bloodnut

He was a pugnacious bloodnut with a droll wit and a rollup fag on his lip.

“Red” his mates called him: a wild bloodnut like his father, and like his late uncles before Tobruk sands claimed them.

2006, Bill Collopy, House of Given, page 13:

He looked younger, thinner, was pale and unshaven, the image of a man on a bender, complete with a red-haired partner in crime.
‘I say, Howard, your chief chemist would look ree-mahr-kable on a polo pony, don′t think?’ said the bloodnut, who reeked of alcohol and stale tobacco.

2011, Christopher Kremmer, The Chase, unnumbered page:

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


Bluey

He was a freckled red-haired boy called Bluey.

1999, Louis Nowra, The Twelfth of Never, page 228:

Bluey, who of course was a redhead, started out surfing on his mom's ironing board when he was a grommet of six years of age.

2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24:

A smile spread slowly across Bluey′s red-whiskered face as the boy went to find his hoe, the one Dad had given him to start a garden in the bush.

2010, Jeff McMullen, A Life of Extremes, unnumbered page:

(Australia, slang) A nickname commonly given to a red-headed person.


oichomage

From Japanese 大銀杏髷 (oo-ichō-mage, literally “gingko topknot”).

bor

(sumo) The elaborate hairstyle, resembling a gingko leaf, worn by sekitori during bouts and on ceremonial occasions.


topknot

A small European flounder (Phrynorhombus regius, syn. Rhombus punctatus).


shit-eating grin

en-noun

shit-eating grin (plural shit-eating grins)

Possibly from a contraction of "grinning like a ’possum eating shit" (compare also happy as a pig in shit); later detached from meaning and persisting due to its vividness (cf. "there are many ways to skin a cat" or "happy as a clam").

Near-synonym: smirk

He was at the wheel of his brand-new 1965 GTO, top down, wearing a super-sized shit-eating grin on his face. ￼

2006, Ted Bell, Spy: A Thriller, →ISBN, page 29:

(idiomatic, vulgar) A broad smile indicating self-awareness that may suggest self-satisfaction, smugness, discomfort, or embarrassment.


geniculate

Learned borrowing from Latin geniculātus (“with bended knee”), from geniculum (“little knee”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

af

a geniculate stem; a geniculate ganglion; a geniculate twin crystal

(anatomy, botany) Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.

(anatomy) Relating to a geniculate nucleus.


fourchette

frenulum labiorum pudendi
frenulum labiorum pudendi

(anatomy) A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi).


meristem

From German Meristem, from Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, “divided”), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros) + στέμμα (stémma, “wreath, garland”). First used in 1858 by Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891).

af

Coordinate term: cambium

By looking back at a past populated by beings of grotesque difference, humans could place themselves at the apical meristem—the growing tip—of the future.

2020, Janet Chernela, quotee, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

(botany) The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.


balls

Douglas: You've got spunk. And balls. And I like that in a woman.

2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6

He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.

He's the guy with the big balls in that group.

Balls is all that it takes to succeed.

Balls is all it takes to handle these people

1960, Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman, Where the Air is Clear, page 80:

“Balls, gentlemen, balls is what you need to win at this game"

2006, Leonardo Padura, Havana Blue, page 137:

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

дупе

slang for masculinity, inclusive of strength, courage, and force of will

That's a load of balls.

(uncountable, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar, colloquial) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.

Don't make a balls of it!

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar) A balls-up; a botched job.


balls

en-verb

balls (third-person singular simple present ballses, present participle ballsing, simple past and past participle ballsed)

ballses (present singular third-person)
ballsing (participle present)
ballsed (participle past)
ballsed (past)

(vulgar, slang) To engage in sexual intercourse.


protractor

(anatomy) A muscle that extends an organ or part; opposed to retractor.


shifty

en-adj

shifty (comparative shiftier, superlative shiftiest)

shiftier (comparative)
shiftiest (superlative)

Shifty and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure.

1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 1, in Two Years Ago, volume 1, Cambridge: Macmillan, page 34:

Resourceful; full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.


cuneal

cuneal (comparative more cuneal, superlative most cuneal)

more cuneal (comparative)
most cuneal (superlative)


silver bullet

(literally, folklore) A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf, vampire, or other monster.


taenia

From Latin taenia, from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “ribbon, tape”).

uder

Each taenia traverses one of the following surfaces of the colon: the anterior surface, the posteroinferior surface, and the posterosuperior surface.

2004, Janice C. Colwell, Fecal and Urinary Diversions: Management and Principles, page 49:

The general characteristics of the colon are its large caliber; the presence of pendant-shaped bodies of fat enclosed by peritoneum, called omental appendices; and the longitudinal muscle in its walls, which forms three narrow, ribbon-like bands called taeniae coli. The locations of the taeniae are useful landmarks and are specific in relation to the position of the colon itself. The posterior taenia, or tenia omental, is found on the posterolateral border of the ascending and descending colons and the anterior border of the transverse colon. The anterior taenia, or tenia libera,[…].

2006, Richard L. Drake, “Chapter 128: Anatomy of the Colon”, in Josef E. Fischer, Kirby I. Bland, Mark P. Callery, editors, Mastery of Surgery, volume 1, page 1424:

The choroid plexus is attached medially to the body of the fornix by the taenia fornicis and laterally to the thalamus by the taenia choroidea. The taenia is actually a continuation of the ependyma that covers the ventricular cavity over the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle.

2006, Hung Tzu Wen, Antônio C. M. Mussi, Albert L. Rhoton Jr, Evandro de Oliveira, Helder Tedeschi, “Chapter 41: Surgical Approaches to Lesions Located in the Lateral, Third, and Fourth Ventricles”, in Laligam N. Sekhar, Richard Glenn Fessler, editors, Atlas of Neurosurgical Techniques: Brain, page 535:

The taenia selected will generally be the so-called omental taenia, from which the greater omentum arises.

2009, Carol E. H. Scott-Conner, Operative Anatomy, page 542:

(anatomy) Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue.


deferential

en-adj

deferential (comparative more deferential, superlative most deferential)

more deferential (comparative)
most deferential (superlative)

[ˌdɛfəˈɹɛnʃəɫ]

(anatomy, not comparable) Of, or relating to the vas deferens.


crew cut

A closely-cropped haircut in which the hairs stick upward, like the short bristles of a brush.


deferent

From French déférent, from Latin dēferēns, dēferentis.

(anatomy) A deferent duct in the body, as opposed to an afferent one.


cavernous

cavernous (comparative more cavernous, superlative most cavernous)

more cavernous (comparative)
most cavernous (superlative)

Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.

af

(anatomy, zootomy) Composed largely of vascular sinuses and capable of dilating with blood to bring about the erection of a body part.

Having many caverns.
(dentistry) Having cavities.


macrosporangium

(botany) A megasporangium; sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; opposed to microsporangium.


post-

Latin post (“after, behind”). Cognate with Spanish pues (“well, so, then”)


bouffant

From French bouffant, from Middle French; present participle of bouffer (“to puff”). Doublet of buffont.

Mother went a little pale. “Preposterous!” she said. “I don’t know what’s got into you!” She fiddled with her bouffant, almost as if she was nervous.

2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.

2023 November 30, Matt Phillips, “Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A puffy, round hairstyle, popular in the mid-to-late 16th century, characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.


akroposthion

/ækɹə(ʊ)ˈpɒsθɪən/

From Ancient Greek ἀκροπόσθιον (akropósthion).

der

(anatomy) The tip of the foreskin which extends beyond the glans.


glassy

From Middle English glasy, equivalent to glass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian glääsich (“glassy”), Dutch glazig (“glassy”), German Low German glasig (“glassy”), German glasig (“glassy”).


black eye

"You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A periorbital hematoma; a visible bruise surrounding a person's eye; an assault causing such a bruise; the eye involved.


hypochondrium

From New Latin hypochondrium, from Ancient Greek ὑποχόνδριον (hupokhóndrion, “the soft part of the body below the cartilage and above the navel”), from ὑπό (hupó, “below”) + χόνδρος (khóndros, “cartilage”).

(anatomy) The upper region of the abdomen, underneath the lower ribs, each side of the epigastrium.


mousse

en-noun

mousse (countable and uncountable, plural mousses)

→ Irish: mús

From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.

der

An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.

He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.

Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b).

1987, D.F. Boesch, N.N. Rabalais, Long-term Environmental Effects of Offshore Oil and Gas Development, →ISBN:

A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse). For example, the presence of natural surfactants in the wax, resin, and asphaltene fractions of oils has been positively correlated with the tendency to form mousse.

1993, John R. Clayton, James R. Payne, John S. Farlow, Oil Spill Dispersants: Mechanisms of Action and Laboratory Tests, →ISBN, page 21:

When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea.

1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 50:

However, the sticky mousse clogged all of the skimmers, even the Vaydaghubsky. If all these skimmers had been on-site during the first three days of calm weather, before the oil was churned into mousse, they could have made a real difference

2009, Elspeth Leacock, The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, →ISBN, page 37:

A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.


mousse

en-verb

mousse (third-person singular simple present mousses, present participle moussing, simple past and past participle moussed)

mousses (present singular third-person)
moussing (participle present)
moussed (participle past)
moussed (past)

He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.


dingaling

[ˈdɪ.ŋə.lɪŋ]


circumvallate

From Latin circumvallare, from circum- + vallum (“rampart”).

circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue

(anatomy) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation.


canthus

Borrowed from Latin canthus (“the tire of a wheel”).

bor+

the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus

I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye.

2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:

A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.

2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

corner of the eye
corner of the eye#Noun

(anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.


chyle

en-noun

chyle (countable and uncountable, plural chyles)

From French, from Late Latin chȳlus, from Ancient Greek χυλός (khulós, “animal or plant juice”).

der

1857, The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, included in The Portable North American Indian Reader, New York: Penguin Books, 1977, page 524,
It is said that when the tidings were brought him, he was ashore sitting beneath a hemlock eating his dinner of venison - and as the tidings were told him, after the first start he kept on eating, but slowly and deliberately, chewing the wild news with the wild meat, as if both together, turned to chyle, together should sinew him to his intent.

