pollen grain

(botany) A single male reproductive particle of which the pollen of a plant consists.


neuroectoderm

central nervous system
central nervous system

(anatomy) The region of the ectoderm of an embryo that develops into the central nervous system and other nervous tissue


cyclase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the cyclization of a compound


mesenchyme

en-noun

mesenchyme (countable and uncountable, plural mesenchymes)

Late 19th c.: from meso- (“cellular tissue”) + -enchyme (from parenchyma).

(anatomy) That part of the mesoderm of an embryo that develops into connective tissue, bone, cartilage, etc


placode

The placodes are localized thickenings of the cephalic surface ectoderm. Each placode is formed from a group of cells which gives rise to a specific organ with a given specialized function.

1974, Herbert Tuchmann-Duplessis, G. David, P. Haegel, Illustrated Human Embryology, Volumes 1-3, Springer, page 94:

1978, Charles Russell Bardeen, Irving Hardesty, John Lewis Bremer, Edward Allen Boyden (editors), The Anatomical Record, Volume 191, A. R. Liss, page 450,
The neural crest cell bodies become more distant from the placode, but their cell processes permeate the increasingly fibrillar extracellular matrix subjacent to the placode.

Following neurulation, the placodes are first visible as thickenings of columnar epithelium in the non-neural ectoderm, which will go on to form the paired sense organs (olfactory, otic, and lateral line placodes), the lens of the eye (lens placode), the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland (adenohypophyseal placode) and essential components of some ganglia (epibranchial and trigeminal placodes).

2008, Roderick Nigel Finn, B. G. Kapoor, editors, Fish Larval Physiology, Taylor & Francis, page 15:

(biology, anatomy, comparative anatomy) A platelike thickening of the epithelial layer of an embryo from which an organ, especially a sense organ, develops.


ophryon

From Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, “brow”) + -(i)on.

(anatomy) The point in the brow just above the optic foramen, or eyesocket, and glabella.


subperiosteal

(anatomy) Situated under the periosteum.


red hair

red hair (countable and uncountable, plural red hairs)


quadriceps tendon

quadriceps tendon (plural quadriceps tendons)

(anatomy) In human anatomy, a tendon that connects the quadriceps femoris muscles to the superior aspects of the patella on the anterior of the thigh.


salivary gland

(anatomy) Any of several exocrine glands that produce saliva to break down carbohydrates in food enzymatically.

غُدّة لُعَابِيّة

any of exocrine glands producing saliva to break down carbohydrates in food enzymatically


pug nose

A short nose which is flattened and whose tip is turned up.


prolactin

prolactin (usually uncountable, plural prolactins)

From pro- (from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”)) + lact- (variation of lacto-, from Latin lac (“milk”)) + -in (modification of -ine).

af

from Ancient Greek <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">πρό</i> (pró, “before”)

variation of lacto-, from Latin <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">lac</i> (“milk”)

Men get a dose of the hormone prolactin after orgasm and this acts as a sedative.

(biochemistry) A peptide gonadotrophic hormone secreted by the pituitary gland; it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation in females.


beetle-browed

en-adj

beetle-browed (comparative more beetle-browed, superlative most beetle-browed)

more beetle-browed (comparative)
most beetle-browed (superlative)

Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!

2001, “Middle Age: A Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 173)

(especially British English) Making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.

(especially American English) Having thick, large, or projecting eyebrows.


renal angle

(anatomy) An area located on either side of the human back between the lateral borders of the erector spinae muscles and inferior borders of the twelfth rib, so called because the kidney can be felt at this location.


flyaway

Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.

1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media, page 43:

satellite television
satellite television

(television) A portable satellite television antenna.


neocortex

en-noun

neocortex (plural neocortices or neocortexes)

neocortices (plural)
neocortexes (plural)

(neuroanatomy) The top layer of the cerebral hemispheres in the brain of mammals; part of the cerebral cortex.


centrocyte

follicular center cell
follicular center cell

(anatomy) Any follicular center cell that has a nuclear cleft


limbic system

orbitofrontal cortex
orbitofrontal cortex

parahippocampal gyrus
parahippocampal gyrus

(neuroanatomy) Part of the human brain involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory; includes amygdala, cingulate gyrus, fornicate gyrus, hippocampus, hypothalamus, mammillary body, nucleus accumbens, orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus.


centroblast

Therefore we proposed the term centroblast instead of germinoblast and the term centrocyte instead of germinocyte.

1975, K Lennert, “Morphology and classification of malignant lymphomas and so-called reticuloses”, in Malignant Lymphomas of the Nervous System:

secondary lymphoid follicle
secondary lymphoid follicle

follicular dendritic cell
follicular dendritic cell

(anatomy) An activated B cell that is enlarged with multiple eccentric nucleoli and proliferating in the germinal center of a secondary lymphoid follicle, after stimulation by follicular dendritic cell cytokines and helper T cells.


piehole

From pie + hole. Coined by Stephen King in his 1983 novel Christine.

“You trying to help your buddy right out of here, Junior?” “No,” I said. “Sir.” “Then shut your pie-hole.”

"[T]hey kin always do a mouth transplant on ya. Be a big improvement over the piehole you was born with."

2007, David Sherman, Dan Cragg, Firestorm, →ISBN, page 258:


androecium

From New Latin; from andro- + oecium (from Ancient Greek οἰκῐ́ον (oikĭ́on), diminutive of οἶκος (oîkos, “house”)).


firebox

From fire + box. In the sense of a redheaded woman, from box (“vagina”).

(vulgar) A redheaded woman or her red pubic hair.


complected

light-complected ― with a light complexion

The station agent was a barrel-shaped man deep in his middle age, pasty-complected and soft.

2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 181:

(US, in combination) Having a specified complexion; complexioned.


liver spot

A dark brown blemish on the skin, usually caused by exposure to the sun.


unbraid

en-verb

unbraid (third-person singular simple present unbraids, present participle unbraiding, simple past and past participle unbraided)

unbraids (present singular third-person)
unbraiding (participle present)
unbraided (participle past)
unbraided (past)


flattop

From flat + top. Sense of “aircraft carrier” attributed to the message, “Scratch one flattop,” radioed during the Battle of the Coral Sea by LCDR Robert E. Dixon to the USS Lexington, whose commanding officer credited the pilot with coining the standard USN slang.

Well school's not so bad but the summer's better
Gives me more time to see my girl
Walk through the park beneath the shiny moon
Oh when we kiss she makes my flat top curl

1959 Jerry Keller, "Here Comes Summer" (lyrics)

(US) A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.

(music) A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.

(cooking) A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.


cerebrospinal fluid

en-noun

cerebrospinal fluid (countable and uncountable, plural cerebrospinal fluids)

interthalamic adhesion
interthalamic adhesion

(neuroanatomy) A bodily fluid filling the third ventricle and surrounding the interthalamic adhesion.


depilate

en-verb

depilate (third-person singular simple present depilates, present participle depilating, simple past and past participle depilated)

depilates (present singular third-person)
depilating (participle present)
depilated (participle past)
depilated (past)

In Siena, the donkey upon which Bernardino had traveled so many miles was literally and thoroughly depilated in the mad rush for miracle-working relics.

1999, Franco Mormando, The Preacher’s Demons: Bernardino of Siena and the Social Underworld of Early Renaissance Italy, →ISBN, page 38:


ding-dong

Mid 16th century, imitative of the alternate chimes of a bell.
For sense of penis, compare Saterland Frisian Ding (“penis”), German Low German Dings (“penis”), English thing.

onomatopoeic

imitative

It was first blood to the Black Cats in the ding-dong clash when Bardsley, a right-footer playing on the left, collected the ball from just inside his own half and sped up to the edge of the area before launching an effort which appeared to confuse Petr Cech in goal.

2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC:


ding-dong

imitative

Oh, no, man, I haven't got the time time / Too busy sucking on a ding-dong / She's busy sucking on my ding-dong

1968, “Sister Ray”, in Lou Reed (lyrics), White Light/White Heat, performed by The Velvet Underground:


constrictor

en-noun

constrictor (plural constrictors or constrictores)

constrictors (plural)
constrictores (plural)

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Borrowed from New Latin cōnstrictor, or from constrict + -or.

(anatomy) A muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage or compresses an organ.

pharyngeal constrictor
pharyngeal constrictor#English

(anatomy) Each of the muscles which constrict the pharynx; ellipsis of pharyngeal constrictor..


entorhinal cortex

entorhinal cortex (plural entorhinal cortexes or entorhinal cortices)

entorhinal cortexes (plural)
entorhinal cortices (plural)
as: EC (abbreviation)

(anatomy) A part of the brain which, together with the hippocampus, is important to memory functions


occipital

Borrowing from Middle French occipital, from Medieval Latin occipitālis, from occiput (“the back of the head, occiput”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent of occiput + -al. Doublet of occipitalis.

af

(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located within or near the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.

тилов

of or pertaining to the occiput or occipital bone


compound eye

en:a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans

A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.


laughter lines

Especially visible when smiling or laughing.

She wanted to hear his man's voice and see the laughter-lines come and go round his eyes.

Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye.


long-haired

en-adj

long-haired (comparative longer-haired, superlative longest-haired)

longer-haired (comparative)
longest-haired (superlative)

Of animals, having hair or fur with long strands.


cornrow

Compound of corn + row, reflecting the figurative evocation of rows of corn in a cornfield.

The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

Coolio, whose spindly and sprouting cornrows defined his look, went on to sell over 17 million records throughout his career.

2022 September 29, Eduardo Medina, McKenna Oxenden, “Coolio, ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ Rapper, Dies at 59”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(chiefly in the plural) One of a set of rows of tightly braided hair close to the scalp, forming a hairstyle, of African origin.


bandeaux

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From the French bandeaux, the plural form of bandeau, whence the English bandeau.

A bandeau, a single band (or a set of such bands) for a woman’s hair.


flabellum

en-noun

flabellum (plural flabellums or flabella)

(botany, zoology) Any fan-shaped structure.


parotid gland

From Ancient Greek παρωτίς (parōtís, “(gland) behind the ear”), from παρά (pará, “behind”) + οὖς (oûs, “ear”).

bor

(anatomy) Either of a pair of salivary glands located in front of and below each ear in humans.


curler

Oft considered the most even playing field on which to measure surf mastery, Slater’s innovative machine is a barrel-synthesizing environment and engineering feat. In a single round, The Wave produces a 6-foot curler capable of traveling 2,300 feet for up to one gnarly minute.

