polymastism

(anatomy) The condition of having more than two mammæ, or breasts.


polygastric

(anatomy) Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.


terminal stria

A structure in the brain, being a band of fibers running along the lateral margin of the ventricular surface of the thalamus.


autogenous

/ɔːˈtɒd͡ʒɪnəs/

These , being usually developed from distinct and independent centres , I have termed “autogenous” elements

1843, Richard Owen, Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate Animals:

(anatomy) Developed from an independent centre of ossification.


periaqueductal

(anatomy) Surrounding an aqueduct-like feature; usually in reference to periaqueductal grey, or some other part of anatomy.


homogenized milk

en-noun

homogenized milk (countable and uncountable, plural homogenized milks)

Milk which has been treated so that the liquid remains creamy throughout, instead of forming a separate layer of cream at the top.


pintle

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From Middle English pyntel, from Old English pintel (“penis”), from Proto-Germanic *pint- (“protrusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“peg, tip, protruding point, edge”), equivalent to pin + -le. Cognate with Middle Low German pint (“male member, penis”), West Flemish pint (“tip”), Norwegian dialectal pintol (“penis”). More at pin, pen.


pyridoxine

en-noun

pyridoxine (countable and uncountable, plural pyridoxines)

/ˌpɪɹɪˈdɒksɪn/

(biochemistry) A derivative of pyridine, 4,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-methylpyridin-3-ol, found in fish, liver, cereals and yeast, and essential for the metabolism of amino acids and starch.


female circumcision

female circumcision (countable and uncountable, plural female circumcisions)

Phimosis of the prepuce of the clitoris: indication for female circumcision by D G McLintock in J R Soc Med. 1985 March; 78(3): 257–258

The removal of the clitoral hood, the female prepuce cognate to the foreskin removed in the male equivalent.

sometimes included under female genital mutilation


monoamine oxidase

monoamine oxidase (plural monoamine oxidases)

monoamine oxidases (plural)
as MAO (abbreviation)

(biochemistry) Either of two enzymes, found in the outer membrane of mitochondria, that degrade biogenic amines and are thus responsible for the destruction of transmitter substances at neuronal synapses.

monoaminooxidasa

biochemistry: enzyme that degrades biogenic amines


oxidase

From oxide + -ase introduced by Gabriel Bertrand.

The effects of hemoglobin in anemia and chlorosis, and even in tuberculosis, are due to its triple action; it acts opotherapeutically, through the blood oxydases, which it contains when properly prepared.

1915, “Hemoglobin in Anemia”, in American Medicine, volume 21, page 22:

(biochemistry) Any of many enzymes which catalyze oxidation reactions, especially ones using molecular oxygen.


promontory

From Medieval Latin prōmontōrium, from prō- + *mineō (“to project or jut”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”).

der

(anatomy) A projecting part of the body.

A projecting part of the body.
A projection on the sacrum.

A rounded elevation in the tympanum of the ear.


dental calculus

A hard crust of calcium salts and food particles on the teeth, developing from plaque.


colostrum

en-noun

colostrum (usually uncountable, plural colostra)

Borrowed from Latin colostrum, of uncertain origin.

The researchers isolated the antibodies from the cow's colostrum, the first milk produced after birth, which has very high antibody concentrations. They gave these antibodies, extracted from the colostrum, to 10 volunteers and gave another 10 volunteers extracts from colostrum of cows that were not immunized against the traveler's diarrhea bacteria.

1988 May 17, Gina Kolata, “For Travelers, Milk From Immunized Cows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

This valuable fluid—colostrum—plays a number of important biological roles, including helping improve an infant's immune system. Nevertheless, many humans intuitively perceive colostrum as “sour milk,” which should not be given to infants. Other species do not make this serious mistake.

2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 16, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:

(medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.


collarbone

From Middle English colar bane; equivalent to collar + bone.

The bone joining the shoulder and the breastbone.


rostrum

Learned borrowing from Latin rōstrum (“beak, snout”), from rōd(ō) (“gnaw”) + -trum, from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁d- + *-trom. The pulpit sense is a back-formation from the name of the Roman Rōstra, the platforms in the Forum where politicians made speeches. The Rōstra were decorated with (and named for) the beaks (prows) of ships from naval victories.

lbor

(anatomy) The oral or nasal region of a human used for anatomical location (i.e. rostral).


beauty salon

A shop that provides hairdressing and beauticians' work.


medius

Borrowed from New Latin from Latin medius (“middle”). See medium. Doublet of minge and middle.

An analysis of the determined cases shows that the index was the digit most frequently amputated, next the medius, next the ring finger, next the thumb, and lastly the little finger

1876, Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion:

There is an interesting abnormality in finger length, the medius being especially long[…]

1945, Charlotte Wolff, A Psychology of Gesture:


ankylosis

en-noun

ankylosis (countable and uncountable, plural ankyloses)

From Ancient Greek ἀγκύλωσις (ankúlōsis, “a stiffening of the joints”), from ἀγκυλόειν (ankulóein, “to crook, bend”), from ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “bent, crooked”). By surface analysis, ankyl- + -osis.

der

(anatomy) The growing together of bones to form a single unit.


pecten

(anatomy, obsolete) The bones in the hand between the wrist and the fingers.


cuneus

Borrowed from Latin cuneus. Doublet of coign and coin.

(neuroanatomy) A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.


bite stick

(dentistry) A small wooden stick used in orthodontistry, which the patient bites on when the bands of the braces are fitted.


guttural

en-adj

guttural (comparative more guttural, superlative most guttural)

more guttural (comparative)
most guttural (superlative)

From Middle French guttural, from New Latin gutturālis, from Latin guttur (“throat”) + -ālis.

guttural duct of the ear; guttural pouch infection

(medicine, anatomy) Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.

на гърлото

medicine, anatomy: of, relating to, or connected to the throat


bulbourethral gland

en-noun

bulbourethral gland (plural bulbourethral glands)

An exocrine gland which secretes a clear fluid known as pre-ejaculate or Cowper’s fluid (colloquially known as “pre-cum”) which is generated upon sexual arousal.

urogenital sinus - embryological precursors


vag

Out the cab flash the vag / Set the women's movement back

2012, “Ke$ha Die Young PARODY! Key of Awesome #65”, The Key of Awesome (lyrics), Ke$ha (music):

My vag squirt aloe vera / Yo' vag look like Tony Danza

(US slang, chiefly vulgar) Vagina (or, by extension, vulva).


prepenial

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


prepubis

(anatomy) A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.


prescapula

(anatomy) The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.


prescapular

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.


grizzly

en-adj

grizzly (comparative grizzlier, superlative grizzliest)

grizzlier (comparative)
grizzliest (superlative)


preputial

If removing the preputial tissue curbs sexuality of both sexes and if, on the basis of curbing female sexuality, the removal of the female prepuce is misogynistic, then the removal of the male foreskin should be viewed as misandristic.

2006, David Benatar, Cutting to the Core, page 36:

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the prepuce.


aqueous humour

(ophthalmology) The clear, watery fluid that fills the front of the eye between the cornea and the crystalline lens.

humor aquós

the fluid that fills the front of the eye


barefaced

barefaced (comparative more barefaced, superlative most barefaced)

more barefaced (comparative)
most barefaced (superlative)

Perhaps an alteration of barefast (compare shamefast); or from bare + faced

Undisguisedly offensive and bold; crude.

Unbearded (not having a beard or other facial hair).

Unmasked (not wearing a mask) or not wearing a face covering.


pilosebaceous unit

en-noun

pilosebaceous unit (plural pilosebaceous units)

(anatomy, dermatology) The structure consisting of the hair, hair follicle, arrector pili muscle and the sebaceous gland.


false fruit

(botany) A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but some adjacent tissue.

falsk frukt

A fruit with tissue not derived from ovary


amniotic fluid

amniotic fluid (countable and uncountable, plural amniotic fluids)

(zoology) In placental mammals, a fluid contained within the amnion membrane that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus.

سُخْد

fluid that surrounds a developing embryo or fetus


accessory fruit

accessory fruit (plural accessory fruits)

(botany) A fruit which includes tissue not derived from the ovary but from some adjacent tissue, as for instance, a strawberry.


loof

Inherited from Middle English love, lufe, lofe, luf (“palm of the hand”), from Old Norse lōfi, from Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“palm of the hand; paw; oar blade, paddle”).

der

(anatomy, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The palm of the hand.

(anatomy, now chiefly dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) The hand, especially, the hand outspread and upturned.


nicotinamide

en-noun

nicotinamide (countable and uncountable, plural nicotinamides)

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) The amide of nicotinic acid (or niacin).

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate


mesoappendix

mesoappendix (plural mesoappendixes or mesoappendices)

mesoappendixes (plural)
mesoappendices (plural)

(anatomy) Part of the mesentery found near the appendix and the terminal ileum.


neural plate

(anatomy) A thick, flat bundle of ectoderm formed in vertebrate embryos after induction by the notochord.


TPN

triphosphopyridine nucleotide
triphosphopyridine nucleotide#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of triphosphopyridine nucleotide.


NADP

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate.


nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide

nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide (uncountable)

(biochemistry) An organic coenzyme involved in biological oxidation and reduction reactions.


DPN

DPN (countable and uncountable, plural DPNs)

diphosphopyridine nucleotide
diphosphopyridine nucleotide#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of diphosphopyridine nucleotide.


NAD

(biochemistry) Initialism of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.


diphosphopyridine nucleotide

diphosphopyridine nucleotide (plural diphosphopyridine nucleotides)

diphosphopyridine nucleotides (plural)
as DPN (abbreviation)

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

(biochemistry) nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide


nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (uncountable)

The treatment in mice involved boosting their levels of Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) – a natural protein that already controls DNA repair in our body.

