cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unitarisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unitarisations
Senses: examples: text: We compare our bounds to those obtained using the truncation method and identify a parameter region where the unitarisation prescription leads to more stringent bounds.
ref: 2016, Nicole Bell, Giorgio Busoni, Archil Kobakhidze, David M. Long, Michael A. Schmidt, “Unitarisation of EFT Amplitudes for Dark Matter Searches at the LHC”, in arXiv:
glosses: Alternative form of unitarization.
unitarisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unitarisation
cracke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of crack.
belfery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belferies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of belfry.
belferies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belfery
crackes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cracke
marryage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marryages
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of marriage.
marryages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marryage
justifyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of justifying
polite fictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polite fiction
dyssemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyssemias
Etymology: From dys- (difficulty) + sem (the Greek root for signal) + -ia. Coined in 1992.
Senses: glosses: A learning difference that involves impairment with understanding and/or using nonverbal communication
Derived terms: dyssemic
Related terms: dyscalculia
dysgraphia
dyslexia
regulationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regulationist
triggerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triggerer
responsibilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: responsibilisations
Senses: examples: text: It is through the activities and relations of responsibilisation that the linkages between the modernisation, democratisation and communitarian projects are forged.
ref: 2006, Dee Cook, Criminal and Social Justice, →ISBN, page 122:
text: Responsibilisation also promotes greater citizen involvement in community-based voluntary security initiatives like Neighbourhood Watch schemes.
ref: 2006, Alan Bryden, Marina Caparini, Private Actors and Security Governance, →ISBN, page 266:
text: Our case studies reveal that the rationality of climate change adaptation relies on multiple and scattered responsibilisations.
ref: 2012, Monica Tennberg, Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia and Finland, →ISBN:
text: Responsibilisation operates as a technology of the self and as a technology of the other. As a technology of the self, it is a way of governing that aims to manipulate the way in which individuals conduct themselves. Through responsibilisation individuals are constructed as rational, free, prudent agents, capable of managing and, if necessary, changing their way of thinking and/or behaving with the help of appropriate 'experts'.
ref: 2015, Natasha Du Rose, The Governance of Female Drug Users: Women's Experiences of Drug Policy, →ISBN:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of responsibilization.
responsibilisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responsibilisation
corobane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently originated c. 1971 as an error for cowbane.
Senses: glosses: Cowbane (Cicuta)
Derived terms: spotted corobane
Lasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lesha
form: Dasa
form: Codex Alexandrinus
form: Codex Vaticanus
form: Septuagint
Etymology: From Hebrew לָשַׁע.
Senses: glosses: Biblical location, appearing only once in the Bible, in the Book of Genesis (10:19) describing one of the limits of the area covered by the Canaanites, believed to be on the east bank of the Dead Sea, later named Callirrhoe (location of hot springs mentioned by Josephus and other authors in the first centuries AD).
Ōshima
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 大島 (おおしま, Ōshima).
Senses: glosses: One of four subprefectures in Tokyo, occupying a part of the Izu Islands
Adachi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adachis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 足立(あだち) (Adachi).
Senses: glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Saitama Prefecture, Katsushika, Sumida, Arakawa, and Kita special wards.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
stegocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From New Latin stegocephalia, from στέγος (stégos, “roof”) + -cephalous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or characteristic of animals of the order Stegocephalia
glacial till
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glacial tills
Senses: examples: text: The updated geotechnical data report submitted by Golder Associates to Capital Transit Partners, and then presented to the city, describes the valley as a natural trench in the bedrock filled with between 15 and 37 metres of loose fill, silty clay and "glacial till," or broken, weathered rock.
ref: 2016 June 9, Alistair Steele, “Ottawa sinkhole struck in unstable 'rock valley' flagged by engineers”, in CBC News:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: an unstructured geological deposit composed of boulders, clay, gravel, sand, and silt that is transported by glacial drift.
glacial tills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacial till
Arakawa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arakawas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 荒川 (あらかわ, Arakawa).
Senses: glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Adachi, Sumida, Taitō, Bunkyō and Kita special wards.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Derived terms: arakawaite
bananivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From banana + -vorous.
Senses: examples: text: It is said that one fifth of the human race are bananivorous.
ref: 1929, Thomas Philip Terry, Terry's Guide to Cuba: Including the Isle of Pines, Houghton Mifflin, page 67:
glosses: Feeding on bananas; banana-eating.
glacial drifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glacial drift
acroplaxome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acroplaxomes
Etymology: According to the authors of its first attestation, from acro- + Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “flat”) + -some, but synonymous πλάξ (pláx) fits better.