2021 August 25, Jilli Cluff, “Kelly Slater’s Artificial Wave Will Crown ‘The Ultimate Surfer’ on Hulu”, in GearJunkie:

There’s the mesmeric, thrumming beat. (Sound very much “on” for this one.) Dark purples and roiling seas under heavy storms. Then Manuel, barreling perfect curler after perfect curler.

2023 March 18, Sam Anderson, “Weekend Warm-Up: Liquid Lines, Entrancing Tunes, Mesmerizing Moments in ‘MALIA’”, in Explorersweb:

(surfing) A wave which breaks with a barrel


bloodstain

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A spot or area that has been discolored by having absorbed blood.


hair conditioner

en-noun

hair conditioner (countable and uncountable, plural hair conditioners)

(cosmetics) A type of shampoo product that aims to improve the condition of the hair, especially after washing.


neckbeard

A style of facial hair wherein the beard is allowed to grow down the chin and is trimmed to an even length over the entirety of the face.

Many front-end web developers may not have implemented a web service before, leaving that boring stuff to the neckbeards and the sysadmins.

2011, Andrew Lunny, PhoneGap Beginner's Guide:

(slang, derogatory) A socially-inept, male nerd, typically characterized as unkempt and misogynistic.

niskaparta

socially-inept, self-important male nerd


cockhead

From cock + head; see cock (“penis (slang)”). Compare dickhead.

He says oh that feels great, could you squeeze a bit harder on my cockhead?

2003, Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Pulling Taffy, page 64:


vampiress

Here, the vampiress personifies righteous indignation, a one-woman lynch mob.

1975, Angela Carter, “The Art of Horrorzines”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 551:


bluey

bluey (countable and uncountable, plural blueys)

‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318:

(Australian slang) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.

(Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.

(Australian slang) A person with ginger hair.


blow-dry

en-verb

blow-dry (third-person singular simple present blow-dries, present participle blow-drying, simple past and past participle blow-dried)

blow-dries (present singular third-person)
blow-drying (participle present)
blow-dried (participle past)
blow-dried (past)


hair-tidy

1918 : The fireplace was choked up with rubbish. She poked among it but found nothing except a hair-tidy with a heart painted on it that belonged to the servant girl. - Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 81)

(historical) A dish used by women in the past to store the hair that fell while combing, and use it later for a bun, etc.


brown adipose tissue

en-noun

brown adipose tissue (countable and uncountable, plural brown adipose tissues)

(anatomy, physiology) One of the two types of adipose tissue present in many newborn or hibernating mammals which primarily serves to generate body heat, and which contains several small vacuoles and a relatively high number of mitochondria and capillaries.


calvous

en-adj

calvous (comparative more calvous, superlative most calvous)

more calvous (comparative)
most calvous (superlative)

67th Berlin International Film Festival
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Borrowed from Latin calvus (“bald, hairless”) (from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥h₂wós, from *kalw- (“bald; naked”) + *-wós (suffix forming adjectives from verb stems)) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting possession or presence of a quality).

suffix

Hubert had given me his passport, in great excitement. [...] Admittedly most old, bloated, calvous Germans could double for me, and even if he hadn't been doppelganger material, with the beard I had started growing and the two black eyes, you'd need x-rays to spot the difference.

1994, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, Edinburgh: Polygon Books, →ISBN; 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1997, →ISBN, page 119:

(formal, medicine, rare) Lacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless.


hypermetropia

en-noun

hypermetropia (countable and uncountable, plural hypermetropias)

/ˌhaɪpə(ɹ)məˈtɹəʊpɪə/

From Ancient Greek ὑπέρμετρος (hupérmetros, “excessive”) + ὀπός (opós) (genitive of ὄψ (óps, “eye”)) + -ia.


emarginate

en-adj

emarginate (comparative more emarginate, superlative most emarginate)

more emarginate (comparative)
most emarginate (superlative)

From Latin emarginare; e- (“out”) + marginare (“to furnish with a margin”), from margo (“margin”).

1840 Georges Cuvier Cuvier's Animal kingdom (intranslation).
In the Haliotus, Lam, the shell is perforated along the side of the columella with a series of holes; and when the last hole remains incomplete, the shell has the appearance of beiing emarginate.

(zoology, anatomy) Having a margin that has concave edges as though with parts removed or notched.


bewhiskered

bewhiskered (comparative more bewhiskered, superlative most bewhiskered)

more bewhiskered (comparative)
most bewhiskered (superlative)

From be- + whiskered or bewhisker + -ed.

[…] another was an old, bewhiskered hobo, […]

1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:


estradiol

en-noun

estradiol (countable and uncountable, plural estradiols)

/ˌɛ.stɹəˈdaɪˌɔl/

Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.

2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal Care?”, in Front Endocrinol, →DOI:

(American spelling, biochemistry, pharmacology) A natural estrogenic hormone that is a phenolic alcohol estra-1,3,5-triene-3,17-diol (C₁₈H₂₄O₂) secreted chiefly by the ovaries of all vertebrates, that is a major and the most potent of the naturally occurring estrogens; the semisynthetic esterified compound is used medicinally to treat estrogen deficiency and breast cancer.


polygalacturonase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of polymeric galacturonic acids and similar carbohydrates.


pregnenolone

pregnenolone (usually uncountable, plural pregnenolones)

(biochemistry, steroids) A steroid prohormone involved in the steroidogenesis of progesterone, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, androgens, and estrogens.


desoxycorticosterone

(biochemistry, steroids) US form of deoxycorticosterone.


prohormone

(biochemistry) A substance that is a precursor to a hormone, usually having minimal hormonal effect by itself


boldenone

(biochemistry, steroids) An anabolic steroid, 1-dehydrotestosterone, developed for veterinary use


boldenone undecylenate

(biochemistry, steroids) The undecylenate ester of the anabolic steroid boldenone, developed for veterinary use, mostly for treatment of horses.


pageboy

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A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.

brudedreng

young male attendant at a wedding ceremony


(biochemistry, steroids) Alternative form of deoxycorticosterone.


progestogen

(biochemistry, steroids) Alternative spelling of progestagen


polypeptidase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme which catalyzes the hydrolysis of a polypeptide


metameric

(biology, anatomy) Exhibiting metamerism.


polynucleotidase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes which catalyze the hydrolysis of polynucleotides to form oligonucleotides and eventually simple nucleotides.


coronary artery

coronary artery (plural coronary arteries)

(anatomy, cardiology) An artery arising from aorta.

coronary arteries
left coronary artery
right coronary artery


phenethylamine

phenethylamine (countable and uncountable, plural phenethylamines)

(uncountable, organic chemistry, biochemistry) An aromatically substituted aliphatic amine, C₆H₅C₂H₄NH₂, which is a neurotransmitter in the brain; it has pharmacological properties similar to amphetamine.


uncombed

en-adj

uncombed (comparative more uncombed, superlative most uncombed)

more uncombed (comparative)
most uncombed (superlative)


brownbagger

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(US, colloquial) A person who brings their own lunch to work.

(US, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface.


bridgework

en-noun

bridgework (countable and uncountable, plural bridgeworks)

Just think. If you were some big shot like a casting director or something, I'd be staring into your bridgework, saying, 'Yes, Mr. Smearkase; no, Mr. Smearkase; not really, Mr. Smearkase. Oh! Mr. Smearkase, that's my knee!'

(dentistry) A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth.


unblinking

en-adj

unblinking (comparative more unblinking, superlative most unblinking)

more unblinking (comparative)
most unblinking (superlative)


pubescence

en-noun

pubescence (countable and uncountable, plural pubescences)

The state of being in or reaching puberty.


adnexal

(anatomy) Of, or relating to the adnexa.


canaliculus

From Latin canāliculus (“small channel, pipe or gutter”), diminutive of canālis (“channel; pipe, gutter”), from canna (“cane, reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”).

uder

(anatomy) Any of many small canals or ducts in the body, such as in the bone, or in some plants


innervate

en-verb

innervate (third-person singular simple present innervates, present participle innervating, simple past and past participle innervated)

innervates (present singular third-person)
innervating (participle present)
innervated (participle past)
innervated (past)

From in- + nerve + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

af

(anatomy, zoology) To supply (an organ or part of the body) with nerves.


glomerulus

From the diminutive of the Latin glomus (gen. glomeris) meaning "ball of yarn" or "ball-shaped mass".

(anatomy) A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine

sensory transduction
sensory transduction

(anatomy) A structure in the olfactory bulb central to olfactory sensory transduction, composed of receptor neuron axons and mitral neuron dendrites and organized by odor type.


carotid artery

en-noun

carotid artery (plural carotid arteries)

Meronyms: common carotid artery, external carotid artery, internal carotid artery

Bronca can almost feel the hard pulse of blood in five other carotid arteries and hear its rush in five other sets of ears as she leans her hands on the table.

2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 134:


trapezial

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the trapezius muscle.

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the trapezium bone of the wrist.


pyloric sphincter

pyloric sphincter (plural pyloric sphincters)

(anatomy) Muscular valve connecting the stomach to the duodenum and regulating flow of materials out of the stomach.


galactopoiesis

The continued production of milk by the mammary gland.


micropyle

From French, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + πύλη (púlē, “gate”).

(botany) In seed-bearing plants, a small opening in the integuments of the ovule through which sperm are able to access the ovum.

(zoology) The hilum of an ovum at the point of attachment to the ovary; any opening in the coverings of an ovum by which spermatozoa may find entrance.


cyclooxygenase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze a cyclooxygenation reaction, but especially the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins (prostanoids); their inhibition is the mode of action of the NSAIDs aspirin and ibuprofen.


erector

From Latin ērigō (“I raise up, elevate, lift”), equivalent to erect + -or.

bor

(anatomy) Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.


golden shower

Two elderly women sat knitting on that part of the veranda which was screened from the sun by a golden shower creeper […]

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 7:

Cassia fistula
Cassia fistula#Translingual


crista

en-noun

crista (plural cristae or (obsolete) cristæ)

cristae (plural)
cristæ (obsolete plural)


impunctate

en-adj

impunctate (comparative more impunctate, superlative most impunctate)

more impunctate (comparative)
most impunctate (superlative)

Beak with segment I subequal to or shorter than II; head smooth, impunctate, shining (big-eyed bugs--University of Florida Featured Creatures)

(anatomy) Not punctate; not marked by spots, dots, points, or punctures.


punctate

punctate (comparative more punctate, superlative most punctate)

more punctate (comparative)
most punctate (superlative)

From Latin punctum (“point”). See point and punctuate.

