoenzyme

(biochemistry) Any oxidoreductase that requires FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide) as a prosthetic group that functions in electron transfers


slant-eyed

en-adj

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

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

(derogatory) Specifically refers to having the eyes of most East Asians: with epicanthic folds, as opposed to the downturned eyes of Europeans.


Jheri curl

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/ˈdʒɛɹi kɜɹl/

Named after American hairdresser Jheri Redding (1907–1998), its inventor.

named-after

Today's temperature's gonna rise up over 100 degrees, so there's a Jheri curl alert! That's right, Jheri curl alert. If you have a Jheri curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent black helmet on your head fuh-eva!

1989, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, spoken by Mister Senor Love Daddy (Samuel L. Jackson):

Eye shadow but no lipstick, Jheri curl drying out.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 517:

His little Jheri curl shined under the car's light. He looked hood.

2020, Romeo Conway, Stop Faking for Stripes, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:

A hairstyle popular with the African-American community in the 1980s, giving a glossy, loosely curled look.


John Lennon glasses

Everyone in New York
Had a position on Shanker,
A story about garbage,
An unconventional sex life,
John Lennon glasses, […]

1969 (7 Apr), Judith Viorst, "New York Visit, 1969", New York Magazine 2 (no.14): 43

"[…]Or, I could go to Harvard Square, browse the coffee shops wearing my John Lennon glasses, and look for an intellectual who's smart enough to see the woman inside."

1998, Barbara Delinsky, A Woman's Place, page 335:

A bookish young man with John Lennon glasses looked up, smiled, and answered in a northern accent. "The tool is calibrated. Just waiting to hit total depth."

2003, Greg Iles, Sleep No More, page 36:

(plural only) A pair of eyeglasses (spectacles) with round lenses.

lennonky

pair of eyeglasses/spectacles with round lenses


John Lennon spectacles

A clamp-jawed man in his early thirties, a Program attorney named Sean, sat up front as well, next to a trim, bearded fellow of the same age — the good Dr. Henderson, complete with a yachtsman's physique and John Lennon spectacles.

2004, Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Program, page 238:

(plural only) A pair of spectacles (glasses) with round lenses.


asparaginase

en-noun

asparaginase (countable and uncountable, plural asparaginases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of asparagine to aspartic acid, used in chemotherapy.

asparaginaza

an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of asparagine to aspartic acid


ninein

(biochemistry) A protein that has a centrosomal function


bucco-

From buccal, from Latin bucca (“mouth; cheek”).

(anatomy, medicine, dentistry) buccal; related to the cheek.

(anatomy, medicine, dentistry) (rarely; historically) oral; related to the mouth, especially the oral cavity.


lovelock

A lock of hair that hangs down and is worn apart from the hair that remains.


beauty parlour

(UK) Alternative spelling of beauty parlor


intrinsic protein

intrinsic protein (plural intrinsic proteins)

(biochemistry) A protein (or group of proteins) permanently attached to a biological membrane by interactions between its hydrophobic dimer units and the phospholipids of the membrane


labially

en-adv

labially (comparative more labially, superlative most labially)

more labially (comparative)
most labially (superlative)

Transillumination of anterior teeth, using the composite curing light placed labially to shine through the tooth and be viewed using the mouth mirror, shows up any cavities as dark interproximal shadows.

2013, Carole Hollins, Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses, page 44:

(linguistics, dentistry) In a labial manner; by means of the lips.


adrenosterone

(biochemistry) A hormone, originally isolated from the adrenal cortex, that has weak androgenic effects.


postiche

This type of postiche is called a 'combination wig' because it mixes hand-made work with machine-made work.

1993, Patsy Baker, Wigs & Makeup for Theatre, Television, and Film, page 150:

[…]both kings and queens enjoyed wearing lavish fake beards made of gold and silver called postiches, which were strapped behind the ears like a Halloween mask.

2001, Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A cultural history of facial hair, page 17:

Any item of false hair worn on the head or face, such as a false beard or wig.

postiche

any item of false hair worn on the head or face


invertin

(obsolete, biochemistry) Any enzyme that converts a sugar to an invert sugar; saccharase.


sestrin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins that play key roles in regulating aging and metabolism


bedroom eyes

What that meant Em wasn't sure, but her deep blue eyes and long lashes were often called bedroom eyes, and drew more than a few compliments.

2014, Rhian Cahill, New Year's Kisses (Novella):

Eyes that have a sexually suggestive expression.


queueless

Without a queue (line of people or things waiting).


buccally

Banded molars can be rotated, moved buccally and lingually, extruded on one side, and intruded on the other side in ways that are not desired.

2010, Robert N. Staley, Neil T. Reske, Essentials of Orthodontics: Diagnosis and Treatment, →ISBN, page 86:

(dentistry, medicine, referring to force, movement, or both) In the buccal direction; toward the cheek.

(dentistry, medicine) Via buccal administration; via absorption through the mucosa of the cheek.


Goα

1999. Yu, Bo. "An engineered mutant of G protein α subunit that binds xanthine nucleotide and not guanine nucleotide", Ph.D. thesis, California Institute of Technology.
The Giα family name implies that some of its members can inhibit adenylyl cyclase upon activation, and includes three Giα isoforms, Goα (a predominately neural α subunit, two different splicing variants), […]

(biochemistry, uncountable) a type of GTP-binding protein subunit belonging to the Giα family, expressed primarily in neural cell types


protein kinase

These findings, together with previous evidence that heparin stimulates Tau phosphorylation by protein kinases, have been used to argue that sulfated glycosaminoglycans may be a critical factor in the formation of the neurofibrillary tangles.

2009, Ajit Varki with Hudson H. Freeze, “Glycans in Acquired Human Diseases”, in Varki, A., et al., editor, Essentials of Glycobiology, 2nd edition, CSH Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2009-12-05:

(biochemistry) a kinase whose substrate is a protein


myelin protein zero

(biochemistry) the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath


(biochemistry, uncountable) a protein found in neurons, a component of the exocyst involved in regulating actin polymerization


aquiline nose

She was delicately fair, with an aquiline nose, and a mouth the size of which was forgotten in its white teeth and pleasant smile. She wore a peruke of very fair golden hair; and herein was shown the lurking spirit of female vanity: her own tresses had been very beautiful;...

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217:


pattern baldness

A gradual loss of hair, common in humans, especially males.


unhair

en-verb

unhair (third-person singular simple present unhairs, present participle unhairing, simple past and past participle unhaired)

unhairs (present singular third-person)
unhairing (participle present)
unhaired (participle past)
unhaired (past)

The sides, after being unhaired, are put in clean water over night, then green-shaved and put in a bate of hen manure four or five days.