Senses: examples: text: Herein, we report the structural characterization of a plate present in the subacrosomal space and linking the developing acrosome to the spermatid nucleus. This plate, which we designate acroplaxome (from the Greek words akros, topmost; platys, flat; sõma, body), consists of F-actin and Sak57 and is bordered by a marginal ring.
ref: 2003 November, Abraham L. Kierszenbaum, “Acroplaxome, an F-Actin–Keratin-containing Plate, Anchors the Acrosome to the Nucleus during Shaping of the Spermatid Head”, in Molecular Biology of the Cell, volume 14, page 4628:
text: Concomitantly, pro-acrosomal vesicles derived from the TMF -/- Golgi lacked targeting properties and did not tether to the spermatid nuclear membrane thereby failing to form the acrosome anchoring scaffold, the acroplaxome, around the cell-nucleus.
ref: 2015 December 24, “TMF/ARA160 Governs the Dynamic Spatial Orientation of the Golgi Apparatus during Sperm Development”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Acrosome development is accomplished by F-actin–rich structures present in the subacrosomal space; these structures have been termed the acroplaxome (an actin-based scaffold that anchors the acrosome to the nuclear membrane) and the marginal ring (an actin-rich structure at the leading edge of the spreading acrosome).
ref: 2018, C. Yan Cheng, Spermatogenesis: Biology and Clinical Implications:
glosses: A structure that lies between the membranes of the acrosome and nucleus of a spermatozoon.
ascoconidia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Asci floating freely in the centrum upon maturation, with a bristle-like appendage at the base, 8-spored, with numerous ascoconidia when mature.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of ascoconidium
ascoconidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascoconidia
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any phialosporous fungus of the genus Ascoconidium
phialosporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phialospore + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or having phialospores
phialospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phialospores
Senses: glosses: Any of series of spores that form on the tip of the phialide of a fungus
Derived terms: phialosporous
ascogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The calosphaeriaceous ascoma centrum is unique in the Sordariomycetes; it comprises persistent, sparsely branched, short or elongated ascogenous hyphae with minute cells formed from croziers in sympodial succession, asci in predominantly spicate arrangement and persistent paraphyses.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows from the ascogonium of a fungus
calosphaeriaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calosphaeriaceae + -ous
Senses: examples: text: The calosphaeriaceous ascoma centrum is unique in the Sordariomycetes; it comprises persistent, sparsely branched, short or elongated ascogenous hyphae with minute cells formed from croziers in sympodial succession, asci in predominantly spicate arrangement and persistent paraphyses.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Characteristic of fungi of the family Calosphaeriaceae.
centroposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From centro- + posterior.
Senses: examples: text: The distribution appears to be centroposterior in the N400 window and more central in the first part.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Never Say No … How the Brain Interprets the Pregnant Pause in Conversation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: central and posterior
chlorothiophene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chlorothiophenes
Etymology: From chloro- + thiophene.
Senses: examples: text: Concerning the two major fragments of m/z 231.2 and 145.1 from the single-charged rivaroxaban ion (m/z 436.1), it was suggested that these fragments were obtained by cleavage of the oxazolidinone and the chlorothiophene amide moiety, respectively [23 ].
ref: 2015 December 24, “UPLC-MRM Mass Spectrometry Method for Measurement of the Coagulation Inhibitors Dabigatran and Rivaroxaban in Human Plasma and Its Comparison with Functional Assays”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several chloro- derivatives of thiophene, but especially 2-chlorothiophene and 3-chlorothiophene that are used in the synthesis of heterocycles
dansylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dansylations
Etymology: From dansyl + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The completion of acetylation and dansylation reactions was monitored by reversed phase (RP) C18 analytical HPLC and mass spectroscopy (MS).
ref: 2015 December 24, “Resolution of Two Sub-Populations of Conformers and Their Individual Dynamics by Time Resolved Ensemble Level FRET Measurements”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Modification by the addition of a dansyl group
Related terms: dansylate
deportalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to the normal parenchyma, neoplastic lesions base their blood supply exclusively on the arterial inflow; consequently, arterialization of the tumor lesions in a deportalized right liver can produce an increased tumor volume.
ref: 2015 December 24, “ALPPS Procedure for Extended Liver Resections: A Single Centre Experience and a Systematic Review”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: From which the portals have been removed
cognometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: SUIS is categorized as both a cognometric and drawmetric system.
ref: 2016, Shahid Alam, “SUIS: An Online Graphical Signature-Based User Identification System”, in arXiv:
glosses: Relating to cognometrics.
diphtheroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As most patients had only one blood culture drawn, it was not possible to ascertain the role of bacteria of uncertain clinical relevance, such as coagulase-negative staphylococci, diphtheroids and Bacillus species.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Microbes Causing Bloodstream Infections in Unguja, Zanzibar”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of diphtheroid
drawmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From draw + -metric.
