ventricle

From late Middle English, from Latin ventriculus (“the belly”), diminutive of venter (“the belly”). Doublet of ventriculus.

Coordinate term: atrium

Meronyms: left ventricle, right ventricle

The muscular ventricles pump blood by contracting their fibers in response to electrical stimulation.

2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 47:

(anatomy, zootomy) Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:

Meronyms: fourth ventricle, lateral ventricle, third ventricle

the ventricle of memory

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

(neuroanatomy) One of four fluid-filled cavities in the brain, that are continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord.

[On birds] Where omitting the more general Properties, of having two Ventricles, and picking up stones to conveigh them into their second Ventricle, the Gizzern, (which provision and instinct is a supply for the want of teeth;) […]

1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II: A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, page 72:

(archaic) A ventriculus; especially, a stomach.


vocal cords

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(chiefly in the plural) Two folds of tissue located in the larynx that vibrate when air passes over them, producing the sound waves associated with talking and singing.


wick

→ Maori: wiki

From Middle English weke, wicke (“wick”), from Old English wēoce (“wick”), from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
Compare West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”), Swedish veke (“wick”).

cog

Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.


wick

en-verb

wick (third-person singular simple present wicks, present participle wicking, simple past and past participle wicked)

wicks (present singular third-person)
wicking (participle present)
wicked (participle past)
wicked (past)

The fabric wicks perspiration away from the body.

(transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.


villus

Borrowed from Latin villus (“shaggy hair”).

bor+

(botany) One of the fine soft hairs on fruits, flowers, and other parts of plants.


umbilicus

en-noun

umbilicus (plural umbilici or umbilicuses)

Borrowed from Latin umbilīcus (“navel”).


tablature

tablature (countable and uncountable, plural tablatures)

/ˈtæblət͡ʃɜ/

From French, from Italian tavolatura, from Latin tabulatura, from tabula.

(anatomy) A division of the skull into two tables.


tackle

tackle (countable and uncountable, plural tackles)

From Middle English takel (“gear, apparatus”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German takel (“ship's rigging”), perhaps related to Middle Dutch taken (“to grasp, seize”). Akin to Danish takkel (“tackle”), Swedish tackel (“tackle”). More at take.


insular

en-adj

insular (comparative more insular, superlative most insular)

more insular (comparative)
most insular (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin insularis (“of or belonging to an island”), from insula (“an island”), perhaps, from in (“in”) + salum (“the main sea”).

bor

(anatomy) Relating to the insula in the brain.


/ˌtiː ˈθɹiː/

(biochemistry) Abbreviation of triiodothyronine.


umbilical cord

(anatomy) The flexible structure connecting a foetus with the placenta; it transports nourishment to the foetus and removes waste.


peroneal

en-adj

peroneal (comparative more peroneal, superlative most peroneal)

more peroneal (comparative)
most peroneal (superlative)

/ˌpɛː.ɹəˈniː.əl/

Charcot praised Duchenne's work on tabes, and gave the first description of sclerosis and the peroneal type of muscular atrophy.

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 526:

(anatomy) Pertaining to the fibula or to the part of the leg containing it, the outside (lateral aspect) of the lower leg (that is, what anatomical terminology calls the leg, from knee to foot).


rete

(anatomy) A network of blood vessels or nerves.


neutral zone

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(dentistry) That space in the oral cavity where the forces exerted by the musculature of the tongue are equal and balanced with the forces exerted by the buccinator muscle of the cheek laterally and the orbicularis oris muscle anteriorly.


haemal

From Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).


pearly whites

The least you can do is keep your pearly whites squeaky clean with a cutting-edge electric toothbrush.

2009 July 31, Ben Patterson, “High-Tech Helpers: Philips Sonicare FlexCare”, in Time:


jock

Unknown. Suggested to be a hypocoristic for John (compare Jack).

(British, Ireland, slang, derogatory) A Scotsman.


jock

The computer slang meanings are derived from jockey. The athletic slang meanings in turn date from the middle 20th century and are simple abbreviations of jockstrap, which is in turn derived from the older slang meaning of jock itself, which dates from the 17th century, and whose etymology is unknown.

compiler jock

systems jock

(US, dated computing slang, in combination) A specialist computer programmer.


jock

en-verb

jock (third-person singular simple present jocks, present participle jocking, simple past and past participle jocked)

jocks (present singular third-person)
jocking (participle present)
jocked (participle past)
jocked (past)


jock

Thear's boan-idle nowbles, baht hahses an' lands, 'at al walk on a carpeted path, an' nivver do nowt wi' ther lily-white hands bud lift uther fowk's jock to ther maath.

1881, Ben Preston, Dialect and Other Poems, page 19:

Hah's a growing lad to thrive baht jock?

1884, William Cudworth (of Bradford), Yorkshire Dialect and Character Sketches, page 15:


lymph

en-noun

lymph (usually uncountable, plural lymphs)

Borrowing from French lymphe and/or Latin lympha (“clear water”), from Ancient Greek νῠ́μφη (nŭ́mphē, “bride; spring water”). Doublet of nymph.

der

(obsolete, literary) Pure water.
(archaic, botany) The sap of plants.

(physiology) A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.

She lay face-down, an infected puncture point on the inside of her thigh oozing a faint lymph.

2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, page 268:

(immunology) The discharge from a sore, inflammation etc.


uncut

From Middle English unkut, uncutte, unkyt, unkutt, equivalent to un- + cut.

All I'm saying is, uncut men are the best. They try harder. I should know. I've slept with five of them.

1999 August 1, Jenny Bicks, “Old Dogs, New Dicks”, in Sex and the City, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Samantha:


iliac artery

(anatomy) One of the large arteries supplying blood to the pelvis and legs.


flank

From Late Middle English flanc, from Late Old English flanc (“flank”), from Old French flanc, of Germanic origin, probably Frankish *hlanca, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve, hip, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“flexible, sleek, bendsome”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng- (“to bend”). Akin to Old High German hlanca (“loin”), Middle Low German lanke (“hip joint”) (German lenken (“to bend, turn, lead”)), Old English hlanc (“loose, slender, flaccid, lank”). More at lank.

cog

Holonym: side

Coordinate term: loin (coordinate especially in butchery; not consistently differentiated regarding the human body)

(anatomy) The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip.

خَاصِرَة

anatomy: flesh between the last rib and the hip


perspire

en-verb

perspire (third-person singular simple present perspires, present participle perspiring, simple past and past participle perspired)

perspires (present singular third-person)
perspiring (participle present)
perspired (participle past)
perspired (past)

Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.

bor

I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.

He lists forty reasons, mainly metaphorical, why Christ perspired blood, and his peroration takes twenty-two pages in print.

2010, Susan C. Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Feeling:

(transitive, intransitive) To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.

A fluid perspires.

(intransitive) To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.

Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 3:

We shook hands, he looked surprised to see me topless. I stimulated his mind. ¶ “Nice to meet you. My workout jogging perspired me a lot, so I removed the T-shirt.”

2016, Pradip Chauhan, Love Stories, New Delhi: Educreation Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:

(transitive, intransitive, rare) To cause (someone) to sweat.


CK

(biochemistry) Initialism of creatine kinase.


thorax

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”).

der

Holonyms: torso, trunk; < body

Meronym: chest

(anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.


salivate

en-verb

salivate (third-person singular simple present salivates, present participle salivating, simple past and past participle salivated)

salivates (present singular third-person)
salivating (participle present)
salivated (participle past)
salivated (past)

From Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare (“to spit out, also salivate”), from saliva (“spittle”).


back, crack and sack

en-noun

back, crack and sack (plural back, crack and sacks)

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(informal) A beauty treatment for men in which hair is removed from the back, from between the buttocks ("crack") and from the scrotum ("sack").


histaminase

We suggest, however, that the substance, or system, which produces a change in structure responsible for the loss of physiological activity of histamine be designated histaminase.

1930 December 4, C. H. Best, E. W. McHenry, “The inactivation of histamine”, in The Journal of Physiology:

(biochemistry) A widely occurring flavoprotein enzyme that oxidizes histamine and various diamines.


perspiration

perspiration (usually uncountable, plural perspirations)

/ˌpɜːspəˈɹeɪʃən/

/ˌpɝspəˈɹeɪʃən/

Borrowed from late Middle French perspiration, from perspirer (“perspire”), from Latin perspirare (“to blow or breathe constantly”), from per (“through”) + spirare (“to breathe, blow”)
Morphologically perspire + -ation

der

genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

Passing his hand across his forehead he withdrew it, wet with drops of perspiration.