And we stuffing food in one hole and out behind: food, chyle, blood, dung, earth, food: have to feed it like stoking an engine.

A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.


crinal

Their hair belonged to some middle crinal zone between aseptic nord and latitudinarian jetwalled lousehouse.

1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:


body part

Eighteen of the Alzheimer elderly were able to identify at least ten body-parts.

1985, Experimental aging research, Volume 11

1997, Gerald Thorn, Phil Embleton, Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding
HEAVY DUTY The low-set, high-intensity system (1 to 3 sets per bodypart) was popularized by Dr. Arthur Jones, inventor of the Nautilus equipment.

Bodybuilders love to talk about their routines for this body part or that bodypart

2005, Lou Schuler, Alwyn Cosgrove, The new rules of lifting, page 27

The detached body part should be quickly irrigated to remove contaminants.

2010, Buck Tilton, Wilderness First Responder, page 107

(anatomy) Any part of an animal organism, such as an organ, limb or extremity.


crural

From Latin crūrālis, from crūs (“leg”) (stem: crūr-).

(chiefly anatomy) Pertaining to the leg.


bespectacled

en-adj

bespectacled (comparative more bespectacled, superlative most bespectacled)

more bespectacled (comparative)
most bespectacled (superlative)

The Commissioner, ascetic-looking, an Oxford graduate, narrow-shouldered and elderly, tired-eyed and bespectacled like the scholar he was, like the scientist he was, shrugged his shoulders.

1917 April, Jack London, chapter XXIV, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 329:

Solanka was uninterested in this bow-tied, bespectacled, markedly un-Jedi-knight-like young man, and as a former science-fiction buff despised the lowbrow space opera of the Star Wars cycle.

2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 34:

The choristers were as bespectacled as the audience. Are Protestants more bespectacled than Catholics because of too much Bible reading?

2002, Steven Barclay, A Place in the World Called Paris, page 149:


dolichophallic

dolichophallic (comparative more dolichophallic, superlative most dolichophallic)

more dolichophallic (comparative)
most dolichophallic (superlative)


widgie

The bodgies and widgies represented a new teenage culture, with an emphasis on fashion (long hair styles for the boys, gabardine skirts for the girls), street presence, dancing, and rock and roll music. From 1950 to 1959, the phenomenon of the bodgies and widgies captured the imagination of the media.

2006, Rob White, “11: Youth Gang Research in Australia”, in James F. Short, Jr., Lorine A. Hughes, editors, Studying Youth Gangs, page 163:

In Toowoomba, Magistrate Kearney was up in arms over the bodgies and widgies in town – those dressed-up teenagers with their spruced hair and polka-dot dresses who loitered around the city streets. They were seen as a threat to society.

2010, William Stokes, Westbrook, page 183:

Nevertheless there was a distinctly gendered dimension - one which demonised the bodgie as delinquent and widgie as sexually immoral.
Stratton (1992) attributes the emergence of bodgies and widgies as Australia′s first post-war working class youth culture to a number of historical changes in the Australian economy.

2010, Kerry Carrington, Margaret Pereira, Offending Youth: Sex, Crime and Justice, page 82:


arterioventricular

(anatomy) Of or relating to the spatial relationship or communication between the great arteries and the ventricles of the heart.

arterioventricular

relating to the arteries and the ventricles of the heart


hard palate

Coordinate term: soft palate

A thin horizontal bony plate of the skull, located in the roof of the mouth.


vagal

vagal (comparative more vagal, superlative most vagal)

more vagal (comparative)
most vagal (superlative)

(anatomy) Of or relating to the vagus nerve.


soft palate

Coordinate term: hard palate

The part which is connected by a thin tendinous end to the tendinous membrane, that is extended above upon the soft palate, coming from the nostrils; and with that membrane seems to be inserted into the middle and posterior edge of the palate bones.

1754, Bernhard Siegfried, The Explanation of Albinus's Anatomical Figures of the Human Skeleton and Muscles:

(anatomy) The soft tissue at the back of the roof of the mouth.


occlusion

en-noun

occlusion (countable and uncountable, plural occlusions)

Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up; I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).

der

(medicine, dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.


megakaryocyte

These have been described as giant cells with budding nuclei (Bizzozero [2]); but it seems to me that they are worthy of a more distinctive name. I shall speak of them hereafter as megakaryocytes, or large nucleated giant cells, while the first class might be named polykaryocytes, or multinucleated giant cells.

1890, W. H. Howell, “Observations upon the occurrence, structure, and function of the giant cells of the marrow”, in Journal of Morphology, volume 4, page 118:

The evidence of formation of blood platelets from the megakaryocyte is conclusive. Except for the origin of platelets in the early embryo from a forerunner of the megakaryocyte, Wright recognizes no other source for blood platelets in mammals.

1914, Wade H. Brown, “The histogenesis of blood platelets”, in Studies from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, page 69:

Under appropriate culture conditions, the megakaryocyte burst-forming cell can develop into 40 to 500 megakaryocytes within 1 week.

2012, Alan D. Michelson, Platelets, page 28:

(anatomy) A large cell, found in bone marrow, responsible for the production of platelets.


myelocyte

A large cell, found in bone marrow, that becomes a granulocyte when mature.


epidural

en-adj

epidural (comparative more epidural, superlative most epidural)

more epidural (comparative)
most epidural (superlative)

(anatomy, relational) Situated on or outside the dura mater.


pedate

pedate (comparative more pedate, superlative most pedate)

more pedate (comparative)
most pedate (superlative)


foramen

Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix).

af

The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.

That is better! There is - as I have explained - a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.

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

(anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.

foramen

an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone


gleet

(obsolete, except Scots) Any slimy, viscous substance.


toothed

The sperm whale is a toothed whale.


pubic symphysis

en-noun

pubic symphysis (plural pubic symphyses)

(anatomy) A cartilaginous joint between the two bones of the pubis.


truncate

/ˈtɹʌŋˌkeɪt/

From Latin truncātus, perfect passive participle of truncō (“maim, reduce to a trunk”); see trunk as a verb.

(botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.

κολοβός

botany, anatomy: having an abrupt termination


halse

From Middle English hals, from Old English heals (“neck, prow of a ship”), from Proto-West Germanic *hals, from Proto-Germanic *halsaz (“neck”), from Proto-Indo-European *kols-, *ḱols- (“neck”).
Cognate with Dutch hals (“neck, throat”), German Hals (“neck, throat”), Norwegian hals (“neck, throat”), Swedish hals (“neck, throat”), Latin collum (“neck”).

inh

Well, as you know they used to hang folk by the halse for horse theft.

(anatomy, archaic) The neck; the throat.


mentula

en-noun

mentula (plural mentulas or mentulae or mentulæ)

mentulas (plural)
mentulae (plural)
mentulæ (plural)

He, watchman of gardens, keeps evil away with his mentula up, warding off blight and thieves, garlanded with figs and grapes.


lanugo

lanugo (countable and uncountable, plural lanugos)

/ləˈnjuːɡəʊ/

From the presence of the woolly hair or lanugo on the human fœtus, and of rudimentary hairs scattered over the body during maturity, we may infer that man is descended from some animal which was born hairy and remained so during life.

1874, Charles Darwin, “Chaper XX”, in The Descent of Man:

[…] early spring mountains with young-elephant lanugo along their spines […]

Soft down or fine hair, specifically that covering the human foetus or a tumorous area.


medulla

medulla (plural medullas or medullae or medullæ)

medullas (plural)
medullae (plural)
medullæ (plural)

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Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”).

The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit.

(anatomy) The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones.

髓质

the inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones

(anatomy, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.

(botany) The internal tissue of a plant.


malar

From modern Latin malaris, from Latin mala (“jaw, cheek-bone”).

(anatomy) The cheekbone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.


nates

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(anatomy, medicine) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.


laminar

In, or consisting of, thin plates or layers.

(anatomy) Describing the layer of capillaries in the choroid of the eye


gold top

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From the gold-coloured aluminium top of the bottle in which this type of milk is sold.


gold-top milk

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Channel Island milk

Channel Island milk (usually uncountable, plural Channel Island milks)

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A type of creamy, light-beige-coloured milk originally from the Jersey and Guernsey breeds of cattle native to the Channel Islands.


tunic

→ Welsh: tiwnig

Borrowed from Middle French tunique, from Latin tunica, possibly from Semitic (compare Aramaic [script needed] (kittuna), Hebrew כותנת (kuttoneth, “coat”), English chiton); or from Etruscan. Existed in Old English as tunece; unknown if that term was lost and then reborrowed later. Doublet of tunica.

Select individual bulbs that are firm and have no noticeable blemishes on them. Don't worry about the papery covering or tunic. That may or may not be in place, […]

2015, Charlie Nardozzi, New England Month-by-Month Gardening: What to Do Each Month to Have a Beautiful Garden All Year, Cool Springs Press, →ISBN, page 132:

(anatomy, botany) Any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane.

buroklevél

any covering, such as seed coat or the organ that covers a membrane


bregma

From Ancient Greek βρέγμα (brégma, “top of the head”).

bor

(anatomy) The anatomical structure on the skull where the coronal suture and sagittal suture meet.


hooded

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Having a crest or similar elastic skin or muscle or bone in the neck or behind-the-head area. (of an animal)

Having thick, drooping eyelids. (of eyes)


plantar

From Latin planta (“sole of the foot”). May be decomposed as plant + -ar.

a plantar wart

(anatomy) Relating to the sole of the foot.


pallium

Borrowed from Latin pallium (“a cloak”). Doublet of pall.


supination

en-noun

supination (countable and uncountable, plural supinations)

(anatomy) The act of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned up or forward, or the resulting state of the forearm

supinaatio

anatomy: act of rotating the forearm so that the palm is turned up or forward

(anatomy) The act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot.

supinaatio

anatomy: act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot


pronation

pronation (countable and uncountable, plural pronations)

From French pronation, from Latin pronatio.

(anatomy) The action of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned down or back.


tepal

From French tépale, from New Latin tēpalum, coined 1827 by transposition of French pétale (“petal”).