Keys to the Nearctic species of Pseudomyrmex
Head and pronotum densely punctate and predominantly opaque, punctures on upper half of head mostly contiguous and without extensive shiny interspaces […]

(anatomy) Marked by spots, dots, points, or punctures.


let one's hair down

en-verb

let one's hair down (third-person singular simple present lets one's hair down, present participle letting one's hair down, simple past and past participle let one's hair down)

lets one's hair down (present singular third-person)
letting one's hair down (participle present)
let one's hair down (participle past)
let one's hair down (past)

Cut loose, let your hair down honey / Unwind, turn the lights down low / Relax, let's uncork the stopper / Come to papa, come on let's go

1962, Roy Bennett, Sid Tepper (lyrics and music), “Relax”, performed by Elvis Presley:

All week long I've been keepin' my cool / But tonight I'm gonna let my hair down / And get down with these down home blues

1982, George Jackson (lyrics and music), “Down Home Blues”, performed by Z. Z. Hill:


hair-raising

en-adj

hair-raising (comparative more hair-raising, superlative most hair-raising)

more hair-raising (comparative)
most hair-raising (superlative)


flatiron

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elflock

Never was even washerwoman more untidy. A cap all rags, from which the hair came straggling in elf-locks over a face which generally looked red-hot […]

1828, Mary Russell Mitford, “The Fisherman in his Married State”, in Our Village, London: G.B. Whittaker, page 278:

All went unshaven, and many had long, filthy elf-locks hanging about their faces, and ragged beards reaching to their girdles.

1904, Stanley J. Weyman, “XII. The Peasants' Camp”, in The Abbess of Vlaye:

The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.


goggle-eyed

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

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

[…] now and then we met a goggle-eyed pilgrim trudging along, and staring about him as if he waited only for night and opportunity to have additional reasons for hurrying to Jerusalem.

1783, William Beckford, Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, Letter 13:

Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like a rather simple question, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party.

1974, Esther Pasztory, The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc, Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 15, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. https://books.google.ca/books?id=L0QClI2QOwQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The frequency of goggle-eyed figures and water symbolism in Teotihuacan art has misled investigators into assuming that ll figures with these associations represent Tlaloc.

1993, Bob Cryer, Hansard, Mines health and safety, 26 October, 1993, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/
The Minister knew that it was controversial, but as he is an arrogant, right-wing, goggle-eyed extremist, he does not care.

Having prominent eyes; with the eyes widely opened or protruding, either naturally or from astonishment or curiosity.


cobalmin

(biochemistry) Alternative spelling of cobalamin


cyanocobalmin

(biochemistry) Alternative spelling of cyanocobalamin


digitate

From Latin digitātus for the adjective and digitāre for the verb.

(botany, anatomy) Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.

إِصْبَعِيّ

botany: having leaves divided in finger-like parts


digitate

en-verb

digitate (third-person singular simple present digitates, present participle digitating, simple past and past participle digitated)

digitates (present singular third-person)
digitating (participle present)
digitated (participle past)
digitated (past)

But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs.

1857 December 23, John Cleland, “On the Skeleton, Muscles, and Viscera of Malapterurus Beninensis”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 1, Edinburgh, published 1858, page 393:

(botany, anatomy) To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.


scleral

(anatomy) Of, or pertaining to, the sclera.


ball of the thumb

en-noun

ball of the thumb (plural balls of the thumb)

(anatomy, informal) The fleshy portion, opposite the nail, of the first segment (first phalange) of the human thumb.

(anatomy) The most fleshy portion of the palm of the human hand, located adjacent to the second joint of the thumb: the thenar eminence.


columella

columella (plural columellas or columellae)

/ˌkɒləˈmɛlə/

(anatomy) The skin at the end of the septum which separates the nostrils.


palpebral fissure

palpebral fissure (plural palpebral fissures)

(anatomy) The separation between the upper and lower eyelids.


collenchyma

collenchyma (countable and uncountable, plural collenchymas or collenchymata)

collenchymas (plural)
collenchymata (plural)

/kəˈlɛŋkəmə/

Ancient Greek κολλα (kolla, “glue”) + -enchyma (“tissue”)

(biology) A living, elongated, mechanical and flexible ground tissue with angular pectin depositions; present just under leaves, tendrils and stems of climbers; formed before vascular differentiation.

kolenchyma

a supporting ground tissue just under the surface of various leaf structures formed before vascular differentiation


paraglottic space

paraglottic space (plural paraglottic spaces)

(anatomy) A site within the larynx whose lateral border is the thyroid cartilage and posterior (dorsal) border is the pyriform sinus.


stolon

(botany) A shoot that grows along the ground and produces roots at its nodes; a runner.


fair-haired

en-adj

fair-haired (comparative more fair-haired or fairer-haired, superlative most fair-haired or fairest-haired)

more fair-haired (comparative)
fairer-haired (comparative)
most fair-haired (superlative)
fairest-haired (superlative)

Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.

1997, Sandra Scarry, John Scarry, The Writer’s Workplace: Paragraphs to Essays; Building College Writing Skills, Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, →ISBN, page 531:


mucoprotein

(biochemistry) Any of a group of widely-distributed natural compounds that exist as complexes of proteins with mucopolysaccharides


lymphatic node

(anatomy, immunology) Synonym of lymph node.


lymphonodus

Borrowing from New Latin lymphonōdus, from lympha (“clear water”) + nōdus (“a knot, knob, node”); equivalent to lympho- + nodus.


lymphoglandula

en-noun

lymphoglandula (plural lymphoglandulae or lymphoglandulas)

lymphoglandulae (plural)
lymphoglandulas (plural)

Borrowing from New Latin lymphoglandula, from lympha (“clear water”) + glandula (“a small acorn”), equivalent to lympho- + glandula.


glycosyltransferase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the transfer of glycosyl groups between biological molecules, especially during the biosynthesis of glycoproteins


Broca's area

Broca discovered the brainʼs speech centre in the frontal lobe — the first time that anyone had connected an area of the brain to a specific action. The speech centre is still called Brocaʼs area.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 89:

(neuroanatomy) An area of the frontal lobe of the brain associated with the control of speech.


glial cell

(anatomy) A type of cell, in the nervous system, that provides support for the neurons.


lymph gland

(anatomy, immunology, informal) Synonym of lymph node.


gamma-hydroxybutyric acid

en-noun

gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (plural gamma-hydroxybutyric acids)

gamma-hydroxybutyric acids (plural)
as: GHB (abbreviation)

(organic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology) A naturally-occurring biochemical of uncertain function; sometimes used as a recreational drug


mandibulohyoid

(anatomy) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch


amygdaloid

From Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”) + -oid.


maxillary sinus

en-noun

maxillary sinus (plural maxillary sinuses)

(anatomy) A paranasal sinus found in the body of the maxilla.


orchis

orchis (plural orchises or orchides or (archaic) orchisses)

orchises (plural)
orchides (plural)
orchisses (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”).


supercision

Any of several forms of incision of the foreskin practised as an initiation ceremony in parts of Polynesia and the Philippines.


mandibular

The head produces a mandibular gland pheromone composed of ketones, the thorax lacks large glands, and the abdomen contains the venom and the Nasonov gland that produces lemon oil compounds.

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 28:

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to the mandible.


neuroanatomy

en-noun

neuroanatomy (countable and uncountable, plural neuroanatomies)

This flowchart suggested by the neuroanatomy corresponds fairly well with what psychologists see in the clinic and lab.

2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 609:

(anatomy) The anatomy of the nervous system.

(anatomy) The structure of the nerves of a specific organ or organism.


caruncle

/kəˈɹʌŋ.kəl/

/kəˈɹʌŋ.kl̩/

/ˈkɛɹˌʌŋ.kəl/

/ˈkæˌɹʌŋ.kəl/

/kəˈɹʌŋ.kəl/

Borrowed from Middle French caruncule, from Latin caruncula (“a little piece of flesh”), diminutive of carō (“flesh”). Doublet of caruncula.

der

(anatomy, zootomy) A small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy.

lihake

small, fleshy excrescence on an animal — see also wattle

lacrimal caruncle
lacrimal caruncle#English

(anatomy) Clipping of lacrimal caruncle: the red prominence at the inner corner of the eye.


chicheme

A drink, found almost exclusively in Panama and Costa Rica, made from milk, hominy,cinnamon, and vanilla.


gastrocnemius

1670s, borrowed from New Latin gastrocnēmius, from Ancient Greek γαστροκνημία (gastroknēmía, “calf of the leg”), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “paunch, belly”) + κνήμη (knḗmē, “leg”).

γαστροκνημία

affix

The muscle at the back of the calf, whose insertion is the Achilles tendon at the heel.


foodway

From food + way; in the sense of "alimentary canal", by extension from airway.


exsanguinate

en-verb

exsanguinate (third-person singular simple present exsanguinates, present participle exsanguinating, simple past and past participle exsanguinated)

exsanguinates (present singular third-person)
exsanguinating (participle present)
exsanguinated (participle past)
exsanguinated (past)

/ɪkˈsæŋɡwəˌneɪt/

PIE word
 *h₁ésh₂r̥
Learned borrowing from New Latin exsanguinātus (“depleted of blood, exsanguinated; lacking blood, bloodless”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Exsanguinātus is a participial adjective formed on ex- (“out, from”) + sanguī̆s (sanguin-) (“blood”) + -ātus.

абяскро́ўліваць

to drain (a living or dead body, or a body part) of blood

And I do have to admit that once the episode revealed that the girls killed their dads because of a chromosomal predisposition, I made a note to have my daughter tested for that "exsanguinate your father" gene!