1889, Annual report of the Bureau of Animal Industry - Volume 4, Parts 1887-1888, page 425:

They found that such a practice produced what was termed a "mellow" lime; the mellower the lime the more rapidly it unhaired the skin.

1924, Tanners' Council of America. Research Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, Reports and Papers, volume 2, page 520:

(transitive) To remove hair from (something), especially from hide.


nerve growth factor

en-noun

nerve growth factor (countable and uncountable, plural nerve growth factors)

They (trypsin-like serine proteases) are also thought to be involved in the processing or activation of other biologically important proteins such as nerve growth factor (NGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF) (3–5).

1983, Philip N. Howles, Douglas P. Dickinson, Laura L. DiCaprio, Mary Woodworth-Gutai, Kenneth W Gross, “Use of a cDNA recombinant for the γ-subunit of mouse nerve growth factor to localize members of this multigene family near the TAM-1 locus on chromosome 7.”, in Nucleic Acids Research, 12, no. 6 26 March 1984: 2791:

Nerve growth factor is the prototypical member of the neurotrophin family.

1999 Landreth, Gary E. Growth Factors. In: Siegel, George J.; et al. Basic Neurochemistry. Philadelphia: Lippincott–Raven Publishers; 1999 [cited 18 December 2009]. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=bnchm&part=A1358#A1364

(biochemistry) a functional protein complex required for the survival, growth and specialization of certain types of neurons in vertebrates.


glucocorticoid receptor

glucocorticoid receptor (plural glucocorticoid receptors)

The cellular site of binding of dexamethasone by specific glucocorticoid receptors in cultured hepatoma cells was investigated with the use of certain mercurials.

1972, B. B. Levinson, J. D. Baxter, G. G. Rousseau, G. M. Tomkins, “Cellular site of glucocorticoid-receptor complex formation.”, in Science, 175, no. 18 14 January 1972: 189-190:

2009 Zimmer, Carl. "Can Evolution Run in Reverse? A Study Says It’s a One-Way Street," New York Times, 28 September 2009 [cited 18 December 2009], Science section, online edition, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/science/29evol.html.
They studied a protein called a glucocorticoid receptor that helps humans and most other vertebrates cope with stress by grabbing a hormone called cortisol and then switching on stress-defense genes.

(biochemistry) A protein found in multiple forms within cells, which binds glucocorticoids and subsequently influences gene transcription.


occipitofrontalis

Borrowed from New Latin occipitofrontālis, clipping of mūsculus occipitofrontālis (“occipitofrontal muscle”). Doublet of occipitofrontal.

clipping

epicranial aponeurosis
epicranial aponeurosis

(anatomy) A large flat muscle on each side of the vertex of the skull, consisting of an occipital portion (arising from the occipital and temporal bones) and a frontal portion that are separated by the epicranial aponeurosis, and serving to draw the scalp backwards, raising the eyebrows and wrinkling the forehead.


occipitofrontal

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the occipital and frontal bones of the skull.


occipitalis

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin occipitālis, ellipsis of mūsculus occipitālis (“occipital muscle”). Doublet of occipital.

ellipsis

Coordinate term: frontalis

(anatomy) A muscle of the head that arises from the lateral two-thirds of the superior nuchal lines and from the mastoid part of the temporal bone, inserts into the galea aponeurotica, and acts to move the scalp; it is sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.


frontalis

Borrowed from New Latin frontālis, clipping of mūsculus frontālis (“frontal muscle”). Doublet of frontal.

clipping

Coordinate term: occipitalis

(anatomy) A muscle of the forehead, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.


orbicularis oculi

en-noun

orbicularis oculi (plural orbiculares oculorum)

/ɔːˌbɪk.jʊˈlɑː.ɹɪs ˈɒk.jʊ.lʌɪ/

/ɔɹˌbɪk.jəˌlɛɹ.ɪs ˈɑk.jəˌlaɪ/

Borrowed from New Latin orbiculāris oculī, clipping of mūsculus orbiculāris oculī (“orbicular muscle of the eye”).

clipping

Coordinate term: orbicularis oris

(anatomy) A muscle of the face that encircles the orbit and passes through the eyelids, serving to close the eye.


corrugator supercilii

en-noun

corrugator supercilii (plural corrugatores superciliorum)

Borrowed from New Latin corrūgātor superciliī (“wrinkler of the eyebrow”).

bor

Coordinate term: corrugator cutis ani

(anatomy) A small narrow pyramidal muscle at the medial end of the eyebrow.


depressor supercilii

An eye muscle, usually considered to be part of the orbicularis oculi.


levator palpebrae superioris

en-noun

levator palpebrae superioris (plural levatores palpebrarum superiorum)

levatores palpebrarum superiorum (plural)

Borrowed from New Latin levātor palpebrae superiōris (“lifter of the superior eyelid”).

bor

(anatomy) A thin flat extrinsic muscle of the eye arising from the lesser wing of the sphenoid bone, passing forward and downward over the superior rectus, and inserting into the tarsal plate of the skin of the upper eyelid which it elevates.


superior rectus

(anatomy) The thinnest and narrowest of the four extraocular muscles of the eyeball in the orbit, which arises from the border of the optic foramen and inserts into the superior aspect of the sclera.


inferior rectus

(anatomy) One of the four extraocular muscles of the eyeball in the orbit, which arises from the border of the optic foramen and inserts into the inferior aspect of the sclera.


medial rectus

(anatomy) The broadest of the four extraocular muscles of the eyeball in the orbit, which arises from the border of the optic foramen and inserts into the medial aspect of the sclera.


lateral rectus

(anatomy) The longest of the four extraocular muscles of the eyeball in the orbit, which arises by two heads from the border of the optic foramen and inserts into the lateral aspect of the sclera.


superior oblique

en-noun

superior oblique (plural superior obliques)

Coordinate term: inferior oblique

superior oblique muscle
superior oblique muscle#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of superior oblique muscle..


inferior oblique

inferior oblique (plural inferior obliques)

Coordinate term: superior oblique

inferior oblique muscle
inferior oblique muscle#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of inferior oblique muscle.


ciliary muscle

a muscle controlling the eye's accommodation for viewing objects at varying distances


iris dilator muscle

iris dilator muscle (plural iris dilator muscles)

A muscle of the eye, serving to dilate the iris.


hexosyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any glycosyltransferase that catalyzes the transfer of a hexose


phosphohydrolase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes an organic phosphate group


auricular muscle

auricular muscle (plural auricular muscles)

(anatomy) Alternative form of auricularis.


anterior auricular muscle

anterior auricular muscle (plural anterior auricular muscles)

auricularis anterior
auricularis anterior#English

(anatomy) Alternative form of auricularis anterior.


superior auricular muscle

superior auricular muscle (plural superior auricular muscles)

auricularis superior
auricularis superior#English

(anatomy) Alternative form of auricularis superior.


posterior auricular muscle

posterior auricular muscle (plural posterior auricular muscles)

auricularis posterior
auricularis posterior#English

(anatomy) Alternative form of auricularis posterior.


stapedius

Borrowed from New Latin stapedius, clipping of mūsculus stapedius (“stapedial muscle”). Doublet of stapedial.

clipping

(anatomy) A small muscle of the middle ear that arises from the wall of the tympanum and is inserted into the neck of the stapes by a tendon that sometimes contains a slender spine of bone; it is the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body, serving to stabilize the stapes to check and dampen its vibration.


tensor tympani

en-noun

tensor tympani (plural tensores tympanorum)

Borrowed from New Latin tensor tympanī (“tensor of the tympanum”).

bor

(anatomy) A small muscle of the middle ear that is located in the bony canal just above the bony part of the Eustachian tube, that arises from the canal containing it, from the cartilaginous portion of the Eustachian tube, and from the adjacent greater wing of the sphenoid bone, that is inserted by a long tendon into the manubrium of the malleus near its base, and that serves to adjust the tension of the tympanic membrane.


nasalis

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin nāsālis, ellipsis of mūsculus nāsālis (“nasal muscle”). Doublet of nasal.

ellipsis

(anatomy) A small muscle on each side of the nose that constricts the nasal aperture by the action of a triangular transverse portion which draws the lateral part of the aperture upward and a quadrangular alar portion which draws it downward.


depressor septi

en-noun

depressor septi (plural depressores septi)

depressor septi nasi
depressor septi nasi#English

(anatomy) Clipping of depressor septi nasi.


levator labii superioris alaeque nasi

levator labii superioris alaeque nasi (plural levatores labii superioris alarumque nasi)

/lɪˈveɪ.tɚ ˌleɪ.biˌaɪ sʊˌpɪɹ.iˈɔɹ.ɪs əˌliˌkwi ˈneɪˌzaɪ/

Borrowed from New Latin levātor labiī superiōris ālaeque nāsī (“lifter of the upper lip and of the wing of the nose”).

bor

(anatomy) A muscle of the face that arises from the nasal process of the maxilla, that passes downward and laterally, that divides into a part inserting into the alar cartilage and one inserting into the upper lip and that dilates the nostril and elevates the upper lip.

muscolo elevatore del labbro superiore e dell'ala del naso


caninus muscle

muscolo elevatore dell'angolo della bocca


triangularis muscle

en-noun

triangularis muscle (plural triangularis muscles)

A facial muscle of the mouth, associated with frowning.

muscolo depressore dell'angolo della bocca


latissimus dorsi

latissimus dorsi (plural latissimi dorsi)

From Latin lātissimus (“widest, broadest”) (superlative of lātus (“wide, broad”)) + dorsī (genitive of dorsum (“the back”)).

(anatomy) A large, flat, dorsolateral muscle on the trunk, posterior to the arm, and partly covered by the trapezius on its median dorsal region.


yure

Aw know'd him when his yure stickt out at top ov his hat; and his shurt would ha' hanged eawt beheend, too,--like a Wigan lantron,--iv he'd had a shurt.

1862, Edwin Waugh, Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine:

Her skin wor all a deep blue black, / Her yure, a dark braan red.


nectin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins that have a function in cell-to-cell adhesion


tallywhacker

Uncertain. Possibly from tally (“mate, counterpart”), from Middle English taly (“a tally stick”), from Anglo-Norman tallie, Old French taillee, taillie, from Medieval Latin tallia, talia, taillia, from Latin talea (“stick, twig”), or alternatively from tail, + wag, likely influenced by whack, + -er. Compare tallywag, an eighteenth century dialect term meaning “penis”. Attested as tallywhacker or tallywacker since the twentieth century.


HGPRT

HGPRT (countable and uncountable, plural HGPRTs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase


uncrying

Lots of people had loved her; they came to put flowers near and to say goodbye. They came out of her room with quiet, uncrying eyes, stood a moment by the fire in the studio, looking deep into it, and then they went away.

1944, Emily Carr, “A Visitor”, in The House of All Sorts:

[…] the pair of babies stood up to stare about them with the impassive, uncrying gaze of patriarchs.

1987, Colin Thubron, chapter 3, in Behind the Wall: A Journey through China, London: Vintage, published 2001, page 72:


gubernaculum

From Latin gubernāculum (“a helm, rudder”).

A part or structure that serves as a guide:

(dentistry) (more fully gubernaculum dentis) A cord or sheath of connective tissue that connects the sac of an unerupted permanent tooth with the surface of the gum.


pectinesterase

pectinesterase (countable and uncountable, plural pectinesterases)

(biochemistry) A ubiquitous cell-wall-associated enzyme that presents several isoforms that facilitate plant cell wall modification and subsequent breakdown, found in all higher plants as well as in some bacteria and fungi


RUB

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins similar to ubiquitin


tenascin

(biochemistry) Any of a class of glycoprotein found in the extracellular matrix of developing vertebrate embryos


thromboplastin

(biochemistry) A protease that converts prothrombin to thrombin during the clotting of blood.


luting

luting (countable and uncountable, plural lutings)

(dentistry) The process of cementing or bonding dental restorations, such as crowns, bridges, inlays, onlays, and veneers, to the natural tooth structure or dental implant abutments.


deacetyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that remove acetyl groups, especially from a lysine residue of a histone


aminomethyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an aminomethyl group

aminometyylitransferaasi

any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an aminomethyl group


alkyllysinase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of enzymes that catalyses the removal of alkyl (especially methyl) groups from lysine


deiminase

(biochemistry) Any hydrolase that hydrolyses imines


earlock

A lock of curly hair worn by the ear, often by Jewish men for religious reasons, and formerly by Elizabethan dandies.


chorismic acid

(organic chemistry) The compound (3R,4R)-3-[(1-carboxyvinyl)oxy]-4-hydroxycyclohexa-1,5-diene-1-carboxylic acid, whose anion chorismate is an important biochemical intermediate in plants and microorganisms.