Senses: examples: text: SUIS is categorized as both a cognometric and drawmetric system.
ref: 2016, Shahid Alam, “SUIS: An Online Graphical Signature-Based User Identification System”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to authentication schemes where the user has to recall and reproduce a drawing or image.
enterosalivary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entero- + salivary.
Senses: examples: text: Baseline plasma nitrate levels were similar to those of young recreationally active individuals[6, 34 ] and, whilst we were concerned that possible age related changes in digestion, enterosalivary circulation and oral commensal bacteria might impair nitrate delivery, the plasma nitrate levels achieved exceeded even those achieved by administration of a higher dose of nitrate in healthy young individuals[6 ].
ref: 2015 December 24, “Acute Dietary Nitrate Supplementation and Exercise Performance in COPD: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomised Controlled Pilot Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the saliva within the stomach and intestine
unconstructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + constructible.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be constructed.
unreconstructible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reconstructible.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be reconstructed.
unreconstructable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + reconstructable.
Senses: qualifier: nonpreferred spelling variant
glosses: Alternative spelling of unreconstructible.
unconstructable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + constructable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be constructed.
eumalacostracan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Eumalacostraca + -an
Senses: examples: text: The diversity of crustaceans testifies to a dramatic Lower Carboniferous eumalacostracan radiation.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Enigmatic Fossils from the Lower Carboniferous Shrimp Bed, Granton, Scotland”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Characteristic of crustacea of the subclass Eumalacostraca.
eumalacostracan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eumalacostracans
Etymology: Eumalacostraca + -an
Senses: glosses: Any crustacean of the subclass Eumalacostraca.
fissitunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fissi- + tunicate.
Senses: examples: text: The fissitunicate ascus dehiscence, referred to as pseudofissitunicate in unitunicate ascomycetes by Eriksson [81 ], was observed in Calosphaeria africana [7 ].
ref: 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having two layers that separate during ascus dehiscence
Derived terms: pseudofissitunicate
halaqahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halaqah
hyperattenuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + attenuated.
Senses: examples: text: We measured the length of hyperattenuated arterial obstructions on non-contrast CT. We calculated HU ratios for each patient to assess attenuation of the obstruction in relation to normal background intra-arterial attenuation as: mean obstruction HU ÷ mean normal vessel HU. We repeated obstruction attenuation measurements, in the same location, on follow-up non-contrast CT. We calculated change in attenuation of the obstruction between the two scans.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Effect of X-Ray Attenuation of Arterial Obstructions on Intravenous Thrombolysis and Outcome after Ischemic Stroke”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: More than usually attenuated
deoxyspergualin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deoxy- + spergualin.
Senses: examples: text: ATCMR is generally treated with glucocorticoids and deoxyspergualin.
ref: 2016 March 1, “Depression of Complement Regulatory Factors in Rat and Human Renal Grafts Is Associated with the Progress of Acute T-Cell Mediated Rejection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A particular immunosuppressant.
hypersaprobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + saprobic.
Senses: examples: text: Although the majority of calosphaeriaceous fungi are saprobic or hypersaprobic found in company with old stromata and ascomata of other ascomycetes on woody plants, recently some species have been isolated from wood of fruit trees showing canker symptoms, viz.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That develops in the decaying fruiting bodies of other fungi
phytostabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phytostabilizes
form: phytostabilizing
form: phytostabilized
form: phytostabilized
Etymology: From phyto- + stabilize.
Senses: glosses: To subject to phytostabilization.
phytostabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phytostabilize
phytostabilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of phytostabilize
phytostabilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of phytostabilize
immunotube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunotubes
Etymology: From immuno- + tube.
Senses: examples: text: In each round of panning, the pre-coated immunotube and polyethylene glycol (PEG) (Sigma- Aldrich, USA) precipitated Humanyx library stock were first blocked with blocking buffer (pre-blocked).
ref: 2015 December 24, “The Molecular Engineering of an Anti-Idiotypic Antibody for Pharmacokinetic Analysis of a Fully Human Anti-Infective”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A tube, coated with antigens, used to isolate antibodies
immunotubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunotube
nonconfigural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + configural.
