cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paratopological group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paratopological groups
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A topological semigroup that is algebraically a group.
chink in the armour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinks in the armour
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chink in the armor.
Obamacan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈbɑːməkən/
Forms: form: Obamacans
form: Obama-can
Etymology: Blend of Obama + Republican.
Senses: examples: text: “About twice as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Obama, and about three times as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Clinton,” Rove said. “The media is all wired up about these ‘Obamacans’ … but the real story of this election is the ‘McCainocrats.’ ”
ref: 2008 April 21, John Heilemann, “Is John McCain Bob Dole?”, in New York:
text: However, it became increasingly bleak for Senator McCain's campaign as many of Senator Obama's endorsements came from "Obamacans."
ref: 2010, Clinton L. Sprauve, All Hail the "Messiah": Why Fox News Channel and the Conservative Clan Couldn't Crucify Him!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 49–50:
text: To my knowledge, there were no “Obamacans” in my family; all of the Republicans were sticking with Senator John McCain.
ref: 2012, Joan Walsh, What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was, John Walsh, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the U.S. Republican Party who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.
Related terms: Obamacon
Obamacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Obamacons
form: Obama-con
Etymology: Short for Obama conservative.
Senses: examples: text: Kmiec has drawn attention because he is one of the nation's leading "Obamacons," conservatives who find Obama's call for a new approach to politics appealing.
ref: 2008 June 3, E. J. Dionne Jr., “For an 'Obamacon,' Communion Denied”, in The Washington Post:
text: The rise of the Obamacons is more than a reaction against Mr Bush's remodelling of the Republican Party and Mr McCain's desperation: there were plenty of disillusioned Republicans in 2004 who did not warm to John Kerry.
ref: 2008 October 23, “The rise of the Obamacons”, in The Economist:
text: Even New York Times Obamacon David Brooks acknowledged ObamaCare was "stuffed. . . .with gimmicks and dodges designed to get a good score from the Congressional Budget Office but don't genuinely control runaway spending."
ref: 2010, David Limbaugh, Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 69:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A conservative (especially a Republican) who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.
Related terms: Obamacan
Obamacans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Obamacan
Obamacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Obamacon
Obama-can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Obama-cans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Obamacan.
Obama-con
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Obama-cons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Obamacon.
Obama-cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Obama-can
Obama-cons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Obama-con
tray-tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tray-table
mistressmind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistressminds
form: mistress-mind
Senses: glosses: A female mastermind.
indestructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indestructive
form: most indestructive
Etymology: From in- + destructive.
Senses: glosses: Not destructive.
leptospira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptospiras
form: leptospirae
Etymology: From translingual Leptospira, from Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin”) + σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil”).
Senses: glosses: Any bacterium of the genus Leptospira.
Derived terms: leptospiremia
leptospirae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptospira
leptospiremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leptospira + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: The lack of agreement between molecular testing and single-specimen MAT likely resulted from the clearance of leptospiremia coinciding with the appearance of agglutinating antibodies in serum during the immune phase of illness [2 ,3 ,22 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Reverse-Transcriptase PCR Detection of Leptospira : Absence of Agreement with Single-Specimen Microscopic Agglutination Testing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of leptospirae in the blood
Related terms: leptospiremic
lupron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ADT involves using drugs such as lupron and bicalutamide that target androgen receptor (AR) signaling through lowering serum testosterone or blocking the binding of androgens to the AR [2 –6 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Poly (A) Binding Protein Cytoplasmic 1 Is a Novel Co-Regulator of the Androgen Receptor”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of leuprolide.
synonyms: word: leuprolide
plurinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Etymology: From pluri- + national.
Senses: examples: text: the Plurinational State of Bolivia
text: It could also help us confront the crisis within our political system. But to do so, we in the next government will have to show ourselves capable of facing up to the Catalan conflict and to the fact that Spain is a plurinational country. That will call for dialogue and empathy.
ref: 2019 November 18, Pablo Iglesias, “Spain’s new coalition must face up to the Catalan crisis and the rise of the far right”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Describing a state containing large groups of people of different nationalities.