1997, Phil Farrand, “First Season [Eve]”, in The Nitpicker’s Guide for X-philes, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing, →ISBN:

To kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss.

vuodattaa kuiviin

to kill (a person or animal) by means of blood loss


luciferase

Aptly enough, glowworms light up their underworld with a pair of chemicals that have a satanic etymology—luciferins and luciferases, after the Latin for “light bringer.”

2017 October 6, Ed Yong, “The Most Beautiful Death Trap”, in The Atlantic:

The novel coronavirus vaccine manufactured by Moderna does not contain luciferin, an organic compound involved in bioluminescence, or the enzyme luciferase, contrary to claims on social media.

2021 May 6, “Fact Check-Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine does not contain luciferin or luciferase”, in Reuters:

(biochemistry) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.

luciferazo

biochemistry: any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin


deacetylase

(biochemistry) Any of several classes of enzyme that remove acetyl groups from proteins


streptavidin

en-noun

streptavidin (countable and uncountable, plural streptavidins)

(biochemistry) A tetrameric protein purified from Streptomyces avidinii that binds very tightly to the vitamin biotin


histone deacetylase

histone deacetylase (plural histone deacetylases)

(biochemistry) Any of a class of enzymes that remove acetyl groups from lysine amino acids in proteins, especially the histone proteins of the nucleus


ligase

The glue is an enzyme called ligase, which stitches together loose sentences of DNA whenever it comes across them.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 244:

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the binding of two molecules; synthetase.


frontlet

From Old French frontelet, diminutive of frontel.


tegument

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) + -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.

affix

(anatomy, obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.


carnassial

/kəˈnɑːsɪəl/

One of the teeth used by a carnivore for shearing flesh, being the last upper premolar and the first lower molar.


macrodontia

(pathology, dentistry) The medical condition of having unusually large teeth.


cephalothoracic

(anatomy) Relating to or resembling a cephalothorax.


mulo

Borrowed from Romani mulo (“dead (man)”).


map of Tassie

2001, Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, 2012, 10.5: The Popcorn Gangster, unnumbered page,
Then we would start a massive international ad campaign to lure tourists and rich old settlers.
Something like . . . ‘Come and bury yourself in the map of Tassie.’
Could just work.

If this were elsewhere in Australia, say the Apple Isle, my start would probably have come in the form of a kitsch pair of undies tastelessly plastered with an invitation to view my map of Tassie.

2012, Roxy Jacenko, Strictly Confidential: A Jazzy Lou Novel, page 4:

Her skirt was rucked up to her map of Tassie as she rested, soaking up the last of the afternoon′s heat.

2012, Margareta Osborn, Bella′s Run, page 223:

Synonym of map of Tasmania (“pubic hair”)


postoral

en-adj

postoral (comparative more postoral, superlative most postoral)

more postoral (comparative)
most postoral (superlative)

(anatomy, zoology) Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth


mesophryon

From Ancient Greek μεσόφρυον (mesóphruon), from μέσος (mésos, “between”) and ὀφρύς (ophrús, “eyebrow”).

(anatomy) glabella (the space between the eyebrows and nose)


preoral

preoral aperture

preoral brush

preoral cavity

preoral nerve

(anatomy) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth.


riah

For quotations using this term, see Citations:riah.


glabella

en-noun

glabella (plural glabellas or glabellae)

From Latin glaber (“smooth, hairless, bald”).

(anatomy) The space between the eyebrows and above the nose.


apocrine

From apo- (“away from”) + Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “to separate”).

uder

They observed that apocrine metaplasia often was present in breasts with other "noncancerous proliferative lesions," but they found no significant difference in the frequency of apocrine metaplasia between "cancerous and noncancerous breasts."

2001, Paul Peter Rosen, Rosen's Breast Pathology, page 97:

Lobular cysts as well as micro- and macrocysts are very often lined to a variable extent by apocrine epithelium. Pathologists call this condition apocrine metaplasia, meaning a transformation of the normal epithelial cells into sweat-gland-like cells similar to those found in the apocrine glands of the vulva, eyelid, and external auditory canal.

2003, Marton Lanyi, Mammography: Diagnosis and Morphological Analysis, page 64:

Apocrine glands are distributed throughout the body but are present in greatest abundance in the axilla, followed by the anogenital region.

2011, Jivko A. Kamarashev, “3.2.1: Tumours with Apocrine and Eccrine Differentiation”, in Reinhard Dummer, Mark R. Pittelkow, Keiji Iwatsuki, Adèle Green, Nagwa M. Elwan, editors, Skin Cancer - A World-Wide Perspective, page 128:

Two appreciate what happened, note that sweat glands come in two varieties, apocrine and eccrine.

2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 5, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

(anatomy, biology, histology) Of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion, which involves the budding of portions of the secreting cells.

apokriininen

of or pertaining to an apocrine gland or to its mode of secretion


apocrine gland

Coordinate term: eccrine gland

At puberty, apocrine glands start producing a viscous pheromone-containing secretion, which is often processed by bacteria to create a strong aroma. These glands are confined to our armpits, nipples, and groin (guess what they are for?).

(anatomy) Any of several coiled, tubular glands that extrudes part of the cytoplasm as a secretion.

大汗腺

any of several coiled, tubular glands that extrudes part of the cytoplasm as a secretion


Cowper's fluid

Named after the gland from which the fluid originates, the Cowper's or bulbourethral gland.

The clear, colorless, viscous fluid that is secreted from an aroused penis before ejaculation.


precum

From pre- (“before”) + cum (“ejaculate”).

The shaft was fat, long and already half-hard. Ulrich didn't mean to pry, but he understood (as precum slicked his palm) that this was a man who liked to play for hours before he came.

1996, Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel, Switch Hitters: Lesbians Write Gay Male Erotica and Gay Men Write Lesbian Erotica, Cleis Press, Page 186

Bert made precum like some kind of instant coffee; it was always available.

2000, Perry Brass, Angel Lust: An Erotic Novel of Time Travel, Belhue Press, page 57

[M]y penis was inserted into her vagina without a condom for a short period of time and I never knew if any precum got into her or not, but this is now six months later and her stomach does not look big at all. […]

2002, William Marsliglio and Sally Hutchinson, Sex, Men, and Babies: Stories of Awareness and Responsibility, NYU Press, pages 80-81

2005, Russell Kick (ed.), Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide To The Extremes of Human Sexuality (and everything in between) (page 295), The Disinformation Company
"Looking down at Patrick, at his big, lean body, his hard cock leaking precum on his belly, making him moan with stroke after stroke, then leaning over to kiss him while my condomized cock slides in and out of his yielding hole—it was all more than pornographic.


precum

en-verb

precum (third-person singular simple present precums, present participle precumming, simple past precame or precummed, past participle precum or (uncommon) precummed)

precums (present singular third-person)
precumming (participle present)
precame (past)
precummed (past)
precum (participle past)
precummed (participle past uncommon)

(slang) To release Cowper's fluid (pre-ejaculate).


pre-ejaculate

The clear, viscous fluid that is secreted from the penis before ejaculation.

尿道球腺液

にょうどうきゅうせんえき


septal

(anatomy, biology, relational) Of or pertaining to a septum.


myxochondroepithelioma

(anatomy) A benign tumor of the salivary gland, composed of three kinds of cells: epithelial cells, chondrocytes and stroma cells.


calcar

(botany, anatomy) A spur-like projection.


syconium

From New Latin sȳconium, from Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + -ium.

(botany) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig; a hollow ball with a stalk at one end and an opening (ostiole) at the other, with flowers or fruits on the inside


cancellate

en-adj

cancellate (comparative more cancellate, superlative most cancellate)

more cancellate (comparative)
most cancellate (superlative)

From Latin cancellatus, past participle of cancellare.


shagged

shagged (comparative more shagged, superlative most shagged)

more shagged (comparative)
most shagged (superlative)

From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga (“hair”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją (“beard, stem”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, move, hurry”).

inh

(rare) Having or covered with shaggy hair.

(obsolete) Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.

Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.


leaf-scale

A scale on the stem of a plant that turns into a leaf.


flexus

A flexid or flexus is said to abut when the enamel of the flexid or flexus touches the enamel of the opposite side of the tooth. The distal end or termination of the flexid or flexus is described as flattened, rounded or narrowed.

1955, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 29, page 130:

(dentistry) In infolding of enamel that separates lophs on an upper tooth.


dorsum

Borrowing from Latin dorsum (“the back”).

(anatomy) The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.

The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants.

The top of the foot or the back of the hand.


mons

Borrowed from Latin mōns (“mountain”). Doublet of mount.

Hesitantly, she used one finger to stroke the very top of the mons, surprised at its fatty, downy fullness — unfamiliar, despite a life of touching herself.

2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 316:


Haversian canal

en-noun

Haversian canal (plural Haversian canals)

(anatomy) A hollow channel in the center of an osteon, running parallel to the length of a bone.

canáil Havers

anatomy: a hollow channel in the center of an osteon


Goldie

A female given name from English for a girl with golden hair, mostly American usage around 1900. It was further popularized by actress Goldie Hawn


endocrine system

endocrine system (plural endocrine systems)

(physiology) A control system of ductless glands that secrete hormones which circulate via the bloodstream to affect cells within specific organs.


macula

From Middle English macula (“spot on the skin or in the eye”), borrowed from Latin macula (“spot, stain”). Doublet of macchia and macule.

inh

(anatomy) An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision.

màcula

anatomy: yellow spot near the center of retina

macula lutea

(anatomy, biology) A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith.


tendinous

Borrowed from New Latin tendinōsus, from tendō (“sinew, tendon”) + -ōsus (“-ous”).

af

(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tendon or sinew.


fossette

French, diminutive of fosse (“a fosse”).

(dentistry) A small depression in the crown of a tooth


trochanter

From French trochanter, from Ancient Greek τροχαντήρ (trokhantḗr).

(anatomy) In vertebrates with legs, the end of the femur near the hip joint, not including the head or neck.


stipula

en-noun

stipula (plural stipulas or stipulae or stipulæ)

stipulas (plural)
stipulae (plural)
stipulæ (plural)

From Latin stipula (“stalk, stem”). Doublet of stubble.


omentum

(anatomy) Either of two folds of the peritoneum that support the viscera.


phalangeal

(anatomy) A phalange (bone of a finger or toe)


lochia

Learned borrowing from Latin lochia, from Ancient Greek λοχεία (lokheía), neuter plural of λοχείος (lokheíos, “of childbirth”), from λόχος (lókhos, “childbirth”).