2017 March 24, Tom Bawden, Not getting any older may be possibility after key discovery, in the i, № 1,975, page 15/5:


triphosphopyridine nucleotide

triphosphopyridine nucleotide (plural triphosphopyridine nucleotides)

triphosphopyridine nucleotides (plural)
as TPN (abbreviation)

nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide
nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide

(biochemistry) nicotinamide adenine trinucleotide


cuticula

From Latin cutīcula (“skin, cuticle”). Doublet of cuticle.

(zoology, botany) A tough protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants; cuticle.


T-zone

From T + zone, from the shape of the region.

The forehead and nose considered together as a region of the face that can, in some people, produce excess sebum compared to other parts of the face.


ta-ta

→ Portuguese: tatá


scala

Borrowed from Latin scāla (“ladder”). Doublet of scale.

(anatomy) Ladder-like structure in the cochlea of a mammal's ear.


evaporated milk

evaporated milk (usually uncountable, plural evaporated milks)

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

Milk that has been concentrated by evaporation, often sold canned.

llet concentrada

milk that has been concentrated by evaporation


milk powder

milk powder (countable and uncountable, plural milk powders)

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

Pulverized milk solids, produced by evaporating all liquid from milk.


spina

Unadapted borrowing from Latin spīna (“a thorn; a prickle, spine”). Doublet of spine.


condensed milk

en-noun

condensed milk (countable and uncountable, plural condensed milks)

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She holds the condensed milk tin over the first mug and watches the pale yellow milk stream down in a thin, viscous line.

2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 86:

Milk that has been reduced and sweetened to the consistency of syrup.


flexure

flexure (countable and uncountable, plural flexures)

The Stomach [of a weasel] about three inches long; proportionably, more than a Dogs. An inch in Diametre at the upper Orifice; and the nether, ¼; having a flexure towards its Conjunction with the Guts: ſhaped like to the body of a pair of Bag-Pipes.

1681, Nehemiah Grew, “The Comparative Anatomy of Stomachs and Guts Begun. Being Several Lectures Read before the Royal Society in the Year, 1676. Chapter I. Of the Stomachs and Guts of Six Carnivorous Quadrupeds; sc. The Weesle, Fitchet, Polecat, Cat, Dog and Fox.”, in Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC, page 1:

(anatomy) A curve or bend in a tubular organ.


pussy lips

pussy lips pl (normally plural, singular pussy lip)


stirrup

From Middle English stirop, stirope, from Old English stiġrāp (“stirrup”), a compound of stiġe ("ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to stīġan (“to climb”)) and rāp (“rope”), equivalent to sty + rope.
Cognate with Dutch stegereep, stegelreep (“stirrup”), Old Saxon stigerēp (“stirrup”), Middle High German stereip, stegreif ("stirrup"; > German Stegreif (“improvisation”)), Icelandic stigreip (“stirrup”).

gloss

"ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to <i class="Latn mention" lang="ang">stīġan</i> (“to climb”)

"stirrup"; > German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Stegreif</i> (“improvisation”)


midline

(anatomy, medicine) The medial line (or plane) of the body, which divides the body into halves that are mirror-images of each other.


cariogenic

en-adj

cariogenic (comparative more cariogenic, superlative most cariogenic)

more cariogenic (comparative)
most cariogenic (superlative)


spongin

A horny, sulfur-containing protein, related to keratin, that forms the skeletal structure of certain classes of sponges. A proteinaceous compound of which the spicules in Demospongiae are composed.


anterolateral

(anatomy, medicine) In front of the body, away from the midline.

ântero-lateral

in front of the body, away from the midline


isoenzyme

Near-synonym: allozyme

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction but have structures that are (minorly or substantially) different and have physical, biochemical, and immunological properties that are (minorly or substantially) different.


metalloenzyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that contains a metal atom which is essential for its biological activity


rugburn

en-noun

rugburn (countable and uncountable, plural rugburns)

The ombudsman found that youth living at El Pueblo remained under the care and supervision of staff who had been accused of abusing them. In one case, a youth was reportedly dragged across the carpet by two staff members, resulting in rugburns on his face.

2019 August 13, “A Pueblo center for troubled kids had 243 abuse allegations in the year before it closed”, in The Colorado Sun:

The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.

2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:

(countable) A painful burn or redness of skin, especially on knees, elbows, and hands, from repetitive friction against a rug or similar surface.

Like, seriously, thanks for the music. It's meant a lot. […] Your lead's hotter than rugburn.

His writing about the shattering nature of syphilis is both devastating and a bit sly. "You could joke with the word 'pox,'" he wrote. "You can’t joke with the word 'syphilis.'" Reading Lawrence’s writing about sex, in general, leaves you suspecting that he walked around with perpetual rugburn.

2019 November 8, Dwight Garner, “From Nabokov and Lawrence, Giants of 20th-Century Fiction, New Volumes of Nonfiction”, in New York Times:


pepo

Borrowed from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Doublet of pumpion; compare pumpkin.

der

A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.

The Papago claim that their ancient pepo would produce a mature, sweet melon if the ground were wet only once, while the "new" melons would not.

1945, George Francis Carter, Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest, Issue 5 edition, page 25:


longhair

dismissed as just another band of longhairs at the height of longhair bands

A person with hair longer than the norm, especially someone viewed as bohemian, non-conventional or a hippie.

A person considered to have excessively refined taste for the arts.


longhair

I would rather see a musical, but my wife, who loves longhair music, is dragging me to the symphony again.

(derogatory, music) Concerning or characteristic of classical music.


hypural joint

The joint between the caudal fin of a fish and the last of its vertebrae.


trichobothrium

An elongate external seta, present in many arachnids and various orders of insects, including Hemiptera and Thysanoptera. They function in the detection of airborne vibrations and air currents, including near-field sounds of central importance to their hearing and communication.


lateral line

A sense organ of a fish running lengthwise down each of its sides from the vicinity of the operculum to the base of the tail, used to detect movement and vibration in the surrounding water.


hepatopancreas

en-noun

hepatopancreas (plural hepatopancreases or hepatopancreata)

hepatopancreases (plural)
hepatopancreata (plural)

An organ of the digestive tract of arthropods and fish, which provides the functions which in mammals are provided separately by the liver and pancreas.


family jewels

The whole crowd cringed as he got hit right in the family jewels.

But what do three testicles mean? A mystical trinity illuminating some absurd need to procreate? A symbol suggesting a metaphysic of pawnbroking? Likely as not, it is simply an animation of the familiar euphemism, "the family jewels."

1971 July 5, R. Z. Sheppard, “Three's a Crowd”, in Time:


blondie

A sweet, chewy, generally vanilla-flavoured and chocolate-free baked good: a blond-colored brownie.


naptural

en-adj

naptural (comparative more naptural, superlative most naptural)

more naptural (comparative)
most naptural (superlative)

Going naptural does not mean that you have to cut all of the chemicals out of your hair immediately.

2003, Ayana Hardin, Nappy Hair 101, Llumina Press, →ISBN, page 21:

Some with naptural hair elect not to use a comb or brush, but for those who want to detangle without only using their hands, a wide tooth comb and brush need to also be a part of your list.

2009 March 23, Laquita Thomas-Banks, “Basic Tools For Natural Hair”, in Clutch:

2012, Rod Hagwood, "Meetup for women with curly, kinky or 'naptural' hair", Sun-Sentinel, 14 August 2012 (used in title only)

(informal, of Afro-textured hair) Left in its natural state, i.e. not chemically altered (relaxed, permed, etc).


wide-eyed

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

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

She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.

2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.


pepsin

en-noun

pepsin (countable and uncountable, plural pepsins)

From German Pepsin, corresponding to Ancient Greek πέψις (pépsis, “digestion”) + -in.

der

(biochemistry) A digestive enzyme that chemically digests, or breaks down, proteins into shorter chains of amino acids.


tricuspid valve

en-noun

tricuspid valve (plural tricuspid valves)

A heart valve with three cusps which prevents backflow of blood from the right ventricle into the right atrium.


fosse

From Middle English fosse, from Old French fosse, from Latin fossa (“ditch, trench”).


preocular

the preocular antennae of certain insects


fossa

fossa (plural fossae or (obsolete) fossæ)

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fossa (“a ditch, trench, fosse”). Doublet of fosse.

ubor

(anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.


bleary-eyed

en-adj

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

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

Near-synonyms: exhausted, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued

Bleary-eyed walkers prepared their kit for the final mountain, while the onboard crew fed and watered them, boosting people's energy levels for the last challenge.

2024 August 7, Paul Bigland, “'3 Peaks by Rail': ain't no mountain high enough”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 51:

Tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes.

γλαμυρός

tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes


oxidoreductase

From its morphology, oxido- + reductase.

It remains to be seen whether oxidoreductase deficiency is a significant cause of non-syndromic ambiguous genitalia in newborn females and undermasculinized males of unknown diagnosis as assessed by urinary steroid analyses.

2011, Charles G. D. Brook, Peter Clayton, Rosalind Brown, Brook's Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology, page 196:

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction (redox) reaction.


third leg

Suggesting a penis as long as one's leg.

(humorous, slang) A penis; specifically a long one.


suction

en-noun

suction (usually uncountable, plural suctions)

From Latin sūctiō, attested since Late Latin and derived from sūgō (“to suck”). Attested in English since the early 17th century.

(dentistry) A device for removing saliva from a patient's mouth during dental operations, a saliva ejector.


PAH

phenylalanine hydroxylase
phenylalanine hydroxylase#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of phenylalanine hydroxylase.


dinitrogen reductase

dinitrogenase reductase
dinitrogenase reductase


dinitrogenase

(biochemistry) Either of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.


dinitrogenase reductase

(biochemistry) One of two enzymes which, together with ATP, catalyze the reduction of molecular nitrogen into ammonia.


coin slot

Sometimes when she is on the floor with her legs spread open the men sitting at the edge of the stage try to roll quarters into her "coin slot."