1897, Marie Corelli, “Chapter II”, in Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, New York: Stone & Kimball, page 58:


wheal

From Middle English whele (“boil”), from Old English *hwele (“boil”); related to Old English hwelian (“to fester, ulcerate”). Compare also Old English hwelca, hwylca (“an inflamed swelling, pustule”).

cog

A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.

1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, and B[enjamin] Took at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, page 80:

So they gripped again until red wheals rose on their backs and shoulders by reason of the grievous clasping of their arms.

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 22:

A small raised swelling on the skin, often itchy, caused by a blow from a whip or an insect bite etc.


histamine

en-noun

histamine (countable and uncountable, plural histamines)

Mellanby and Twort have isolated from the fæces a bacillus which is able to produce from one of the amino acids normally formed in digestion of proteins a highly active body, histamine.

1913 June 1, Henderson VE, “Res Judicatae: On the Colon and Ileocolotomy”, in The Canadian Medical Association Journal, volume 3, number 6, page 521:

The intake of food triggers a release of histamine, which activates the acid-secreting cells.

2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 46:

In a strongly ripened cheese, the casein proteins are broken down to amino acids, and the amino acids can be broken down into amines, small molecules that can serve as chemical signals in the human body. Histamine and tyramine are found in large quantities in Cheddar, blue, Swiss, and Dutch-style cheeses, and can cause a rise in blood pressure, headaches, and rashes in people who are especially sensitive to them.

2004, Harold McGee, chapter 1, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:

(biochemistry) An amine, C₅H₉N₃, formed by decarboxylation of histidine, that causes dilatation of capillaries, contraction of smooth muscle, and stimulation of gastric acid secretion; it is released during allergic reactions.


sacroiliac joint

sacroiliac joint (plural sacroiliac joints)


exsanguination

exsanguination (countable and uncountable, plural exsanguinations)

Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.


undercut

From Middle English undercutten, equivalent to under- + cut.


mons veneris

Borrowed from Latin mons veneris (literally “mount of Venus”).


foxy

en-adj

foxy (comparative foxier, superlative foxiest)

foxier (comparative)
foxiest (superlative)


yonic

yonic (comparative more yonic, superlative most yonic)

more yonic (comparative)
most yonic (superlative)

From yoni + -ic, from Sanskrit योनि (yoni).

Many orchids are yonic.

1999, Perry Bathous, Clarissa Flanders, Swell-Wimp, page 107:

The Garden of Eden, the Ark, the Gate of the Temple, the Veil of the Mysteries, the vesica piscis or oval nimbus, and the Holy Grail are important yonic symbols[…]

2011, Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, page 226:

Porzecanski employs two recurrent phallic and yonic symbols in the narrative.

2012, Debora Cordeiro Rosa, Trauma, Memory and Identity in Five Jewish Novels:


mons pubis

From Latin mōns (“mountain, mound”) + genitive of pūbes (“pubic area”).

A fleshy protuberance over the pubic bones that becomes covered with hair during puberty.


mandible

From late Middle English, from Late Latin mandibula (“a jaw”), from mandō (“to chew, masticate”) + -bula (instrument noun suffix).

af

Coordinate term: maxilla

The jaw or a jawbone, especially the lower jawbone in mammals and fishes.

Either of the upper and lower segments of a bird's beak.

Any of various invertebrate mouthparts serving to hold or bite food materials.

One of the anterior pair of mouthparts of an arthropod, designed for holding and cutting food.


monocle

1886, borrowed from French monocle, from Late Latin monoculus (“one-eyed”), from mono- (“single”) + oculus (“eye”).

A single lens, usually in a wire frame, and used to correct vision for only one eye.


pubis

Genitive of Latin pubes (“pubes”); see pubes.

The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.


frond

Borrowed from Latin frons, frond- (“leafy branch”).

(botany) The leaf of a fern, especially a compound leaf.


vitamin C

The L-enantiomer of ascorbic acid, a water-soluble nutrient essential for life, synthesized by most animals and plants but not humans, although used in our bodies for many purposes. It is plentiful in citrus fruits and many vegetables, and a deficiency causes scurvy.


ascorbic acid

(biochemistry) A white crystalline organic compound, C₆H₈O₆, found in citrus fruits and many vegetables; it is an antioxidant and an efficient scavenger of free radicals.

àcid ascòrbic

the white crystalline organic compound, C6H8O6


cock-up

And I'm sorry for all the cock-ups, my cabinet are absolute crap. We'll have to do better next year.

2003, Richard Curtis, Love Actually, spoken by Prime Minister (Hugh Grant):

In over a quarter of a century of writing this column, there has been no end of scandals, mishaps, errors and general cock-ups resulting from ministerial incompetence.

2023 November 15, Christian Wolmar, “Ministers should carry the can for ticket office fiasco”, in RAIL, number 996, page 46:

(Commonwealth, mildly vulgar slang) A mistake.

The first word of every section or chapter is generally put in small capitals, after a small neat cock-up letter.

1824, John Johnson, Typographia, volume 2, page 33:

(obsolete, UK, Ireland, printers' slang) A superior letter. A lower-case letter placed above the baseline and made smaller than ordinary script; traditionally used in abbreviations.

Cockernonie, a gathering up of the hair of women, after a fashion similar to that of the modern "chignon," and sometimes called a "cock-up." Mr. Kirkton, of Edinburgh, preaching against "cock-ups"—of which chignons were the representatives a quarter of a century ago—said: "I have been all this year preaching against the vanity of women, yet I see my own daughter in the kirk even now with as high a 'cock-up' as any one of you all."

1888, Charles Mackay, A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch, page 30:

(obsolete, Scotland) A roll or twist of hair worn at the nape of the neck; a bun.


centrum

From Middle English centrum, from Latin centrum. Doublet of centre.

The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached.

The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae.


furcula

(anatomy) A forked process or structure, generally two-pronged.


goose bump

From the resemblance of goose bumps to the bumps on the skin of a plucked goose.

(chiefly in the plural) Raised skin, usually caused by the involuntary erection of hairs on the neck or arms caused by cold, excitement, or fear.

hoendervleis

raised skin caused by cold, excitement, or fear

мура́шки f pl (muráški, literally “small ants”)


preparation

en-noun

preparation (countable and uncountable, plural preparations)

/ˌpɹɛpəˈɹeɪʃən/

From Middle English preparacion, from Middle French preparacion, from Latin praeparatio, praeparationem.
Morphologically prepare + -ation

(anatomy) A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.


pubes

From Latin pubes (“the hair which appears on the body at the age of puberty, the genitals”), from pubes, puber (“grown up, of mature age; of plants, downy, pubescent”); see puberty.


cartilaginous

en-adj

cartilaginous (comparative more cartilaginous, superlative most cartilaginous)

more cartilaginous (comparative)
most cartilaginous (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin cartilāginōsus (“full of cartilage, very gristly”), from cartilāgō (“cartilage, gristle”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”); compare French cartilagineux. Equivalent to cartilage + -ous, with modifications made to its morphology.

af

(anatomy) Comprising soft cartilage rather than bone.

Cartilaginous fish such as the angler fish have a skeletal structure made up of cartilage.

[T]here are other Bodies beſides Shells found in the Earth, reſembling the Teeth and Bones of ſome Fiſhes, […] the Vertebres of Thornbacks and other Cartilagineous Fiſhes there found, and ſold for Stones among the Gloſſopetræ, […]

1692, John Ray, “Of Formed Stones, Sea-shells, and Other Marine-like Bodies Found at Great Distances from the Shores?”, in Miscellaneous Discourses Concerning the Dissolution and Changes of the World. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 109:

(zoology, of a vertebrate animal) Having a skeleton of cartilage.


fire hose

An fast-flowing unsupported flow of lava escaping from a solid rockface.


gibberellic acid

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) An organic compound, one of the gibberellins, obtained from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, that functions as a growth hormone in plants.


drool

en-verb

drool (third-person singular simple present drools, present participle drooling, simple past and past participle drooled)

drools (present singular third-person)
drooling (participle present)
drooled (participle past)
drooled (past)

From earlier drule, apparently a corruption of drivel (compare snool from snivel). Compare also Middle English drullen (“to stagger, drool”), Dutch druilen (“to be listless, snooze”).

cog

The alien beast drooled slime.