In April 1819, I attended a young married lady in her first pregnancy, in whose case the lochia began to diminish on the seventh day after parturition, [...]

1822, Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal:

Variations in the quantity, quality, or odour of the lochia not unnaturally excite great alarm in the mind of the patient, who regards any deviation in this secretion as a proof of serious disease. Yet very remarkable differences do occur, without any morbid affection of the uterus or vagina.

1866, Fleetwood Churchill, On the theory and practice of midwifery:

In three or four days the distinctly bloody character of the lochia is altered. They have a reddish watery appearance, and are known as the lochia rubra or cruenta [...]

1884, William Smoult Playfair, A Treatise on the Science and Practice of Midwifery, volume II (fifth edition), part III, chapter IX:

1921, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, published by the American Gynecological Society
On the fifth day the coryza, cough and rash were all improved, but the patient was irrational; the lochia were thin, watery and odorless; …

1924: The Canadian nurse, published by the Canadian Nurses' Association
Check lochia and change sterile pad. If the patient's pulse is under 90, the fundus is firm and the lochia is normal, the patient may be left at the end ...

1927, The Indian Veterinary Journal, published by the Indian Veterinary Association
In one Magra ewe which gave birth to twins, lochia continued for 8 days …

1946: Nicholson Joseph Eastman and Emil Novak, Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey
By the fifth day, however, the lochia was normal in most of the patients and in only 4 patients was it heavy.

For the first three or four days after delivery the lochia are red; [...] three different types of lochia are distinguished: ‘lochia rubra’ or ‘red lochia’, ‘lochia serosa’ ‘serous lochia’, which appears five to six days after delivery, and ‘lochia alba’ meaning ‘white lochia’, the final lochial discharge [...]

1998, Giovanni Maciocia, Obstetrics & Gynecology in Chinese Medicine, page 609:

Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.


furred

en-adj

furred (comparative more furred, superlative most furred)

more furred (comparative)
most furred (superlative)


love handle

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

From early 1980s. So called because supposed to be grabbed by a partner in sexual intercourse.

The good news. Three weeks into the programme I am rediscovering bits of my body I had forgotten existed; biceps, triceps, hamstrings and those funny muscles on the sides of the abdomen called obliques, the toning of which is supposed to eliminate the love handle.

2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:

(colloquial, euphemistic, chiefly in the plural) A protruding area of fat on the side of the body, above the hips.

腰間贅肉 /腰间赘肉

жо́пкины у́шки n pl (žópkiny úški, literally “ears of arse”)


portal vein

gastrointestinal tract
gastrointestinal tract

(anatomy) A short, wide vein located in the abdominal cavity formed by the union of the superior mesenteric and splenic veins that channels blood from the gastrointestinal tract and spleen to capillary beds in the liver.


transthyretin

en-noun

transthyretin (countable and uncountable, plural transthyretins)

transthyretins (plural)
TTR (abbreviation)

From trans- (“denoting change or transfer”) + thyr(oxine) + ret(inol) + -in (“protein”).

af

(biochemistry) a protein found in human blood serum and cerebrospinal fluid that functions as a carrier of the thyroid hormone thyroxine and the retinol-binding protein


DNase

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of deoxyribonuclease.


deoxyribonuclease

(biochemistry, genetics) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of DNA.


vastus

From Latin vastus (“vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous”). Doublet of vast.

der

(anatomy) One of the great muscles upon the front of the thigh.


talin

Talin showed two isoforms in rohu, where as talin-1 and talin-2 in model vertebrates produces two talins through alternative mRNA splicing [75 ].

2015 July 6, “Construction, De-Novo Assembly and Analysis of Transcriptome for Identification of Reproduction-Related Genes and Pathways from Rohu, Labeo rohita (Hamilton)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(biochemistry) Any of a group of cytoskeletal proteins


living dead

(fiction, usually with the) The undead; zombies, vampires, etc.


geniohyoid

/d͡ʒɪˌnʌɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/

/d͡ʒɪˌniː.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/

Borrowed from New Latin genīohyoīdeus, clipping of musculus genīohyoīdeus; from Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “the chin”) + Latin hyoīdēs (“U-shaped”) + Latin -eus (adjectival suffix); equivalent to genio- (“relating to the chin”) + hyoid.

af

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone.

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the geniohyoid muscle.


geniohyoid

/d͡ʒɪˌnʌɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/

/d͡ʒɪˌniː.ə(ʊ)ˈhʌɪ.ɔɪd/

geniohyoid muscle
geniohyoid muscle#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of geniohyoid muscle..


depressor

en-noun

depressor (plural depressors or (muscle) depressores)

depressors (plural)
depressores (plural)

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(anatomy) Any of several muscles whose contraction pulls down a part of the body.

(neuroanatomy, physiology) A nerve or nerve fiber that decreases the activity or the tone of the organ or the part it innervates, such as lowering the blood pressure.


Prince Valiant

This was the hairstyle of the protagonist of the US comic strip Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur.

(US) A hairstyle similar to a longer pageboy


procerus

/pɹəʊˈsɛə.ɹəs/

Borrowed from Latin prōcērus (“high, tall, long”), clipping of mūsculus prōcērus (“tall muscle”).

clipping

(anatomy) A roughly triangular facial muscle that arises from the fascia of the nasal bone and a cartilage in the side of the nose and inserts into the skin between the eyebrows, drawing down the medial part of the eyebrow and the skin of the forehead.


dingdong

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dingdong

en-verb

dingdong (third-person singular simple present dingdongs, present participle dingdonging, simple past and past participle dingdonged)

dingdongs (present singular third-person)
dingdonging (participle present)
dingdonged (participle past)
dingdonged (past)


basalolateral

en-adj

basalolateral (comparative more basalolateral, superlative most basalolateral)

more basalolateral (comparative)
most basalolateral (superlative)


intercrural

/ɪntəˈkɹʊəɹəl/

(anatomy) Applied to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fish.


urethral sphincter

en-noun

urethral sphincter (plural urethral sphincters)

(anatomy) The collective muscles used to control the flow of urine from the urinary bladder. These muscles surround the urethra, so that when they contract, the urethra is closed.


depilatory

/dəˈpɪləˌtɔɹi/

When Bilkis Queen of Sheba discovered her legs by lifting her robe (Koran xxvii.), Solomon was minded to marry her, but would not do so till the devils had by a depilatory removed the hair.

1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume IV, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

A preparation that removes hair from the body.


tracheal

When an allergic reaction caused Jack's throat to swell, the paramedics inserted a tracheal tube so that he could breathe.

(anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the trachea.


habenula

Borrowed from Latin habenula, diminutive of habena.

(neuroanatomy) A circumscript mass of cells in the caudal and dorsal aspect of the dorsal thalamus.


oral hygiene

The practice of keeping the mouth clean in order to prevent cavities (dental caries), gingivitis, periodontitis, bad breath (halitosis), and other dental disorders.


gonopodium

From gono- + -podium (“part resembling a foot”).

affix

(anatomy) A modified extremity, such as an anal fin, of certain types of livebearing fish and arthropods (most notably crustaceans and myriapods), which is used for reproduction.


holochroal

(of eyes) Having compound lenses, each with separate cornea, each lens separated from others by shallow scleral walls; corneal membrane ends at lens edge

holokroaalinen

having compound lenses, each with separate cornea


suprapubic

(anatomy) Above, or anterior to, the pubic bone.


topoisomerase

/ˌtɒpəʊˌaɪˈsɒməˌɹeɪs/

/ˌtɑpoʊˌaɪˈsɑməˌɹeɪs/

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that affect the topology of DNA, especially ones that relax supercoiling.


knop

From Middle English knop, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch knoppe, from Proto-Germanic *knuppô, *knuppaz, *knappô, which is perhaps related to *knappō (“knob, boy”).

On these shawl borders the knop and flower are often also combined, the knop becoming the cone or Cypress-like trunk of a tree, the branches of which fam out like the fronds of the Hom. [Plate III., fig. 6]. In some Indian and Persian carpets the knop or cone throws out graceful Hom fronds, one on either side, from the ends of which hangs a large flower, presenting the alternation of a branching cone and flower.

1878, Sir George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood, Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878: Handbook to the British Indian Section, Offices of the Royal Commission, page 106:

(botany, art) A closed bud or bud-like, swelling protuberance of a plant, or the representation thereof in the decorative arts


descending colon

en-noun

descending colon (plural descending colons)

(anatomy) A part of the colon adjacent to the sigmoid colon.


ascending colon

ascending colon (plural ascending colons)

(anatomy) A part of the colon between the cecum and the transverse colon.


transverse colon

transverse colon (plural transverse colons)

(anatomy) A part of colon joining ascending colon and descending colon.


bile duct

(anatomy) Any of a number of long tube-like structures that carry bile.


indusium

(botany) A protecting membrane, especially that covering the developing spores of a fern.


bedhead

bedhead (countable and uncountable, plural bedheads)

From bed + head. Superficially similar to, but etymologically distinguishable from, forms built from -head.

Hand was looking flustered with me, though he was still only half-awake and his bedhead was ridiculous […]

2002, Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity, Vintage Canada, published 2011:

She always came to the office late because she was an INSOMNIAC, lewd grin, bedhead, and miniskirt, the CEO laughing his head off down the hallway, old word style, but new to have this dirty kind of hilarious brunette.

2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

(colloquial) The condition of having unkempt hair, generally as a result of having just woken up from sleep.


mump

Perhaps borrowed through obsolete Dutch mompen (“to cheat, swindle, deceive”), according to Kroonen, a derivative of Proto-Germanic *mump- (“to stain”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mm̥bʰ-neh₂- Also akin to German mimpfeln (“to mumble”), Icelandic mumpa (“to take into the mouth”). See also English mum.
While Kroonen claims Ancient Greek μέμφομαι (mémphomai, “I blame, accuse”) and the Germanic forms are reconcilable and related, Beekes rejects this, stating that Germanic -p- cannot here correspond to Greek -φ- and that this etymological connection is not widely considered reliable.


brain stem

(neuroanatomy, anatomy) The part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the cerebrum and the rest of the forebrain.