2003, David A. Scott, Behind the G-String:


dioxygenase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that catalyze dioxygenation reactions


nitrous

From Middle French nitreux, and its source, Latin nitrōsus (“nitrose”). Doublet of nitroso. By surface analysis, nitro- + -ous.

(dentistry, automotive, informal) Nitrous oxide.


anabolic steroid

anabolic steroid (plural anabolic steroids)

(biochemistry, steroids) A class of steroid hormones that promote growth of tissue.

“anabole Steroide”)

anaboles Steroid n (often referred to in plural

anabol steroid

often referred to in plural: “anabola steroider”


weenie

Weenies and beer had not been a part of ASN/29's stores.

“The fucking weenie gets hard and I fucking lose this brain and this happened,” he said.

2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic:

(slang) Alternative form of wienie (“penis”)

Over and over again you'll dump a horde of weenies, and if you're^([sic]) opponent's^([sic]) too slow, he'll die right off the bat.

1996 February 20, ChrisMims [username], “White Hordes Part I: Extensive Pontifications”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

He was playing a monoblack weenie deck with 30+ creatures in it.

1997 February 10, Jesse Chounard, “Report: Pro Tour Paris PTQ”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

Most of the opponents^([sic]) quick creature removal will be taken out by the early flood of weenies.

1997 March 19, Craig Sivils, “Mono-Green, I don't get it.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):

(collectible card games, slang) A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures.


fluoridate

en-verb

fluoridate (third-person singular simple present fluoridates, present participle fluoridating, simple past and past participle fluoridated)

fluoridates (present singular third-person)
fluoridating (participle present)
fluoridated (participle past)
fluoridated (past)

(chemistry, dentistry, transitive) To add fluoride to something, especially to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay.


orbital ridge

the bony ridge beneath the eyebrow; the browbone


en-noun

nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (uncountable)

(biochemistry) The phosphate of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; a coenzyme important in fatty acid synthesis.


corniculum

Borrowed from Latin corniculum (“little horn”).

bor+

(anatomy, archaic) A small horn-like part or process.


phospholipase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze the phosphate ester bonds of phospholipids.


phosphatase

These results are in accordance with the observations of Pirani et al., who found that in normal pregnancy there was no correlation between serum heat-stable alkaline phosphatase activity and crude baby weight or placental weight.

2018, A.S. Curry, Biochemistry of Women Methods, page 241:

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides and phospholipids, and in the formation of bone.

磷酸酶

an enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphate esters


commissure

/ˈkɑm.əˌʃʊɹ/

From Latin commissura (“a joining or connecting together”), from commissus (passive perfect participle of committo (“I join, I connect”)) + -ura.

af

passive perfect participle of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">committo</i> (“I join, I connect”)

...that round about the commissure of all our joints...

1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 14:

(neuroanatomy) A band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc.

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

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

(anatomy) The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.

lipangulo

point where the upper and lower lips or eyelids join


auxin

en-noun

auxin (countable and uncountable, plural auxins)

From Ancient Greek αὐξάνειν (auxánein, “to grow”).

der

In Arabidopsis roots, cold stress may reduce shootward auxin transport and alter the intracellular auxin gradient.

2015 July 2, Yang Y-W, Chen H-C, Jen W-F, Liu L-Y, Chang M-C, “Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Shoots and Roots of TNG67 and TCN1 Rice Seedlings under Cold Stress and Following Subsequent Recovery: Insights into Metabolic Pathways, Phytohormones, and Transcription Factors”, in PLOS ONE, volume 10, number 7, →DOI:

SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.

2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant Science, volume 6, →DOI:

(botany, biochemistry) A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.


atrioventricular

Coordinate term: ventriculoatrial (broadly synonymous; precisely differentiated regarding conduction pathways)

atrioventricular block; atrioventricular node; atrioventricular septum

(anatomy, medicine) Of the spatial relationship between the ventricles and the atria of the heart.

pitvar-kamrai

of the spatial relationship between the ventricles and the atria of the heart


pontile

Latin pontilis (“relating to a bridge”).


adenoidal

en-adj

adenoidal (comparative more adenoidal, superlative most adenoidal)

more adenoidal (comparative)
most adenoidal (superlative)

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the adenoids.


cowlick

From cow + lick; as the hair may appear to have been licked into place by a cow.

We would touch strangers discreetly, feathering down their cowlicks.

2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.


medulla oblongata

/məˈdʌlə ˌɒblɒŋˈɡɑːtə/

[məˈdʌlə ˌɔb.lɔŋˈɡɑːtə]

/məˈdulə ˌɑblɑŋˈɡɑtə/

[məˈdʉɫə ˌɑb.ɫɑŋˈɡɑɾə]

(neuroanatomy, anatomy) The lower portion of the brainstem.


endometrium

From endo- (“inner”) + Late Latin metrium (“womb”), from Ancient Greek μήτριον (mḗtrion, “of a mother”). Compare μήτρᾱ (mḗtrā, “womb”).

der

(anatomy) The mucous membrane that lines the uterus in mammals and in which fertilized eggs are implanted.


perioscope

(medicine, dentistry) A form of endoscope used to explore and visualize the periodontal pocket, producing an image of a diseased tooth's root.


loc

Thinning hair can be especially disconcerting when one is trying to wear 'locs, also known as dreadlocks, which I'd first begun in late 2001. […] I finally fetched the shears and, cringing, cut off each 'loc at the point where new growth was coming in.

2020 May 17, Helaine R. Williams, “LET'S TALK: Cutting 'locs good lesson in fulfillment”, in Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:

Locs are another protective hairstyle that dates back to Africa. This rope-like hairstyle is achieved by matting the hair. Priests of the Ethiopian Coptic religion in 500 BCE wore locs, and the first archaeological evidence of locs comes from East Africa.

2021, Nadia E. Brown, Danielle Casarez Lemi, Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 25:

(informal, usually in the plural) A dreadlock.


loc

en-verb

loc (third-person singular simple present locs, present participle locing, simple past and past participle loced)

locs (present singular third-person)
locing (participle present)
loced (participle past)
loced (past)

Dread Head will assist you with temporarily locing your hair.

(informal, transitive) To style (the hair) in dreadlocks.


loc

en-noun

loc (countable and uncountable, plural locs)


loc

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering, translation studies) Clipping of localization.


loc

en-adj

loc (comparative more loc, superlative most loc)

more loc (comparative)
most loc (superlative)


MK

(sexuality, anatomy, slang) Initialism of mooseknuckle.


eye patch

An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.


baldy

Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, young lads came out from the city and mocked him and said to him, "Go up, you baldy; go up, you baldhead!"

(informal, often derogatory) Someone who is bald.


baldie

(informal, often derogatory) Somebody who is bald.

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States. Plus the bird is endangered. So, yeah, I'd probably have a problem with sitting down to a plate of baldie for dinner.

1999 August 15, Staca Hiatt, “Re: Anyone ever tried emu?”, in alt.support.diet.low-fat (Usenet):

They are almost always accompanied by immature bald eagles that, although about the same size as a mature baldie, have a darkened head and mottled feathers.

2010, Bruce Squiers, “Winter's Majesty”, in Marty Becker, Gina Spadafori, Mikkel Becker Shannon, editors, The Ultimate Bird Lover: Stories and Advice on Our Feathered Friends at Home and in the Wild, Health Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:

Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Haliaeetus leucocephalus#Translingual

(birdwatching, slang) A bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).

"Baldies. Baldchin gropers. Tastiest fish I've caught this week," I replied.

(slang) The baldchin groper (Choerodon rubescens).


paranasal sinus

en-noun

paranasal sinus (plural paranasal sinuses)

(anatomy) Any of a number of air-filled spaces, or sinuses, within the bones of the skull and face.


hairbow

/ˈhɛə(ɹ)bəʊ/


globose

en-adj

globose (comparative more globose, superlative most globose)

more globose (comparative)
most globose (superlative)

From Latin globosus (“round as a ball, spherical, globular”).

uder

(anatomy or botany) Having a globular form.


choroid

From New Latin choroides, from Ancient Greek χοροειδής (khoroeidḗs, alteration of χοριοειδής (khorioeidḗs, “like the afterbirth”)), from χόριον (khórion, “membrane that encloses the fetus in the womb, afterbirth”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like”).

der

alteration of <i class="Polyt mention" lang="grc">χοριοειδής</i> (khorioeidḗs, “like the afterbirth”)

af

choroid plexus

(anatomy) Resembling the chorion, particularly in containing many blood vessels.


choroid

(anatomy) The pigmented vascular layer of the eyeball between the retina and the sclera.


TR

thioredoxin reductase
w:thioredoxin reductase

(biochemistry) Initialism of thioredoxin reductase.


powder room

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In reference to lavatories, an indirection developed under the influence of powder one's nose (“euphemism for use a toilet”). Compare boudoir.

(euphemistic) Synonym of half bath: a small room with a toilet and sink but no bathtub or shower.


sulcus

Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”). Doublet of sullow ("plough").

bor

Coordinate term: gyrus

The Union’s soft latex-polymer roof is cerebrally domed and a cloudy piamater pink except in spots where it’s eroded down to pasty gray, and everywhere textured, the bulging rooftop, with sulci and bulbous convolutions.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 186:

The largest sulcus, the longitudinal fissure, divides the brain into left and right hemispheres.

1999, Thomas C. Pritchard, Kevin D. Alloway, Medical Neuroscience, page 55:

Unlike most other sulci, the lateral sulcus is very deep.