ribosylhydrolase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of hydrolase enzymes that remove ribose moieties


succinyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any transferase enzyme that transfers succinyl groups


sortase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of prokaryotic enzymes that form pili through cleavage and isopeptide bonding of precursors


enolase

(biochemistry) A metalloenzyme responsible for the catalysis of phosphoglycerate to phosphoenolpyruvate during glycolysis


lactalbumin

lactalbumin (countable and uncountable, plural lactalbumins)

(biochemistry) The albumin content of milk.


lactoglobulin

(biochemistry) The globulin content of milk


myogenin

(biochemistry) A protein (and associated gene) responsible for the development of skeletal muscle


myoglobulin

(biochemistry) The globulin of muscle tissue


staphylokinase

(biochemistry) A kinase, from Staphylococcus bacteria, that activates plasminogen to form plasmin


stromelysin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of metalloproteinases that cleave extracellular matrix proteins.


syntenin

(biochemistry) A protein that binds the cytoplasmic C-terminal FYA motif of the syndecans


thyroglobulin

(biochemistry) A globulin, produced by the thyroid gland, that has a role in the production of the thyroid hormones


exopolyphosphatase

(biochemistry) Any of a class of exocellular phosphohydrolases that hydrolyse polyphosphate


molybdoenzyme

In the present investigation evidence is presented indicating that the CO₂ reductase from Cl. pasteurianum most probably is a molybdoenzyme: It is synthesized only in the presence of molybdenum and is inactivated by low concentrations of cyanide, as are other molybdoenzymes.

1973 December 15, “CO₂ reductase from Clostridium pasteurianum: Molybdenum dependence of synthesis and inactivation by cyanide”, in FEBS Letters, volume 38, number 1, page 45:

Many organisms possessed several molybdoenzyme families and several subfamilies within these families. In archaea, as in bacteria, DMSOR was also the most frequently used molybdoenzyme family (>95% of Mo-utilizing organisms).

2016, Valeria Culotta, Metals in Cells, page 26:

While eukaryotes produce only a limited number of enzymes belonging to the sulfite oxidase and xanthine oxidase families (for instance, four molybdoenzymes are present in humans), enzymes of all three families are present in prokaryotes with enzymes of the DMSO reductase family being predominant.

2016, Russ Hille, Molybdenum and Tungsten Enzymes, page 118:

(biochemistry) Any metalloenzyme in which the active metal is molybdenum.


nucleotidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a nucleotide to a nucleoside and phosphate


prephenic acid

(organic chemistry) An intermediate in the biosynthesis of the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine


azoreductase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of enzymes that catalyze the conversion of diamines to azo compounds


stenodactylin

(biochemistry) A highly toxic ribosome-inactivating protein found in the passionflower Adenia stenodactyla


metallocarboxypeptidase

(biochemistry) Any metalloproteinase exopeptidase


sialidase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of mammalian lysosomal neuraminidases.


fucosyltransferase

(biochemistry) A transferase that catalyzes the transfer of fucose sugars


alkaline phosphatase

alkaline phosphatase (plural alkaline phosphatases)

(biochemistry) Any of a group of phosphatases that are most active in an alkaline environment


bloody nose

(US) A nose that is bleeding internally.


fucosidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a fucoside


hexosaminidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of terminal hexosamine residues in hexosaminides


mirach

From Medieval Latin mirac, mirach, from Arabic مَرَقّ (maraqq, “delicate and sensible part of the venter”), from رَقَّ (raqqa, “to be soft”).

der

Gordonius[…]confirms as much, putting the “matter of melancholy sometimes in the stomach, liver, heart, brain, spleen, myrach, hypochondries, whenas the melancholy humour resides there, or the liver is not well cleansed from melancholy blood.”

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition I, section 2, member 5, subsection ii:

(medicine, obsolete) The abdominal wall.


vampirelike

en-adj

vampirelike (comparative more vampirelike, superlative most vampirelike)

more vampirelike (comparative)
most vampirelike (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of a vampire.


vampiresque

vampiresque (comparative more vampiresque, superlative most vampiresque)

more vampiresque (comparative)
most vampiresque (superlative)


calcin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of polypeptides that have an affinity for calcium


cementation

en-noun

cementation (countable and uncountable, plural cementations)

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(dentistry) The use of a cement or adhesive to fasten orthodontics or to restore chipped or broken teeth


schnozz

Likely from Yiddish שנויץ (shnoyts), cognate to German Schnauze (“snout”) and English snout. Compare schnozzle. A less common theory suggests a variant of nose influenced by schm-, or by general association with Yiddish words. Attested since at least 1940.

[…] you have got J-E-W written right across the middle of that face—look at the shnoz on him, for God’s sakes!

1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, pages 149–150:

There's a TV commercial out now for a nasal spray in which a man in need of a decongestant wakes up to find that his entire head has turned into a giant schnozz.

1993 March 5, Adam Langer, “Sex Lives of Superheroes/Subfertile”, in The Chicago Reader:

One presumes the anesthetic is for the bull, although if I were about to pound a nail through some bull's schnozz I might want some anesthetic myself.

1998 June 26, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in The Chicago Reader:

In another talk, a DinoNose collaborator, Scott Sampson of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pointed out a number of ridges in the ceratopsian schnozz that probably supported curtains of cartilage; these in turn may have served as scaffolding for layers upon layers of mucous membranes.

1999 November 5, Carl Zimmer, “Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: The Stories Behind the Bones”, in Science, volume 286, number 5442, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1071–1074:


supercatalyst

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(chemistry, biochemistry) Any catalyst (especially an enzyme) that catalyzes a large range of reactions


foreskinless

Rabbinic and mystical texts affirm the foreskinless birth of a dozen or so biblical men […]

2006, Eric Kline Silverman, From Abraham to America: a history of Jewish circumcision, page 29:


barnase

barnase (countable and uncountable, plural barnases)

(biochemistry) A small protein, produced by the bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and others, that has ribonuclease activity


beef curtains

Due to the alleged resemblance of a woman's genitals to a pair of curtains, and their being made of flesh.


aurification

Any of several processes, especially in dentistry, that involve working with gold.


digastric

Borrowing from New Latin digastricus, from di- (“twice, doubly”) + gastricus (“gastric”); equivalent to di- + gastric. Doublet of digastricus.

af

the digastric muscle of the lower jaw

(anatomy) Of, relating to, or being a digastric muscle.


digastric

digastric muscle
digastric muscle#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of digastric muscle..


capillaceous

en-adj

capillaceous (comparative more capillaceous, superlative most capillaceous)

more capillaceous (comparative)
most capillaceous (superlative)


toupée

(hyperforeign) Alternative spelling of toupee.


walking carpet

/ˈwɔːkɪŋ ˈkɑːpɪt/

/ˈwɔkɪŋ ˈkɑɹpɪt/

From a scene in the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, 1977), in which Princess Leia insults Chewbacca, a member of a race of hairy bipeds called Wookiees, by referring to him as a “walking carpet”.