(transitive, intransitive) To secrete any substance in a similar way.


gibberellin

en-noun

gibberellin (countable and uncountable, plural gibberellins)

(biochemistry) Any of a class of diterpene plant growth hormones first isolated from the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi.


pubic hair

pubic hair (countable and uncountable, plural pubic hairs)

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(slang, also "excessive body hair") волосня́ f (volosnjá)

The method of the root's use was pure sorcery; the powder being burned over a fire, with some of the operator's pubic hair and characteristic secretions.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 161:

Negroes (teeth, fingers, toe nails and pubic hair gilded), Japanese boys smooth and white as china, Titian-haired Venetian lads, Americans with blond or black curls falling across the forehead (the guests tenderly shove it back), sulky blond Polacks with animal brown eyes, Arab and Spanish street boys, Austrian boys pink and delicate with a faint shadow of blond pubic hair, sneering German youths with bright blue eyes scream "Heil Hitler!" as the trap falls under them. Sollubis shit and whimper.

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 79:

It’s true. He’s become known there as the “Brazilian Trump”, which is both politically worrisome and also the grossest style to order at a pubic hair salon. “Oh, I’ll take the Brazilian Trump, please! I-It’s where you rip everything off the front area, but you comb some arse hair around to give the illusion of hair.”

2018, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Brazilian Elections”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 5, episode 25, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

(collectively) The hair that grows in the pubic region from puberty.


viscus

From Latin viscus (“any internal organ of the body”), perhaps akin to viscid.

bor

(anatomy) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.


centrale

(anatomy) The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or tarsus in most vertebrates. In the human tarsus it is represented by the navicular.


dura mater

en-noun

dura mater (plural durae matres or dura maters)

durae matres (plural)
dura maters (plural)
dura (abbreviation)

First attested c. 1400, borrowing from Medieval Latin dūra māter (literally “firm, strict mother”), ellipsis of dūra māter cerebrī (literally “hard mother of the brain”), calque of Arabic أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة (ʔumm al-ddimāḡ aṣ-ṣafīqa, literally “thick mother of the brain”).

clq

أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة

Hmm, false membranes are adhering to the arachnoidian layer of the dura mater. I’m directing my gaze into a world of constant visibility. Where does it hurt?

1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books; Icon Books, →ISBN, page 53:

(anatomy) The tough and inflexible outermost of the three layers of the meninges, enveloping the brain and spinal cord.


indoleacetic acid

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) an auxin plant hormone, synthesized in leaves, that stimulates growth, especially in the presence of ethylene


pike

From Middle English pyke, pyk, pik, pike (“pike; sharp point, iron tip of a staff or spear, pointed toe of an item of footwear; sharp tool; mountain, peak”), from Old English pīc (“pointed object, pick axe”), and Middle French pique (“long thrusting weapon”), from Old French pic (“sharp point, spike”); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz, *pīkō (“sharp point, pike, peak”), related to pick with a narrower meaning.
The word is cognate with Middle Dutch pecke, peke, picke (modern Dutch piek), German Pike, Norwegian pik, Danish pig, and possibly Old Irish pīk. It is a doublet of pique.
The diving or gymnastics position is probably from tapered appearance of the body when the position is executed.
The carnivorous freshwater fish is probably derived from the “sharp point, spike” senses, due to the fish’s pointed jaws.
The verb sense “to quit or back out of a promise” may be from the sense of taking up pilgrim's staff or pike and leaving on a pilgrimage; and compare Middle English pī̆ken (“to go, remove oneself”) and Old Danish pikke af (“to go away”).

cog

Each had a ſmall ax in the ſurcingle of his ſaddle, and a pike about fourteen feet long, the weapon with which he charged; […]

1790, James Bruce, chapter V, in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. In Five Volumes, volume IV, Edinburgh: Printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 117:

A few months after the murder of Don Carlos, the Counts de Horn and d'Egmonte, who had long been detained in prison, notwithstanding their innocence, were put to death by the cruel Alva in the market-place at Brussels, and the heads of these two patriotic martyrs were exposed upon pikes to the view of the populace.

1855, Jules Raymond Lamé Fleury, “The Death of Don Carlos. From the Year 1567 to 1570.”, in M. C. T., transl., Historical Chapters Relating to Many Lands. Adapted for Children. Translated from the French of M. Lamé Fleury, by a Lady, London: Jackson & Walford, […], →OCLC, page 110:

And now they begin to catch the pikes, and will ſhortly the trouts (pox on theſe miniſters), and I would fain know whether the floods were ever ſo high as to get over the holly bank or the river walk; if ſo, then all my pikes are gone; but I hope not.

1711 March 10, Jonathan Swift, J[ohn] Hawkesworth, “Letter LV”, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin: […], new edition, volume XIII, London: Printed for Charles Elliot, Edinburgh, published 1784, →OCLC, pages 275–276:

Lord Erskine soon afterwards came to Brighton, and told Mrs. Coutts, if she would give him a dinner he would provide the fish from his own pond. She agreed; and his present proved to be an overgrown pike, weighing between thirty and forty pounds, and so hideous in its appearance that no guest touched it, the mere sight of it being perfectly disagreeable to many.

1839 November 2, “Memoirs of Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans. By Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson, Author of the ‘Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis.’ 2 vols. 12mo. London 1839. Colburn.”, in The Literary Gazette; and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 1189, London: Printed by Moyes and Barclay, […]; published for the proprietors, at the Literary Gazette office, […], →OCLC, page 694, column 1:

If you fish for pike with a live-bait, snap tackle, or spinning, it should always be with the hooks attached to gimp, in consequence of the several rows of sharp teeth with which the pike is armed, and which enable it to bite gut in two.

1879 (indicated as 1880), [Charles Dickens Jr.], “Pike”, in Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames: From Oxford to the Nore. … An Unconventional Handbook, London: Charles Dickens, […], →OCLC; republished as Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames, from Its Source to the Nore. … An Unconventional Handbook, London: Macmillan & Co., […], 1883, →OCLC, page 164, column 2:

Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.


pike

en-verb

pike (third-person singular simple present pikes, present participle piking, simple past and past participle piked)

pikes (present singular third-person)
piking (participle present)
piked (participle past)
piked (past)

Don’t pike on me like you did last time!

—But [Albert] Camus piked out, said Carole. [Jean-Paul] Sartre and that lot got pissed off with him, he stood off from the war, he wouldn't oppose it.

2002, Sylvia Lawson, How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia: Stories and Essays, Sydney, N.S.W.: UNSW Press, →ISBN, page 151:

[William] Holman accepted the challenge while [John] Norton ‘piked out’; nevertheless Holman won Cootamundra against a strong candidate.

2006, Pip Wilson, “Biographies”, in Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.: Pip Wilson, →ISBN; 3rd edition, Coffs Harbour, N.S.W.: Pip Wilson, January 2007, →ISBN, page 543:

If they didn't go ahead, it would look like they had piked, backed down.

2008, Chris Pash, The Last Whale, ReadHowYouWant edition, Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 36:

(intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.


coenzyme A

adenosine triphosphate
adenosine triphosphate

(biochemistry) A coenzyme, formed from pantothenic acid and adenosine triphosphate, that is necessary for fatty acid synthesis and metabolism.


pantothenic acid

(biochemistry) A water-soluble antioxidant vitamin, 3-[(2R)-2,4-dihydroxy-3,3-dimethylbutanamido]propanoic acid needed for the metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins; it is found in cereals, legumes, meat and other foods


transacetylase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an acetyl group from one molecule to another. It is produced by the ‘a’ structural gene of the lac operon.


transaminase

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze transamination.