جِذْع الدِمَاغ

part of the brain that connects the spinal cord to the forebrain and cerebrum


G-spot

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Abbreviation of Gräfenberg spot, popularized in The G Spot and Other Recent Discoveries About Human Sexuality, a pop-sci book published in 1982.

The very notion of a G-spot aroused so much interest, however, that this phrase not only stuck around but became metaphorical, as when Newsweek's Jonathan Alter wrote, “Smart politicians have always known that the G Spot of the American body politic is in the middle."

2009 March 31, Ralph Keyes, quoting Jonathan Alter, I Love It When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

By manipulating this note you have your finger on the G-spot of the blues; handle it with care!

2009 August 1, Chris Haigh, The Fiddle Handbook, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

But, although Iain Duncan Smith touched the G-spot of the Blackpool audience, I was reminded of Archie Rice's prophetic cry as he foresaw the end of the music halls and stand-alone British imperialism: “Don't clap too hard, we're all in a very old building."

2021 September 23, Michael Billington, Affair of the Heart: British Theatre from 1992 to 2020, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 113:

(by extension, humorous) A focal point; a place (real or metaphorical) where activity should be directed for the best result.


malleolar

(anatomy) Of or relating to the malleolus.


pinnule

(botany) Any of the ultimate leaflets of a bipinnate or tripinnate leaf; a subleaflet.

(zoology) A part or an organ which resembles the barb of a feather, particularly the side branches on the stalks of crinoids; Any of the lateral divisions of the finger-like stalks of an encrinite.


malleolus

en-noun

malleolus (plural malleoli or malleoluses)

Borrowed from Latin malleolus (“a small hammer or mallet”); itself from malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus (“diminutive suffix”).

suffix

Meronyms: lateral malleolus, medial malleolus, posterior malleolus

(anatomy) The bony prominence with a shape likened to a hammerhead, especially each of those at the distal end of the fibula or tibia, on either side of the ankle joint.


rib cage

(anatomy) A part of the skeleton within the thoracic area consisting of ribs, sternum and thoracic vertebrae.


habitus

en-noun

habitus (countable and uncountable, plural habiti or habitus or habituses)

habiti (plural)
habitus (plural)
habituses (plural)

From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habeō (“have; maintain”). The plural habiti is a misconstruction, as the Latin plural is in fact habitūs. This is reflected by the English plural habitus, which is occasionally encountered. habiti may have been influenced by Latin habitī, the plural of the participle habitus; however, it is not the etymon of the English term.

(anatomy, medicine) the general shape and appearance of the body, usually with reference to weight, adipose distribution, posture, and gait; most often called by the collocation body habitus.


lemniscus

lemniscus (plural lemniscuses or lemnisci)

Borrowed from Latin lēmniscus (“pendent ribbon”), from Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnĭ́skos), from Λῆμνος (Lêmnos, “a Greek island Lemnos”) + -ίσκος (-ískos, “noun-forming diminutive suffix”).

af

(anatomy) A ribbon of fibers, especially of cerebral white nerve fibers.


calmodulin

en-noun

calmodulin (countable and uncountable, plural calmodulins)

Two distinct anti-allergic drugs, amlexanox and cromolyn, bind to the same kinds of calcium binding proteins, except calmodulin, in bovine lung extract.

2006, Journal of the National Cancer Institute:

(biochemistry) A calcium-binding protein found in all nucleated cells


maxillary

Borrowed from Latin māxillāris (“of or belonging to the jaw”), from māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to maxilla + -ary.

af

(anatomy) Of or relating to the jaw or jawbone.


maxillary

In the RODENTIA the interorbital space is still larger, by reason of the size of the intermaxillary bones throwing the maxillary backwards and to the sides, where they form the inner orbitar wall, in which the palate bones occupy only a small space. The anterior wall is formed by a process of the maxillary, which contributes to form the zygomatic arch, while the malar is suspended in the middle between the process and that of the temporal bone.

Neoplastic localisations in the maxillaries can be distinguished between primitive tumour lesions with osteomedullary origin (osteoma, osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, myeloma, etc.) and secondary neoplasms of the maxillaries such as the hematogenous metastasis or the tumours which affect the maxillaries for their adjacency, for example, the lesions in the oral cavity and the salivary glands.

2014, Ignazio Pandolfo, Silvio Mazziotti, Orthopantomography, page 148:

A tendon extends from the inner surface of the dentary to the postero-lateral surface of the maxillary near the ball and socket joint.

1928, Edna May Keeler, A Comparative Study of the Muscles Controlling the Maxillary Tentacles of the Siluridae, page 42:

(anatomy) A tooth growing from the upper jawbone.


hirsuteness

The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.


hairiness

en-noun

hairiness (countable and uncountable, plural hairinesses)

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, Observ. XXVI,
We have had (says he) another of this kind brought us out of the East-Indies, which being planted was in shew like the former, but came not to perfection, the unkindly season not suffering it to shew the flower; but of the Cods that were brought, some were smaller, shorter, and rounder then the Garden kind; others much longer, and many growing together, as it were in clusters, and cover'd all over with a brown short hairiness, so fine, that if any of it be rubb'd, or fall on the back of ones hand, or other tender parts of the skin, it will cause a kind of itching […]

The fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms):

Spanberg, the Russian navigator, landed, he says, in a great island from 43° to 50° lat., speaks of the uncommon hairiness of the natives, and of their wearing of silver in their ears.

1804, William Robert Broughton, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Book I, p. 92, footnote:

Small reddened but said stubbornly, “The cow likes my singing.” ¶ Cows are different from humans; perhaps the hairiness of their ears strains sound.

1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:


ceruloplasmin

ceruloplasmin (countable and uncountable, plural ceruloplasmins)

cerulo (derived from Latin caeruleus (“colored blue”)) + plasmin

(biochemistry) A blue metalloprotein that contains copper; it acts as a ferroxidase in association with transferrin.


towheaded

en-adj

towheaded (comparative more towheaded, superlative most towheaded)

more towheaded (comparative)
most towheaded (superlative)


trifocals

From tri- + focal (see focus). Coined by John Isaac Hawkins, their inventor, in 1826.

(optics) Spectacles with corrective lenses that have three different powers per eye.


pectoral girdle

en-noun

pectoral girdle (plural pectoral girdles)

(anatomy) The bony or cartilaginous assembly that supports the forelimbs in vertebrates


shoulder girdle

shoulder girdle (plural shoulder girdles)

(anatomy) The human pectoral girdle, consisting of the collarbones and shoulder blades.


dismutase

Furthermore, wedelolactone also increased the activities of superoxidase dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) and decreased the level of the lipid peroxidation product malondialdehyde (MDA) in the liver, therefore decreasing the activity of alanine aminotransferase (ALT).

2015 July 14, “Wedelolactone Regulates Lipid Metabolism and Improves Hepatic Steatosis Partly by AMPK Activation and Up-Regulation of Expression of PPARα/LPL and LDLR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze dismutation reactions.

Dismutase

any of several enzymes that catalyze dismutation reactions


dehydrogenase

This led to a search in the filtrate for a dehydrogenase which should activate lactate in preference to the other three substances.

1928, Marjory Stephenson, “On lactic dehydrogenase: A cell-free enzyme preparation obtained from bacteria”, in Biochemical Journal:

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the removal of hydrogen (a proton) from biological compounds.


astragal

From Ancient Greek ἀστράγαλος (astrágalos). Doublet of astragalus.

(anatomy) Synonym of anklebone: the bone forming the ball of the ankle joint.


myelin sheath

(neuroanatomy) An envelope of myelin that surrounds nerve fibres.


bucca

Borrowed from Latin bucca (“the cheek”).


internal organ

The salarians at first thought the krogan were confused about the nature of Kruban's environment; the planet is named for a krogan mythological paradise in which honorable warriors feast on the internal organs of their enemies. In fact, krogan astronomers had correctly deduced the nature of Kruban in the years before the global holocaust.

2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:

(anatomy) An organ, such as the heart or colon, that is entirely within the confines of the body.

內臟 /内脏

an organ that is entirely within the confines of the body


hypothalamic

Thus, in brain studies that purport to find the origins of sexual orientation, gay men are said to have hypothalamic nuclei that are smaller than a straight mans and closer in size to a womans, and thus they are attracted to men.

1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.


parasympathetic

From para- (“beside, adjacent to”) + sympathetic, because some of these nerves run alongside sympathetic nerves.

prefix

autonomic nervous system
autonomic nervous system

sympathetic nervous system
sympathetic nervous system

(neuroanatomy, neurology, relational) Of or relating to the part of the autonomic nervous system that inhibits or opposes the effects of the sympathetic nervous system. It consists of nerves arising from the brain and the lower end of the spinal cord and supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands.

parasimpàtic

relating to part of the autonomic nervous system


hairlike

en-adj

hairlike (comparative more hairlike, superlative most hairlike)

more hairlike (comparative)
most hairlike (superlative)

Near-synonym: furlike

The moss grew in a hairlike mass over the rocks.

Resembling hair; having the texture, consistency, or appearance of hair.


myotube

(anatomy) A structure of elongated multinucleate cells that contains some peripherally located myofibrils


leukotriene

From leuko- + triene, coined by Swedish biochemist Bengt I. Samuelsson.

(organic chemistry) Any of several physiologically active lipids, related to the prostaglandins, that participate in allergic responses.

白三烯

any of several physiologically active lipids


electric toothbrush

en-noun

electric toothbrush (plural electric toothbrushes)

A toothbrush that uses electric power, usually supplied by a battery, to move the brush head rapidly.


periodontist

A dentist whose speciality is periodontics


jasmonic acid

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) An oxylipin lipid, containing a cyclopentanone ring, related to the prostaglandins; its esters, the jasmonates, are responsible for the smell of jasmine and act as plant hormones


mutton-chop whiskers

To judge from the photos Gerald's hippy phase had reached its counter-cultural extreme in a pair of mutton-chop whiskers and a floral tie.

2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

Synonym of muttonchops (“facial hairstyle”)


gelled

In May, I go to a gastroenterologist. He has a signet pinkie ring and gelled hair.

2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times:


wayfarers

I can see you / Your brown skin shining in the sun / You got your hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby

1984, “The Boys of Summer”, in Don Henley (lyrics), Building the Perfect Beast:

I'm tense, my hair is slicked back. Wayfarers on, my skull is aching.