“Really.” Mac arched a thick eyebrow. “You didn't say anything about my body hair when we were going out together.” / Peter kept his eyes on the espresso and away from Mac's hairy wrist. “You're not like...that guy. You're not a walking carpet. And my God, you've got muscle definition.”

2003, Jonathan Cohen, chapter 2, in Bear Like Me: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Southern Tier Editions/Harrington Park Press, →ISBN; republished Maple Shade, N.J.: Bare Bones Books, Lethe Press, 2011, →ISBN, page 18:

But then my true hair problems began. […] It was all the other hairs rearing their ugly heads—between my eyebrows, above my upper lip, around my jawline, down my neck, around my new breasts, down my front to my navel, over my arms and knuckles, right down my legs to my toes. I didn't recall ever seeing a woman shaving her face and "taking it all off' on that Noxema commercial. None of the other girls at school appeared to be walking carpets.

2003, Bhargavi C. Mandava, “To Apu, with Love”, in Ophira Edut, editor, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image, 2nd expanded and updated edition, Emeryville, Calif.: Seal Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2018-12-13, page 72:

I had *some* chest hairs, but it wasn't nearly as much as some guys I've seen (there were a couple of guys I saw in the locker room at school, both seniors, who were practically walking carpets).

2011 August 7, Rightardia [username], “Transgender Stories – Troy! – Chapter 1”, in alt.politics (Usenet), message-ID <j1ksqd$fjv$1@speranza.aioe.org>:

(slang, derogatory or humorous) An exceptionally hairy person.

Ballantine Books
Chewbacca
Princess Leia


lactard

Our 'lactard' designer hopes innocent will make some soya options so she can also enjoy a breakfast thickie.

2007, The Other Side, Issue 5, 5 April 2007, page 10 (advertisement)

He also welcomes “glutards and lactards.”

2012 November 28, Andy Rhodes, “Wolf it down at Wolf's Catering and BBQ”, in The Valley Voice, volume 21, number 24, page 18:

As a “lactard,” I feel the pain of having a restricted diet. Yet there is hope in my life, because I can eat bread.

2015, Ivy Davis, "'Glutards' rejoice at Liberated Bakery", The Advocate (Mt. Hood Community College), Volume 50, Issue 18, 20 February 2015, page 4

(slang, rare) A lactose intolerant person.


ringleted

ringleted (comparative more ringleted, superlative most ringleted)

more ringleted (comparative)
most ringleted (superlative)

As for the mob cap, not a fig did I care for it; but, to be taken for anything but a cavalier, by the ringleted one, was absolutely unendurable.

1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:

The picture of a blanched and ringleted Boy George on the cover had been taken by Russell.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 4, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:


sternocleidomastoid muscle

en-noun

sternocleidomastoid muscle (plural sternocleidomastoid muscles)

(anatomy) A long thick superficial muscles on each side of the anterior neck which arises by one head from the first segment of the sternum and by a second from the inner part of the clavicle, that inserts into the mastoid process of the temporal bone and that acts especially to bend, flex, rotate and extend the head.


trochlear

The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.

1949, Herbert Eugene Walter, Leonard Perkins Sayles, Biology of the Vertebrates: A Comparative Study of Man and His Animal Allies, page 741:

At 90° of flexion, the patella enters the condylar fossa, where the contact areas are on both the lateral and medial trochlears of the femur.

2014, Joanne K. Singleton, Robert V. DiGregorio, Carol Green-Hernandez, Primary Care, Second Edition: An Interprofessional Perspective, →ISBN, page 593:

Using three-dimensional printing, they replaced the native trochlear in four cadaveric knees with dysplastic trochlears and then subjected them to squat simulation, open chain extension, and a patella stability test.

2017, W. Norman Scott, Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee, 6th edition, →ISBN, page 917:

(anatomy, neuroanatomy) A trochlear muscle or nerve.


foremilk

foremilk (countable and uncountable, plural foremilks)

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The first milk drawn from a cow during milking; in humans, the milk secreted initially during breastfeeding, typically low in fat and rich in protein.


hindmilk

hindmilk (usually uncountable, plural hindmilks)

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The milk secreted during the later part of breastfeeding, typically high in fat and low in protein.


fuzzy-wuzzy

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Adjective: Reduplication of fuzzy. Noun: From the adjective, in reference to their fuzzy hair texture.

(Australia, World War II) A Papuan, especially one who assisted the Australian military against the Japanese; a Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel.


mooey

From Angloromani mui, from Sanskrit मुख (mukha, “mouth, face”). Compare Swedish knoparmoj.

Now, one day, right, he's staggering across the pub pissed from the night before. He's gone over, crunch, right on his mooey, like a fucking ironing board.

1997, Gary Oldman, Nil by Mouth, screenplay


mooey

Pan was curious about the silver pot that the female homer cradled against her round mooey breasts as if it were a babe […]

(nonce word, slang) "Moo"-like; reminiscent of a cow.


emulsin

(dated, biochemistry) A mixture of enzymes, extracted from bitter almonds, once used to hydrolyze glucosides.


tarsometatarsus

(zoology) The large bone in the leg of a bird, or some bird-like dinosaurs, connected to the foot, homologous to the mammalian tarsus and metatarsus.


anticaries

(dentistry) Preventing or countering caries.


axillary hair

axillary hair (usually uncountable, plural axillary hairs)

axillary (“adjacent or pertaining to the armpit, axilla, or shoulder”) + hair

(uncountable) Androgenic hair growing in the armpit, normally beginning at the onset of, or shortly after, pubarche.


tonsor

From Latin tōnsor (“barber, hairdresser”), from the supine root of tondēre (“to shave, to shear”) + -or (“-or: forming agent nouns”).

“So, tonsor,” says Jones, “I find you have more trades than one; how came you not to inform me of this last night?”