Related terms: plurinationalism
plurinationality
plurinationally
plurination
lusitropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlu.səˈtɹoʊ.pɪk/
rhymes: -əʊpɪk
Etymology: From lusitropy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We also found that SRTX-b exerted a negative lusitropic effect i.e^([sic]) impairment of LV relaxation as reflected by an increased Tau, the relaxation time constant.
ref: 15 July 2015, Yazine Mahjoub, Stéphanie Malaquin, Gilles Mourier, Emmanuel Lorne, Osama Abou Arab, Ziad A. Massy, Hervé Dupont, Frédéric Ducancel, “Short- versus long-sarafotoxins: two structurally related snake toxins with very different in vivo haemodynamic effects”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
antonyms: inotropic
glosses: relating to or producing lusitropy
lusitropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /luˈsɪ.tɹəp.i/
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs, “loosing, releasing, ransoming”, noun) + -tropy (“condition of exhibiting (such) a behavior”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
antonyms: inotropy
glosses: myocardial relaxation
Related terms: lusitropic
macromineral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrominerals
Etymology: From macro- + mineral.
Senses: glosses: Any mineral (element or inorganic compound) that the body needs in relatively large amounts
macrominerals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most macrominerals and trace elements also increased.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Manganese Supplementation in Deer under Balanced Diet Increases Impact Energy and Contents in Minerals of Antler Bone Tissue”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of macromineral
macrosteatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + steatosis.
Senses: examples: text: These include: the use of marginal donors, an ill-defined group comprised of donors over the age of 60; donors with greater than 30% hypernatremia or macrosteatosis; donors with positive serologies for the hepatitis C or hepatitis B virus; donors with a cold ischemia time of greater than 12 hours; non-heart-beating donors; and grafts from split-livers or living-related donors.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Future Economics of Liver Transplantation: A 20-Year Cost Modeling Forecast and the Prospect of Bioengineering Autologous Liver Grafts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: macrovesicular steatosis
Related terms: macrosteatotic
microsteatosis
microsteatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + steatosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: microvesicular steatosis
Related terms: macrosteatosis
macrothrombocytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrothrombocytopenias
Etymology: From macro- + thrombocytopenia.
Senses: examples: text: Absence or dysfunction of GPIb-V-IX results in the Bernard-Soulier Syndrome, a bleeding disorder characterised not only by impaired platelet adhesion, but also by macrothrombocytopenia, due to a disturbed link between the GPIb-V-IX complex and the underlying cytoskeleton during platelet and/or MK formation.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Artificial MiRNA Knockdown of Platelet Glycoprotein lbα: A Tool for Platelet Gene Silencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
synonyms: giant platelet disorder
glosses: A form of thrombocytopenia characterised by unusually large platelets.
Related terms: macrothrombocytopenic
metaglinides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All sulfonylureas and metaglinides are mechanistically glucose-independent; however, this cannot always be demonstrated outside of pancreatic beta cell.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of meglitinides.
microsampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + sampling.
Senses: examples: text: This integrated tool, with a microsampling and analytical system, enables simultaneous ADME screening and metabolite identification in mice in a manner different from previous reports [30 ], [31 ], [32 ], [33 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Dose-Independent ADME Properties and Tentative Identification of Metabolites of α-Mangostin from Garcinia mangostana in Mice by Automated Microsampling and UPLC-MS/MS Methods”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: microscale sampling
microvertebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvertebrates
Etymology: From micro- + vertebrate.
Senses: examples: text: Final preparation was done at the microvertebrate laboratory of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island””, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A very small vertebrate, especially one known only from fossils
Related terms: macrovertebrate
monocrurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Additionally, these authors suggested that monocrurate stapes are thought to be of positive fitness for aquatic mammals whereas bicrurate stapes provide enhanced hearing abilities for terrestrial forms; however, it is important to note that the functional significance of these conditions has not been explored in detail comparing animals of similar habitats.
ref: 2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a single crus (leglike shank)
Related terms: bicrurate
monokaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -karyotic.
Senses: examples: text: Total RNA was isolated from a monokaryotic cultures of Phanerochaete chrysosporium,Trametes versicolor, and Gloeophyllum trabeum.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Widespread Polycistronic Transcripts in Fungi Revealed by Single-Molecule mRNA Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a single nucleus
mononucleates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The total number of binucleates and mononucleates with abnormalities was then divided by the total number of cells scored to obtain the frequency of chromosomal instability.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Perceived Stress Levels, Chemotherapy, Radiation Treatment and Tumor Characteristics Are Associated with a Persistent Increased Frequency of Somatic Chromosomal Instability in Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: A One Year Longitudinal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of mononucleate
monossicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ossicular.