1982, H. Q. Varekamp (translator and editor), Z. Botschantzeva, Tulips: Taxonomy, Morphology, cytology, phytogeography and physiology, page 27,
In Tulipa the pubescent tips of the tepals are quite interesting in particular those of T. fosteriana. The top of the tepal is initiated and develops before the reflexed, lateral parts.

The species bears creamy white flowers with a yellow base and tepals often streaked with rose-pink.

2001, Barbara W. Ellis, Taylor's Guide to Bulbs, page 400:

In our material of T. bulbosa, the abaxial outer tepal was larger at its inception than the lateral ones (Fig 8.4C), whereas the primordia of the outer tepals are of nearly equal size in both T. barrelieri (Fig 8.5E) and T. palustris (not shown).

2013, Margarita V. Remizowa, Dmitry D. Sokoloff, Paula J. Rudall, “8: Patterns of bract reduction in racemose inflorescences of early-divergent monocots”, in Paul Wilkin, Simon J. Mayo, editors, Early Events in Monocot Evolution, page 194:

(botany) Any component of the perianth (outermost whorls of flower parts, not involved in reproduction), especially when the components are not distinguished into sepals and petals.


punctum vasculosum

(anatomy) Any small drop of blood seen as a spot in sections of the brain.


corolla

corolla (plural corollas or corollae or corollæ)

corollas (plural)
corollae (plural)
corollæ (plural)

From Latin corōlla (“small garland, chaplet or wreath”), diminutive of corōna (“garland, chaplet, wreath”).

bor

Our wet fingers touched and we formed a circle like the corolla of a flower, floating into the silence of the desert dawn with the ancient sun on our bodies.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 125:

(botany) The outermost-but-one whorl of a flower, composed of petals, when it is not the same in appearance as the outermost whorl (the calyx); it usually comprises the petal, which may be fused.


clipped

After all, Jehovah had instituted the rite of circumcision in which the clipped penis became consecrated to him, […]

1999, Ben Edward Akerley, The X-Rated Bible: An Irreverent Survey of Sex in the Scriptures, Feral House, published 1999, →ISBN, page 102:


Jacobs

Former name of Port Providence, Pennsylvania.


punctum

From Latin pūnctum. Doublet of point and punto.

Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.

1861, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology:

(anatomy) A sharp tip of any part of the anatomy; a point or other small area.


subdural

(anatomy) Located beneath the dura mater and above the arachnoid mater.

subdural

located beneath the dura mater and above the arachnoid mater


slant

Late Middle English, from a variant of the earlier form dialectical slent, from Old Norse or another North Germanic source, cognate with Old Norse slent, Swedish slinta (“to slip”), Norwegian slenta (“to fall on the side”), from Proto-Germanic *slintaną. Probably influenced by aslant.

kalteva lokero

depression with sloping bottom to hold watercolors

(mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.

(biology) A sloping surface in a culture medium.

kalteva pinta

biology: sloping surface in a culture medium

(US, ethnic slur, derogatory) A person with slanting eyes, particularly an East Asian.


ipsilateral

/ˌɪpsɪˈlætəɹəl/

The stroke was characterised by ipsilateral paralysis.

(anatomy, medicine) On the same side of the body.


excretion

en-noun

excretion (countable and uncountable, plural excretions)

Borrowed from Middle French excrétion, or Late Latin excretio, excretionis, from Latin excerno.

[…] the removal of all soiled liquids, and of such offaling, secretions and excretions as are easily or naturally reduced to a liquid or semiliquid state.

1881, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Journal of Social Science, page 32:

Something excreted in that manner, especially urine or feces.


myologic

From Greek myo- "muscle" and -logy "study (of)".

(medicine) Of or pertaining to the study of muscles or muscle tissue.


forearm

From fore- + arm. Compare Dutch voorarm (“forearm”), Danish forarm (“forearm”), German Vorderarm (“forearm”).

(anatomy) The part of the arm between the wrist and the elbow.

karera

part of a firearm below and supporting the barrel.


frenulum

Borrowed from New Latin frēnulum, diminutive of frēnum (“a bridle, curb, bit”).

Humans have three oral frenulums: beneath the tongue, between the upper lip and gum, and between the lower lip and gum.

(anatomy) A small fold or ridge of tissue that supports or restrains the motion of the part to which it is attached, in particular a fold of skin beneath the tongue, or between the lip and the gum.


frenum

Borrowed from Latin frēnum (“bridle, curb, bit”).


circumcise

en-verb

circumcise (third-person singular simple present circumcises, present participle circumcising, simple past and past participle circumcised)

circumcises (present singular third-person)
circumcising (participle present)
circumcised (participle past)
circumcised (past)

From Old French circoncisier, from Latin circumcīdō (“cut around”), from circum (“about, around; through”) + caedō (“cut, hew”).

To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.

(sometimes proscribed) To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia.

(military, nautical, slang) To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.


tree trunk

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(botany) The main structural member of a tree.


oligodendroglia

en-noun

oligodendroglia (plural oligodendroglias or oligodendroglia)

oligodendroglias (plural)
oligodendroglia (plural)

(anatomy) tissue (neuroglia) consisting of glial cells that are smaller than astrocytes and form the myelin sheath


storage organ

(botany) A part of a plant, such as a bulb, specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or of water.

zásobní orgán

botany: part of plant modified for storage of energy


tympanic

(anatomy) Relating to the tympanum, eardrum or middle ear.


dermic

Underneath each nail the deep or dermic layer of the integument is peculiarly modified.

1874, Thomas Henry Huxley, Lessons in Elementary Physiology:

(anatomy) Of or relating to the dermis or skin.


smirk

From Middle English smirken, from Old English smearcian (“to smile”), corresponding to smerian + -cian (English -k), the former element from Proto-Germanic *smarōną (“to mock, scoff at”), and the latter from Proto-Germanic *-kōną. Compare Middle High German smielen/smieren (“to smile”) ( > obsolete, rare German schmieren).

inh

An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.

إِهْلَاس

smile that is insolent, offensively self-satisfied or scornful


hairline

It's just a receding hairline — it's not like you're going bald.

Using a Danish technique, doctors can now insert plugs of just one or two hairs in front of an implanted area to simulate a natural hairline.

1984 May 28, Claudia Wallis, “Gone Today, but Hair Tomorrow”, in Time:

The line along one's forehead where hair starts growing.

hiusraja

the line along one's forehead where hair starts growing

A very thin line in writing, drawing, or typography.

While inspecting the new house, we found a few hairlines in one of the walls.

Yup, you got a crack in it [the cylinder head] all right. Just a hairline, but that damn thing is gonna cause a big headache later.

2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 102:


pudic

en-adj

pudic (comparative more pudic, superlative most pudic)

more pudic (comparative)
most pudic (superlative)

From French pudique, from Latin pudīcus, from pudet (“it shames”).

(anatomy) Pertaining to the pudendum or external genital organs; pudendal.


horsefeathers

The "nonsense" sense, a euphemism for horseshit, is horse + feathers, a nonexistent item as only birds have feathers. Compare hen’s teeth.
The "horse hair" sense notes the similarity of that hair to bird feathers.
Regarding the roofing sense, compare feathering strip and horsefeathers.

The exterior of the court is entirely of sheathing and wood shingles applied over "horsefeathers."

1940, New York lumber trade journal, volumes 108-9, page 26:

In summary, the record establishes that to produce horsefeathers one starts by sawing a log (longitudinally) into boards or planks, which are then likewise center resawn (longitudinally); that the original boards, as well as the center resawn boards, have at least two approximately parallel longitudinal sawed surfaces; that the resawn boards are simply resawn again longitudinally at an angle or bevel to produce horsefeathers; and that the only other sawing required is the crosscutting of the boards to length.

1968 United States Customs Court, First Division, A. N. DERINGER, INC. v. UNITED STATES 287 F.Supp. 1016 (1968) August 8, 1968

Feathering strips, called horsefeathers, can be used to level cedar-shingle roof before reroofing with asphalt shingles

1978 April, Joseph R. Provey, “How to reroof your house like a pro”, in Popular Mechanics, page 160:

To install shakes or shingles over beveled siding, fill in the low points of the existing wall with lumber or plywood strips (called horse feathers).

2005, Daniel Benn Atcheson, Roofing Construction and Estimating, Craftsman Book Company, page 192:


cranial

(anatomy) Of or relating to the cranium, or to the skull.

جُمْجُمِيّ

of or relating to the cranium, or to the skull


coronal

coronal (comparative more coronal, superlative most coronal)

more coronal (comparative)
most coronal (superlative)

From Middle English coronal, from Anglo-Norman coronal, from Latin corōnālis (“related to a crown”), from corōna (“crown”).

(anatomy) Relating to the coronal plane that divides a body into dorsal (back) and ventral (front).

(dentistry) Relating to the external (supragingival) portion of the tooth.


welt

Circa 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.

When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.

1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XX, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume II, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:

[…] I am sure of one thing,—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They criss-cross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.

1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter VII, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, pages 64–65:

She was nearly four feet long, with a large welt on her shell, which was encrusted with ancient-looking barnacles.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 7, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.


stroma

From Latin stroma (“bed covering”), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bed”), from στόρνυμι (stórnumi, “to stretch out”).

(anatomy) The tissue structure of an organ, etc., that serves to support it.


typhlosole

From typhl- (“blind, caecum”) + Ancient Greek σωλήν (sōlḗn, “channel, pipe”).

der

(anatomy) A fold in the surface of the intestines of some invertebrates etc that increases its digestive surface area.


tyrosinase

en-noun

tyrosinase (countable and uncountable, plural tyrosinases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme, similar to catechol oxidase, that catalyzes the production of phenolic pigments such as melanin.


connecting tubule

connecting tubule (plural connecting tubules)

(anatomy) A tubule in the nephron in the kidney that goes to the pelvis. Its primary function is to bring urine to the pelvis of the kidney.


tympanum

Borrowed from Latin tympanum (“a drum, timbrel, tambourine; the eardrum”). Doublet of timbre, timpani, timbal, and tymbal.