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

He was speedily shown the way to such an emporium of intelligence, and soon found he was likely to hear all he desired to know, and much more, while his head was subjected to the art of a nimble tonsor.

1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 27, in The Fortunes of Nigel:


come aloft

en-verb

come aloft (third-person singular simple present comes aloft, present participle coming aloft, simple past came aloft, past participle come aloft)

comes aloft (present singular third-person)
coming aloft (participle present)
came aloft (past)
come aloft (participle past)

his louely wife emongst them lay, / Embraced of a Satyre rough and rude, / Who all the night did minde his ioyous play: / Nine times he heard him come aloft ere day, / That all his hart with gealosie did swell; / But yet that nights ensample did bewray, / That not for nought his wife them loued so well, / When one so oft a night did ring his matins bell.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Fowler: I must kiss her:–(kisses her) – thou hast a down lip, and dost twang it handsomely; now to the business.
Penelope: This is not all I look for.
Fowler (aside): She will not tempt me to come aloft, will she?

1633, James Shirley, The Witty Fair One, IV.iv:

(obsolete, slang) To mount sexually; to have an erection.


vajazzle

[vəˈd͡ʒæzl̩]

YOU have to feel for OLLY MURS – ladies keep trying to show him their vajazzles.

2010 November 2, “Olly is dazzled by girl fans”, in The Sun, UK:

TELLY beauty Billie Faiers has suggested Victoria Beckham get a vajazzle to perk up her sex life.

2011 September 27, Dan Menhinnet, “Billie Faiers: Posh Spice should get vajazzled”, in The Sun, UK:

A vajazzle from a beautician can cost anywhere between £20 and £100, but pound stores started stocking the accessory earlier this month.

2011 December 22, “The TOWIE effect hits pound stores as sales of £1 vajazzles soar”, in The Sun, UK:

(slang) A cosmetic treatment in which jewels are placed on a woman's vulva and/or pubic area.


dilaceration

en-noun

dilaceration (countable and uncountable, plural dilacerations)

(dentistry) An angular distortion affecting a tooth.


mannokinase

(biochemistry) A kinase, ATP:D-mannose 6-phosphotransferase


dickhole

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, synecdochically) A contemptible person.


thropple

A greater quantitie of victuall is carried from Zeila, [...] and beastes also, as namely sheepe, [...] as also certaine other all white with tayles a fathome long, and writhen like a vine branche, hauing thropples vnder their throtes like bulles.

[1600, Al-Hassan ibn-Mohammed al-Wezaz al-Fasi [i.e., Leo Africanus], “A Briefe Relation Concerning the Dominions, Reuenues, Forces, and Maner of Gouernment of Sundry the Greatest Princes either Inhabiting within the Bounds of Africa, or at least Possessing Some Parts thereof, Translated, for the Most Part, out of Italian”, in John Pory, transl., edited by Robert Brown, The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein Contained, […] (Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society; no. XCIV), volume III, London: […] Hakluyt Society, […], published 1896, →OCLC, page 982:

Luok, leyke mad bulls they bang about, / Wi' shouts their thropples rivan, / Wheyle whup for smack the rabble rout, / Are yen owr tother drivan; [...]

[1807, John Stagg, “Rosley Fair”, in Miscellaneous Poems, Some of which are in the Cumberland and Scottish Dialects, Wigton, Cumberland: […] R. Hetherton, →OCLC, page 141:

The morse [i.e., walrus] is said to roar or bellow loudly, but the animal we slew made no outcry, [...] Nevertheless, the immense size of its larynx or thropple, which William dissected out and brought with him to England, seems to indicate vast powers of voice in his animal; [...]

1829, [Robert Pearse Gillies], “The Voyage. (Continued.)”, in Tales of a Voyager to the Arctic Ocean. […] (Second Series), volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 66:

In the sentiment of the following lines on "A pipe of Tobacco" by John Usher, all lovers of the plant will heartily join: "Let the toper regale in his tankard of ale, / Or with alcohol moisten his thropple, / Only give me I pray, a good pipe of soft clay, / Nicely tapered, and thin in the stopple; / And I shall puff, puff, let who will say enough, / No luxury else I'm in lack o', / No malice I hoard, 'gainst Queen, Prince, Duke or Lord, / While I pull at my pipe of Tobacco. [..."]

1875, E. R. Billings, “Pipes and Smokers. (Continued.)”, in Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 178:

There is one type of neck which so constantly results in roaring that it is known in Yorkshire as a "roarer's neck," and sooner or later the horse which is so shaped is almost certain to fall a victim to the complaint. The neck in question is a strong thick one, with the head carried high, but there is a peculiar outward curve in front, somewhat resembling that of a fallow deer, with an unusually thick thropple, the formation of which, no doubt, sustains a constant strain on the nerve, which eventually fails in consequence.

1911, R[ichard] F[rederick] Meysey-Thompson, “Simple Ailments”, in The Horse: Its Origin and Development Combined with Stable Practice, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 289:

'He'll do nowt o' the sort,' I answered; 'and he wi' a hoast in his thropple like a badly cow. I sudn't be surprised if he were dead by Chrissamas.'

a. 1919, F[rederic] W[illiam] Moorman, “Tales of a Grandmother: I. The Tree of Knowledge”, in More Tales of the Ridings, London: Elkin Mathews, […], published 1920, →OCLC; republished as More Tales of the Ridings (EBook #18260), [United States]: Project Gutenberg, 2006 May 4, archived from the original on 2016-11-04:

(chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) Alternative spelling of thrapple


thropple

en-verb

thropple (third-person singular simple present thropples, present participle throppling, simple past and past participle throppled)

thropples (present singular third-person)
throppling (participle present)
throppled (participle past)
throppled (past)

"They throppled t' ane t' other;" took each other by the throat.

1868, J[ohn] C[hristopher] Atkinson, “Thropple”, in A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical, London: John Russell Smith, […], →OCLC, page 531:

And oft we fratched and fret about, and throppled udder sair, / Upon the whol' the fell hes meade mischief for ivver mair, [...]

1875 December 9, Miss Powley, “Art. XXXI.—Past and Present among the Northern Fells. No. II.”, in Richard S[aul] Ferguson, editor, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian & Archæological Society, volume II, Kendal, Westmorland: […] T. Wilson, published 1876, →OCLC, page 370:

(transitive, chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) Alternative spelling of thrapple


arabinofuranosidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an arabinofuranoside

arabinofuranosidase

any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an arabinofuranoside


chitinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that hydrolyzes chitin.


mannanase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of mannans


transglycosidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a sugar moiety between different glycosides


xylosidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of a xyloside.


diaphorase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of flavoprotein enzymes that catalyze the reduction of cytochrome and other similar compounds


piloerection

en-noun

piloerection (countable and uncountable, plural piloerections)


teabagger

[…]and for the great Parnelli Jones, and in the process telling off Colin Chapman-all superior upper-class teabagger manners and treachery

1999, Joe Scalzo, Indianapolis Roadsters, page 41:

(dated, derogatory) An upper-class participant in motor racing.