轉氨酶 /转氨酶

biochemistry: any of a group of enzymes that catalyze transamination


coenzyme

(biochemistry) Any small molecule that is necessary for the functioning of an enzyme.


adenosine triphosphate

(biochemistry) A nucleotide that is used as a source of energy in cellular reactions, in the synthesis of nucleic acids, and as a neurotransmitter recognized by purinergic receptors.


anvil

From Middle English anfilt, anvelt, anfelt, from late Old English anfilt, anfilte, anfealt, from earlier onfilti (“anvil”), from Proto-West Germanic *anafalt (compare Middle Dutch anvilte, Low German Anfilts, Anefilt, Old High German anafalz), compound of *ana (“on”) + *falt (“beaten”) (compare German falzen (“to groove, fold, welt”), Swedish dialectal filta (“to beat”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂-t- (“shaken, beaten”) (compare Middle Irish lethar (“leather”), Latin pellō (“to beat, strike”), Ancient Greek πάλλω (pállō, “to toss, brandish”)), enlargement of Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to stir, move”). More at felon.

der

(anatomy) The incus bone in the middle ear.


cornea

en-noun

cornea (plural corneas or corneae or (archaic) corneæ)

corneas (plural)
corneae (plural)
corneæ (archaic plural)

From Latin cornea tela (“horny tissue”), from cornu (“horn”).

Or instead of treating them with the developing solution, the corneæ may be removed to a warm, concentrated solution of tartaric acid and remain there at the temperature of an incubating stove until the gold is fully reduced.

1885, Arthur Bolles Lee, chapter XI, in The Microtomist’s Vade‐Mecum, P. Blakiston, Son & Co, page 93:

In the lateral view (fig. 26) the corneae seemed very flat, their convexity not exceeding that of the bulbi (cornea plana?);

1969, P. P. H. Alkemade, Dysgenesis Mesodermalis of the Iris and the Cornea: A Study of Rieger’s Syndrome and Peter’s Anomaly, page 119:

The corneae were swollen without major infiltrates similar to longstanding disciform edema.

1981, R. Sundmacher, D. Neumann-Haefelin, A. Mattes, K. Cantell, “Connatal Monosymptomatic Corneal Endotheliitis by Cytomegalovirus”, in Herpetic Eye Diseases, J.F. Bergmann Verlag, →ISBN, page 501:

It is well known that in clinical practice the corneae from eyes enucleated for malignant melanoma of posterior choroid are usually utilized for corneal grafting. This research refers to cases of posterior melanomas which extended anteriorly, in which the utilization of the corneae for grafting was doubtful.

1983, A. Loffredo, G. Cennamo, A. De Lellis, A. Sammartino, A. Del Prete, “Echographic Pattern Evaluation of Eyes with Choroid Melanoma for Corneal Graft Utilization”, in Jeffrey S. Hillman, Malcolm M. Le May, editors, Ophthalmic Ultrasonography: Proceedings of the 9th SIDUO Congress, Leeds, U.K. July 20-23, 1982, Dr W. Junk Publishers, Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, →ISBN, page 43:

(anatomy) The transparent layer making up the outermost front part of the eye, covering the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber.


erosion

erosion (countable and uncountable, plural erosions)

Guy de Chauliac
Oliver Goldsmith
Robert Copland
The Questyonary of Cyrurygens
erosion

From Middle French erosion, from Latin ērōsiō (“eating away”), derived from ērōdō.
The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote
: "Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water."

(dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.


transcriptase

(biochemistry) A polymerase that catalyzes the transcription of DNA to RNA.


glib

Whom when she saw in wretched weedes disguiz'd, / With heary glib deform'd and meiger face, / Like ghost late risen from his grave agryz'd, / She knew him not […]

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curled bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.

1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

Their wild costume of the glib and mantle.

1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society:

But in the dead of njight, who should come in but James Desmond, sword in hand, with a dozen of his ruffians at his heels, each with his glib over his ugly face, and his skene in his hand.

1855, Charles Kingsley, “Clovelly Court in the Olden Time”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume I, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 163:

(historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly common in Ireland.


reverse transcriptase

reverse transcriptase (plural reverse transcriptases)

(biochemistry) A polymerase that catalyzes the formation of DNA from an RNA template.


polymerase

(biochemistry) Any of various enzymes that catalyze the formation of polymers of DNA or RNA using an existing strand of RNA or DNA respectively as a template.

聚合酶

enzyme that catalyses the formation of polymers


vas

Borrowed from Latin vās (“vessel”), from 1645–1655. Doublet of vase.

(anatomy) A vessel or duct transporting any bodily fluid, such as blood, lymph, chyle, or semen.


transhydrogenase

(biochemistry) A mitochondrial enzyme that transports protons across a cell membrane.


transferase

(biochemistry) Any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a functional group, such as amine or phosphate from one molecule to another.

transferasa

enzyme which catalyses the transfer of a functional group


scroll

From Middle English scrowle, scrolle, from earlier scrowe, scrouwe (influenced by Middle English rolle), from Old French escroe, escrowe, escrouwe (“scroll, strip of parchment”), from Frankish *skrōda (“a shred”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, from *skrew- (“to cut; cutting tool”), extension of *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Doublet of shred and escrow.


transfusion

transfusion (countable and uncountable, plural transfusions)

Coordinate term: infusion

(medicine) The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.

نَقْل اَلدَّم

medicine: the transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another

перелива́ние кро́ви n (perelivánije króvi, literally “blood transfusion”)

гемотрансфу́зия f (gemotransfúzija, literally “haemotranfusion”)

перелива́ння кро́ві n (perelyvánnja króvi, literally “blood transfusion”)

гемотрансфу́зія f (hemotransfúzija, literally “haemotranfusion”)


sinusoidal

en-adj

sinusoidal (comparative more sinusoidal, superlative most sinusoidal)

more sinusoidal (comparative)
most sinusoidal (superlative)

(anatomy) Relating to any of several channels (the sinusoids) through which venous blood passes in various organs.


pogonotrophy

/ˌpoʊɡəˈnɑtɹəfi/

The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.


duck's arse

(British, Ireland, informal, vulgar) A hairstyle in which the hair is swept back along the sides of the head to meet in a point at the back, thus resembling a duck as seen from behind.


maintainer

From Anglo-Norman maintenour, Old French mainteneor, from maintenir (“to maintain”); with later remodelling of the suffix after -er.

(dentistry) A device used to keep teeth in a given position.


ducktail

A hairstyle in which the hair is swept back into an upturned point at the back.


DA

en-noun

DA (countable and uncountable, plural DAs or DA's)

Alternative form: DAo

descending aorta
descending aorta#English

(anatomy) Initialism of descending aorta.

ductus arteriosus
ductus arteriosus#English

(anatomy) Initialism of ductus arteriosus.


blood transfusion

blood transfusion (countable and uncountable, plural blood transfusions)

A blood transfusion stabilized her condition until surgery to stop her internal bleeding could begin.

(medicine) The act or process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously; an instance of it.

bloedoortapping

taking blood from one and giving it to another individual


barbering

(informal) The practice among pets of overgrooming each other, leaving bald patches.


ilium

Borrowed from Latin īlium (“lower abdomen”), from īle (“flank”).

(anatomy) The upper and widest of the three bones that make up each side of the hipbone and pelvis.

(anatomy, obsolete) The ileum, part of the small intestine (in modern usage, misspelling of ileum.).


goose flesh

/ˈɡuːsˌflɛʃ/


transverse

Late Middle English, from Latin trānsversus (“turned across; going or lying across or crosswise”). Doublet of transversal.

der

(anatomy) Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.


transposase

en-noun

transposase (countable and uncountable, plural transposases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme required for the transposition of transposons


heterochromia iridium

The condition of having two irises of different colors.


pilose

en-adj

pilose (comparative more pilose, superlative most pilose)

more pilose (comparative)
most pilose (superlative)

From Latin pilōsus, from pilus (“hair”).

An icy chill runs down the back of your exoskeleton as the name enters your mind, your very animus shuddering at the sound of it. Something about its form, its essence… it is far too lissom. Too pilose. Too disturbingly… feline.

2024, Kazerad, Enter name, in: Prequel -or- Making a Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), October 11 2024


bifocals

From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.

He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.