قَلْب القَوْصَرَة

triangular space between the sides of a pediment

(anatomy, zootomy) Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:

(anatomy, zootomy) The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).

(anatomy, zootomy) The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).

(zootomy, entomology) A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.

(zootomy) A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.

(zootomy) (in certain birds) The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.


ponytail

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

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

A hairstyle where the hair is pulled back and tied into a single "tail" which hangs down behind the head.

cola de caballo f rabo / hopo capilar / capital / piloso / caballuno / caballar


birdie

(electronics) An electromagnetic signal generated from within an electronic device.

(usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle finger.

(usually preceded by "the") A certain rude gesture in some countries, formed with the middle and index fingers.


soft tissue

(anatomy) All the tissues of the body except the calcified ones such as bones and teeth. (Cartilage of joints is often excluded from the definition as well).


fascicle

From Latin fasciculus, a diminutive of fascis (“bundle”); see also fasces. Doublet of fasciculus.

(anatomy) A bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by connective tissue.

(botany) A discrete bundle of vascular tissue.


vitamer

Any of a combination of substances that, together, function as a vitamin.

provitamine

combination of substances that function as a vitamin


somatic sensory cortex

en-noun

somatic sensory cortex (plural somatic sensory cortices)

(anatomy) The region of the cerebral cortex that receives somatic signals from the thalamus.


glassy-eyed

en-adj

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

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

Having a fixed stare and a wide-eyed appearance, due to boredom, preoccupation, or lack of emotion, attention, or interest.


taproot

From tap + root. The oldest use (by Philemon Holland) is spaced as tap root. In the 18th and 19th centuries the standard spelling was tap-root.

The taproots of trees like the false acacia, growing between Park Royal and Alperton, thrust deeply into the ground, while the spreading roots of the silver birch stitch the soil.

1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):

Above the lower headcut, phreatophytic mesquite and little leaf sumac hug the banks, drawing pendulate water from the silts remaining from former marsh deposits and sending long taproots into channel stores.

2007, Susan L. Woodward, “Modern Vegetation of the Murray Springs Area and the Upper San Pedro Valley”, in Caleb Vance Haynes, Bruce B. Huckell, editor, Murray Springs, page 58:

On the other hand, those who are compelled by a single strong desire are obsessed with a well-defined problem, which touches the taproot of their soul. They are on the attack, on the move.

2024 October 10, David Brooks, “How Harris Can Finish Strong”, in The New York Times:

(botany) A long, tapering root possessed by many plants (such as carrots and dandelions).


cricoid

/ˈkɹʌɪ.kɔɪd/

/ˈkɹaɪˌkɔɪd/

Borrowed rom New Latin cricoīdēs, from Ancient Greek κρῐκοειδής (krĭkoeidḗs, “ring-shaped, annular”), from κρίκος (kríkos, “ring”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).

af

(anatomy) Of, relating to, or being a cricoid cartilage.


cricoid

/ˈkɹʌɪ.kɔɪd/

/ˈkɹaɪˌkɔɪd/

What luck that Mr. Romeo still gripped and twisted and cracked that crooked cricoid as X-rayed by the firemen and mountain guides in the street.

1972, Владимир Набоков, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, page 81:

cricoid cartilage
cricoid cartilage#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of cricoid cartilage..


Buffyverse

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) is a televisual artifact that contains apocalyptic rhetoric in most episodes—apocalyptic in the sense that something is about to end in the Buffyverse, and rhetorical in the sense that something is going to change in the Buffyverse.

2009, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Annette Holba, Media and the Apocalypse, page 77:

2009, Kevin K. Durand, It's All about Power, in Kevin K. Durand (editor), Buffy Meets the Academy: Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Text, Part I: Power and the Buffy Canon, page 46,
In the Buffyverse, we encounter a true representation of shared power, of partnered power. Further, the “bad guys” are not the only paradigms of patriarchy in the Buffyverse that are overcome.

We can hardly be surprised when Buffy and Satsu find what warmth they can, as Willow does with her demon lover, in an intercut sex scene of the kind which typically precedes an apocalypse in the Buffyverse (#15, p. 26). Scenes like this confirm Em McAvan's point that the Buffyverse associates bisexuality with kink (paragraph 15).

2010, Lewis Call, “Slaying the Heteronormative: Representations of Alternative Sexuality in Buffy Season Eight Comics”, in Erin B. Waggoner, editor, Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays, page 115:

(fandom slang) The fictional world, or universe, which serves as the setting for the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


bruxism

en-noun

bruxism (usually uncountable, plural bruxisms)

From Ancient Greek βρυχή (brukhḗ, “grinding of teeth”) + English -ism (suffix forming nouns indicating a tendency of action, behaviour, condition, or state). The word βρυχή is derived from Ancient Greek βρύκω (brúkō, “bite, chew; devour, gobble; grind one's teeth, gnash”).

der

Bruxism is defined as occlusal stress during sleep.

[1932, Bertrand S. Frohman, Jerome M. Schweitzer, “Occlusal Neuroses: The Application of Psychotherapy to Dental Problems”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, volume 19, number 3, New York, N.Y.: William A[lanson] White, M.D., and Smith Ely Jelliffe, M.D., →OCLC, page 297; quoted in “Occlusal Habit Neuroses. Gritting, or Grinding of the Teeth (Bruxism, Bruxomania).”, in Oral Rehabilitation: Complete Occlusal Reconstruction Treatment of Dental Deformities and Related Subjects: The Closed Bite, St. Louis, Mo.: The C. V. Mosby Company, 1951, →OCLC, page 612:

Employment of autosuggestion in the treatment of "bruxism" may not be so well known.

1940 November, Paul J. Boyens, “Value of Autosuggestion in the Therapy of ‘Bruxism’ and Other Biting Habits”, in The Journal of the American Dental Association, volume 27, number 11, Chicago, Ill.: American Dental Association, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1773, column 1:

At the conclusion of the second International Conference on Endodontics in 1958 there was listed in the final summation the following very conservative statement: "There is a possibility that in rare cases bruxism may cause the death of the pulp."

1960 November, John I. Ingle, “Alveolar Osteoporosis and Pulpal Death Associated with Compulsive Bruxism”, in Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology, volume 13, number 11, St. Louis, Mo.: Mosby-Year Book, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 1371:

Disturbances of the Masticatory System gives a comprehensive outline of factors involved with a broad perspective as to the etiology of bruxisms, traumatic occlusion and functional disturbances of the temporomandibular joints and muscles.

1966, Walter Buchmann, “[book review]”, in Illinois Dental Journal, volume 35, Oakland Park, Ill.: Illinois State Dental Society, →OCLC, page 743, column 2:

[B. Z.] Rabinowitch feels that internal resorption may be caused by traumatic occlusion. He cites a case of internal resorption where there was no history or evidence other than continued bruxism as the etiology.

1972 January, William Myers, David Whitaker, “Endodontic Considerations in Occlusal Adjustment”, in Benjamin R. Baker, editor, The Journal of the North Carolina Dental Society, volume 55, number 1, Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Dental Society, →OCLC, →PMID, pages 16–17:

Abnormal function [of the temporomandibular joint], in turn, may be the result of a structural problem such as dental malocclusion or a functional problem such as bruxism (clenching and grinding of the teeth).

2011, Bernard Liebgott, “The Head by Regions”, in John Dolan, editor, The Anatomical Basis of Dentistry, 3rd edition, Maryland Heights, Mo.: Mosby, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 276, column 1:

Caffeine intake in high quantity is linked with an increased risk of sleep bruxisms in 1.5 times through mechanisms currently unknown. Heavy drinking and frequent alcohol intake during the day have also been associated with sleep bruxism.

2015, Nicolás Patricio Skármeta, Paula Espinoza-Mellado, Pedro Chana, “Orofacial Dystonia and Other Oromandibular Movement Disorders”, in Tamer Mohamed Gaber Rizk, editor, Dystonia: Different Prospects, London: IntechOpen, →DOI, →ISBN, section 4.5 (Sleep Bruxism Etiology), page 34:

(dentistry) The habit or practice of grinding the teeth, as while sleeping, or due to stress or certain drugs.


concha

en-noun

concha (plural conchae or (archaic) conchæ)

conchae (plural)
conchæ (archaic plural)

Borrowed from Late Latin concha (“a mussel shell”). Doublet of conch.

(anatomy) The deepest indentation of the cartilage of the human ear, attaching to the mastoid bone and leading to its central opening.

(anatomy) Alternative form of nasal concha.

Any shell-shaped structure:
Alternative form of nasal concha.


secretion

secretion (countable and uncountable, plural secretions)

(1646) From French sécrétion, from Latin sēcrētiō, sēcrētiōnem.

(countable) any substance that is secreted by an organism

分泌物

ぶんぴぶつ, bunpitsubutsu, ぶんぴつぶつ, bunpibutsu


circumcised

(of a woman) Having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.


immunoglobulin

The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-Aᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody.

1969, Robert P. Orange, K. Frank Austen, “Slow Reacting Substance of Anaphylaxis”, in Advances in Immunology - Volume 10, page 144:

(biochemistry, immunology) Any of the glycoproteins in blood serum that respond to invasion by foreign antigens and that protect the host by removing pathogens; an antibody.


lower back

The region of the back above the waist, also known as the lumbar region; the area surrounding the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.


bangs

bangs pl (normally plural, singular bang)

From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in which docked hair appears to burst out explosively when it's cut (i.e. "with a bang"). Ultimately from bang (“to strike noisily, explode”).

(chiefly US, Philippines) Hair hanging over the forehead.


radial

en-adj

radial (comparative more radial, superlative most radial)

more radial (comparative)
most radial (superlative)

From Medieval Latin radiālis (“radial”), from Latin radius.

(anatomy) Of, or relating to the radius bone.


mickey

* (potato): From the common Irish name; compare murphy (“a potato”).
* (computer mouse resolution): An allusion to the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

He fell off the bike and injured his mickey.

Five Fingers rapped around my mickey, being /ke/[??]
Smokin on this dickey in the Fifty /se/[??], and shift

2004, “Take a Toast”, in The Love Never Dies, performed by Paperboy et al.:

(Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, informal) The vagina.