(slang, vulgar) A person who practices teabagging, i.e., the sexual act of inserting the scrotum into someone's mouth.

(neologism, often derogatory) An affiliate of the Tea Party movement, or a supporter of its protests and/or ideology.


microcephalin

(genetics, biochemistry) A protein and associated gene responsible for microcephaly.


immunoadhesin

The study builds on previous research which has shown that immunoadhesins can prevent HIV from spreading to new cells and can also kill infected cells while leaving healthy cells alone..

1990 April 28, Kelly Gaines, “New Drug Fights Perinatal HIV Infection”, in Gay Community News, page 2:

(immunology, biochemistry) Any of a family of recombinant fusion proteins


adenylyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the transfer of adenylyl groups


meromyosin

(biochemistry) Either of the two subunits of myosin that are formed by the action of trypsin


cecropin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of antimicrobial peptides that lyse bacterial cell membranes


cefotaximase

(biochemistry) A penicillinase specific to cefotaxime


chymase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of serine proteases present in mast cells


cochaperone

(biochemistry) Any protein that regulates the activity of a chaperone.


dimethyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any transferase enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of two methyl groups


supragingival

(anatomy, dentistry, prosthodontics) Above the gumline (gingival margin).


cowmilk

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From Middle English cowmylke; equivalent to cow + milk.


goat milk

goat milk (countable and uncountable, plural goat milks)

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From Middle English gayte mylke, goot mylk, gote milke, from Old English gāte meolc; equivalent to goat + milk.

(now chiefly US) Alternative form of goat's milk.


hephaestin

From Hephaestus + -in, after the god of metalworking.

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of iron(II) state, Fe²⁺ to iron(III) state, Fe³⁺.


insulinase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that inactivates insulin


intactivist

pro-circer

antonym(s) of “one opposed to male circumcision”

Intactivists argue that the bodies of male babies should remain physically intact, and they consider circumcision to be genital mutilation.

2022, Samah Choudhury, Michael J. Altman, Prea Persaud, editors, American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, volume 2, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 173:

A person who is involved in intactivism; one who campaigns against involuntary, nontherapeutic genital modification, such as infant male circumcision.


meat puppet

This takes on serious implications if the meat puppet itself can be spammed — personality could be erased, augmented, juxtaposed, stolen or hidden behind — and presumably there would be attempts to make such activities illegal.

1998, Neil Spiller, Digital Dreams: Architecture and the New Alchemic Technologies, page 69:

He, too, was a meat puppet. Unable to make any decision without imagined repercussions from above, he chose to make none and instead passed his decision onto the next guy up the food chain.

1998, Luke Sullivan, "Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This": A Guide to Creating Great Ads, page 164:

He much preferred direct control, Caliban as meat puppet who would do his bidding unquestioned .

2002, Robert Devereaux, Caliban and Other Tales, page 190:

One of many unfortunate side effects of his years as a meat-puppet soldier, being thrown into whatever corporate war needed warm bodies instead of tactical nukes […]

A person who mindlessly follows the commands of others.


ameloblastin

(biochemistry) A protein, formed in the ameloblasts, that is found in the enamel of teeth


amelotin

(biochemistry) A protein secreted by ameloblasts during tooth development


apocytochrome

(biochemistry) Any form of a cytochrome that is lacking the heme unit

apocitocromo

any form of a cytochrome that is lacking the heme unit


apomyoglobin

(biochemistry) A form of myoglobin that lacks a heme unit

apomioglobina

a form of myoglobin that lacks a heme unit


caveolin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins associated with caveolae membranes


colipase

colipase (countable and uncountable, plural colipases)

(biochemistry) A protein coenzyme secreted by the pancreas


enamelin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteins associated with the formation of dental enamel.


enamelysin

(biochemistry) A matrix metalloproteinase that is associated with the formation of dental enamel


glutaredoxin

glutaredoxin (usually uncountable, plural glutaredoxins)

(biochemistry) Any of a family of small redox enzymes that use glutathione as a cofactor.


homeoprotein

(biochemistry) Any protein that has a homeodomain.


lysophospholipase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolytic removal of a fatty acid from a lysophospholipid


conglutin

(biochemistry) A form of legumin found in almonds, lupins, rye etc.


nucleolin

nucleolin (countable and uncountable, plural nucleolins)

(biochemistry) A eukaryotic nucleolar phosphoprotein that is involved in the synthesis and maturation of ribosomes.


caldendrin

(biochemistry) A particular calcium-binding protein


collapsin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of glycoproteins that inhibit regeneration of mature neurones


ectoprotein

(biochemistry) Any extracellular protein


epoxyeicosatrienoic acid

epoxyeicosatrienoic acid (plural epoxyeicosatrienoic acids)

(organic chemistry) Any epoxy derivative of eicosatrienoic acid, most of which have biochemical activity


microribonucleoprotein

(biochemistry) Any very small ribonucleoprotein


synectin

(biochemistry) A cytoplasmic domain-binding protein that inhibits cell migration


frataxin

(biochemistry) A class of protein found in mitochondria.


lady garden

Talking of Pussy Galore, have people seen the pics of Britney Spears showing her lady garden?

2006, CheggersPop, “A Girl's Guide to Sex in the 21st Century!”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):

That way, when I dropped my towel, my lady garden would only be exposed for a nanosecond before it disappeared under the steamy waters of the pool...

2007, Sarah Nilsen, Does This Book Make My Butt Look Big?: And Who Cares Anyway, It's My Butt:

(slang, idiomatic) A woman's pubic hair, and the area around it.

For a western woman’s entire life, from her first menstrual period to her death, her ‘la la’ is a moneymaking machine for the big businesses who want to cultivate her ‘lady garden’.

2013, Emma Rees, The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, New York: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 27:


ketoreductase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a ketone


optineurin

(biochemistry) A protein that is associated with glaucoma


amylin

(biochemistry) A pancreatic polypeptide hormone that is secreted with insulin by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans, that is a major component of the amyloid deposits found outside beta cells in those affected with type 2 diabetes, and that inhibits the glucose synthesis stimulated by insulin in skeletal muscles.


paraplegin

(biochemistry) A metalloprotease associated with paraplegia


arylsulfatase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of sulfatase enzymes.