1991, Bret Easton Ellis, “Dry Cleaners”, in American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 81:

(capitalized) A pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer glasses.


snipped

Kathleen pointed to the area below the belt. "You know, you should be prepared. He's probably not snipped."

2006, Francesca Segrè, “Girl Meets Goy”, in Ruth Ellenson, editor, The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt, Plume, →ISBN:


malocclusion

malocclusion (countable and uncountable, plural malocclusions)

First attested in 1888. Formed as mal- (“wrong”, “improper(ly)”: ultimately from the Classical Latin male, “badly”, “wrongly”; from malus, “bad”; compare the ben- element in benocclusion) + occlusion (“alignment of the teeth in closed jaws”).

(dentistry) A misalignment of the upper and lower sets of teeth.


subarachnoid space

subarachnoid space (plural subarachnoid spaces)

(neuroanatomy) The space between the arachnoid mater and the pia mater that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, through which the cerebrospinal fluid circulates and major blood vessels pass, and across which extend delicate trabeculae of connective tissue.


ACA

anterior cerebral artery
anterior cerebral artery#English

(anatomy) Initialism of anterior cerebral artery.


meningeal

From New Latin mēningeus + -al, from mēninga (“membrane covering the brain”) + -eus (adjectival suffix).

af

(anatomy, relational) Relating to the meninges.


pia mater

From Medieval Latin pia māter (literally “tender mother”).

bor

Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.

2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, archived from the original on 2013-04-24, page 200:

(anatomy) The innermost of the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord.


arachnoid mater

en-noun

arachnoid mater (plural arachnoid maters)

(anatomy) The middle layer of the meninges; a membrane that protects the brain and spinal cord below the dura mater and above the subarachnoid space and the pia mater.


glenohumeral joint

glenohumeral joint (plural glenohumeral joints)

(anatomy) The shoulder joint, a joint that connects the scapula (shoulder blade) and the humerus (upper arm bone).


hip bone

Holonyms: pelvis, os coxae

Meronyms: acetabulum, ilium, ischium, pubis

(anatomy) One of two roughly symmetrical skeleton parts, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis.


arachnoid

Mid 18th century borrowing from New Latin arachnoīdēs, from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρᾰχνοειδής (ărăkhnoeidḗs, “like a cobweb”), from ᾰ̓ρᾰ́χνη (ărắkhnē, “spider web”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-oid, -like”). By surface analysis, arachn- + -oid.

der

ᾰ̓ρᾰχνοειδής

af

/əˈɹæk.nɔɪd/

(anatomy) Relating to the arachnoid mater.


arachnoid

der

ᾰ̓ρᾰχνοειδής

/əˈɹæk.nɔɪd/

(neuroanatomy) Ellipsis of arachnoid mater..


elbow bone

(anatomy) Olecranon, at the elbow end of the ulna.


braincase

The part of the skull that contains the brain; the neurocranium.

boest ar penn

the part of the skull containing the brain


manubrium

en-noun

manubrium (plural manubria or manubriums)

(anatomy) The broad, upper part of the sternum.


calf bone

(anatomy) The smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, the fibula.


horchata

horchata (countable and uncountable, plural horchatas)

/(h)ɔːɹˈt͡ʃɑːtə/

Borrowed from Spanish horchata, ultimately from Vulgar Latin *hordeata (“(drink, food) made of barley”), from hordeum (“barley”), either via Catalan/Valencian orxata (possibly via a Mozarabic source), or via Italian orzata.
Also cognate to English and French orgeat (“almond syrup”) and Surinamese Dutch orgeade.

der

Manufacturers from the villages surrounding the capital of the region came each day to the city of Valencia with carts pulled by donkeys to sell fresh horchata, tiger nuts and barley water.

2011, Miguel-Angel Galindo, Domingo Ribeiro, Women’s Entrepreneurship and Economics: New Perspectives, Practices, and Policies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 66:

A sweet beverage variously made with rice, chufa or morro seeds (or, historically, barley), water, sugar, and cinnamon, and sometimes with milk.


lumbrical

lumbricals of the foot
lumbricals of the hand

From New Latin lumbricalis, from lumbricus (“intestinal worm, earthworm”) + -alis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

af

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">-al</i>

(anatomy) Any of the four small muscles of the palm of the hand that arise from tendons of the flexor digitorum profundus, are inserted at the base of the digit to which the tendon passes, and flex the proximal phalanx and extend the two distal phalanges of each finger.

(anatomy) Any of four small muscles of the foot homologous to the lumbricals of the hand that arise from tendons of the flexor digitorum longus and are inserted into the first phalanges of the four small toes of which they flex the proximal phalanges and extend the two distal phalanges.


blood plasma

en-noun

blood plasma (usually uncountable, plural blood plasmas)

(hematology) The clear fluid portion of blood in which the red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets are suspended; forms serum upon clotting.


ringlet

From ring + -let. Compare Middle English ryngyl, ryngyll, rengel (“ringlet”).

(entomology) Any of various butterflies with small rings on the wings, in the tribe Satyrini of the family Nymphalidae, such as Aphantopus hyperantus.


hair extension

desc

→ Japanese: エクステンション

→ Japanese: エクステンション

A length of hair which is attached to one's normal hair to make it longer.


dentary

(anatomy) Relating to, or bearing, teeth.


vibrissa

The vibrissae are coarse hairs whose follicles are located just within the nasal meatus. […] Vibrissae are present in most mammals, but their innervation and role in sensory function appears to be less pronounced in humans.

2012, David W. Kennedy, Peter H. Hwang, editors, Rhinology: Diseases of the Nose, Sinuses, and Skull Base, Thieme, →ISBN:

(anatomy, in the plural) The thick hairs found inside the nostrils of humans and other mammals.


vomeronasal

(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mouth

vomeronasal

of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mouth


shorthair

Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, slender body and large head.


horn-rimmed

A little bald-headed man with huge horn-rimmed spectacles, and a very handsome and athletic youth in a blue lounge-suit completed the group.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(of eyeglasses) Having the frames made from horn or tortoiseshell or a material that resembles it, and characterized by their bold appearance on the wearer's face, in contrast to metal frames, which appear less pronounced.


cleido-

From Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “a key; the collarbone”) + -o-.

af

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the clavicle.


clivus

Derived from Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”).

der+

(anatomy) Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward.


palpebral

Borrowed from Late Latin palpebrālis (“of or on the eyelids”), from palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to palpebra + -al.

af

(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located on or near the eyelids.


estro

With spiro and estro from Vanuatu / What the hell do you think that'll do to you?

2019, glass beach (lyrics and music), “yoshi’s island”, in the first glass beach album:

(transgender slang) Clipping of estrogen.


optic nerve

(neuroanatomy) Each of the second pair of cranial nerves that carry visual information from the retina to the brain.


puppy dog eyes

A facial expression showing credulous or unsophisticated innocence or naivety.


aponeurosis

(anatomy) A flattened pearly white fibrous membrane taking the place of a tendon that binds together and forms the terminations and attachments of muscles or connects them to other body parts like skin or bone.


furball

A ball of fur, especially one coughed up by a cat.


ferritin

From Latin ferrātus (“iron-bearing”) and -in; compare also ferri- and ferro-.

Coordinate term: transferrin (key protein of extracellular iron transport)

(biochemistry) Any of a family of iron-carrying globular protein complexes consisting of 24 protein subunits; the key protein of intracellular iron storage.

ferritina

any of a family of iron-carrying globular protein complexes consisting of 24 protein subunits


prostatic

(anatomy) Relating to the prostate gland.


gastrin

en-noun

gastrin (countable and uncountable, plural gastrins)

(biochemistry) A hormone that stimulates the production of gastric acid in the stomach


celiac

From Latin coeliacus, from Ancient Greek κοιλιακός (koiliakós), from κοιλία (koilía, “belly”). Cognate with coelom.

(US, anatomy) Of, pertaining to or located within the abdomen or abdominal cavity.

celíaco

of or pertaining to the abdominal cavity


red-eye

red-eye (countable and uncountable, plural red-eyes)

The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Agkistrodon contortrix Linnaeus.—Cotton-mouth, Highland Moccasin, Rattlesnake Pilot, Red-eye.

[1905, F. N. Notestein, “The Ophidia of Michigan with an Analytical Key”, in Seventh Report of the Michigan Academy of Science: […], Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, →OCLC, page 120:

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

(countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.

(US) Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen).


secretin

(biochemistry) A peptide hormone, secreted by the duodenum, that serves to regulate its acidity


adrenocorticotropic hormone

adrenocorticotropic hormone (plural adrenocorticotropic hormones)

(biochemistry) A peptide hormone, secreted by the pituitary gland, that stimulates the secretion of other hormones


adrenocorticotrophin

adrenocorticotropic hormone
adrenocorticotropic hormone


infundibulum

Borrowed from Latin infundibulum (“funnel”).

(anatomy) A funnel-shaped cavity or organ.


yarrum

Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, / To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.

1652, Richard Brome, A Joviall Crew: or, the Merry Beggars, play, first performed 1641:


hirsutism

hirsutism (usually uncountable, plural hirsutisms)

(dermatology) Excessive and increased hair growth in locations where terminal hair is normally minimal or absent.


handlebar moustache

handlebar moustache (plural handlebar moustaches)

A pleasant, dapperly dressed man with a handlebar moustache that he regularly twists and tugs...

2003, Christopher Phillips, Socrates café: a fresh taste of philosophy, page 103:

A broad moustache worn long and curled up at the sides.


orbita

Borrowed from Latin orbita (“a circuit, orbit”).


metapodial

(anatomy, zoology) Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.


endometrial

From endometrium + -al or endo- + metrial.

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the endometrium, the lining of the uterus


aromatase

aromatase (countable and uncountable, plural aromatases)

/əˈɹoʊ̯məteɪ̯s/

/əˈɹoʊ̯məteɪ̯z/

(biochemistry) An enzyme responsible for aromatization of androgen hormones into estrogens.


dehydroepiandrosterone

dehydroepiandrosterone (countable and uncountable, plural dehydroepiandrosterones)

(biochemistry) An androgen hormone, secreted by the adrenal cortex; a synthetic version is used as a dietary supplement


foregut

(biology, anatomy, embryology) The anterior part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, from the mouth to the duodenum, in humans and some other animals.