(Australia, informal) A well-known honeyeater, the Noisy Miner, Manorina melanocephala, of eastern Australia.

(rural Australia, informal) A young bull, especially one that is unbranded and running wild.


articular

From Latin articularis. English article + -ar.

an articular disease; an articular process

(anatomy) Of, at, or relating to the joints of the body.

ставен

of, at, or relating to the joints of the body


xiphoid process

en-noun

xiphoid process (plural xiphoid processes)

/ˈzɪˌfɔɪd ˈpɹɑˌsɛs/

The adult sternum is comprised of three main parts—the manubrium, sternal body, and xiphoid process. The manubrium (fig. 7.2a) is the thickest, most superior part of the sternum, while the xiphoid process is variable in appearance and forms the inferior terminus of the sternum.

2005, Brenda J. Baker, Tosha L. Dupras, Matthew W. Tocheri, The Osteology of Infants and Children, Texas A&M University Press, page 96:

2005, Kenneth L. Franco, Joe Billy Putnam, Advanced Therapy in Thoracic Surgery, B.C. Decker Inc., 2nd Edition, page 152,
In chondrosternal prominence where there is angulation at the sternoxiphoidal junction, the xiphoid process is detached and a 2 to 3 cm length of the lower sternum is resected.

This is a constellation of symptoms, including severe intermittent anterior chest wall pain in the region of the xiphoid process, made worse with overeating, stooping, and bending (Figures 103-2 and 103-3)

2016, Steven D. Waldman, Atlas of Pain Management Injection Techniques, 4th edition, Elsevier, page 360:

(anatomy, medicine) The small cartilaginous extension to the lower part of the sternum, usually ossified in the adult human.

xipho-

and thus see: Category:English terms prefixed with xipho-


blood bank

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(medicine) the range of such blood products stored


temporize

en-verb

temporize (third-person singular simple present temporizes, present participle temporizing, simple past and past participle temporized)

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

temporizes (present singular third-person)
temporizing (participle present)
temporized (participle past)
temporized (past)
temporize (infinitive)

From Middle French temporiser (“to wait one's time, temporize”) + English -ize (suffix forming verbs). Temporiser is derived from Medieval Latin temporizāre, from Latin temporāre (“to delay, put off”) + -izāre (suffix forming the present active infinitive of verbs). Temporāre is derived from tempor-, the inflected stem of tempus (“age, time, period; season of the year; due, opportune, or proper time”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *temp-, *ten- (“to extend, stretch (in the sense of a stretch of time)”), or *temh₁- (“to cut (in the sense of a section of time)”)) + -āre.

der

This is especially true when we're faced with temporizing a patient who will ultimately receive veneer restorations.

2005, Dental Economics, volume 95, Tulsa, Okla.: PennWell Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 66:

(transitive, dentistry) To apply a temporary piece of dental work that will later be removed.


integumentary system

en-noun

integumentary system (plural integumentary systems)

(anatomy) The skin, feathers and other outer coverings of an animal.


xanthine oxidase

xanthine oxidase (plural xanthine oxidases)

(biochemistry) A crystallizable flavoprotein enzyme containing iron and molybdenum that promotes the oxidation especially of hypoxanthine and xanthine to uric acid and of many aldehydes to carboxylic acids and that is obtained usually from milk or liver.


velum

Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). Doublet of veil.

bor

a thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain, such as:


integumentary pattern

en-noun

integumentary pattern (plural integumentary patterns)

(anatomy) All the features of the skin, feathers, etc. of an animal that are arranged in designs; especially, the configuration of epidermal ridges (dermatoglyphics) characteristic of primates.


gorgonin

(biochemistry) A complex protein frequently containing appreciable quantities of iodine and bromine that makes up the horny skeleton of typical gorgonians.

gorgonina

protein that makes up the skeleton of gorgonians


insulin

insulin (countable and uncountable, plural insulins)

From Latin īnsula (“island”) (named for the islets of Langerhans, where insulin is produced) + -in.

Coordinate term: glucagon

Ask a dozen persons to tell you what they know about insulin and you will get some surprising and contradictory an- swers. The truth is this: Insulin is not a cure for diabetes, but it is helping to prolong and gladden lives.

Nationally the average insulin price nearly tripled from 2002 through 2013, and prices have risen 10% or more a year since then, forcing many diabetics to ration their insulin.

2019, Associated Press, “Colorado law caps cost of insulin at $100 a month,” The Washington Times

en:endogenous hormone for glucose catabolism

A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (in various animals including humans).


cardia

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Doublet of heart and possibly of core.

lbor

In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia.

2004, William H. Marquardt, Biology of Disease Vectors, page 300:

The first one is stripping from up to down for tumours in the cardias, the other one is stripping from down to up for cervical esophageal cancer.

2012, Kin-ichi Nabeya, editor, Recent Advances in Diseases of the Esophagus:

After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration.

2012, Werner Peters, Peritrophic Membranes:

(anatomy) The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.

càrdies

section of the esophagus that connects to the stomach


kyphosis

en-noun

kyphosis (countable and uncountable, plural kyphoses)

From Ancient Greek κυφός (kuphós, “humpback, bent”) + -osis.

der

(anatomy) The normal convex curvature of the spine in the thoracic and sacral regions.


bikini wax

The use of hot wax to remove pubic hair so that it may be easier to wear a bikini.


pericycle

(botany) In a plant root, the cylinder of plant tissue between the endodermis and phloem.


endodermis

en-noun

endodermis (plural endodermises or endodermides)

endodermises (plural)
endodermides (plural)

From endo- (“within”) + dermis (“skin”).


quadratus

From Latin quadratus, perfect passive participle of quadro (“I make square”).

(anatomy) Any of several roughly square or rectangular muscles, e.g. in the abdomen, thigh, and eye socket.


dysmorphism

dysmorphism (countable and uncountable, plural dysmorphisms)

Primary genetic or endocrine etiologies are rare but need to be taken into consideration, if the child has dysmorphism, severe hyperphagia, developmental delay, clinical signs of Cushing impressively increasing in or Cushingoid syndromes, and hypothyroidism.

2020, Consolato M. Sergi, “[[Parenchymal GI Glands: Liver] Viral and AI Hepatitis, Chemical Injury, and Allograft Rejection] Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis”, in Pathology of Childhood and Adolescence: An Illustrated Guide, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 498, column 2:

(anatomy) any malformation of the anatomy


planum temporale

(anatomy) A flat upper surface on the temporal lobe of the brain, involved in hearing and language.


guyliner

I threaded my way through a crowd of Goths slouching against cars in guyliner and black pants[…]

2011, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, page 29:

Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

(informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.


pericarp

/ˈpɛɹɪˌkɑːp/

/ˈpɛɹɪˌkɑɹp/

From French péricarpe, from New Latin pericarpium, from Ancient Greek περικάρπιον (perikárpion, “pod, husk, shell”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). By surface analysis, peri- + -carp.

der

When, as in the cherry, the different layers of the pericarp are well-defined and largely developed, they received distinctive names ; the outer skin is the epicarp (epi, upon, carpon, a fruit), the middle fleshy part is the mesocarp (mesos, middle) ; and the innermost hard shell is the endocarp (endos, within) ; in other words the pericarp is made up of epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp. […] In all normal fruits these three layers of the pericarp are present […].

The pericarp of sorghums of the factorial titution BBSSrr, BBSsrr, BbsSrr, and BbSsrr may possess some t degree of coloration even though the pericarp color factor R is nt.

1928, Journal of Agricultural Research, page 582:

Many fruits show differentiation of the pericarp into layers – the plum, for example, has a thin outer pericarp forming the skin, a succulent middle pericarp forming the flesh and a stony inner pericarp surrounding the single seed.

1992 August 20, Jim C. Forbes, James C. Forbes, Drennan Watson, Plants in Agriculture, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 180:

One important difference is the pericarp of sorghum is more bran-like and contains starch granules in the cells. However, as with maize, the sorghum pericarp is often referred to as a “hull” and is generally removed during processing.

2009, Stanley P. Cauvain, Linda S. Young, The ICC Handbook of Cereals, Flour, Dough & Product Testing: Methods and Applications, DEStech Publications, Inc, →ISBN, page 207:

(botany) The outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary.

околопло́дник

outermost layer of a ripe fruit or ovary


temporal lobe

(neuroanatomy, anatomy) One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain, located behind the temples.


rhombencephalon

en-noun

rhombencephalon (plural rhombencephalons or rhombencephala)

rhombencephalons (plural)
rhombencephala (plural)


planum

From Latin plānum (“level ground, plain”).


glosso-

From Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă, “tongue; language”) + -o-.

af

glossopharyngeal

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the tongue.


omo-

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὦμος (ômos, “the shoulder”).

bor

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the shoulder and scapula.


occipital lobe

The occipital lobe processes visual information.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 61:

(anatomy) One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain, located at the back of the head.


frontal lobe

The frontal lobe is the seat of the higher functions of the brain — reasoning, forethought, problem-solving, emotional control, and so on.

(anatomy) One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain, located behind the forehead.


stopping

an amalgam stopping

curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth

1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., page 23:

Then one day a big stopping came out of one of my back teeth.

1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, New York: Thomas Nelson, page 125:

(dentistry, dated) Material for filling a cavity in a tooth.


parietal lobe

The parietal lobe manages sensory inputs like touch and temperature.

(anatomy) One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain.


thrombin

en-noun

thrombin (countable and uncountable, plural thrombins)

(biochemistry) An enzyme in blood that facilitates blood clotting by converting fibrinogen to fibrin (by means of ionized calcium).


gripper

/ˈɡɹɪ.pə(ɹ)/

(rail transport, slang) A ticket collector.


supinate

en-verb

supinate (third-person singular simple present supinates, present participle supinating, simple past and past participle supinated)

supinates (present singular third-person)
supinating (participle present)
supinated (participle past)
supinated (past)

pronate

antonym(s) of “to twist the forearm in a particular direction”

pronate

antonym(s) of “to twist the foot in a particular direction”

From Latin supīnō (“turn up, turn over”).