Senses: examples: text: The middle ear structure of non-mammaliaform cynodonts is derived from the monossicular condition present in more basal synapsids and certainly different from both the triossicular structure of early mammaliaforms and mammals and the monossicular pattern of living reptiles [5 –6, 9, 14 –15, 27, 57 –61 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a single ossicle
bat flower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bat flowers
Senses: glosses: Any of several tropical plants in the genus Tacca which are grown for their distinctive flowers, especially the black bat flower, Tacca chantrieri and the white bat flower, Tacca integrifolia
bat flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bat flower
monstersaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monstersaurids
Senses: examples: text: Although present in most closely related anguids, this character is absent in platynotans with the exception of all shinisaurids, the monstersaurid Primaderma and the mosasaurid Dolichosaurus.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Evidence of Egg Diversity in Squamate Evolution from Cretaceous Anguimorph Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any varanoid lizard of the clade Monstersauria
mycobacteremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mycobacteremias
Senses: examples: text: The lack of an association with particular strain lineages suggests that host factors predominate in the breakdown towards mycobacteremia.
ref: 2015 July 16, “High Genotypic Discordance of Concurrent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Sputum and Blood of HIV-Infected Individuals”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of mycobacteria in the blood
Related terms: mycobacteremic
neurobasicranial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪniəl
Etymology: From neuro- + basicranial.
Senses: examples: text: The two most prominent modules of the mammalian cranium are the neurocranium (i.e., the cerebral capsule or neurobasicranial complex) and the splanchnocranium (i.e., the face) [5 –7 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Neurocranium versus Face: A Morphometric Approach with Classical Anthropometric Variables for Characterizing Patterns of Cranial Integration in Extant Hominoids and Extinct Hominins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the neurocranium and the basicranium
neuroinhibitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroinhibitors
Etymology: From neuro- + inhibitor.
Senses: examples: text: One such gene is gamma-aminobutyric acid B receptor 2 (GABA B R2, contig_29418), a neuroinhibitor that helps fine-tune neural function [66 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Up in Arms: Immune and Nervous System Response to Sea Star Wasting Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any neuroinhibitory agent
oligosorbent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligosorbents
Etymology: From oligo- + sorbent.
Senses: examples: text: An enzyme linked oligosorbent assay (ELOSA) was used to evaluate the success of the labeling processes (S3 File ).
ref: 2015 July 16, “Small ncRNA Expression-Profiling of Blood from Hemophilia A Patients Identifies miR-1246 as a Potential Regulator of Factor 8 Gene”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A material that will absorb a few different substances
paleobioprovince
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleobioprovinces
Etymology: From paleo- + bioprovince.
Senses: examples: text: High sea levels and warm temperature were responsible of the fragmentation of this European paleobioprovince into numerous small islands [9 ,10 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island””, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A prehistoric bioprovince
phagocytozing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The number of phagocytozing neutrophils is drastically reduced as well as the phagocytic capacity designated by a significantly lower number of ingested microbes.
ref: 2015 July 16, “CD66b Overexpression and Loss of C5a Receptors as Surface Markers for Staphylococcus aureus -Induced Neutrophil Dysfunction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of phagocytosing.
pharmocogeneticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For example, pharmocogeneticists have shown differential metabolism of chemotherapy drugs based on the variant form(s) of alleles that an individual carries for several genes (e. g. CYP2D6, ESR1, ESR2, etc), including genes involved in DNA repair (FANCD2; MTHFR, RB1) [88 –91 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Perceived Stress Levels, Chemotherapy, Radiation Treatment and Tumor Characteristics Are Associated with a Persistent Increased Frequency of Somatic Chromosomal Instability in Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: A One Year Longitudinal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of pharmacogeneticists.
phenoconversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pheno- + conversion.