2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 116:

Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.


beanbag

(slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.


labia majora

en-noun

labia majora pl (normally plural, singular labium majus)

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A new technology has enabled man to take gardening away from women and turn it into agriculture; the plow is the great phallus that separates the labia majora of the furrows of earth, and the plow is under the majesty of Enki.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:

(anatomy, primatology) The two outer rounded folds of adipose tissue that lie on either side of the opening of the vagina.

labioscrotal swelling - embryological precursor


hot dog

1894 (US college slang) from hot + dog (in reference to supposed source of the meat), both the sense of frankfurter in a roll, and of show-off.

com

Don't forget to buy some hot dogs to grill and some buns to put them on.

Hot dogs and beans are a traditional favorite.

He ordered a hot dog with everything on it.

A food item (dish) consisting of a frankfurter or wiener and (usually) a hot dog bun, with toppings such as ketchup, mustard, relish, sauerkraut, onions, cheese, etc.

(New Zealand) A battered, deep-fried sausage or saveloy on a stick; a corn dog.

primarily verbal teasing from both male and female students, ranging from statements that the student had a "hot dog in her pants" and that she had "sex with hot dogs." to graffiti that "Jane is a hot dog bitch."

1994, Sexual Harassment in Education, page 26:

It started in the fall of 1990, early in seventh grade, when two boys told her, "I hear you have a hot dog in your pants."
girls were now making hot dog remarks. the counselor maintained—incorrectly—that he was powerless to stop it

1995, The Guide to American Law Supplement, page 347:

How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?

1996, Richard Sandomir, Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless, page 5:

In the fall of 1990, when she was in the seventh grade, classmates spread the word that Doe had a hot dog in her pants.

1999, Louis I. Gerdes, Sexual Harassment, page 118:

But what it is basically the in and the out, the hot dog splicing through the doughnut.

I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.

2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13


labia minora

en-noun

labia minora pl (normally plural, singular labium minus)

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The ventral skin of the penis is homologous to the labia minora.

When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.

2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:

(anatomy) The two inner folds of skin within the cleft of the labia majora.

লেবিয়া মাইনরা

(anatomy) the two inner folds of skin within the cleft of the labia majora

urogenital fold - embryological precursor


genital

/ˈd͡ʒɛnətəl/

/ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtəl/

From Middle English genital, from Latin genitalis (“of or belonging to generation”), from genitus, past participle of gignō (“to beget, generate”); see genus.

der

In countless Hollywood movies we see the story of two soldiers or sailors on leave; for them the pursuit of women is simply a way of relieving a genital pressure.

1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193:

(psychoanalysis) Of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty.

płciowy

of, or relating to psychosexual development during puberty


genital

/ˈd͡ʒɛnətəl/

/ˈd͡ʒɛnɪtəl/

( b ) the masturbation [...] served as evidence that his genital was not injured ("fixing feet")

1961, The Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

David told of his fears of castration and his concern that his genital was not as large as another boy's on the ward, and perhaps would never be.

1967, Ruth G. Newman, Marjorie M. Keith, The School-centered Life Space Interview, Six Papers:

[…] the anxiety and distress that his genital was dirty, disgusting and dangerous to his mother (myself); the dread of the bad internalized penis and his own faeces and urine.

2013, Susan Isaacs, Childhood and After: Some Essays and Clinical Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 164:

(rare, chiefly in the plural) A genital organ.


nicotinic acid

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) pyridine-3-carboxylic acid; together with nicotinamide is a part of the vitamin B complex

E375 when used as a colour retention agent


vitamin B complex

A group of water-soluble vitamins, once thought to be a single vitamin, occurring in yeast, liver, eggs etc.


folate

From folic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) A salt or ester of folic acid, especially one present in the vitamin B complex.


compartment

First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”).

(anatomy) A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.


folic acid

From Latin folium (“leaf”), from its occurrence in leafy vegetables.

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) A polycyclic heterocyclic carboxylic acid, one of the vitamin B complex, essential for cell growth and reproduction

azido foliko

vitamin B9, a polycyclic heterocyclic carboxylic acid

folate

coordinate as a base versus an acid, but synonymous in the practical sense that the conjugate base and conjugate acid coexist in solution


genitourinary

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the genital and urinary systems of the body, together with their function, disease, etc.

мочапалавы́

relating to the genital and urinary systems


slop

From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).

cog

(obsolete) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.


slop

en-noun

slop (countable and uncountable, plural slops)

Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cūsloppe), related to slip.

(sometimes in the plural) Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

2023 September 21, Kyle Barr, “YouTube Announces New Tools to Flood Its Platform With AI-Generated Slop”, in Gizmodo, retrieved 2024-05-08

His post describes a sense of unease, paranoia and loneliness, expressing deep disappointment at the state of the modern internet. He suggests that AI has successfully drowned out the majority of online human activity, reshaping the internet into a more controlled, algorithmic form that exists only to sell products and ideas.

2024 January 16, Dani Di Placido, “The Dead Internet Theory, Explained”, in Forbes.com, retrieved 2024-05-08:

Almost all of the AI-generated slop online is peddled for clicks on social media, not published by major news outlets. These publications still get tripped up, of course, but it's rare.

2024 April 4, Kim Komando, “Don't be fooled by deepfake videos and photos this election cycle. Here's how to spot AI”, in USA Today, retrieved 2024-05-08:

Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

“Society needs concise ways to talk about modern A.I. — both the positives and the negatives,” he said. “‘Ignore that email, it’s spam,’ and ‘Ignore that article, it’s slop,’ are both useful lessons.”

2024 June 11, Benjamin Hoffman, quoting Simon Willison, “First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

In many ways, political slop is a logical end point for these image generators, which seem most useful for people trying to make a quick buck.

2024 August 21, Charlie Warzel, “The MAGA Aesthetic Is AI Slop”, in The Atlantic:

“Coca-Cola just put out an ad and ruined Christmas,” Dylan Pearce, one of the campaign’s many critics, said on TikTok, adding, “To put out slop like this just ruins the Christmas spirit.”

2024 November 20, Alex Vadukul, “Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

generative artificial intelligence
generative artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence, derogatory) Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published on the Internet in large quantities, posing as human-made content.


oxaloacetic acid

One of the constituents of the citric acid cycle, formed by the oxidation of malic acid and via the transamination of aspartic acid; an intermediate in the synthesis of amino acids and the metabolism of carbohydrates


armhole

From Middle English arme hole, armehole, arm hole, arm-hole, armhole, arm-hool(e), armole, harmehole; equivalent to arm + hole.

armpit

cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder

An aposteme gendred in þe purgynge places, þat is to say, of þe brayne vnder þe eres, of þe herte vnder þe arme holes, of þe lyuer in the schares.

c. 1425, Guy de Chauliac, The Grande Chirurgie, page 154:

Put these ragges and cloutes vnder thine arme holes.

1535, Bible (Coverdale Bible), Jer. 38:12

Armhole is a variant on armpit in the west and east Midlands.

2005 September 7, Birmingham Post, page 9:

(anatomy, now rare Midlands dialect) A human armpit.

(anatomy, rare and obsolete) Similar structures in other animals.


testicular

From Medieval Latin testicularis, from Latin testiculum (“testicle”), diminutive of testis.

(physiology) Pertaining to one or more testicles; of the testicle(s).


puberulent

en-adj

puberulent (comparative more puberulent, superlative most puberulent)

more puberulent (comparative)
most puberulent (superlative)

From the Latin puberulentus, see puber (“downy, adult”), -ulentus (“abounding in”).


clitoral hood

With a Q-tip, Dr. Rubin probes each part of the vulva for pain, pointing out the labia minora, labia majora and vaginal opening as her patient follows along. Then, she checks under the clitoral hood for adhesions or other skin conditions.

A fold of skin that surrounds and protects the clitoris, homologous with the male foreskin; the female prepuce.


amnion

From Latin amnion (“membrane around a fetus”), from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon).

uder

He never seemed to mind, and after a while, she no longer felt self-conscious about languishing in the amnion of his office.

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

(anatomy) The innermost membrane of the fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.

ջրաթաղանթ

a fetal membrane of reptiles, birds, and mammals — see also amniotic sac


pathetic

en-adj

pathetic (comparative more pathetic, superlative most pathetic)

more pathetic (comparative)
most pathetic (superlative)

From Middle French pathétique, from Latin patheticus, from Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós, “subject to feeling, capable of feeling, impassioned”), from παθητός (pathētós, “one who has suffered, subject to suffering”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to suffer”).


coxa

Borrowed from Latin coxa (“hip”). Doublet of cuisse.