ARSE

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of arylsulfatase E, an enzyme, deficiencies in which are associated with abnormalities in cartilage and bone development.


paraoxonase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that act as antioxidants


hairpulling

Shirley, a 42-year-old married homemaker, presented for evaluation of compulsive hairpulling.

2006, Nancy C. Andreasen, Donald W. Black, Introductory textbook of psychiatry:

The pulling of one's own or another's hair.


I lost my glasses

Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her glasses.

我唔見咗我副眼鏡 /我唔见咗我副眼镜

ngo⁵ m⁴ gin³ zo² ngo⁵ fu³ ngaan⁵ geng³⁻²

我兮目鏡拍無去 /我兮目镜拍无去

góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phah-bô--khì / góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phah-bô--khìr

我兮目鏡拍毋見 /我兮目镜拍毋见

góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phah-m̄-kìⁿ / góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phàng-kìⁿ / góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phàng-kiàn


neopenis

Coordinate term: neovagina

The neopenis can only become erect by inserting stiff material into it or by having plastic tubes implanted into the groin, so that pressing a bulb will cause the penis to hydraulically inflate with fluid and erect.

1994, Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender nation:

Although many of the phalloplasty techniques may achieve closely the goals of a neopenis with normal urination, none of them are perfect, and therefore none have achieved universal acceptance.

2015, Vincenzo Mirone, Clinical Uro-Andrology, page 39:

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery

A surgically constructed penis, as of a transgender man who has undergone sex reassignment surgery, or a cisgender man who lacked a penis due to a congenital defect, illness, or injury.


glout

en-verb

glout (third-person singular simple present glouts, present participle glouting, simple past and past participle glouted)

glouts (present singular third-person)
glouting (participle present)
glouted (participle past)
glouted (past)

"Mehalah!" called Mrs. Sharland. "I will not have you glouting in there any longer. Come out."

1880, Sabine Baring-Gould, Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes:

(obsolete) To sulk; to be sulky; to pout.

... namely that whosoever attempteth any thing for the publike (specially if it pertaine to Religion, and to the opening and clearing of the word of God) the same setteth himselfe upon a stage to be glouted upon by every evil eye, yea, he casteth himselfe headlong upon pikes, to be gored by every sharpe tongue.

1769, The King James Bible - Oxford Standard Text, published 1611, Preface:

(obsolete) To stare; to stare gloatingly.


antirepressor

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that blocks or inactivates a repressor


bromoperoxidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that, in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, catalyzes the bromination of a hydrocarbon


iodoperoxidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that, in the presence of hydrogen peroxide, catalyzes the iodination of a hydrocarbon.


piriformis

/ˌpɪ.ɹɪˈfɔː.mɪs/

/ˌpɪɹ.əˈfɔɹ.mɪs/

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin pirifōrmis, ellipsis of mūsculus pirifōrmis (“pear-shaped muscle”). Doublet of piriform.

ellipsis

sacrotuberous ligament
sacrotuberous ligament

greater sciatic foramen
greater sciatic foramen

(anatomy, zootomy) A gluteal muscle which arises from the front of the sacrum and the ischium or sacrotuberous ligament, passes out of the pelvis through the greater sciatic foramen, and inserts into the greater trochanter of the femur, serving in humans to rotate the thigh laterally.


abhydrolase

(biochemistry) Any of a family of hydrolases having an alpha/beta hydrolase fold


ptyalin

en-noun

ptyalin (usually uncountable, plural ptyalins)

From Ancient Greek πτύαλον (ptúalon, “saliva”).

der

(biochemistry) A form of amylase found in saliva that breaks down starch into maltose and dextrin.


neurokeratin

(biochemistry) The protein component of the myelin sheath.


scalenus

(anatomy) Alternative form of scalene muscle.


temporalis

Borrowed from Late Latin temporālis (“of or belonging to the temples of the head”), ellipsis of mūsculus temporālis (“the temporal muscle”). Doublet of temporal.

ellipsis

(anatomy) A fan-shaped muscle which arises from the surface of the temporal fossa and converges to an aponeurosis which contracts into a thick flat tendon inserted into the coronoid process of the mandible; it serves to raise the lower jaw and is involved in closing the mouth and chewing.


bromelein

(biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme found in pineapples


chinless

Having a weak or indecisive character; ineffectual or dim-witted.


adrenodoxin

en-noun

adrenodoxin (countable and uncountable, plural adrenodoxins)

(biochemistry) A ferredoxin present in mitochondria of the adrenal cortex.


autotaxin

lysophosphatidic acid
lysophosphatidic acid

(biochemistry) An ectonucleotide pyrophosphatase that catalyzes the conversion of lysophosphatidylcholine into lysophosphatidic acid


ectoenzyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme found outside of (or on the outer surface of) a cell


acetylesterase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an acetate ester.

acetyloesteraza

any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of an acetate ester


tannase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of tannic acid to gallic acid


angiostatin

angiostatin (countable and uncountable, plural angiostatins)

(biochemistry, medicine) A protein that inhibits angiogenesis; it is used to inhibit the growth of new blood vessels in tumours.


hairslide

A clip that is used to keep a woman's hair in position.


petrosal

From Latin petrōsus (“full of rocks, rocky”) + -al.

af

(anatomy) The petrous part of the temporal bone at the base of the skull, surrounding the inner ear.


platysma

en-noun

platysma (plural platysmas or platysmata)

Borrowed from New Latin platysma, from Ancient Greek πλᾰ́τῠσμᾰ (plắtŭsmă, “flat object”), from πλᾰτῠ́νω (plătŭ́nō, “widen”) + -μᾰ (-mă, “nominal suffix”).

af

(anatomy) A superficial muscle of the human neck that overlaps the sternocleidomastoid.


sternocleidomastoid

Borrowed from New Latin sternocleidomastoīdēs, from Latin sternum (“the breastbone”) + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “the collarbone”) + Latin mastoīdēs (“like a breast”), equivalent to sterno- + cleido- + mastoid.

sternocleidomastoid muscle
sternocleidomastoid muscle#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of sternocleidomastoid muscle.


thrombokinase

en-noun

thrombokinase (countable and uncountable, plural thrombokinases)

(biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme that converts prothrombin into thrombin during the clotting of blood