Senses: examples: text: Further studies of a larger NMC cohort with longitudinal follow-up should permit to assess if sleep disorders are markers for phenoconversion to PD. In summary, our findings show that sleep disorders in LRRK2-PD are common.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Sleep Disorders in Parkinsonian and Nonparkinsonian LRRK2 Mutation Carriers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of phenocopying.
synonyms: word: phenocopying
phylobetadiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For the phylobetadiversity analysis, the phylogenetic community dissimilarity (PCD) metrics were calculated, which derivate from two components: compositional (PCDc), which is analog to Sorensen’s but correcting the effect that causes the community’s size, and phylogenetic (PCDp), which measures the phylogenetic relation of species that are not shared between communities.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Octocoral Species Assembly and Coexistence in Caribbean Coral Reefs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: phylogenetic diversity between communities or biomes
podoplanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: NS–nonspecific band ( D ) Flow cytometry analysis of the LEC markers, CD31 and podoplanin, in M and S1.
ref: 2015 July 16, “ADAM17 Promotes Motility, Invasion, and Sprouting of Lymphatic Endothelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular glycoprotein
samanu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: samanoo
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian سمنو (samanu).
Senses: glosses: A sweet, rich, brown Western and Central Asian pudding made of wheat germ ground on a hand mill and boiled till it has the consistency of moist halva; a component of Haft Seen.
polypharmacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypharmacologies
Etymology: From poly- + pharmacology.
Senses: examples: text: While several classes of kinase inhibitors are highly selective (MEK, covalent modifying kinase inhibitors) many possess a vast polypharmacology across the kinome target-scape.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The presence of multiple pharmacologies (targets, modes of action etc) in a single drug
polypharmacologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, the screening of drugs with extensive polypharmacologies within phenotypic assays is an intriguing exercise in associating mechanism to phenotype.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Novel Phenotypic Outcomes Identified for a Public Collection of Approved Drugs from a Publicly Accessible Panel of Assays”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of polypharmacology
postendocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + endocytic.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, ubiquitination has non-proteasomal functions during the internalization and postendocytic sorting of transmembrane proteins [36 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “αPIX Is a Trafficking Regulator that Balances Recycling and Degradation of the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following endocytosis
postquadrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + quadrate.
Senses: examples: text: Stapes morphology does not provide evidence to suggest a direct connection between the stapes and a postquadrate tympanic membrane (if present) and the hypothesis of a dorsal process as the site of attachment of a small ligament or the stapedial muscle is supported.
ref: 2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Behind the quadrate bone
prethymically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prethymic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: In a murine model of transplantation, it has been shown that SCF administration improves post-transplant thymopoiesis largely by promoting intrathymic T cell development, rather than by enhancing entry of prethymically expanded lymphoid progenitors.
ref: 2015 July 16, “IL-7 and SCF Levels Inversely Correlate with T Cell Reconstitution and Clinical Outcomes after Cord Blood Transplantation in Adults”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Before development of the thymus.
procellariiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procellariiforms
Senses: examples: text: For example, procellariiform species initially use olfaction to detect a prey’s location and then use vision for prey capture [21, 22 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Stop and Smell the Pollen: The Role of Olfaction and Vision of the Oriental Honey Buzzard in Identifying Food”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any seabird of the order Procellariiformes
profibrogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more profibrogenic
form: most profibrogenic
Etymology: From pro- + fibrogenic.
Senses: examples: text: One possible explanation lies on the albumin-induced tubulo-interstitial injuries via cytokine-mediated mechanisms including the profibrogenic cytokine transforming growth factor β, monocyte chemoattractant-1, regulated upon activation, normal T cell expressed and secreted (RANTES), interleukin-8 fractalkine, and other mediators [24 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Predictors and the Subsequent Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease – Usefulness of 30% Decline in Estimated GFR over 2 Years”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That promotes fibrogenesis
ptilodontoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ptilodontoids
Senses: glosses: Any of the superfamily †Ptilodontoidea of extinct mammals.
ptilodontoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of the peculiarities of kogaionids is thus the presence of particularly primitive characters relative to other mainland contemporaries of the Northern hemisphere (e.g., North American taeniolabidoids and ptilodontoids and Asian djadochtatherioids).
ref: 2015 July 16, “Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island””, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of ptilodontoid
fiestero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiesteros
Etymology: Spanish fiestero
Senses: glosses: The person who organizes a fiesta (religious festival).
fiesteros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiestero
pulsotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulsotypes
Etymology: From pulso- + type.