(transitive, anatomy) To twist the forearm so as to turn the palm of the hand backwards if the forearm is pointing up, upwards if the forearm is horizontal, or forwards if the arm is pointing down; to twist the forearm by contracting the biceps brachii; to twist the right forearm clockwise or the left forearm counterclockwise.

(transitive, anatomy) To twist the foot so the weight is on the outer edge.


scrimshaw

scrimshaw (third-person singular simple present scrimshaws, present participle scrimshawing, simple past and past participle scrimshawed)

scrimshaws (present singular third-person)
scrimshawing (participle present)
scrimshawed (participle past)
scrimshawed (past)

The origin of the verb is unknown, but it has possibly been influenced by the surname Scrimshaw. Various etymologies have been proposed (for example, that it derives from scrimshank (“(Britain, military slang) to be idle, to shirk duty”)), but the Oxford English Dictionary does not consider any of them convincing.
The noun is probably derived from the verb.

ref

From the collection of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

To create (a small ornamental handicraft also called a scrimshaw) by carving or engraving on bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials.

To carve or engrave (bone, ivory, or other materials) with ornamental designs.

To carve or engrave (ornamental designs) on bone, ivory, or other materials.


scrimshaw

en-noun

scrimshaw (countable and uncountable, plural scrimshaws)

term-label

(originally US, nautical, also attributively)

Rooney got his skull exposed, doggone it
Soon he's gonna get scrimshaw carved on it

2008, Neil Cicierega (lyrics and music), “Modify”, in View-Monster, performed by Lemon Demon:

(countable) A small ornamental handicraft created by carving or engraving bone (originally whalebone or whales' teeth), ivory, or other materials, formerly produced by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.

(uncountable) The manufacture of small ornamental handicrafts by carving or engraving bone, ivory, or other materials, formerly by sailors on whaling ships to pass the time on long voyages.


parietal

en-adj

parietal (comparative more parietal, superlative most parietal)

more parietal (comparative)
most parietal (superlative)

From Latin parietālis, from pariēs (“wall”).

Hydrochloric acid is secreted by the parietal cells of the gastric glands, located on the wall of the fundus of the stomach.

The superior aspect of the supramarginal gyrus lies underneath the euryon, which corresponds to the most prominent point of the parietal tuberosity or bossa […]

2018, Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas, Applied Cranial-Cerebral Anatomy:

(anatomy) Of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ or cavity.

parietaalinen

of or relating to the wall of a body part, organ or cavity

(anatomy) Of or relating to the parietal bones.


parietal

(anatomy) Either of the two parietal bones, on the top and side of the skull.


gimlet-eyed

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

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


adipose tissue

en-noun

adipose tissue (countable and uncountable, plural adipose tissues)

(anatomy) Connective tissue which stores fat, and which cushions and insulates the body.


pyxis

From Latin pyxis (“small box”). Doublet of box, piseog, and pyx.


curly

en-adj

curly (comparative curlier, superlative curliest)

curlier (comparative)
curliest (superlative)


parenchyma

en-noun

parenchyma (countable and uncountable, plural parenchymas or parenchymata)

parenchymas (plural)
parenchymata (plural)

/pəˈɹɛŋ.kɪm.ə/

From Ancient Greek παρέγχῠμα (parénkhŭma, “anything poured in beside”), from πᾰρᾰ- (pără-, “beside”) + ἔγχῠμα (énkhŭma, “instillation, content of a vessel”), given by the Greek anatomist Erasistratus to the peculiar substance of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen, as if formed separately by the veins that run into them.

af

Previously blood and air had been thought to mingle freely in the fleshy parenchyma of the lungs, but the microscope now revealed the membranous alveoli at the ends of the tracheo-bronchial ramifications.

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:

(anatomy) The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.

պարենքիմ

functional part of an organ, as opposed to supporting tissue

(botany) The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.


carina

Borrowed from Latin carīna (“keel”). Doublet of careen and carene.

(anatomy) Any of several features that have a projecting central ridge


hotdog

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Mama’s Fried Chicken […] serves good fried birds, but better yet is their crawfish étouffée, served by the bowl, or ladled into a hotdog bun and dubbed a ‘crawdog.’

2003 February, Tom Downs, John T Edge, “Cajun Country”, in “Excursions”, in New Orleans, 3rd edition, Melbourne, Vic.: Lonely Planet Publications, →ISBN, page 178, column 2:

I dress him for the occasion; however, it is like putting a cocktail wiener into a hotdog bun.

2006 May, Latisha Bridges, chapter 3, in When a Woman’s Fed Up, Morrow, Ga.: BlueRaine Entertainment, →ISBN, page 64:

But the cars & trucks held cartons of roast chickens, slabs of cheeses, loaves of bread, racks of hotdogs, case upon case of soft drinks, cases of bottled sparkling water, pies, cakes, roast beefs & baked hams.

2008, Red Jordan Arobateau, Leader of the Pack, page 136:

If you happen to know about the legs or hotdogs meme, Evil Kermit, or what a Milkshake Duck or VSCO girl is, you are poised to do well in this version of the game [Trivial Pursuit Decades: 2010–2020].

2023 January 16, Saleema Nawaz, “Suddenly, teens are winning pieces of Trivial Pursuit’s pie”, in Montreal Gazette:


goolies

en-noun

goolies pl (normally plural, singular gooly)

Probably from Hindi गोली (golī, “ball; pill; bullet”) or a cognate in other Indian languages.

"My oath," he said, "here's a man got his goolie chit. And I left mine behind. How fat can you get?"
"I've got mine," said Ward quietly, tapping his pocket."
"It's not your goolies I'm worried about," said Curnow.

Marcus: Sorry, your "gooly"?
Stylax: Yeah.
Marcus: You can't have one "gooly". It's just your "goolies".
Stylax: No, no, no, no. The whole thing is your goolies, all three of them, but if you're talking about one in particular, you say "gooly".

2013 April 8, “The Herpes Cat”, in Plebs:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, vulgar slang, usually in the plural) The testicles.


shearer

A person employed in a roller mill to shear off the uneven side of the hot metal plate.


ruga

Borrowed from Latin rūga (“a crease in the face, wrinkle”).

bor

Female: Face subpolished, weakly rugose, rugae somewhat diverging, at sides sparsely and shallowly punctate; […]

1980, Joseph Kenneth Jonathan, The Isotima-complex (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), page 83:

the deadly water-snakes coil’d together like the Rugæ of a single great Brain, the gray and even illumination from the Sky

(anatomy, zootomy, botany, usually in the plural) A fold, crease or wrinkle.


va-jay-jay

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Jocular alteration of vagina, popularised by a 2006 use in “Grey’s Anatomy”. Compare vajay.

“My va-jay-jay itches”, yeasts my friend Anna scratchily into her cell phone.

2005 March 3, Billy Manes, “RETURN TO PARIS”, in Orlando Weekly:

will have progress pics soon…unless two babies decide to raid mah va-jay-jay, in which case, I guess I’ll have to wait.

2006 March 1, (anonymous), “Still here….on the couch”, Melanoma Uberalis, at www.msmelanie.prettyposies.com https://web.archive.org/web/20060616020810/http://www.msmelanie.prettyposies.com/?p=290

crouching on all fours about to push an 8-pound baby out of her va-jay-jay.

2006 March 29, Fara Kearnes, “Culture Clash Over Nude Britney Spears Sculpture”, in StarBlogs.net:

Clarice: So you’re bisexual.
Jamie: But I’m scared of other people’s va-jay-jays.

2009, Daniele Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots:


riff

From Middle English *rif (found only in midrif), from Old English hrif (“the belly; womb”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrif, from Proto-Germanic *hrefaz (“body; torso; belly”), from Proto-Indo-European *krep- (“body”). Distant doublet of corpus, corpse, and corse.

inh

(anatomy, archaic) The belly; the bowels.


blow-dryer

(US, Philippines) An electrical device used for drying hair.


xiphocostal

(anatomy) Pertaining to the xiphoid process and the ribs.


snip

en-verb

snip (third-person singular simple present snips, present participle snipping, simple past and past participle snipped)

snips (present singular third-person)
snipping (participle present)
snipped (participle past)
snipped (past)

From Dutch snippen (“to snip; shred”) or Low German snippen (“to snip; shred”), of imitative origin. Compare snap.

onomatopoeic

imitative

Circumcised fathers face a special problem. Do you want your son's willy to be that radically different from your own? So, parents should perhaps not be put off. Be good to your son's future lovers and have him snipped.

2001, David Cohen, The Father's Book: Being a Good Dad in the 21st Century, John WIley & Sons Ltd, published 2001, →ISBN, page 72:

His children, however, were not snipped, possibly because Princess Diana was opposed to the practice, which is out of fashion in England.

2008, Ilene Schneider, Talk Dirty Yiddish: Beyond Drek: The Curses, Slang, and Street Lingo You Need to Know When You Speak Yiddish, Adams Media, published 2008, →ISBN, page 150:

By the outbreak of the First World War such claims had diminished and the medical profession touted circumcision as being 'hygienic' — fathers were not only encouraged to have their newborn sons snipped, but to belatedly enjoy the benefits themselves.

2012, Tom Hickman, God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis, Square Peg, published 2012, →ISBN, page 144:


tearing

en-noun

tearing (usually uncountable, plural tearings)

Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.

2003, David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics, page 303:

(computer graphics) Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.

yāihyāih

sound produce when ripping clothes or flat sheets


culm

Borrowed from Latin culmus. Doublet of calame, calamus, and haulm; further related to caramel, chalumeau and shawm.

[…] because, upon hearing him out, she sank down on the lawn in an impossible posture, examining a grass culm and frowning, he had taken his words back at once; […]

1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, page 150:

(botany) The stem of a plant, especially of grass or sedge.


arytenoid

/ˌæɹ.əˈtiˌnɔɪd/

/əˈɹɪt.n̩ˌɔɪd/

Borrowed from New Latin arytaenoīdēs (“ladle-shaped”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρῠταινοειδής (ărŭtainoeidḗs), from ᾰ̓ρύ̆ταινᾰ (ărú̆taină, “a ladle or cup”) + -ο- (-o-) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).

bor

ᾰ̓ρῠταινοειδής

af

(anatomy) Relating to or being an arytenoid cartilage.