(anatomy) The basal segment of a limb of various arthropods (insects and spiders, for example).


vagina dentata

en-noun

vagina dentata (plural vaginae dentatae or vagina dentatas or vagina dentata)

vaginae dentatae (plural)
vagina dentatas (plural)
vagina dentata (plural)

First attested 1908, from Latin vagina + dentata (“toothed”); popularized chiefly by Sigmund Freud.

This notion also associates the vampire more directly with the primal uncanny. The long quotation that Moretti uses from Marie Bonaparte's writings on Edgar Allen^([sic]) Poe includes reference to the mythical vagina dentata, the ‘strange’ notion that the vagina ‘is furnished with teeth, and thus a source of danger in being able to bite and castrate’.

2005, Barbara Creed, Phallic Panic: Film, Horror and the Primal Uncanny, Melbourne Univ. Publishing, →ISBN, page 86:

My relationship towards tulips is inherently Lynchian. I think they are disgusting. Just imagine. Aren't these some kind of, how do you call it, vagina dentata, dental vaginas threatening to swallow you?

2006, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Slavoj Žižek (actor):

Perhaps one of the most recognizable and acknowledged contemporary images of vagina dentata appears in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979). […] Indeed, Gieger^([sic]) himself wanted the creature to be an embodiment of the fear of rape, making it a perfect match for the film.

2013, B. Fahs, M. Dudy, S. Stage, The Moral Panics of Sexuality, Springer, →ISBN:

The mythical toothed vagina; often related to castration anxiety.


Croydon facelift

Croydon facelift (plural Croydon facelifts)

From Croydon, a Borough of London + facelift.

We climb in, and I plaster my Little House on the Prairie-style cloth hat over my hair so the greasy strands won't get yanked back into a Croydon facelift as I pull on my helmet.

2010, Charlotte Madison, Dressed to Kill, unnumbered page:

Everyone stopped drinking to have a look. A girl with a Croydon facelift hairdo and a sequinned tank top began hyperventilating noisily.

2013, e.c. saunders, Kat Among the Pigeons: A Kat Shakespeare Mystery, page 81:

All of which could explain why, when I had my hair styled in a tight ponytail for the shoot accompanying this feature, most people who saw me thought I looked "unapproachable" (which might simply be a polite way of saying: "You looked like you had a rattail and a Croydon facelift").

2013 July 28, Elizabeth Day, The Observer:

(British slang, derogatory) A women's hairstyle, associated with lower social classes, in which the hair is pulled tightly back from the face and fastened behind the head, thus pulling the features up and back and giving an effect similar to a facelift.


follicly challenged

en-adj

follicly challenged (comparative more follicly challenged, superlative most follicly challenged)

more follicly challenged (comparative)
most follicly challenged (superlative)

From follicle + -ly, as if follicle were an adjective, and challenged.

(humorous, euphemistic, of a person) Bald or going bald.


afro

From Afro-. In relation to the sense 2, see latino and anglo.

The Ghanaian government employed several Afros, as many of the expatriates called themselves, downplaying their Americanness, in ideological and infrastructure-building occupations.

2012, Kevin K. Gates, American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era, University of North Carolina Press (2006), pages 142–143:

At the height of the American civil rights agitation, a number of members of the Black Panther movement moved to Tanzania, and lived outside Arusha where they formed a community, calling themselves ‘’Afros.’’

2022, Beatrice Materu, “The African Americans who chose to return to Africa”, in The EastAfrican, page 1:

Afrodescendants (or simply Afros) are the descendants of Africans who were dispersed.

2022, Jun Takahara, “Say It Loud — I’m Afro and I’m Proud: Why we need to replace our racial identity labels with (pan-)ethnic ones”, in Medium, page 1:


rib

From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”).
Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”).
(wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.

der

On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.

1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:

(anatomy) Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.


rib

From Middle English ribbe, from Old English ribbe (“hound's-tongue”).

(botany) Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).

Tanacetum balsamita
Tanacetum balsamita#Translingual

(botany) Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).

Nasturtium officinale
Nasturtium officinale#Translingual

(botany) Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).


fundus

PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
From Latin fundus (“bottom”). Doublet of fond and fund.

(anatomy) The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:

The back, interior part of the eye, accommodating the retina and associated blood vessels, etc.

The uppermost hollow of the stomach, which in humans forms a bulge above where the oesophagus enters the stomach.

The deepest part of a sulcus, such as of the sulci of the human cerebral cortex.


oral cavity

(anatomy) The cavity of the mouth, especially the part of the mouth behind the gums and teeth that is bounded above by the hard and soft palates and below by the tongue and by the mucous membrane connecting it with the inner part of the mandible.


swarthy

en-adj

swarthy (comparative swarthier, superlative swarthiest)

swarthier (comparative)
swarthiest (superlative)

Alteration of swarty, from swart + -y, from Old English sweart (“black”).

Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.

1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy, published 1750, page 44:

(somewhat derogatory) Dark-skinned; black.


carrot top

The actress is known for her carrot top.

(informal, derogatory) A person with red hair; a redhead.


urethra

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra, “the passage for urine”), from οὐρέω (ouréō, “to make water”). Recorded in English since 1634.

lbor

(anatomy) The tube through which urine exits the body and, in male placental mammals, through which semen is ejaculated.

urogenital sinus - embryological precursor


honeypot

From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey + pot.

Computer experts install honeypots to trick hackers.

2007 October 12, “Data leak: Cyber sherlocks outwit hackers”, in The Economic Times, retrieved 2008-06-29:

(figuratively) Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing, particularly:

(computer security) A trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.

hunajapurkki

a trap set to detect or deflect attempts at unauthorized use of information systems


reflection

en-noun

reflection (countable and uncountable, plural reflections)

/ɹɪˈflɛkʃən/

From Middle French reflexion, reflection, and its source Late Latin reflexio, from the participle stem of reflectō. The current spelling is influenced by reflect.

відобра́ження

representative manifestation or outcome of a condition, trend or trait

(anatomy) The folding of a part; a fold.


petrous

From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French petreux, from Latin petrōsus, from petra, from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra).

(anatomy) Of the dense portion of the temporal bone that protects the inner ear.

на слепоочието

anatomy: of the dense portion of the temporal bone


genial

/d͡ʒəˈnaɪəl/

From Ancient Greek γένειον (géneion, “chin”) + -al.


nitrogenase

(biochemistry) Any enzyme, especially in nitrogen-fixing bacteria, that catalyzes the conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia.


phallocentric

en-adj

phallocentric (comparative more phallocentric, superlative most phallocentric)

more phallocentric (comparative)
most phallocentric (superlative)

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

His shame at what she might on the other hand perceive as his slimy phallocentric conduct toward her made it easier for him to avoid her, as well.

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 25:

Focused on the phallus, especially as a symbol of male dominance; characterised by male attitudes, focused on men.

fal·locèntric

Focus on the phallus or on a male point of view.


ganglion

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γᾰγγλῐ́ον (gănglĭ́on, “encysted tumour on a tendon or aponeurosis”).

bor

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell

[T]he wonderfully diversified instincts, mental powers, and affections of ants are generally known, yet their cerebral ganglia are not so large as the quarter of a small pin's head.

1871, Charles Darwin, “On the Manner of Development of Man from some Lower Form”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part I (On the Descent of Man), page 145:

An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.

gangli

collection of nerve cell bodies outside the brain

The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.

2013 August 3, “The machine of a new soul”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

central nervous system
central nervous system

Any of certain masses of gray matter in the central nervous system, as the basal ganglia.


platinum blond

en-noun

platinum blond (countable and uncountable, plural platinum blonds)


fissure

From Middle English fissure, from Old French fissure, from Latin fissūra (“a cleft, chink”), from findō (“to cleave, split, divide”) + -tūra (nominal suffix).

af

(anatomy) A groove, deep furrow, elongated cleft or tear between body parts or in the substance of an organ; a sulcus.

(anatomy) A break or slit in tissue usually at the junction of skin and mucous membrane.


titian

en-adj

titian (comparative more titian, superlative most titian)

more titian (comparative)
most titian (superlative)

Named after Titian (Italian Tiziano), the Italian painter who made frequent use of this colour.

lang

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

Of a bright auburn colour, tinted with gold, especially in reference to hair.


escutcheon

/ɪˈskʌt͡ʃən/

From Middle English scochon, from Anglo-Norman escuchon, Old French escusson (French écusson), ultimately from Latin scutum (“shield”). Related to scutum, scute, scudo, escudo, and écu.