2006, Inderbir Singh, Textbook of Human Neuroanatomy, 7th edition, page 72:

The large surface area of the human cerebral cortex results in a pattern of gyri and sulci.

2014, John Kiernan, Raj Rajakumar, Barr's The Human Nervous System: An Anatomical Viewpoint, 10th edition, page 213:

(anatomy) A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue, especially that marking the convolutions of the surface of the brain.


papain

en-noun

papain (countable and uncountable, plural papains)

Attested since the late 1800s. From papaya + -in.

(biochemistry) A proteolytic enzyme in papaya fruit which can be used to tenderize meat.


greybeard

From grey + beard; men of advanced age would be expected to have a grey beard.

A powerful wave in the vicinity of Cape Horn.


inlay

en-verb

inlay (third-person singular simple present inlays, present participle inlaying, simple past and past participle inlaid)

inlays (present singular third-person)
inlaying (participle present)
inlaid (participle past)
inlaid (past)

Porcelain inlaying is a grand thing in certain cases, and it is much to be regretted that the present existing circumstances do not warrant its being used more extensively.

1895, Benjamin Holliday Catching, Catching's Compendium of Practical Dentistry - Volume 5, page 159:

It is not strange that this principle of inlaying should occur to those men years ago, for it was one of the most ancient of arts and it had been brought well-nigh to perfection. The thought of restoring broken surface in teeth, as was being done in gold and wood was ever present with them.

1907, The Pacific Dental Gazette - Volume 15, page 759:

It is hard to tell whether it was the solid block inlay idea of itself, or else something to help cement to be retained in a cavity, that has brought about inlaying of cavities;

1913, The Practical Manual of Dental Casting, Being the Recorded Experiences of Many Able and Eminent Men in the Dental Profession:

They felt with a prophetic instinct that sometime and somewhere these obstacles would be removed, that difficulties apparently unsurmountable would be overcome, and that the principle of inlaying teeth would become recognized as good practice in restoring broken-down tooth tissues.

1926, The Dental Craftsman - Volume 1, page 12:

(dentistry) To place an inlay in a tooth.


inlay

(dentistry) A filling for a tooth, made of ceramic or gold to fit the cavity and shape of tooth and cemented into place.


whorl

(anatomy) Any volution, as for example in the human ear or fingerprint.


instep

(anatomy) The arched part of the top of the foot between the toes and the ankle.


nevus

Most birthmarks and moles fall into the category of nevi.

(anatomy) Any of a number of different, usually benign, pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal lesions of the skin.


peachfuzz

(rare, nonstandard) The fuzz found on the skin of a peach.


huckle

huckle (third-person singular simple present huckles, present participle huckling, simple past and past participle huckled)

huckles (present singular third-person)
huckling (participle present)
huckled (participle past)
huckled (past)

From huck (from Middle English hoke (“hook”), hokebone, probably so called because of its round shape) + -le. See also hook.

He was awakened by a couple of burly police officers and huckled out to a waiting van.

2013, Michael Munro, The Crack: The Best of Glasgow Humour:

Then one day when I was at school, police with motorbike helmets came to the door with a big red battering ram and dragged Dad out of his bed while he was sleeping off a massive booze binge and huckled him downtown to read him his rights, throw the damn book at him and charge him for 'aggravated armed robbery'.

2014, Brian Conaghan, When Mr Dog Bites:

I could huckle your right now for what you've got in that top drawer.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 282:


periwig

Alteration of Middle French perruque. Doublet of peruke.

O, it
offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to
very rags, to split the ears of the groundling […]

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

Methinks she makes almost as fair a sign / As some old gentlewoman in a periwig.

1607, Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger’s Tragedy:

[T]he sun
Grown stale, is to so low a value run,
That his dishevel'd beams and scattered fires
Serve but for ladies' periwigs and tyres
In lovers' sonnets […]

1633, John Donne, To the Countess of Salisbury, ll 4-7:

The floods in icie fetters bound.
Crusted earth. Every honey-headed twig
Wears his snowie Periwig,
And every bough his snowy beard.

1657, Josua Poole, The English Parnassus, vide "Frost"

From her own Head, Megwra takes
A Perriwig of twisted Snakes;
Which in the nicest Fashion curl'd,
Like Toupets of this upper World […]

1730, Jonathan Swift, “Death And Daphne,”, in Some Verse Pieces:

[O]ur impetuous youth hearing himself reviled with the appellation of scoundrel, pulled off his antagonist's periwig, and flung it in his face.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(now historical) A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women.


coronet

From Middle French couronnette, from Old French coronete, diminutive of corone (“crown”), from Latin corona, from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “a type of sea-bird, perhaps shearwater; a crow; anything curved or hooked (like a door handle or the tip of a bow); a type of crown”).

ensign

infantry equivalent of the cavalry coronet

first NATO commissioned officer grade above OF-0 trainee officer

Any of several hummingbirds in the genus Boissonneaua.


blonde moment

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From common jokes about supposedly dumb blondes.

(humorous) A momentary lapse in concentration, resulting in an embarrassing situation.


bushy

en-adj

bushy (comparative bushier, superlative bushiest)

bushier (comparative)
bushiest (superlative)

the bushy tail of a squirrel

Like a bush in having many branches that spread out densely in all directions.


rhomboid

Any of several muscles that control the shoulders


rhomboid

resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid


GHB

(organic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology) Initialism of gamma-hydroxybutyrate, often used as a date rape drug.


perianal

Of or pertaining to the areas immediately around the anus.


synovium

From false singular of New Latin synovia (“synovial fluid”).

synovial membrane
synovial membrane#English

(anatomy) Alternative form of synovial membrane.


symphysis

(anatomy) The process of two originally separate bones growing together as the subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.

(anatomy) A place where two bones are closely joined in the median plane of the body, either forming an immovable joint (as between the pubic bones in the center of the pelvis) or completely fused (as at the midline of the lower jaw).

(medicine) A line, discernable on an X-ray, showing such fusion.

(anatomy) The cartilaginous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, without a synovial membrane.


mustachio

Borrowed from the Italian dialectal mustaccio (from Neapolitan) or mustacchio, ultimately from Ancient Greek.

A mustache, especially a large or lush one.


inion

From Ancient Greek ἰνίον (iníon, “occipital bone; back of the head”). Compare -ion (“anthropometric landmark”).

der

(anatomy) A small protuberance on the external surface of the back of the skull near the neck; the external occipital protuberance.


intima

the intima of a blood vessel

(anatomy) The innermost part of an anatomical structure, particularly a tubular one


stomach lining

(anatomy) A layer of tissue on the inside of stomach.


ramus

(anatomy) A bony projection, particularly of the jaw, but also in the groin area, both subject to the maturing process of symphysis.


hairdryer

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(chiefly UK) A small electrical appliance for drying hair, by generating a stream of hot air.


vitamin A acid

(organic chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry) Synonym of retinoic acid


tibial

tibial plateau

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to a tibia or a structure associated with a tibia.


sweating

en-adj

sweating (comparative more sweating, superlative most sweating)

more sweating (comparative)
most sweating (superlative)

From Middle English sweting, swetynge, equivalent to sweat + -ing (gerund ending).

A sweating man stepped out of the sauna, wrapping himself in a towel.


vitamin B

(biochemistry) Any member of the vitamin B complex.


vitamin A

(biochemistry) Any of several closely related fat-soluble vitamins that are essential for normal vision; retinol.

فِيتَامِين أَلِف

any fat-soluble vitamin essential for vision


retinol

en-noun

retinol (countable and uncountable, plural retinols)

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) A fat-soluble carotenoid vitamin (vitamin A), present in fish oils and green vegetables, essential to normal vision and to bone development.


papilla

Borrowed from Latin papilla (“a nipple, teat”).

(anatomy) A nipple-like protuberance on a part or organ of the body.

A vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth.

Any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles.

Any of the small protuberances on the upper surface of the tongue often containing taste buds.


cyanocobalamin

cyanocobalamin (usually uncountable, plural cyanocobalamins)

The cyanocobalamin molecule contains the element cobalt (Co). Cattle and sheep grazing areas deficient in this element develop vitamin B12 deficiency, as the rumen microorganisms are then unable to manufacture the vitamin.

2013, David Frape, Equine Nutrition and Feeding, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(biochemistry) A synthetic form of vitamin B₁₂ (cobalamin).


vitamin B6

Synonym of pyridoxine (or pyridoxal, or pyridoxamine)


vitamin B3

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) niacin


vitamin B12

(biochemistry) The compound cobalamin or cyanocobalamin.


beestings

From Old English bȳsting, derived from bēost, from Proto-West Germanic *beust.

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He took a jug of ‘beestings’ milk from the press, the milk of a cow that has recently calved, and drank it down in six big gulps.

2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 54:

The first milk drawn from an animal (especially a cow) after it has given birth.


tonsure

From Middle English tonsure, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tonsure, from Latin tonsūra (“a clipping, trimming”), from tondeō (“shear, clip, trim”).

The hairstyle and characteristic bald patch resulting from being tonsured.


vitamin D2

(biochemistry) Ergocalciferol or calciferol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitamin D4

(biochemistry) Dihydroergocalciferol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitamin D3

(biochemistry) Cholecalciferol; a constituent of vitamin D.


biotin

biotin (countable and uncountable, plural biotins)

Borrowed from German Biotin, from Ancient Greek βίοτος (bíotos, “life”) + the suffix -in.