Senses: examples: text: Isolates with indistinguishable profiles were attributed with a pulsotype named by a capital letter (A to H).
ref: 2015 July 16, “An Update of the Evolving Epidemic of bla KPC Carrying Klebsiella pneumoniae in Sicily, Italy, 2014: Emergence of Multiple Non-ST258 Clones”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: pulsovar
glosses: Any distinct strain of bacteria separated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
Derived terms: pulsosubtype
pulsotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulsotypes
form: pulsotyping
form: pulsotyped
form: pulsotyped
Etymology: From pulso- + type.
Senses: glosses: To separate such strains
retinogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retino- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: During retinogenesis HC cell bodies migrate to the outer edge of the inner nuclear layer (INL), transiently extend vertical neurites towards both the apical and basal retinal surfaces, then remodel these nascent processes into a laterally-oriented network in the OPL during the first postnatal week [20 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Neurite Mistargeting and Inverse Order of Intraretinal Vascular Plexus Formation Precede Subretinal Vascularization in Vldlr Mutant Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The development of the retina
Related terms: retinogenic
rototranslational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From roto- + translational.
Senses: examples: text: We address here the rototranslational entropy loss upon binding.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Distance-Based Configurational Entropy of Proteins from Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to rototranslation
semiquantitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A similar value was predicted earlier based on semiquantitive considerations by others (e.g. [39, 81 ]).
ref: 2015 July 16, “Distance-Based Configurational Entropy of Proteins from Molecular Dynamics Simulations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of semiquantitative.
splachnocranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, the relatively poor preservation of many fossil crania precludes applying to these taxa the standard, landmark-based techniques of geometric morphometrics, which would allow describing accurately the patterns of covariation between the neurocranium and the splachnocranium.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Neurocranium versus Face: A Morphometric Approach with Classical Anthropometric Variables for Characterizing Patterns of Cranial Integration in Extant Hominoids and Extinct Hominins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of splanchnocranium.
statoacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: By in situ hybridization, expression of all 3 microRNAs is robust in immature hair cells of both auditory and vestibular organs and is present in the statoacoustic ganglion.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Expression and Misexpression of the miR-183 Family in the Developing Hearing Organ of the Chicken”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to both balance/equilibrium and hearing
stringbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stringbeds
Etymology: From string + bed.
Senses: examples: text: A second limitation is the lack of measurement of both handgrip force and ball impact location in the stringbed.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Tennis Racket Vibrations and Shock Transmission to the Wrist during Forehand Drive”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
squash
tennis
glosses: The matrix of strings within the oval frame of a racket
studys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, there are no studys about the relationship between aging and BIVM and Tmtc3.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Gene Transcriptional and Metabolic Profile Changes in Mimetic Aging Mice Induced by D-Galactose”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of studies.
subolfactory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktəɹi
Etymology: From sub- + olfactory.
Senses: examples: text: The orbit is dorsally bounded by the subolfactory process projecting as a simple ventral downgrowth (Figs 3B and 4B ).
ref: 2015 July 16, “Evidence of Egg Diversity in Squamate Evolution from Cretaceous Anguimorph Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Underneath the olfactory organ
sulfonase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses a sulfonation reaction
sulfonases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, despite the fact that 25% of Mn in human body is stored in this way, it is a coenzyme for glycosyltransferases, which create glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), and sulfonases, which sulfate these molecules in the final step to produce proteoglycans.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Manganese Supplementation in Deer under Balanced Diet Increases Impact Energy and Contents in Minerals of Antler Bone Tissue”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of sulfonase
superomarginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Coelomic fluid was collected from the interradius between the inferomarginal and superomarginal ossicles (the “arm pit”) using a syringe.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Up in Arms: Immune and Nervous System Response to Sea Star Wasting Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Located above a margin
suppressory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suppressory
form: most suppressory
Etymology: From suppress + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: We have identified an miR-1246 target site in the noncoding region of F8 mRNA and were able to confirm the suppressory role of hsa-miR-1246 on F8 expression in a stable lymphoblastoid cell line expressing FVIII. These findings suggest several testable hypotheses vis-à-vis the role of nc-RNAs in the regulation of F8 expression.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Small ncRNA Expression-Profiling of Blood from Hemophilia A Patients Identifies miR-1246 as a Potential Regulator of Factor 8 Gene”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That serves to suppress.
supraglottal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + glottal.