(medicine) The pattern of distribution of hair upon the pubic mound.


trim

en-verb

trim (third-person singular simple present trims, present participle trimming, simple past and past participle trimmed)

trims (present singular third-person)
trimming (participle present)
trimmed (participle past)
trimmed (past)

From Middle English trimen, trymen, trümen, from Old English trymman (“to make firm; strengthen”), from Proto-West Germanic *trummjan, from Proto-Germanic *trumjaną (“to make fast; strengthen”), from Proto-Germanic *trumaz (“firm; strong; sound”).

tasapainottaa

to modify the angle of a ship relative to the water

(transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.

уравновесявам

to adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs


trim

en-noun

trim (countable and uncountable, plural trims)

varustelutaso

the manner in which something is equipped

I went to the hairdresser for a trim but came back nearly bald.

(countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.

(uncountable, aviation, of an aircraft) The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.

compensation

the state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained


otic

Mid 17th century borrowed from Ancient Greek ὠτῐκός (ōtĭkós, “of or for the ear”), from οὖς (oûs, “ear”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).

af

Otic preparations are used to treat infections of the ear canal.

(anatomy) Of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear.


parietal bone

From Latin parietalis (“pertaining to walls”), from paries (“wall”) + bone.

uder

(anatomy) Either of two bones that together form the sides and top of the skull.

os parietal

either of two bones at the sides and top of the skull


occipital bone

From Latin occiput, from ob- (“towards, against”) and caput (“head”)


ethmoid bone

The bone of the skull between the eyes and at the roof of the nose.


temporal bone

Either of two compound bones that collectively make up the sides and base of the skull.

temporal

either of two compound bones at the sides of the skull


sphenoid bone

A compound bone at the base of the skull behind the eyes.


centre parting

hairstyle where the hair is separated down the middle.


zygoma

From Ancient Greek ζύγωμα (zúgōma), from ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”).


hipbone

(anatomy) Alternative spelling of hip bone


calcaneus

From Latin calcāneus (“heel”), rare form of calx (“heel”).

The large bone making up the heel of the human foot, the heel bone.


tailbone

(informal) The final fused vertebrae at the base of the spine; the coccyx.


coccygeal vertebra

en-noun

coccygeal vertebra (plural coccygeal vertebrae)

Any of the four vertebrae that are found in the human coccyx.


heel bone

The large bone making up the heel of the human foot.


retinoic acid

(organic chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry) A derivative of vitamin A, used in the treatment of acne; it is essential for bone and tissue development.


cheekbone

From Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”); equivalent to cheek + bone. Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”).

She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

A youngish-looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.

1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 113:


capitate bone

The largest of the bones in the human wrist.


cuboid bone

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


frontal bone

The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].

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

(anatomy) The bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity.

(anatomy) Either of the pair of bones from which the frontal bone is formed by fusion in infancy.


distal phalange

distal phalange (plural distal phalanges)

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


hamate bone

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


sternum

Borrowed from New Latin sternum, related to Old English steorn (“forehead”), German Stirn (“forehead”).

The neckline fell into a V, showing the bone of his sternum.

2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber, page 231:

(anatomy) The breastbone, consisting of the manubrium, gladiolus, and xiphoid process.


breastbone

From Middle English brust-bon, brestbon, from Old English brēostbān (“breastbone”), equivalent to breast + bone.

He lapped out of his hand, then sat up in the sunlight, crossing his shins in front of him, and after a time let his woolly head fall on his breastbone.

1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:

(anatomy) The central narrow bone in the front of the chest, connecting the collarbone and the top ribs.

borsbeen

the central narrow bone in the front of the chest

છાતીનું હાડકું

chātīnũ hāḍkũ


hairpin

→ Japanese: ヘアピン

From hair + pin, 1788 (as hair pin). Adjective sense 1906 in hairpin turn etc.

(biology) A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.


cervical vertebra

cervical vertebra (plural cervical vertebras or cervical vertebrae)

cervical vertebras (plural)
cervical vertebrae (plural)

(anatomy) Any of the seven vertebrae of the neck.


phallus

From Latin phallus (“membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof”) from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).

bor

A representation of an erect penis symbolising fertility or potency.


fibula

en-noun

fibula (plural fibulae or (obsolete) fibulæ or fibulas)

fibulae (plural)
fibulæ (obsolete plural)
fibulas (plural)

Borrowed from Latin fībula (“buckle, clasp, pin”). The bone is so named because the shape it makes with the tibia resembles a clasp, the fibula being the pin.

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


hyoid bone

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


astragalus

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


centripetal

From New Latin centripetālis coined by Sir Isaac Newton, from Latin centrum (“center”) + petō (“to seek, aim”) + -al. Analysable as centri- + -petal.

(neuroanatomy, of a nerve impulse) Directed towards the central nervous system; afferent.

կենտրոնաձիգ

directed towards the central nervous system


metacarpus

(anatomy) The five bones that form the intermediate part of the hand between the fingers and the wrist.


naked eye

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

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

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


phalange

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

doublet

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


metatarsus

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


anklebone

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

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

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

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


hyoid

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

af

(anatomy, zootomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the hyoid bone.


hyoid

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


maxilla

en-noun

maxilla (plural maxillae or (obsolete) maxillæ or maxillas)

maxillae (plural)
maxillæ (obsolete plural)
maxillas (plural)

From Middle English, from Latin māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”), diminutive of māla (“the cheekbone, jaw”).

Coordinate term: mandible

An upper jaw especially of humans and other mammals in which the bony elements are closely fused.

(anatomy) Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth.


myocardium

myocardium (plural myocardiums or myocardia)

From New Latin myocardium, from Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs, “muscle”) + καρδίᾱ (kardíā, “heart”).

(anatomy, cardiology) The muscular substance of the heart; the middle of the three layers forming the outer wall of the human heart.

miocardi

muscles that surround and power the heart


coccyx

From Latin coccyx, from Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux, “cuckoo”), referring to the curved shape of a cuckoo's beak when viewed from the side.

He lands on the concrete path and bounces on his coccyx, which cracks the base of his spine.

2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 129:

An actor herself, McAlpine was hands-on, demonstrating “how you penetrate” on screen: “If you can move your coccyx, just arch your back slightly, it looks fantastic,” she says happily. “Those orgy scenes were amazing.”

2024 January 30, Elle Hunt, “‘With orgasm people strive for oblivion’: Poor Things’ intimacy coordinator on consent, orgies and Emma Stone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(medicine, formal) The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.


ashy

en-adj

ashy (comparative ashier, superlative ashiest)

ashier (comparative)
ashiest (superlative)

From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y.

Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets,
Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,

1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:

Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,
Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,

1634 (first performance), Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: Or, The Queens Masque. […], London: […] Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to bee sold by Iasper Emery, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act IIII:

Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.

1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 11, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 126:

Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.

1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 7, in A Wizard of Earthsea, page 123:

Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.

Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie
Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Ruines of Rome”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

[…] where yet the Embers glow,
Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,
And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.

1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 75:

[…] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 151:

He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.

1991, Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising”, in Krik? Krak!, New York: Soho Press:

Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.

It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs[…]

1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 4, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 22:

After passing it under her runny nose, a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.

2015, Paul Beatty, chapter 11, in The Sellout, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 159:

(African-American Vernacular) Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).


ossicle

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

uder

The incus is one of the three auditory ossicles.

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

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


unciform

/ˈʌnsɪfɔːɹm/


metatarsal

en-noun

metatarsal (plural metatarsals or metatarsalia)

metatarsals (plural)
metatarsalia (plural)


incus

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

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

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


malleus

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

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

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

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

hamer

the small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear


countenance

countenance (countable and uncountable, plural countenances)

From Middle English contenaunce, countenaunce, from Anglo-Norman countenance and Old French contenance, from the present participle of contenir, or from Late Latin continentia, and therefore a doublet of continence.

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:5:

It was as if the countenance were for a brief while allowed to wear the likeness of the peaceful and spiritual world whither the soul had departed.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 319:

But Richmond, his grandfather's darling, after one thoughtful glance cast under his lashes at that uncompromising countenance appeared to lose himself in his own reflections.