(anatomy) Relating to or being an arytenoid muscle.


arytenoid

/ˌæɹ.əˈtiˌnɔɪd/

/əˈɹɪt.n̩ˌɔɪd/

bor

ᾰ̓ρῠταινοειδής

arytenoid cartilage
arytenoid cartilage#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of arytenoid cartilage..

arytenoid muscle
arytenoid muscle#English

(anatomy) Ellipsis of arytenoid muscle..


sanies

en-noun

sanies (countable and uncountable, plural sanies)

(medicine) a thin mixture of pus and blood serum discharged from a wound; ichor


pacemaker

→ Danish: pacemaker

→ Swedish: pacemaker

natural pacemaker

cardiac pacemaker

(anatomy) A set of nerves which stimulate the heart to beat.


hairbrush

A brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling hair


olfactory

From Latin olfactus (“an act of smelling; the sense of smell”) + -ory, from olfaciō (“to sniff, smell, scent”) + -tus (action noun suffix).

af

(anatomy, zootomy) Ellipsis of olfactory organ.


adrenalin

en-noun

adrenalin (usually uncountable, plural adrenalins)


lectin

From Latin lēctus (“chosen”) + -in. Coined by W.C. Boyd in 1954.

The result proved less about the safety of genetic engineering than it did about the safety of lectins – known animal poisons.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 252:

Soybeans are another excellent source of plant proteins but they are also on the list of high lectin foods. They are very important to vegans and vegetarians as they make it easy for them to get adequate proteins in their diet.

2018, Stanley Adamson, Lectin Free Handbook: The Essential Guide To The Lectin Diet Plus A 7-Day Lectin Avoidance Meal Plan And Recipes, PublishDrive:

(biochemistry) Any of a class of proteins that bind specific carbohydrates.


ACL

Mark Zuckerberg shares photos from the hospital after undergoing knee surgery for a torn ACL suffered during MMA training.

2023 November 4, “Mark Zuckerberg tears ACL while training for MMA fight early next year”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

anterior cruciate ligament
anterior cruciate ligament#English

(anatomy) Initialism of anterior cruciate ligament.

He's having a pretty good year, coming off of an ACL.


scruff

scruff (countable and uncountable, plural scruffs)


weeny

en-adj

weeny (comparative weenier, superlative weeniest)

weenier (comparative)
weeniest (superlative)

Possibly imitative from teeny weeny, or from wee + -y


raceme

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Borrowed from Latin racēmus (“cluster, bunch”). Doublet of raisin.

(botany) An indeterminate inflorescence in which the flowers are arranged along a single central axis.


carotid

Borrowed from French carotide or New Latin carōtides, from Ancient Greek κᾰρωτῐ́δες (kărōtĭ́des, “carotid arteries”), from κᾰρόω (kăróō, “to plunge into deep sleep or torpor”) + -τῐ́δες (-tĭ́des, plural nominal suffix), from the fact that the carotid artery supplies blood to the brain, and interruption of this flow causes loss of consciousness.

af

brachiocephalic artery
brachiocephalic artery

(anatomy) Either of the two main arteries that supply blood to the head of which the left in humans arises from the arch of the aorta and the right by bifurcation of the brachiocephalic artery with each passing up the side of the neck and dividing opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage into an external branch supplying the face, tongue, and external parts of the head and an internal branch supplying the brain, eye, and other internal parts of the head.


carotid

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the carotid artery.


gristle

en-noun

gristle (countable and uncountable, plural gristles)

From Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Old English gristel (“gristle, cartilage”), Proto-West Germanic *gristl, of obscure origin; possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language. Seemingly equivalent to a diminutive of Old English grist (“a grinding”), equivalent to modern English grist + -le; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”). Cognate with Old Frisian gristel, gerstel (“gristle, cartilage”), Middle Low German gristel (“gristle”).

inh

When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best[…]

1979, Monty Python (lyrics and music), “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life”:

But she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from a steak […]

2011, Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, New York: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 35:

Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.


dental caries

A disease of the teeth resulting in damage to tooth structure.


lacertus

From Late Latin lacertus (“muscle”), from Classical Latin lacertus (“upper arm”), possibly from lacerta (“lizard”). For the semantics, compare muscle from mūsculus (“little mouse”), derived from a supposed resemblance to little mice.

(anatomy) A bundle or fascicle of muscular fibres.


lacteal

en-adj

lacteal (comparative more lacteal, superlative most lacteal)

more lacteal (comparative)
most lacteal (superlative)

lacteal ducts in the breasts


lacteal

These ‘veins’ must have been the lacteals or chyle-vessels, whose function was explained by Aselli some two thousand years later.

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 65:

(physiology, chiefly in the plural) Each of the lymphatic vessels which convey chyle from the mesentery to the thoracic duct.


betanin

en-noun

betanin (countable and uncountable, plural betanins)

(organic chemistry) A glycoside obtained from beetroot.

betanin

the glycoside also known as beetroot red


lymphoid

(anatomy) Relating to, or found within the lymphatic system of the body


leafstalk

The stalk that supports a leaf and connects it to the plant.


endo

endo (countable and uncountable, plural endos)

Clippings, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon, “inner; internal”). Compare the prefix endo-.

der

I question dentists about the services they actually provide in their offices. Do you do crown and bridge and restorative dentistry? “Of course.” Do you do endodontics? “No, I never really liked endo.”

2022 August 19, Louis Malcmacher, “Learn something new: Incorporating Botox and dermal fillers into your practice”, in Dental Economics:

(countable, dentistry, informal) Clipping of endodontics.

Supraeruption happens. Gingival inflammation happens. Pulpal inflammation happens. Traditionally, we can “work through” these problems. We can grind crowns into place. We anesthetize and use hemostatics on the gingiva. We do endos. But we shouldn’t have to do those things, especially with digital dentistry.

2021 October 25, Joshua Austin, “Pearls for Your Practice: 3-Day Polished Zirconia Crowns by 38 Smiles Dental Lab”, in Dental Economics:

(countable, dentistry, informal) Clipping of endodontic treatment.


brinded

en-adj

brinded (comparative more brinded, superlative most brinded)

more brinded (comparative)
most brinded (superlative)

From Middle English brended (“burnt, branded”), from bren (“burned, branded”), from the past participle of brennen (“to burn”), from Old English bærnan (“to burn”). Also compare Old Norse brǫndóttr, Icelandic bröndóttr (“brindled”).

inh

Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 143, column 2:

It is well known that the only wool susceptible of acquiring delicate and brilliant colours by the process of dyeing, is white wool: for this reason the Cachemirians separate all those lambs which are black or brinded.

1804, Alexander le. Goux de Flaix, “Memoir on the Wool and Sheep of Cachemire and Boutam”, in Philosophical Magazine, page 240:

Glory be to God for dappled things— / For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; / For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim: […]

1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, published 1918, →OCLC, page 30, lines 1–3:

(archaic, dialect) Especially of the fur or skin of animals: having a patchy or streaky pattern, usually brown or grey in colour; brindled.


protamine

(biochemistry) Any of various strongly basic proteins of relatively low molecular weight that are rich in arginine and are found associated especially with DNA in place of histone in the sperm cells of various animals (such as fish).


thiamine

en-noun

thiamine (usually uncountable, plural thiamines)

(biochemistry) One of the constituents of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast and bran, that is necessary for the metabolism of carbohydrates.


supinated

supinated grip

(anatomy) Having one's hand and forearm rotated so that the palm faces in the same direction as the interior angle of the elbow, thereby contracting the biceps brachii.

(anatomy) Having one's foot twisted so that if walking, the weight would be borne on the outer edge of the foot.


pronated

pronated grip

(anatomy) Having one’s hand rotated so that the palm faces the same direction as the knob of the elbow.

(anatomy) Having one's foot twisted so that if walking, the weight would be borne on the inner edge of the foot.


overbite

(dentistry) A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.


glans penis

glans penis (plural glans penises or glandes penis or glandes penium or (misconstruction) glans penes or (misconstruction) glandes penes)

glans penises (plural)
glandes penis (plural)
glandes penium (plural)
glans penes (misconstruction plural)
glandes penes (misconstruction plural)

From New Latin glāns pēnis (“glans of the penis”), pēnis being a genitive.

der

Holonym: penis

Meronym: corona glandis penis

Comeronyms: corpus cavernosum penis, praeputium penis

Coordinate term: glans clitoridis

(anatomy) A conical vascularized body forming the extremity of the penis.


no man's land

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-no man's land.wav

Originally from Middle English Nomanneslond, which first appears c. 1350. Revived with new senses in a dispatch printed in the Times newspaper by Colonel Ernest Dunlop Swinton writing as "Eyewitness".

(medicine, anatomy) The fibrous sheath of the flexor tendons of the hand, specifically in the zone from the distal palmar crease to the proximal interphalangeal joint.


androsterone

en-noun

androsterone (countable and uncountable, plural androsterones)

(biochemistry, steroids) An androgenic hormone, excreted in the urine, somewhat less active than testosterone.


aldosterone

/ælˈdɒstəɹəʊn/

From aldo- (“related to aldehydes”) + -sterone, modelled on German Aldosteron; coined in the 1950s.

af

(biochemistry, steroids) A mineralocorticoid hormone, secreted by the adrenal cortex, that regulates the balance of sodium and potassium in the body.


melatonin

en-noun

melatonin (usually uncountable, plural melatonins)

How exactly melatonin relates to sleep is still not understood.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 310:

A hormone, related to serotonin, that is secreted by the pineal gland, and stimulates colour change in the skin of reptiles, and is involved in the sleep/wake and reproductive cycles in mammals.

Any material similar in its chemistry and effect to the natural hormone.


corticosterone

corticosterone (countable and uncountable, plural corticosterones)

“The brain doesn’t get the rest it needs, resulting in a drop in executive function and accompanied by an increase in corticosterone levels.”