Senses: examples: text: Laryngeal examinations almost always reveal diffuse but variably severe supraglottal and glottal erythema and edema.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Association between Chronic Laryngitis and Particulate Matter Based on the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2008–2012”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the glottis
taeniolabidoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taeniolabidoids
Senses: examples: text: Until now, the oldest records of red tooth preservation date back to the late Paleocene Asian taeniolabidoid multituberculates Lambdopsalis bulla and Sphenopsalis nobilis, which have pigmented enamel on the ventrolateral surface of the incisors and the crown of the second upper and lower molars [26, 53, 54].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island””, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of the extinct superfamily †Taeniolabidoidea of mammals.
taeniolabidoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of the peculiarities of kogaionids is thus the presence of particularly primitive characters relative to other mainland contemporaries of the Northern hemisphere (e.g., North American taeniolabidoids and ptilodontoids and Asian djadochtatherioids).
ref: 2015 July 16, “Red Iron-Pigmented Tooth Enamel in a Multituberculate Mammal from the Late Cretaceous Transylvanian “Haţeg Island””, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of taeniolabidoid
taxocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxocenes
Senses: examples: text: Many of these studies have shown that taxocene (i.e. taxonomically related set of species co-occurring in a given place) abundance could co-vary positively with resource availability along primary productivity gradients (lizards: [3], ants: [4], birds: [5]), thus supporting the premise that greater food availability can maintain greater population densities.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Ant Abundance along a Productivity Gradient: Addressing Two Conflicting Hypotheses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A taxonomically related set of species within a community.
taxocenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: For example, in many taxocenes, body size has been shown to influence the way species use and divide resources and therefore could also limit their relative abundances [9 –12 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Ant Abundance along a Productivity Gradient: Addressing Two Conflicting Hypotheses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of taxocene
thymotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thymotropic
form: most thymotropic
Etymology: From thymo- + -tropic.
Senses: examples: text: In the present study we sought to investigate the dynamic features and clinical consequences of the thymus-dependent pathway of T cell regeneration after UCBT by analyzing the kinetics of the two major thymotropic cytokines IL-7 and SCF in patient blood, their association with thymic output and quantitative reconstitution of T cell subsets, as well as their prognostic value for clinical outcomes after dUCBT in adult recipients.
ref: 2015 July 16, “IL-7 and SCF Levels Inversely Correlate with T Cell Reconstitution and Clinical Outcomes after Cord Blood Transplantation in Adults”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That affects, or is attracted to the thymus
spearcaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪəkɑːstə/
ipa: /ˈspɪəkæstə/
Forms: form: spearcasters
Etymology: From spear (“long stick with a sharp tip used as a weapon”) + caster (“that which casts; one who casts”).
Senses: examples: text: australian weapons. 1, knife; 2, club; 3, spearcaster.
ref: 1897, John Clark Ridpath, chapter CXCI, in Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive Condition and Ethnic Development of the Great Races of Mankind, and of the Principal Events in the Evolution and Progress of the Civilized Life among Men and Nations, from Recent and Authentic Sources with a Preliminary Inquiry on the Time, Place and Manner of the Beginning. … Complete in Sixteen Volumes, volume VIII, book xxx, Cincinnati, Oh.: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 706, column 1:
glosses: A sling-like device used to impart greater impetus to a thrown spear.
examples: text: She felt near fainting with relief. Not that the blaster solved many problems. It wouldn’t get them out of a city aswarm with archers and spearcasters.
ref: 1963, Analog Science Fact / Science Fiction, LXXI, 69:
glosses: A soldier or guard armed with a spear used as a ranged weapon.
examples: text: Those spearcasters using the front carry feel relieved of the responsibility of thinking about the javelin during the run.
ref: 1969, Francis Xavier Cretzmeyer et al., Bresnahan and Tuttle’s Track and Field Athletics, 7th edition, Saint Louis, Mo.: C. V. Mosby Co., →OCLC, page 242:
glosses: A track-and-field athlete who throws a spear or spears; a javelinist, a javelin thrower.
transcapillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + capillary.