(biochemistry) A sulfur-containing member of the vitamin B complex, 5-[(3aS,4S,6aR)-2-oxohexahydro-1H-thieno[3,4-d]imidazol-4-yl]pentanoic acid, found in liver, egg yolk, milk, and yeast, essential to the activity of multiple enzyme systems.


vitamin D5

(biochemistry) Sitocalciferol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitamin D1

(biochemistry) Ergocalciferol and lumisterol; a constituent of vitamin D.


vitaminize

en-verb

vitaminize (third-person singular simple present vitaminizes, present participle vitaminizing, simple past and past participle vitaminized)

vitaminizes (present singular third-person)
vitaminizing (participle present)
vitaminized (participle past)
vitaminized (past)

To add vitamins to a food product as a dietary supplement.


stigmatic

en-adj

stigmatic (comparative more stigmatic, superlative most stigmatic)

more stigmatic (comparative)
most stigmatic (superlative)

(botany, anatomy) Having a stigma or stigmata.


vitamin E

1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Put Vitamin E oil on scars, move wounded skin from side to side one minute per day to loosen scar tissue from muscle. Begin exercises to build pectorals again.

Any of several fat-soluble vitamins, found in plants, that act as antioxidants and are essential for reproduction; the tocopherols.


vitamin F

essential fatty acid
essential fatty acid

維生素F /维生素F

An early name for the essential fatty acids


vitamin P

(slang, euphemistic) Prozac, an antidepressant.


vitamin K

Named similarly to the other vitamins, that are named after their order of discovery. This one was assigned its "K" from Danish koagulation by the Danish researcher Henrik Dam.

Any of several related fat-soluble vitamins, found in leafy green vegetables, essential for blood clotting.


vitamin D

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From vitamin + D (“4th letter”). From being the fourth vitamin discovered. Coined in 1922 by Elmer McCollum, who discovered the vitamin.

(biochemistry) Any of a number of fat-soluble vitamins, required for normal bone development and that prevents rickets; can be manufactured in the skin on exposure to sunlight.


haslet

Inherited from Middle English hastelet, from Anglo-Norman hastilet (“roast meat”), diminutive of haste (“spear, spit, roast meat”), from Latin hasta (“spear”).

The internal organs of an animal, especially the heart and liver of a pig.

Shortly before serving lay the haslet on a warm dish, melt 1 ounce butter in a small saucepan […]

1914, Gesine Lemcke, European and American cuisine, page 309:


laccase

Higushi (54) reported on mushroom phenol oxidase prepared by the method of Freudenberg and its use for oxidation of coniferyl alcohol and related compounds and demonstrated that the enzyme product was a mixture of tyrosinase and laccase.

1962, Forest Products Journal, volume 12, page 142:

(biochemistry) Any of several copper-containing oxidase enzymes found in plants and microorganisms.


magnetoencephalography

From magneto- + encephalography; compare magnetencephalography.

a technique used to measure and analyze magnetic activity in the brain


neer

From Middle English neere, nere, from Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós.
Cognate with Dutch nier (“kidney”), Low German nere (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Icelandic nýru (“kidney”), Latin nefrones, nefrendes, nebrundines (“testicles”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney, testicle”).

cog

(Now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) (anatomy) Kidney.


bandeau

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Borrowed from French bandeau, from Old French bandel, diminutive form of bande. Doublet of bendel.

1998, AANS Publications Committee: Setti S. Rengachary, MD, and Edward C. Benzel, MD, Calvarial and Dural Reconstruction: Neurosurgical Topics
The frontal bandeau is then elevated en bloc. A Bi on BC1 (Midas Rex) bit is used to create the osteotomies circumferentially.

The supraorbital bandeau is fixed to the nasal structure by a titanium [...]
This bandeau is fixed by microplates. The median bone strip is fixed to the [...]

1999, Bill C. Terry, Maxime Champy, Franz Härle, et al, Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Osteosynthesis: miniplates, microplates, and screws:


haunch

From Middle English haunche, hanche, from Old French hanche, hance, anche (compare French hanche, Italian anca), from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *ankijā, from Proto-Germanic *ankijǭ (“joint; ankle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ang- (“joint; lith”). Cognate with Old High German ancha, encha, einka (“the leg; joint, bend”) (compare Old High German anchila, enchila (“ankle”), German Hanke (“haunch”), West Frisian hancke (“haunch”). More at ankle.

der

But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.

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):

And the rabbit from his path-way
Leaped aside, and at a distance
Sat erect upon his haunches.

1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “chapter III”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

While Heracles, - the thews and cordage of his thighs
Straitened and strained beyond the utmost stretch
From quivering heel to haunch like sweating hawsers.

The fog comes on little cat feet.
It sits looking over harbor and city
on silent haunches and then moves on.

He [Novak Djokovic] dropped to his haunches just inside the baseline as Centre Court rose to acclaim the champion, hugging South African [Kevin] Anderson at the net before skipping over towards his box and celebrating wildly in front of his coaching team and wife Jelena.

2018 July 15, Jonathan Jurejko, “Novak Djokovic Wins Fourth Wimbledon by Beating Kevin Anderson”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2019-02-14:

(anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.


nub

Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.

cog

“ — and then rub her nub with the bridge of your nose, right where the nerve will drive her straight to the ceiling!”

2007, Melissa MacNeal, Hot for It, →ISBN, page 198:

When he used his fingers to rub her nub, he didn't have to wait anymore. She exploded for the second time that morning,...

2008, Arianna Hart, A Man for Marley, →ISBN, page 82:

He stroked her, using her movements to increase the pressure on her nub, catching her between his fingers.

2010, Beverly Rae, Wild Cat, →ISBN, page 81:

(computing, colloquial) A pointing stick.


protease

/ˈpɹəʊtɪeɪz/

As a matter of fact the casein protease digests boiled and coagulated serum far more easily than unboiled serum, as set forth by the following experiments.

1903 November 2, S. G. Hedin, “On the presence of a proteolytic enzyme in the normal serum of the ox”, in The Journal of Physiology, volume 30, number 2, page 195:

All were tested for their ability to clot milk and to hydrolyze denatured hemoglobin, egg albumin, protamine (salmon), histone (calf thymus), and benzoyl-l-arginineamide. In no case was any trace of protease activity detected.

1948 September 20, Margaret R. McDonald, “A method for the preparation of "protease-free" crystalline ribonuclease”, in Journal of General Physiology, volume 32, number 1, page 39:

For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that dysregulation of desquamatory protease activity in the SC is often involved in conditions of compromised skin barrier.

2015, Raja Sivamani, Jared R. Jagdeo, Peter Elsner, Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics:

(biochemistry) An enzyme that cuts or cleaves proteins.

蛋白質分解酵素

たんぱくしつぶんかいこうそ


mammiferous

en-adj

mammiferous (comparative more mammiferous, superlative most mammiferous)

more mammiferous (comparative)
most mammiferous (superlative)

/mæˈmɪfəɹəs/

The mammiferous secretary slithered in, changed the spool and slithered out again, giving me a small, hygienic smile en route.

1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 53:

(anatomy) Having mammae, or (humorous) breasts.


soul patch

A narrow beard descending from the lower lip, above the chin.


rotator

(anatomy) A muscle by which a joint can be rotated.


subclavian artery

en-noun

subclavian artery (plural subclavian arteries)

Glass from the shattered side windows had lodged itself quite deep between Lia’s shoulder blade and collar bone, just missing the subclavian artery.

2022, Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Picador, page 205:

(anatomy) A paired artery of the upper thorax which passes beneath the clavicle and mainly supplies the upper limb, and continues as the axillary artery at the lateral border of the first rib.


myelin

myelin (countable and uncountable, plural myelins)

From myelo- + -in.
From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”).

As the result of prolonged action of water upon myelin, bird's-nests-cells are also said to be produced, and we are certain we have seen, as the result of such prolonged action of water, the appearances thus compared.

1868 January, Edmund Montgomery, “On the Formation of so-called Cells in Animal Bodies”, in The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, page 203:

This gene controls the production of an insulating sleeve that wraps around neurons. Known as myelin, it is crucial for long-range communication in the brain.

2018 December 13, Carl Zimmer, “Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(neuroanatomy) A white, fatty material, composed of lipids and lipoproteins, that surrounds the axons of nerves.


Cowper's gland

Named after English surgeon and anatomist William Cowper (1666–1709).


scalene muscle

Meronyms: anterior scalene muscle, middle scalene muscle, posterior scalene muscle

(anatomy) Any of usually three deeply situated muscles on each side of the neck of which each extends from the transverse processes of two or more cervical vertebrae to the first or second rib.


green top

en-noun

green top (countable and uncountable, plural green tops)

(British, uncountable) Unpasteurized full-cream milk, having a green top to the bottle.


silver top

silver top (countable and uncountable, plural silver tops)

(UK) Full cream milk, normally homogenised and pasteurised, having a silvery top to the bottle.

Still I must confess that I was shocked at the president's complaint of the senility of the present Board of Overseers, […] as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals, that your Mr. Evarts 'was too old for a senator' and that he 'was too old to change his mind.' […] I contend that these charges are libellous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the Overseers. Still there are younger Alumni and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some of us silver-tops and insert some younger graduates. Remember, however, that 'striving to do better, oft we mar what's well.'

1885, Henry Lee, “[Speech to Harvard Club of New York]”, in John T. Morse, Jr., editor, Memoir of Colonel Henry Lee, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., published 1905, →OCLC, pages 135–136:

Just ask yourselves this question, you older men, you silver-tops here—What was done with toxic thyroid disease before men like Charles Mayo, the elder Kocher, Crile, Miles F. Porter and other men established the surgery of toxic thyroid upon a fairly rational basis?

1922 December, W. D. Gatch, J. R. Eastman (commentator), “Surgical Aspects of Endocrinology”, in Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, volume 15, number 12, Fort Wayne: The Association, →ISSN, page 429:

As we all become "Silver tops" as seniors are referred to, we all may have problems around our sexuality, not the least of being, can we get it and keep it up.