2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 206:

(biochemistry, steroids) A corticosteroid hormone, produced in the adrenal glands, involved in metabolism.


deoxycorticosterone

deoxycorticosterone (countable and uncountable, plural deoxycorticosterones)

deoxycorticosterones (plural)
DOC (abbreviation)

(biochemistry, steroids) A steroid hormone, produced in the adrenal cortex; sometimes manufactured synthetically for use in cases of adrenal insufficiency.


theelin

The isolation of the crystalline hormone seems to justify the selection of a new name which should be reserved for the crystalline material and which in reality becomes the name of a new and probably hitherto unknown chemical substance. Accordingly, we suggest the term “theelin.“ This word is derived from the Greek word “theelus” used both adjectively and nominally to signify “female.”

1930 June, CD Veler, “The preparation of the crystalline follicular ovarian hormone: Theelin”, in Journal of Biological Chemistry, page 357:

(biochemistry, steroids) The steroid hormone estrone.


corticosteroid

(biochemistry, steroids) Any of a group of steroid hormones, secreted by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in a large range of physiological systems.


estrone

estrone (countable and uncountable, plural estrones)

(American spelling, biochemistry, steroids, pharmacology) A natural estrogenic hormone that is a ketone C₁₈H₂₂O₂ found in the body chiefly as a metabolite of and less potent than estradiol, that is also secreted especially by the ovaries, and that is used to treat various conditions (such as ovarian failure and menopausal symptoms) relating to estrogen deficiency.


cortisone

cortisone (countable and uncountable, plural cortisones)

(biochemistry, steroids, pharmacology) A corticosteroid hormone, closely related to corticosterone, produced by the adrenal cortex. One of the glucocorticoids, it is also made synthetically for use as an anti-inflammatory and antiallergy agent. 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone, with formula C₂₁H₂₈O₅.


crutch

From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.

der

could eat the crutch from a low flying duck

He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.

I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other.

c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.


ribonuclease

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid.

ribonucléase

enzyme catalyzing the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid


neural canal

(anatomy) a canal located at the dorsal side of the centrum formed by neural arches of vertebrae. Houses the spinal cord.


glucocorticoid

(biochemistry, steroids) Any of a group of steroid hormones, produced by the adrenal cortex, that are involved in metabolism and have anti-inflammatory properties.


cortisol

en-noun

cortisol (countable and uncountable, plural cortisols)

(biochemistry, steroids) A glucocorticoid steroid hormone produced by the adrenal cortex that mediates various metabolic processes (such as gluconeogenesis), has anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties, and whose levels in the blood may become elevated in response to physical or psychological stress. When used medicinally it is known as hydrocortisone.


thenar

(anatomy) Relating to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.


midrib

(botany) The strengthened vein down the middle of a flower petal or simple leaf or leaflet.

gihoy

(botany) The continuation of the petiole of a pinnately compound leaf around which the leaflets attach.


acetylcholinesterase

acetylcholinesterase (countable and uncountable, plural acetylcholinesterases)

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine into choline and acetic acid.


acetylcholine

acetylcholine (countable and uncountable, plural acetylcholines)

Acetylcholine build-up in the body can be toxic.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 11:

(biochemistry) A neurotransmitter in humans and other animals. It is an ester of acetic acid and choline with chemical formula CH₃COOCH₂CH₂N⁺(CH₃)₃.


-enchyma

From Ancient Greek ἔγχυμα (énkhuma, “infusion”).


pia

One screen in the theatre relays live colour pictures of Harkness and his colleague Tiernan Byrnes's progress, cutting and pushing through first the dura, then the arachnoid and finally the pia, the thin, spider's web-type membranes that cover the brain itself.

2009 January 25, Denis Campbell, “Kian, 4, needs a miracle. He's in the right place”, in The Observer:

(anatomy) The pia mater, the innermost of the meninges that protect the brain and spinal cord.


tunicle

Latin tunicula, diminutive of tunica (“tunic”).

(anatomy) A tunica; a membrane or membranous sheath of skin.


trichology

/tɹʌɪˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

From tricho- + -logy, from Ancient Greek.

The remaining chapters cover diseases of the hairy skin and summarize recent developments in laboratory and experimental trichology.

They had spread themselves beneath the oaks and chestnuts and planted the green banks with tussocks of crocuses; it was more like some exercise in trichology than horticulture.


towhead

You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.

1911 March, Zane Grey, “Out on the Field”, in The Young Pitcher, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 64:

Then he noticed that the scar ran back into her hair, and Lower Appalachian towhead is the nearest thing in nature you will get to platinum blond, barring albinos.

1959, Robert Penn Warren, The Cave, The University Press of Kentucky, published 2006, page 54:

2010, Joseph A. West, Richard Compton (byline), Death of a Hangman, New American Library (Signet), page 103,
“Hell, I never did cotton to an uppity whore anyhow," the towhead said.

2012, Ann M. Paulson, Stepping Stones for the Heart, Hay House (Balboa Press), page 88,
The courtyard was lit with bright sunlight and Asenath and the two towheads were there amusing themselves.

A blond person whose very pale, almost white hair resembles tow; the hair of such a person.


vaj

See Citations:vaj


rima

Borrowing from Latin rīma (“a cleft, crack, fissure, chink”).

(anatomy) A cleft or gap between two symmetrical parts, particularly between the vocal folds.


fauces

Borrowing from Latin faucēs (“the upper part of a throat”).

(anatomy) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.


hoo-ha

Perhaps from Yiddish הו־האַ (hu-ha, “a hullabaloo”).
The second sense is likely expressive; compare such similar terms in other languages as Spanish juju.

onomatopoeic

expressive

Did that make her a good judge of character, or a fool who was letting her hoo-ha do her thinking for her?

She didn't want to lose their childish battle of wills, but neither did she want some parasite swimming up her hoo-ha.

2009, Lexi Ryan, Stilettos, Inc., page 163:

His mother later expressed disappointment that she'd been wrong, but by then, Belinda had a butterfly on her hoo-ha.

2010, Dee Tenorio, All Or Nothing, page 54:

Tara Davis-Woodhall, an American who placed sixth in the long jump at the Tokyo Games and took silver at last year’s world championships, reacted with equal parts humor and horror, commenting: “Wait my hoo haa is gonna be out.”

2024 April 13, Tara Davis-Woodhall, quotee, “‘My hoo haa is gonna be out’: US Olympians slam Nike for skimpy women’s track kit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:


falx

From Latin falx (“sickle”). Doublet of dalk.

(anatomy) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum, especially one of the partition-like folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

Any sickle-shaped part or process.
(anatomy, dated) A chelicera.

Any sickle-shaped part or process.
A chelicera.

Any sickle-shaped part or process.
(anatomy) A snake's poison fang.

Any sickle-shaped part or process.
A snake's poison fang.

Any sickle-shaped part or process.
(anatomy) A rotula of a sea urchin.

Any sickle-shaped part or process.
A rotula of a sea urchin.


manhole

throw nickels around like manhole covers

The king had scarce ceased to writhe,
When hate gave a terrible laugh,
Like a manhole opened to Hell.

1936, Robert Frost, “The Vindictives”, in A Further Range:

A hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations.

մտոց

a hole in the ground used to access the sewers or other underground vaults and installations

(LGBTQ) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.


amphiarthrosis

(anatomy) The type of movable joint in animals in which the surfaces of bones are connected by ligaments or cartilage.

anfiartrose

movable joint in which the surfaces of bones are connected by ligaments or cartilage


bloodshed

en-noun

bloodshed (usually uncountable, plural bloodsheds)

From attested early forms of such phrases as "there was much blood shed"; equivalent to blood + shed, past participle of shed.

A slaughter; destruction of life, notably on a large scale.

(obsolete) The shedding of one's own blood; specifically, the death of Christ.

bloedoffer

(obsolete) A bloodshot condition or appearance; an effusion of blood in the eye.


astragalocalcaneal

(anatomy) Describing the fusion of the astragalus and calcaneum.

astragalocalcáneo

describing the fusion of the astragalus and calcaneum


tocopherol

From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”) + φέρειν (phérein, “to bear or carry”) + -ol.

compound

(biochemistry) Any of several isomers of the principal component of vitamin E, each containing a chromanol ring and an isoprene side-chain.

E308 and E309 when used as an antioxidant


pulmonary vein

(anatomy) In tetrapods, a vein that returns blood to the heart after it has circulated through the lungs.


nerve cord

(anatomy) A dorsal tubular cord of nervous tissue above the notochord of a chordate.

néarchorda

anatomy: a dorsal tubular cord of nervous tissue above the notochord of a chordate


plumule

From Latin plūmula, diminutive of plūma (“feather”); compare French plumule.

(botany) The first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons.


polycotyledonary

(anatomy) Having the villi of the placenta collected into definite patches, or cotyledons.


vaso vasorum

These vessels communicate with the cavity of the thrombosed vessel, and with its vaso vasorum. (Fig. 128.)

1878, Thomas Henry Green, An Introduction to pathology and morbid anatomy, page 301:

The tenuous vaso vasorum therefore remains preserved in the naturally occurring state, a circumstance which improves vascular patency.

1996, William E. Cohn and Ducksoo Kim, "Catheter apparatus and methodology for generating a fistula on-demand", US Patent 5830224, page 21

New vasculature, under the influence of angiogenic growth factors, may grow from the vaso vasorum within the adventitia into the plaque.

2006, Morton J. Kern, SCAI Interventional Cardiology Board Review Book, page 5:


water pick

(dentistry) A device that is used to clear away food debris from the mouth, mostly used by people with braces or periodontal problems.


tuz

And then thou kemb'st the Tuzzes on thy cheek.

1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:


bloodmobile

A vehicle outfitted to collect blood from donors.


hydrolase

→ Polish: hydrolaza

(biochemistry) An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a substrate.


vesical

For quotations using this term, see Citations:vesical.

(anatomy) Pertaining to the urinary bladder.


copperhead

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

Any of certain of snakes having a copper-colored head in three families within suborder Serpentes.

A venomous pit viper of species Agkistrodon contortrix, found in parts of North America.