Senses: examples: text: Knudsen et al. found that albuminuria and the rate of transcapillary albumin escape correlates with diabetic macular edema [18 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “Risk Factors for Retinopathy and DME in Type 2 Diabetes—Results from the German/Austrian DPV Database”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Through a capillary
triallelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + allelic.
Senses: examples: text: We excluded sites where the outgroup reference was in disagreement with both the D. yakuba reference and D. yakuba SNPs, as well as triallelic SNPs, sites with reference sequence of ‘N’, or SNPs identified in the VCF for the reference, suggesting inaccuracies in reference assembly or residual heterozygosity in the reference.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Tandem Duplications and the Limits of Natural Selection in Drosophila yakuba and Drosophila simulans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having three different alleles at the same locus
trichlorodiphenyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, our results show that trichlorodiphenyls and tetrachlorobiphenyls with fewer ortho-chlorines are more susceptible to degradation.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by the novel identified cyanobacterium Anabaena PD-1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of trichlorobiphenyls.
triossicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + ossicular.
Senses: examples: text: The middle ear structure of non-mammaliaform cynodonts is derived from the monossicular condition present in more basal synapsids and certainly different from both the triossicular structure of early mammaliaforms and mammals and the monossicular pattern of living reptiles [5 –6, 9, 14 –15, 27, 57 –61 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “The Stapes of Gomphodont Cynodonts: Insights into the Middle Ear Structure of Non-Mammaliaform Cynodonts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having three ossicles
uplisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uplist
uplisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Under the B2 scenario, 23 species would be uplisted in threat category, with a total of four species moving to CR from NT, VU and EN, eight species moving to EN from VU, NT and LC, and 11 to VU from NT and LC (Table 4 ).
ref: 2015 July 16, “The Relative Impact of Climate Change on the Extinction Risk of Tree Species in the Montane Tropical Andes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Placed higher in a list
vasoregression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vaso- + regression.
Senses: examples: text: Of note, the relationship between BMI and DR only exists in the diabetic vasoregression stage (any retinopathy), but not in more severe stages (i.e. increased permeability (DME) or angiogenesis (PDR)).
ref: 2015 July 16, “Risk Factors for Retinopathy and DME in Type 2 Diabetes—Results from the German/Austrian DPV Database”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: regression of blood vessels
Related terms: vasoregressive
vasorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ADAM17 is known to down-regulate TGFβ signaling by shedding the extracellular domain of TGFβ-RI [60 ], as well as that of vasorin, a protein that, in its soluble form, binds to and neutralizes TGFβ [61 ].
ref: 2015 July 16, “ADAM17 Promotes Motility, Invasion, and Sprouting of Lymphatic Endothelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that modulates the arterial response to injury
zeugopodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The remains are composed of 17 bones from the skull, 2 calcified endolymphs from the sacculus (Fig 5B ) and 7 mandibular bones; 72 presacral (23 centra and 49 neural arch elements) and 66 caudal (34 centra elements and 32 neural arch elements) vertebrae; 63 ribs (complete or partial); 8 pectoral bones; 66 limb bones (including 2 humeri, 6 zeugopodia; and 48 autopodial bones).
ref: 2015 July 16, “Evidence of Egg Diversity in Squamate Evolution from Cretaceous Anguimorph Embryos”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of zeugopodium
black swallower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black swallowers
Senses: glosses: A fish of the species Chiasmodon niger, deep-sea fish able to swallow fish much larger than itself.
Synonyms: sense: Chiasmodon niger
word: great swallower
contractualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contractualise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: According to Andrew, it is contractualisation that makes change difficult for rail companies.
ref: 2021 July 14, Philip Haigh, “The challenges looming with Great British Railways”, in RAIL, number 935, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of contractualization.
contractualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: contractualises
form: contractualising
form: contractualised
form: contractualised
Etymology: From contractual + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of contractualize.
Related terms: contractualisation
contractualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contractualise
Nǀuu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Hanna Koper and her two sisters are thought to be the last remaining speakers of the San language N|uu, rated as critically endangered by Unesco.
ref: 2015, David Smith, The Guardian, 9 June
glosses: A dialect of the Nǁng language spoken in South Africa, sometimes also used for the language as a whole.
unchummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unchummy
form: most unchummy
Etymology: From un- + chummy.