(biology, anatomy, medicine) The developed counterpart in the adult: the proximal part of the alimentary canal, which in humans runs from the mouth to the first half of the duodenum, up to the ampulla of Vater.


hindgut

putóg chúil

anatomy: the caudal part of the alimentary canal of an embryo

(biology, anatomy, embryology) The caudal part of the alimentary canal of an embryo, including the colon and the rectum, in humans and some other animals.

(biology, anatomy, medicine) The developed counterpart in the adult: the most distal part of the alimentary canal, which in humans is generally defined as comprising the distal third of the transverse colon, the splenic flexure, descending colon, sigmoid colon, and anorectal junction.


midgut

(biology, anatomy, embryology) The central loop of the alimentary canal of an embryo between the foregut and the hindgut, in humans and some other animals.

(biology, anatomy, medicine) The developed counterpart in the adult: the intermediate part of the alimentary canal, which in humans runs from the second half of the duodenum through the proximal two-thirds of the transverse colon.


cheek pouch

(anatomy, zoology) A pouch in the cheek of some animals, usually used to carry food.


protocone

(anatomy) A cusp in the corner of an upper molar tooth in mammals.


protostome

Any animal, of the taxon Protostomia, in which the mouth is derived from the embryonic blastopore

ilkağızlı

animal in which the mouth is derived from the embryonic blastophore


true leaf

(botany) Any leaf containing vascular tissue.


pubococcygeal

(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or connecting the pubis and the coccyx


galactosidase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of a galactoside


methylase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze methylation, especially of nucleic acids


pupillary

Borrowed from Latin pūpillāris, as if the form were *pūpillārius.

(law) Of or pertaining to person below a certain legal age, or to a ward.


diencephalon

diencephalon (plural diencephalons or diencephala)

diencephalons (plural)
diencephala (plural)

From New Latin diencephalon, from di-, prevocalic form of dia- + encephalon.

(neuroanatomy, anatomy) The region of the human brain, specifically the human forebrain, that includes the thalamus, the hypothalamus, the epithalamus, the prethalamus or subthalamus, and the pretectum.


forebrain

(neuroanatomy) The anterior part of the brain, including the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus.


postcranial

postcranial skeleton

postcranial anatomy

(anatomy) Relating to the postcranium: the portion of a vertebrate skeleton located caudal to the cranium (that is, in bipeds, inferior to it).


anogenital

(anatomy) Of, or relating to, the anus and genitals.


Sertoli cell

Named for Enrico Sertoli, who published the first description of these cells in 1865.

In 2009, researchers reported7 deactivating an ovarian gene called Foxl2 in adult female mice; they found that the granulosa cells that support the development of eggs transformed into Sertoli cells, which support sperm development.

2015, Claire Ainsworth, ‘Sex redefined’, Nature, volume 518, number 7539:

(anatomy) A kind of sustentacular cell which serves as a "nurse" cell of the testes and which is part of a seminiferous tubule.


cyclo-oxygenase

(biochemistry) Alternative spelling of cyclooxygenase


gonial

"We have seen that the gonial diameter, being related to the head breadth, is higher among the northern groups and especially among Mongols."

1925, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Shirokogorov, Anthropology of Eastern China and Kwangtung Province, page 79:

(anatomy, dentistry) Of or pertaining to the gonion, the point at the apex of the mandible, or lower jaw.


betalain

Coined to describe the pigments as derivatives from betalamic acid, from Latin bēta (“beet”), + -in.

Among the angiosperms, betalains are known only in the Caryophyllales, although they also occur in some Basidiomycetes.

1981, Arthur Cronquist, An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants, page 237:

Neither the red betacyanins nor the other kind of betalain pigments, the yellow betaxanthins, are at all structurally related to the anthocyanins, and anthocyanins and betalains do not occur together in the same plant.

1992, Frank B. Salisbury, Cleon W. Ross, Plant Physiology, 4th edition, page 325:

2004 — Luisa Tesoriere, Mario Allegra, Daniela Butera, & Maria A. Livrea. "Absorption, excretion, and distribution of dietary anioxidant betalains in LDLs: potential health effects of betalains in humans." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 80: 941-945.
Betalains, known for a long time as safe colorants for food or other industrial purposes, are phytochemicals that were recently classified as antioxidants.

A class of red and yellow indole-derived water-soluble pigments found in beets and other plants of the Caryophyllales and used commercially as coloring agents.


gamma-aminobutyric acid

(biochemistry) An amino acid found in the nervous systems of vertebrates and acting as an inhibitory neurotransmitter. Abbreviated as GABA.


rhizodermis

(botany) The outermost primary cell layer of the root.


drip tip

(botany) An elongated leaf tip from which excess water can drip off harmlessly, as found in plants of the rainforest.


exoribonuclease

(biochemistry) A ribonuclease that catalyzes the exonucleolytic cleavage of nucleotides from a ribonucleotide chain.


tunica albuginea

tunica albuginea (plural tunicae albugineae)

From Late Latin tunica albuginea (“white membrane”).

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The testis has a rich superficial plexus beneath the tunica albuginea.

1918, Henry Gray, Anatomy of the Human Body, page 687:

(anatomy) Layer of connective tissue covering the testis.

If the tunica albuginea of an ovary be divided with a scalpel, the stroma may then be readily torn asunder by pulling the edges of the incision apart ...

1867, Charles Delucena Meigs, Obstetrics: The Science and the Art, page 120:

(anatomy) Layer of connective tissue covering the ovaries.

Scarring of the tunica albuginea results in a portion of the tunica that cannot stretch and expand as the cavernosal sinusoids.

2002, Carol B Benson, “Erectile Dysfunction”, in Imaging of the Scrotum & Penis, →ISBN, page 274:

(anatomy) Tough fibrous layer of connective tissue that surrounds the corpora cavernosa of the penis.


bad breath

en-noun

bad breath (countable and uncountable, plural bad breaths)

(medicine, dentistry, informal) Breath that produces an unpleasant or foul-smelling odor when exhaled.


adluminal

Spermatozoa move to the epididymis by the flow of fluid into the lumen of the seminiferous tubules from the adluminal spaces.

2004, William O. Reece, Functional Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals, →ISBN, page 380:

(anatomy) Near or toward the lumen of a seminiferous tubule.

adluminal

near or toward the lumen of a seminiferous tubule


ensellure

(anatomy) A concave curve formed by the spine, for example in women and horses; lumbar incurvation.


pulmonary artery

pulmonary artery (plural pulmonary arteries)

(anatomy) The artery that connects the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.


male member

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

The sense “penis” is a calque of Latin membrum virīle.

We have four female members, and three male members.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see male, member.


ammonic

(anatomy) Relating to the cornu ammonis.


acinar

(anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or located in an acinus.


myelinated

en-adj

myelinated (comparative more myelinated, superlative most myelinated)

more myelinated (comparative)
most myelinated (superlative)

(anatomy) Of nerves, having a coating of myelin.


medullated

medullated (comparative more medullated, superlative most medullated)

more medullated (comparative)
most medullated (superlative)


cathepsin

Borrowed from German Kathepsin, from Ancient Greek καθέψω (kathépsō), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕψω (hépsō, “boil”).

affix

Grassmann and Dyckerhoff (1930) showed that cysteine and cyanide inhibited the action of ereptic aminopolyase, while they accelerated the action of proteases such as cathepsin.

1931, A Pirie, BE Holmes, “The cause of inactivation of the Rous sarcoma filtrate during incubation”, in British journal of experimental pathology:

(biochemistry) Any of a family of proteases primarily active within lysosomes.


adventitia

en-noun

adventitia (countable and uncountable, plural adventitias)

From the Latin adventitius (“extraneous”).

(anatomy, histology) The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.


lesser saphenous vein

lesser saphenous vein (plural lesser saphenous veins)

small saphenous vein
small saphenous vein#English

(anatomy) Synonym of small saphenous vein


saphenous vein

great saphenous vein
great saphenous vein

small saphenous vein
small saphenous vein

(anatomy) The great saphenous vein, or (less commonly) the small saphenous vein.


great saphenous vein

great saphenous vein (plural great saphenous veins)

(anatomy) The large subcutaneous superficial vein of the leg and thigh.


small saphenous vein

small saphenous vein (plural small saphenous veins)

(anatomy) A relatively large vein of the superficial posterior leg.


saphenous

This problem is most critical when dealing with the entry of the great or small saphenous vein into the deep venous system.

1996, Johannes Petres, Rainer Rompel, Perry Robins, Dermatologic Surgery, page 111:

Perform the operation, which was described by Friedrich Trendelenburg (1844–1924) of Leipzig in 1890, on patients with varicose veins who have evidence of long saphenous reflux at the groin on clinical, Doppler or duplex examination. Avoid the operation if the long saphenous vein is a collateral channel for obstructed deep veins.

2007, R. M. Kirk, Essential General Surgical Operations, page 274:

The reverse saphenous conduit flap incorporates branches of the saphenous artery and medial saphenous vein, which in turn supply and drain the overlying skin by means of direct cutaneous vessels.

2009, Michael M. Pavletic, Atlas of Small Animal Wound Management and Reconstructive Surgery, page 394:

(anatomy) Relating to, or situated near, the saphenous vein.

safè

relating to, or situated near, the saphenous vein


caudate

From the Medieval Latin caudātus, from the Classical Latin cauda (“tail”).

the caudate nucleus


vasa vasorum

From the Latin vāsa, plural of vās (“vessel”) + vāsōrum, the genitive plural of vās (“vessel”). Meaning "vessels of the vessels."

(anatomy) The capillaries that supply blood to vessels larger than 1 mm. They supply blood to the adventitia and middle tunicae.


colorectal

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the colorectum

colorectal

medicine: of or pertaining to the colorectum


man boob

The obese boy often wore a shirt while swimming at the pool in order to hide his man boobs.

McPhee would have had a hairy canary if the flabby, sweaty bastard before her started gyrating to music and taking his egg stained jumper off to reveal his man boobs.

2019, Jennifer Lee Thomson, How Kirsty Gets Her Kicks:

(slang) One of a pair of large or womanly breasts on a man caused by pectoral fat, or sometimes a hormonal condition such as gynecomastia.