1997 June 12, Raj Secura, “Ann Lander bashes men (again)!”, in soc.men (Usenet):

Biden is old enough to be Obama's daddy. In fact, I'm betting he and the white silver tops in the Democratic leadership were rooting for him because they're expecting to "own our boy" when he's in the WH.

2008 August 30, Joe Orthodox, “The Palin Pick”, in alt.religion.christian.east-orthodox (Usenet):

Peter's Aunt May also gets a lot more screen time in this installment, and she's always giving heartfelt advice. It's good to see a superhero movie finally giving some consideration to us "silver tops"!

2011, Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 260:

"It takes four years to get educated — we don't have four years. You know, us 'silver tops' are leaving the profession or retiring. I'm 60 and I'm still working," she said, adding she is delaying her retirement due to the challenges facing healthcare workers.

2022 October 13, Charlie Carey, quoting Kath-Ann Terrett, “B.C. nurses rally outside VCH, as Hospital Employees' Union ratifies new agreement”, in CityNews, Vancouver, archived from the original on 2023-01-10:


splenic

en-adj

splenic (comparative more splenic, superlative most splenic)

more splenic (comparative)
most splenic (superlative)

From Latin splēnicus, from Ancient Greek σπληνικός (splēnikós, “of the spleen”).

der

The Liuer by the splenike branch, transferreth them to the Serjeant of the scullery the Splene.

1619, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrim: Microcosmus, Or the Historie of Man:

Of, related to, or located near the spleen.

селезёночный

of, related to, or located near the spleen


restriction enzyme

en-noun

restriction enzyme (plural restriction enzymes)

We now know of 400 different kinds of restriction enzymes, each of which recognises a different sequence of DNA letters and cuts there, like a pair of scissors that cuts the paper only where it finds the word ‘restriction’.

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

(genetics) An endonuclease that catalyzes double-strand cleavage of DNA containing a specific sequence.


preload

preload (countable and uncountable, plural preloads)

(anatomy) The end diastolic pressure that stretches the right or left ventricle of the heart to its greatest geometric dimensions under variable physiologic demand.


striate

en-adj

striate (comparative more striate, superlative most striate)

more striate (comparative)
most striate (superlative)

From Latin striatum, past participle of strio (“to groove”).

(anatomy) Relating to the striate cortex of the brain


symphysis pubis

en-noun

symphysis pubis (plural symphyses pubis)

The head was above the symphysis pubis, but she could not feel anything else definitive.

2009, Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, page 88:

(anatomy) The midline cartilaginous joint uniting the superior rami of the left and right pubic bones (pubis), also known as the pubic symphysis. In men, it supports the suspensory ligament; in women, it loosens and flexes to aid childbirth.


spats

→ Japanese: スパッツ (supattsu)

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Long hair on front of lower legs of heavier horses (over the hooves), especially draft horses, notably the Clydesdale breed.

form-fitting shorts covering the waist to mid- or lower thigh usually worn for athletic situations, compression shorts


clavicular

(anatomy) Of or relating to the clavicle.


furnishing

With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.

1947 January and February, “Notes and News: New Southern Channel Steamer”, in Railway Magazine, page 49:

(chiefly in the plural) Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.


aborad

en-adv

aborad (comparative more aborad, superlative most aborad)

more aborad (comparative)
most aborad (superlative)

From ab- (“away from”) + orad (“toward the mouth”), from Latin ōris (“mouth”).

prefix

(anatomy) Away from the oral opening or mouth (compare with ventral)


netting

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan.
Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.

unk

unclear

cog

Any undecente or noysome thinge as[…]Nettinge or Fylthe.


orad

en-adj

orad (comparative more orad, superlative most orad)

more orad (comparative)
most orad (superlative)

aboral

antonym(s) of “located toward the mouth”

The sutures of four septa are exposed; the most orad of these can be traced with a fair degree of accuracy throughout almost its entire course.

1931, William Arthur Parks, Collected Papers, volume 3, page 86:

The frequency of segmenting contractions is higher in the descending and sigmoid colon than in more orad areas.

2001, Leonard R. Johnson, Gastrointestinal Physiology, page 63:

The endoscope is advanced to its most orad (toward the mouth) limit and then slowly withdrawn so that the mucosa can be thoroughly examined.

2006, Sara J. Busch, Small Animal Surgical Nursing: Skills and Concepts, page 270:

(anatomy) Located towards the oral opening (the mouth).


orad

The most common symptom of GERD is heartburn, which is described as substernal burning that moves orad from the xiphoid.

1998, Tadataka Yamada et al., Handbook of Gastroenterology, page 228:

Beginning 8 to 10 sec prior to egestion, the pellet is moved orad by esophageal antiperistalsis.

1999, D. Michael Denbow, “12: Gastrointestinal Anatomy and Physiology”, in G. Causey Whittow, editor, Sturkie's Avian Physiology, page 307:

This is due to the UES moving completely off the sensor as it moves orad with the swallow.

2012, Neeraj Sharma, Janice Freeman, “8: Esophageal Manometry”, in Joel E. Richter, Donald O. Castell, editors, The Esophagus, page 179:

(anatomy) Towards the oral opening (the mouth).


beardless

beardless (comparative more beardless, superlative most beardless)

more beardless (comparative)
most beardless (superlative)

From Middle English bērdlēs, from Old English beardlēas (“beardless”), from Proto-West Germanic *bardalaus (“beardless”), equivalent to beard + -less. Cognate with Scots berdles (“beardless”), Saterland Frisian boartloos (“beardless”), West Frisian burdleas (“beardless”), Dutch baardeloos (“beardless”), German Low German baartlos (“beardless”), German bartlos (“beardless”).

cog

shall a beardless boy,
Cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields,
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,
Mocking the air with colours idly spread,
And find no check?

1596, Shakespeare, King John, Act 4, Scene 1:

(by extension, of a male) Not having reached puberty or manhood; youthful.


pompadour

/ˈpɑːmpədɔːɹ/

From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.

(UK, military, slang, historical) A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.


moue

Borrowed from French moue, from Old French moe (“grimace”), from Frankish *mauwa (“pout, protruding lip”). Doublet of mow ("grimace").

der

[S]he looked at her face and made a moue in the glass; and never stopped for Laura’s answer to the questions which she had put.

1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

She glanced aside to the rim of the looking-glass where his photograph was wedged, shuddered, and made a moue of distaste.

1913, Jack London, chapter VI, in The Valley of the Moon, Book I:

She made what I believe, though I wouldn't swear to it, is called a moue. Putting the lips together and shoving them out, if you know what I mean. The impression I got was that she was disappointed in Bertram, having expected better things […].

1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:

Why do you wear European clothes?" fumed Oscar de la Renta with a moue of disapproval and stamp of his bejewelled foot (probably).

2011 February 2, Hadley Freeman, “Should Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton be patriotic about designers?”, in The Guardian:

A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.


strapless

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From strap + -less. The noun sense is by analogy of strap-on.

Without a strap or straps; usually describing women's clothing without shoulder straps.


splint

From Middle English splint, splent, splente, from Middle Low German splinte, splente or Middle Dutch splint, splinte. Cognate with Old High German splinza (“bar, bolt, latch”). All ultimately from Proto-Germanic *splintǭ, *splintō (“piece of wood, splinter”), from Proto-Germanic *splint-, *splind- (“to split”), from a nasalized form of *splītaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pley- (“to split, splice”).

der

(dentistry) A dental device applied consequent to undergoing orthodontia.


cockeyed

en-adj

cockeyed (comparative more cockeyed, superlative most cockeyed)

more cockeyed (comparative)
most cockeyed (superlative)

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I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.

As time went on, and the desultory rifle-fire rattled among the hills, I began to wonder with increasing scepticism whether anything would ever happen to bring a bit of life, or rather a bit of death, into this cock-eyed war.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter III, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

While he [Bob Dylan] spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview.

2021 May 24, Jason Zinoman, “Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan, Our Most Underappreciated Comic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.


submucosal

(anatomy) Situated below or underneath the mucosal tissue.


jamoke

en-noun

jamoke (countable and uncountable, plural jamokes)

Appeared at the end of the 19th century as a term for coffee, a blend of java + mocha.
By the 1920s or 1940s jamoke was also attested in the sense of "fool, idiot", perhaps suggesting they lacked mental abilities beyond that of a cup of coffee, or perhaps an unrelated word; the first syllable is reminiscent of jaboney, jiboney, and the second syllable is reminiscent of moke. Also spelled jamook, giamoke, and giamope, the term as used for an idiot has also been suggested to derive from a dialectal Italian (Neapolitan or Sicilian) word giamope. This dialect has produced other words with elided final vowels in American and Australian diaspora speech, such as gabagool.
In the 1960s it also began to be used as slang for male genitalia.
This term may be the origin of cup of joe and joe; see those entries for more.

You and I both know that this is not enough money for the President and it's too damn much for some jamoke in the Bronx.

2004, Dan Johnson, The Molotov Box, Xlibris, page 24:

“You ever see the movie Spotlight?” “About the Boston Globe reporters who uncovered the sexual abuse coverup in the Catholic Church?” “Yeah, exactly.” “No.” “Oh. Well, in that I played Ben Bradlee, Jr. And that character begins with the accent, because the real Bradlee is from Boston. But he's an upper-crust guy. [Boston accent] Not like some jamoke standing around Kelly's Tavern in, uh, Revere Beach, you know what I mean?” “Very good, John Slattery.” “[regular accent] Not bad, right? But I was talking to him.”