1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:

With such powerful selling-points, why is it, as recent editorial comment and correspondence in this journal has revealed, that "Condor" has yet to bring a warm glow to the countenance of the L.M.R.'s accountants?

1960 January, G. Freeman Allen, “"Condor"—British Railways' fastest freight train”, in Trains Illustrated, page 46:

Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.


pelvis

From Latin pēlvis (“basin”), from Old Latin pēluis (“basin”), further etymology uncertain.

(anatomy) The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx.

(anatomy) A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter


stapes

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

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

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


cervical

Borrowing from French cervical, from New Latin cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).

af

cervical pain

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

cervical cancer

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


cervical

cervical vertebra
cervical vertebra#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of cervical vertebra.


jawbone

en-noun

jawbone (countable and uncountable, plural jawbones)

From Middle English jawe bone, a variant of chawlbone, chawylbon, chavylbone, chavyl bon (“jaw bone”, literally “chavel bone”), see chavel-bone; equivalent to jaw + bone.

14 ¶ And when he came vnto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily vpon him, and the cordes that were vpon his armes became as flaxe that was burnt with fire, & his bands loosed from off his hands.
15 And he found a new iawbone of an asse, and put foorth his hand, and tooke it, and slewe a thousand men therewith.
16 And Samson said, With the iawbone of an asse, heapes vpon heapes, with the iaw of an asse haue I slaine a thousand men.
17 And it came to passe when he had made an end of speaking, that hee cast away the iaw bone out of his hand, and called that place Ramath-Lehi.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 15:14–17:

(countable) The bone of the lower jaw; the mandible.

(countable) Any of the bones in the lower or upper jaw.

(countable, singular or plural, music) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.

We have a few persons whose pockets are to let—men who have more complaints than dollars—individuals who, in digger's parlance, live on jawbone (credit), and are always to be found at saloons; a class of men who, when they are here, wish themselves yonder, and when yonder, wish themselves back.


GI tract

gastrointestinal tract
gastrointestinal tract


Johnson

en-proper noun

Johnson (countable and uncountable, plural Johnsons)

⇒ Translingual: johnsoni, johnsonii

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

doublet

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

An unincorporated community in Whitman County, Washington.

An unincorporated community in Cabell County, West Virginia.


Rho

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


Red

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


Spike

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

A surname transferred from the nickname.


tarsal bone

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


carpal bone

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


cuneiform bone

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


carpus

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

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

китка

the group of bones that make up the wrist


navicular bone

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


scaphoid bone

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


tarsus

kitax̂

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

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

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

глезен

any of the seven bones in this part of the foot

On the ledge, the guillemots shuffle awkwardly about on their tarsi, the long bone connecting the ‘ankle’ to the feet.

2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 99:

(zootomy) The shank or tarsometatarsus of the leg of a bird or reptile.

(zootomy) The true foot or the fifth joint of the leg of an insect or other arthropod, typically consisting of several small segments and ending in a claw.

(anatomy) A plate of dense connective tissue found in each eyelid, attached to either the superior tarsal muscle (in the upper eyelid) or inferior tarsal muscle (lower eyelid), which aid with sympathetic control.


lateral cuneiform bone

en-noun

lateral cuneiform bone (plural lateral cuneiform bones)

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


medial cuneiform bone

medial cuneiform bone (plural medial cuneiform bones)

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


tarsal

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

(anatomy, zootomy) Of or relating to the tarsus.

(anatomy) Being or relating to plates of dense connective tissue that serve to stiffen the eyelids.


tarsal

(anatomy, zootomy) Ellipsis of tarsal bone.


intermediate cuneiform bone

intermediate cuneiform bone (plural intermediate cuneiform bones)

中間楔状骨

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scaphoid

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


scapula

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


ischium

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

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

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

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


ethmoid

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

af

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


ethmoid

(anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the ethmoid bone.


capitate

From Latin capitatus (“having a head”), from caput (“head”).

1913 Henry Gray: Anatomy Descriptive and Applied
The capitate bone is the largest of the carpal bones, and occupies the centre of the wrist. It presents, above, a rounded portion or head, which is received into the concavity formed by the navicular and lunate; a constricted portion or neck; and below this, the body. The superior surface is round, smooth, and articulates with the lunate.

(anatomy) Having a distinct globular tip.


capitate

(anatomy) The capitate bone of the wrist.


poon

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

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


PK

en-noun

PK (countable and uncountable, plural PKs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of protein kinase.


zygomatic

From zygoma + -tic. Doublet of zygomaticus.

They show (1) the left orbit and zygomatic arch of President Kennedy magnified from Zapruder frame 230

1970, J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition, page 27:

(anatomy, relational) Of, relating to, or located in the area of the zygomatic bone or zygomatic arch.


navicular

Borrowed from Middle French naviculaire, itself borrowed from Late Latin nāviculāris (“boat shaped”), from Latin nāvicula, diminutive of nāvis (“ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us.


innominate bone

innominate bone (plural innominate bones)


triquetral bone

triquetral bone (plural triquetral bones)

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


sacral vertebra

sacral vertebra (plural sacral vertebrae)

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


os coxae

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


vomer bone

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


intermediate phalange

intermediate phalange (plural intermediate phalanges)

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


proximal phalange

proximal phalange (plural proximal phalanges)

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


pisiform bone

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


peter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


peter

en-verb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My words petered away.

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

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


peter

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

clipping

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


triquetrum

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lumbar vertebra

en-noun

lumbar vertebra (plural lumbar vertebrae)

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


nasal bone

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


nasal concha

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


nasal fossa

(anatomy) Either lateral half of the nasal cavity.


turbinate bone

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


thoracic vertebra

thoracic vertebra (plural thoracic vertebrae or thoracic vertebras)

thoracic vertebrae (plural)
thoracic vertebras (plural)

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


inferior nasal concha

inferior nasal concha (plural inferior nasal conchae)

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

cornet inferior

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


vomer

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


nasal cavity

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(anatomy) In higher vertebrates, a large air-filled space above and behind the nose in the middle of the face.


lacrimal bone

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


palatine bone

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

os palatí

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


kneepan

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

1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 11:


uncinate

From Latin uncīnātus, from uncīnus (“hook, barb”).

(anatomy) Hooked in form; possessing a hook.


sphenoid

From New Latin sphenoides, from Ancient Greek σφηνοειδής (sphēnoeidḗs, “wedge-shaped”), from σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).

af

(anatomy) Of or relating to the sphenoid bone which forms the base of the cranium, behind the eye and below the front part of the brain. It has two pairs of broad lateral ‘wings’ and a number of other projections, and contains two air-filled sinuses.


membranous

en-adj

membranous (comparative more membranous, superlative most membranous)

more membranous (comparative)
most membranous (superlative)

From Middle French membraneux; equivalent to membrane + -ous.

(anatomy, zoology) Having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a membrane.


turbinal

turbinal (comparative more turbinal, superlative most turbinal)

more turbinal (comparative)
most turbinal (superlative)

(anatomy) Rolled in a spiral; scroll-like; turbinate; applied to the thin, plicated, bony or cartilaginous plates which support the olfactory and mucous membranes of the nasal chambers.


cuneiform

From French cunéiforme or New Latin cuneifōrmis, from Classical Latin cuneus (“wedge”) + fōrma.

(anatomy) A wedge-shaped bone, especially a cuneiform bone.


sacrum

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

der

ἱερὸν ὀστέον

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


lachrymal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin lachrymālis, from lachryma (“a tear”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of lacrimal.

af

(anatomy) Alternative spelling of lacrimal.


sacral

en-adj

sacral (comparative more sacral, superlative most sacral)

more sacral (comparative)
most sacral (superlative)

From Modern Latin sacralis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) + -alis.


thoracic

From Ancient Greek θωρακικός (thōrakikós, “suffering in the chest, of the thorax”), from θώραξ (thṓrax, “thorax”).

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Those wings were powered by massive thoracic muscles—muscles no longer needed by a flightless queen.

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press,, →ISBN, page 106:


myology

/mʌɪˈɒlədʒi/

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

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

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

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

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

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

(anatomy) The physiological study of muscles.