Senses: glosses: Not chummy.
braccae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bracae, plural of braca, from Gaulish *brāca, of Celtic origin, cognate with Proto-Germanic *brōks; akin to Old High German bruoh (“pair of breeches”) and to Dutch broek (“pair of trousers”).
Senses: glosses: Shapeless trousers of wool or skin tied at the waist and ankles by cords, worn chiefly by the ancient Gauls.
obrotund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin obrotundus (“somewhat round”), from ob- (“towards; against”) + rotundus. Analyzeable as ob- + rotund.
Senses: examples: text: It is a minute, perhaps juvenile shell, ten millimetres in length, obrotund, thin, not nacreous, equivalve, brown, hinge without teeth; foot rudimentary; fixed to rocks by a byssus.
ref: 1882, George W[ashington] Tryon Jr., Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the Mollusca, volume I, page 268:
glosses: Nearly but not completely round; roundish.
Related terms: elliptical
obround
spearcasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪəkɑːstəz/
ipa: /ˈspɪəkæstəz/
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:spearcasters.
glosses: plural of spearcaster
Ferencváros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The 9th district of Budapest, Hungary.
supper club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supper clubs
Senses: glosses: An event where people meet for supper and social interaction, often in a private home, but with a wider range of guests than a private dinner party.
examples: text: Dearie unpacks her baggage, hits the night spots, and sings in a soothing supper-club style.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: A dining establishment that also functions as a social club.
supper clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supper club
anemotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The offspring displayed an enhanced anemotactic approach response to the trained odors, however, and did not differentiate between orders based on whether parental training was aversive or appetitive.
ref: 2015, Ziv Williams, “Lamarckian inheritance following sensorimotor training and its neural basis in Drosophila”, in arXiv:
glosses: Of or pertaining to anemotaxis.
Derived terms: anemotactically
anemotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anemo- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Movement of an organism in response to air currents.
Hyponyms: anemotropism
Related terms: anemotactic
sowled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sowl
sowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sowl
sowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sowlings
Senses: examples: text: A sowling is 160 acres, Cheshire measure, equal to 335,7 statute acres.
ref: 1814, Thomas Downs, An historical, topographical and descriptive account of the weald of Kent:
text: Walter Fitz-Engilbert holds half a sowling and forty acres of land, and has in demesne a plough with seven bondsmen and five acres of meadow.
ref: 1856, Samuel Joseph Mackie, A descriptive and historical account of Folkestone, page 340:
text: These two sowlings (in Greenwich) in the time of King Edward, were two manors.
ref: 1884, Nathan Dews, The History of Deptford, page 14:
glosses: A unit of land of 160 acres.
dopable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dopable
form: most dopable
Etymology: From dope + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Under S-rich limit, the dopable range for EF shifting corresponds to Eu2+ doping experiments, the luminescence wavelength limit is predicted to be 659 nm (1.88 eV) remarkably close to the reported results 650 nm.
ref: 2015, Bolong Huang, “Native point defects in CaS: A focus on doping limit for persistent luminescence”, in arXiv:
glosses: Capable of being doped.
zonotopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zonotope + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Relaxing realizability to local realizability, we capture a wider class of combinatorial objects: we show that non-positively curved Coxeter zonotopal complexes give rise to locally realizable COMs..
ref: 2015, Hans-Juergen Bandelt, Victor Chepoi, Kolja Knauer, “COMs: Complexes of Oriented Matroids”, in arXiv:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a zonotope.
sowths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sowth
sowthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sowth
Soyuzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Soyuz
spadefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spadefish
spaciousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaciousness
spadixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spadix
spaeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spae
spaghettinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spaghettini
spallable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spallable
form: most spallable
Etymology: From spall + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for being spalled.
raw_tags: of rock
spammings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spamming
spanaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spanaemia
spanakopitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spanakopita
spanokopitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spanokopita
Spansules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spansule
sparables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparable
sparaxises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparaxis
sparkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sparkily
form: most sparkily
Etymology: From sparky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sparky manner.
sparkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparkies
Etymology: From spark + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sparky.
sparkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparke
sparsities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparsity
sparteines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparteine
spasmolytics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spasmolytic
specialest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of special: most special