2023 August 10, Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil, “Urgent Care” (12:00 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 6, spoken by John Slattery (John Slattery):

(countable, slang) A stupid person, fool.


ball sack

An objectionable person (especially a man).


sulphatase

(biochemistry) Alternative spelling of sulfatase


sulfatase

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes, in animals and bacteria, which catalyze the hydrolysis of organic sulfates


recurrent

From Latin recurrens, present participle of recurrere. Morphologically recur + -ent.

a recurrent nerve or artery

(anatomy) Running back toward its origin.


little man in the boat

I'm sorry, Mayor, but I couldn't find the little man in the boat.

1998 June 24, “Summer Sucks”, in South Park, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Officer Barbrady:

“You shitheads know how to eat pussy?” He sprayed the nearest among us with spittle.[…]“What you do,” continued Kennington in high bellow, “what you do is get down there and find the little man in the boat. That's who you gotta find. The little man in the boat.”

2011, P. G. Sturges, Shortcut Man, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 63:


suprasternal notch

suprasternal notch (plural suprasternal notches)

(anatomy) The conspicuous dip visible at the top of the human chest where the neck joins the sternum.


suprasternal

en-adj

suprasternal (comparative more suprasternal, superlative most suprasternal)

more suprasternal (comparative)
most suprasternal (superlative)

(anatomy) Situated or occurring higher than, or above, the sternum.


Haversian system

en-noun

Haversian system (plural Haversian systems)

(anatomy) The system of osteons in compact bone


osteon

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”). Doublet of os.

(anatomy) Any of the central canals, and surrounding bony layers, found in compact bone.


midsection

That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.

2010, Bill Geiger, “6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks”, in Reps!, 17:106:

(anatomy) The midriff; the section of the human torso, from below the chest to above the waist.


raphe

Borrowed from New Latin raphē, from Ancient Greek ῥᾰφή (rhăphḗ, “seam; suture”).

bor

They are inserted into the midline raphae or the anococcygeal raphae and the coccyx.

2004, Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, V. Sivanesaratnam, Pratap Kumar, Alokendu Chatterjee, Essential of Obstetrics, page 28:

It shows three symmetrical raphes (asterisk) radiating from the centre of the aortic root, but in fetuses there is often asymmetry between the raphes with the one between the left and noncoronary sinuses being larger than the others (red asterisk in Figure 2.14b).

2005, Robert H. Anderson, Marco Pozzi, Suzie Hutchinson, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, page 29:

(anatomy) A seamlike ridge or furrow on an organ, bodily tissue, or other structure, typically marking the line where two halves or sections fused in the embryo.

The connecting ridge between the two halves of the medulla oblongata or the tegmentum of the midbrain.

The vast majority of the raphes do not bifurcate (123 genera), but the raphes of 7 genera do.

2003, Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr., Charles R. Gunn, Anna L. Weitzman, Fruits and Seeds of Genera in the Subfamily Faboideae (Fabaceae), page 24:

(botany) The part of the stalk of an anatropous ovary that is united in growth to the outside covering and forms a ridge along the body of the ovule.

The invariant occurrence of adhesive EPS at both the driving and the non-driving raphes supports a model for constitutive, rather than induced, secretion of the raphe adhesive.

2007, Andrew M. Smith, James A. Callow, Biological Adhesives, page 87:

(botany) A longitudinal median groove in the valve of many diatoms.


skin flute

play the skin flute

to perform fellatio, or (of a man) to masturbate


osteology

en-noun

osteology (usually uncountable, plural osteologies)

(anatomy) The scientific study of the morphology and pathology of bones.

Lehre vom Bau und den Krankheiten der Knochen

(anatomy) The bone structure of a particular individual, or species.

luusto

bone structure of a particular individual or species


exocarp

exo- + Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”); exo- + -carp.

(biology) The outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits; the skin or epicarp


neuticles

If you prefer a “natural look” for your male Poodle, ask your vet about a vasectomy or implanting artificial testicles (called neuticles).

2007, Susan M. Ewing, Poodles for Dummies, Wiley publishing, Inc., page 206:

So plastic neuticles were invented to take their place. The vet is supposed to install them — they come in pairs, you understand — when the originals are removed.

2007, Sam Venable, Some Day I May Find Honest Work: A Newspaper Humorist's Life, The University of Texas Press, page 194:

Her husband refused to have the dog neutered unless neuticles were implanted, and the wife complied.

2008, Bonnie Berry, The Power of Looks: Social Stratification of Physical Appearance, Ashgate Publishing, page 104:

If you feel bad for neutering your pet, you can purchase neuticles--fake implants to restore what was lost.

2009 October 15, Jenna Goudreau, “The Pet Culture”, in Forbes, Forbes.com LLC:

Because there's a whole lot more on the table when it comes to building better pets via the business end of a scalpel. Consider the neuticles (testicular implants) some owners clamor for.

2010 July 29, Patty Khuly, “Vet's view: I'll nip/tuck your pet, but only for the right reasons”, in USA Today, Gannett Co. Inc.:

Owners invest in pet face lifts, tummy tucks, nose jobs, breast reductions, and the newest craze, “neuticles”—testicular implants designed to give neutered dogs a more “masculine” look.

2012, Karen A. Cerulo, Janet M. Ruane, Second Thoughts: Sociology Challenges Conventional Wisdom, Sage Publications, Inc., page 88:


endoenzyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that functions within the cell in which it was generated.


exonuclease

(biochemistry, genetics) Any of a group of enzymes which cleave single nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide (DNA or RNA) chain.


exoenzyme

(biochemistry) Any enzyme, generated by a cell, that functions outside of that cell.


exopeptidase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes which catalyze the removal of a single amino acid from the end of a polypeptide chain


endopeptidase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes, such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, pepsin and elastase, which catalyze the splitting of polypeptide chains away from the ends


impaction

impaction (countable and uncountable, plural impactions)

From Latin impingere (“to dash against, impinge”).

der

(dentistry) Failure of a tooth to erupt into the dental arch, because of adjacent teeth, dense overlying bone, excessive soft tissue, or other factor.


milker

From Middle English milkere, equivalent to milk + -er.

(poker) A conservative poker player who only raises the stakes on a good hand.


exophthalmos

en-noun

exophthalmos (usually uncountable, plural exophthalmoses)

(pathology) An abnormal protrusion of the eyeball from its socket.


head of hair

All the hair that covers the scalp of a person (excludes the beard and moustache)


exosporium

(botany) The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exine.


sloe-eyed

Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.

1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance:

Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.

1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 19, in The Sheriff's Son:

[S]warthy, sloe-eyed Mexicans, with huge sombreros on their knees, lolled in the shade of a tree.

1918, Zane Grey, chapter 35, in The U. P. Trail:

First you're another sloe-eyed vamp, then someone's mother, then you're camp.

1971, Stephen Sondheim, I'm Still Here (Follies song):


exine

(botany, palynology) the outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exosporium.


hair gel

hair gel (countable and uncountable, plural hair gels)

A hairstyling product in gel form that hardens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.


periodontics

periodontal ligament
periodontal ligament

(dentistry) The study of supporting structures of teeth—gums, alveolar bone, cementum, and the periodontal ligament—and diseases and conditions that affect them.


endocranium

(anatomy) The layer between the dura mater and the skull


hair spray

hair spray (countable and uncountable, plural hair sprays)

A usually scented hairstyling product in aerosol form that stiffens the hair, so it stays in a certain hairstyle.

定型水

hairstyling product that stiffens the hair


hair spray

en-verb

hair spray (third-person singular simple present hair sprays, present participle hair spraying, simple past and past participle hair sprayed)

hair sprays (present singular third-person)
hair spraying (participle present)
hair sprayed (participle past)
hair sprayed (past)

(transitive) To spray with this product.


endolymph

en-noun

endolymph (countable and uncountable, plural endolymphs)

(anatomy) The watery fluid inside the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.


endodontics

From endo- (“within”) + odont- (“tooth”) + -ics.

affix

The branch of dentistry dealing with the dental pulp and root.


salpingo-

From New Latin salpinx (“the salpinx”) + -o-, from Ancient Greek σᾰ́λπῐγξ (sắlpĭnx, “a war-trumpet”).

bor

(anatomy) salpingeal: salpinx: Of or pertaining to a Fallopian tube or a Eustachian tube.

syringo-

also semantically related to tubes of various kinds


endonuclease

(biochemistry) Any enzyme which catalyzes the cleavage of nucleic acids so as to produce variously sized fragments.


pulmonate

From New Latin pulmōnātus (“having lungs”), from pulmō (“lung”) + -ātus.

(anatomy) Having lungs or similar organs.


bruxomania

Derived from Ancient Greek βρυγμός (brugmós, “grinding [teeth]”) + -o- + -mania.

uder

(medicine, dentistry) Compulsive grinding of the teeth.


privates

She was kicked in the privates! It must have hurt.

Her privates were undamaged.

(informal) The genitalia; those body parts that are not normally displayed; private parts.


somatostatin

en-noun

somatostatin (countable and uncountable, plural somatostatins)

From Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma) + statin.

(biochemistry) A cyclopeptide hormone, secreted by the pancreas, that inhibits the production of certain other hormones


photoaging

The damaging effect of prolonged exposure to sunlight on the skin, especially wrinkling, discoloration and susceptibility to cancer


interocular

/ˌɪntəɹˈɒkjələɹ/

interocular distance


maypole

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The male Golden Bowerbird is a beautiful bird that builds one of the greatest structures in the natural world, a maypole up to three metres tall constructed of sticks and festooned with decorative clusters of flowers and lichens.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 212:

(ornithology) A maypole-like structure of sticks placed about a sapling in the bowers of certain species of bowerbird.


photolyase

photolyase (countable and uncountable, plural photolyases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that repairs DNA that has been damaged by light.

fótaláis

an enzyme that repairs DNA that has been damaged by light


photophosphorylase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that is involved in the photosynthetic phosphorylation of ATP.


Brutus

(historical) A hairstyle brushed back from the forehead, popular at the time of the French Revolution, when it was an affectation to admire the Ancient Romans.


MMO

methane monooxygenase
methane monooxygenase#English

(biochemistry) Initialism of methane monooxygenase. See Methane monooxygenase.


cathair

Several cathairs which we have examined are not circular in plan, but appear to have been formed to suit the contour of the eminence upon which they stand; and others are of an oval form.

1848, William F[rederick] Wakeman, “Raths or Duns”, in Archæologia Hibernica. A Hand-book of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian: Especially of Such as Are Easy of Access from the Irish Metropolis., Dublin: James MᶜGlashan, […]. William S. Orr & Co. […] London, part I (Pagan Antiquities), page 47:

There were probably other cathairs and duns on the Aran Islands which were not as sturdily built or not as well preserved as those that survived.

1977, “The Dúns of Aran”, in A World of Stone: Life, Folklore and Legends of the Aran Islands, O’Brien Educational, published 1980, →ISBN, page 28:

‘On this island there are three cyclopean cathairs but their stones have been nearly all removed to build the modern little houses which are nearly in as rude a style as the Cahirs ever were.[…]’

1992, Theresa McDonald, Achill: 5000 B.C. to 1900 A.D.: Archaeology, History, Folklore, →ISBN, page 128:

An ancient Irish fortification of stone or earthwork.


ginch

She probably up there getting her ginch plowed right this minute by some drummer out of Richmond.

(British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, vulgar) vagina, pussy.


oliva

Borrowed from Latin oliva (“olive”). Doublet of olive.

The medial part of the ventral lamina forms the most rostral pole of the oliva, the dorsal lamina the most caudal one.

1998, R. Nieuwenhuys, Hendrik Jan Donkelaar, Charles Nicholson, The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates: With Posters, page 1562:


pork sword

'Yes,' screamed the patient hysterically, 'I mean penis, prick, pork sword, knob, the lot. What's it matter...

I wanted to make it very clear I wasn't 'interested in only one thing', i.e., 'burying my pork sword'. Basically, I didn't want to be judged/attacked for wanting sex.

1997, Daniel DuBois, “South Bay beware! Weirdo alert! (Was :Re: Sex, marriage, conflict...)”, in soc.singles (Usenet):

...is that really you partaking of the pork sword?? if it is never go near my car as I wouldn't want the chrome sucked off the bumper...

1998, Judy Hodgson, alt.fan.suzanne-sutherland in alt.fan.jerry-springer http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jerry-springer/browse_frm/thread/e95df5ba1ad4aef4/ef43232a3e722435?lnk=st&q=%22pork+sword%22&rnum=14&hl=en#ef43232a3e722435

...John's manhood is more cocktail stick than pork sword

1999, Mark Simpson, It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture, page 81:

He stood there with a big silly grin on his face and let Price's dirty mind take the bait. 'Lets just say it gets dreadfully boring in quarantine.' he smiled. 'You dirty bugger, she saves you from a samurai sword and you thank her with the pork sword!' laughed Price.

2004, Peter J Krebs, Operation Sleeping Dragon, page 270:


one-eyed

From Middle English ooneyed, on-eied, on-eiȝed, from Old English ānēġed (“one-eyed”), from Proto-Germanic *ainaugidaz, equivalent to one + eyed. Compare Old English ānīeġe (“one-eyed”), Scots ane-eit, aan eet (“one-eyed”), Saterland Frisian eenooged (“one-eyed”), West Frisian ieneagich (“one-eyed”), Dutch eenogig (“one-eyed”), German einäugig (“one-eyed”), Danish enøjet (“one-eyed”), Swedish enögd (“one-eyed”), Icelandic ein-eygður, ein-eygur (“one-eyed”).

in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king


derm

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Doublet of derma.

lbor

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


lactometer

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

A device that estimates the cream content of milk by measuring its specific gravity.


thrapple

The noun is derived from Late Middle English thropul, þropul (“trachea, windpipe”); further etymology uncertain, but possibly a variant of throte-bolle (“laryngeal prominence, Adam’s apple; larynx; epiglottis; animal’s esophagus or neck; flesh covering throat of a deer”) [and other forms] (whence English throat-boll (obsolete)), from Old English þrotbolla [and other forms], from þrote (“throat”) + bolla (“bowl”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow; to swell up”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.

nb...

throtbel, throt-bell (possibly transmission errors), throtebol, throtebole, throte-bole, throte-boll, throtpul, (Early Middle English) þrot-bolle, þrote-boll, þrotebolla, þrote-bolle

(Late Old English) þrote-bolla, (Old English) þrot-bolla, ðrot-bolla, (Early Old English) throt-bolla

der

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

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

A broad piece of leather is then to be put round his neck; and the ends made faſt, by platting it, or ſome other way, at the withers, or before the wind-pipe, about two handfuls below the thrapple, betwixt the leather and his neck; [...]

1759, Thomas Wallis, “COLT”, in The Farrier’s and Horseman’s Complete Dictionary: […], London: […] W. Owen, […]; and E. Baker, […], →OCLC, column 1:

I hif a gude mind to ſwallow you, gin I kent your back widna ſtick in my thrapple.

1781, [Helenus Scott], “The Little Woman in Great-Queen Street”, in The Adventures of a Rupee. […], London: […] J[ohn] Murray, […], published 1782, page 254:

Sara sent twice for the measure of George's Neck—he wondered, Sara should be such a fool, she might have measured William's or Coleridge's, as all poets' Thropples were of one Size.

1800 December, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Kathleen Coburn, The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, volumes I (1794–1804: Text), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2002, →ISBN, page 873:

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

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

Do you, Maister Francis, opine that ye will re-establish your father's credit by cutting your kinsman's thrapple, or getting your ain sneckit instead thereof in the College-yards of Glasgow?

1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 254:

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

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

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

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

The Master—the deil's in their thrapples that should call him sae! it's Mr. Henry should be master now!

1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Summary of Events (’’continued’’)”, in The Master of Ballantrae. […], London, Paris: Cassell & Company, […], →OCLC, page 22:

"God, my lads," he cried, "if I had just my fingers on your thrapples, I'd thraw them fine and send your gutsy sauls to the deil that begat them."

1899, John Buchan, “Crabbed Age and Youth”, in A Lost Lady of Old Years: A Romance, London, New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, →OCLC, book II, page 228:

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

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

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

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

And she said it, she felt like a hen with a stone in its thrapple, [...]

1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon [pseudonym; James Leslie Mitchell], “Ploughing”, in Sunset Song (A Scots Quair; 1), Edinburgh: Canongate Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 32:

[T]he old man raised the axe and split the head of John Joel Glanton to the thrapple.

1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian […] , →OCLC:

When the bishop came out, the women shouted 'get the thrapple out of him' or cut his windpipe; he barely escaped with his life.

2014, Peter Ackroyd, “Sudden Flashings”, in The History of England: Volume III: Civil War, London: Pan Books, published 2015, →ISBN, page 173:

(chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland) The throat, especially the gullet or windpipe.


thrapple

en-verb

thrapple (third-person singular simple present thrapples, present participle thrappling, simple past and past participle thrappled)

thrapples (present singular third-person)
thrappling (participle present)
thrappled (participle past)
thrappled (past)

Then Mr. Weft began his tale, how he had been collared and well nigh thrappled in his ain shop; [...]

1827 September, “The Monkey. [From Blackwood’s Magazine.]”, in Oliver Oldschool [pseudonym; John Elihu Hall], editor, The Port Folio, volume II (volume XXII overall), number 293, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Harrison Hall, →OCLC, page 239:

A Scotch writer of the time [Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet, of Denmilne and Kinnaird] has handed down, for the admiration of successive ages, "the renowned Christian valyancie of those godly women," regretting only that the bishop of Edinburgh escaped being "sticked" or "thrappled‡," by their pious hands, which unfortunately "were not as active as their minds were willing." [Footnote ‡: Strangled.]

1835, “Chapter V. 1637.”, in Dionysius Lardner, editor, The Cabinet Cyclopædia. … History. England. […], volume V, London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, […]; and John Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 177:

We'll now have plinty o' time for the throopers, though I swore like a Trojan through thick an' thin (an' nearly got myself thrappled (throttled) for my pains be that powerful villain Fergus), that the fun ud be spilet, af the attack wasn't to-night.

1862, M[atthew] Archdeacon, chapter XVI, in The Priest Hunter: An Irish Tale of the Penal Times, Dublin, London: James Duffy, […], →OCLC, page 168:

Forbye thrappling her, he had bit until the jugular; and she had lost sae meikle bluid, that you hae eaten her the noo roasted, instead o' her made intil soup.

1862, “Literary and Domestic Life. 1832–37.”, in [Mary Wilson] Gordon, compiler, ‘Christopher North’: A Memoir of John Wilson […], volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 225:

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

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

Wad ye believe't, I had the greatest ado ance to keep him frae thrappling a puir cat?

1872, William Freeland, “A Visit”, in Love and Treason. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 23:

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

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

(transitive, chiefly Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, dated) To strangle, to throttle.


epiphysis

(anatomy) The rounded end of any long bone.


barrette

Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“bar”) + -ette, literally “small bar”.


nuclease

(biochemistry) Any of several enzymes capable of cleaving the phosphodiester bonds between the nucleotide subunits of nucleic acids.

核酸酶

any of several enzymes capable of cleaving the phosphodiester


intervillous space

en-noun

intervillous space (plural intervillous spaces)

(anatomy) Any of the spaces between the placental villi that contain maternal blood


tonsorial

(now sometimes humorous) Relating to barbering, shaving, or hairdressing.


joint space

(anatomy) The space in a joint between two bones.