Senses: glosses: Not configural.
membranized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From membrane + -ize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: An input volume of 200 μl of plasma was used, membranized particles were lysed using lysis solution, and proteins were precipitated using precipitation solution.
ref: 2015 December 24, “High Throughput qPCR Expression Profiling of Circulating MicroRNAs Reveals Minimal Sex- and Sample Timing-Related Variation in Plasma of Healthy Volunteers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That have developed a membrane
configural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to the spatial configuration of something, such as a human face to be recognised, rather than its separate visual features.
Derived terms: configurally
nonconfigural
metasone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metasones
Senses: examples: text: For example, although - methasone is the recommended stem, recently designated INNs have used the stem - metasone (e.g. dexa methasone in 1962, beta methasone in 1965, beclo metasone in 1970 and alclo metasone in 1979).
ref: 2015 December 24, “Patient Safety in Medication Nomenclature: Orthographic and Semantic Properties of International Nonproprietary Names”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A glucocorticosteroid used topically to reduce inflammation
Synonyms: methasone
Hypernyms: corticoid
corticosteroid
hormone
steroid
Derived terms: alclometasone
beclometasone
flumetasone
halometasone
mometasone
Thatcher effect
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013), whose image was used as an example.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon whereby it is more difficult to detect local feature changes in an upside-down face, despite identical changes being obvious in an upright face.
micropalynology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + palynology.
Senses: examples: text: To date, comparisons of micropalynology and metagenetics indicate that the latter is effective in identifying pollen sources, but read counts may not be consistently related to visual counts.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Taxonomic Characterization of Honey Bee ( Apis mellifera ) Pollen Foraging Based on Non-Overlapping Paired-End Sequencing of Nuclear Ribosomal Loci”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The study of pollen traces
Thatcher illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).
Senses: glosses: The optical illusion resulting from the Thatcher effect.
Related terms: Thatcher effect
Thatcheresque
Thatcherian
Thatcherisation
Thatcherise
Thatcherism
Thatcherist
Thatcherite
Thatcherization
Thatcherize
Thatchernomics
Thatcher's children
monophialide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophialides
Etymology: From mono- + phialide.
Senses: glosses: A simple phialide consisting of a single projection
Derived terms: monophialidic
Related terms: polyphialide
monophialides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Six collections of an unknown perithecial ascomycete strongly resembling Togniniella were collected on decaying wood of Fagus sylvatica L. and Quercus cerris L. Although no conidiophores were formed on the host, cultures derived from ascospore isolates yielded identical asexual morphs with two types of hyaline, non-septate conidia formed on monophialides arranged in whorls on dark brown conidiophores.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of monophialide
mycomembrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmbɹeɪn
Forms: form: mycomembranes
Etymology: From myco- + membrane.
Senses: examples: text: This is based on the assumption of the conservation of the basic functions in both species, such as the building of the mycomembrane.
ref: 2015 December 24, “The Non-Essential Mycolic Acid Biosynthesis Genes hadA and hadC Contribute to the Physiology and Fitness of Mycobacterium smegmatis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A hydrophobic layer of mycolic acids in the mycobacterial cell wall
biotinylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biotinylate
biotinylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of biotinylate
biosustainability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + sustainability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being biosustainable.
coreferent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + referent.
Senses: examples: text: Syntactic constraints included recognizing structures such as appositive constructions and i-within-i filter, which prevents parent noun phrases in a parse tree from being coreferent with any of children.
ref: 2016 March 3, “Bio-SCoRes: A Smorgasbord Architecture for Coreference Resolution in Biomedical Text”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Referring to the same thing.
genotypable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From genotype + -able.
Senses: examples: text: To calculate an enrichment value, the total number of rare, coding variants detected was divided by the average number of genotypable alleles for that cohort (see Methods and Table 1).
ref: 2016 March 3, “Autism Linked to Increased Oncogene Mutations but Decreased Cancer Rate”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Capable of being genotyped.
picodroplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picodroplets
Etymology: From pico- + droplet.
Senses: glosses: A droplet whose size is of the order of a picometre
mycomembranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycomembrane
picodroplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The associated sensitivity is limited only by the number of picodroplets generated and analyzed by the accompanying instrument and software [13 ,22 ,30 ].
ref: 2015 December 24, “Single-Tubed Wild-Type Blocking Quantitative PCR Detection Assay for the Sensitive Detection of Codon 12 and 13 KRAS Mutations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of picodroplet
leonurine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pre-treatment with leonurine could protect brain tissue against ischemic injury by increasing UCP4 expression.
ref: 2016 March 3, “Effects of UCP4 on the Proliferation and Apoptosis of Chondrocytes: Its Possible Involvement and Regulation in Osteoarthritis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid found in various Leonotis species.
poikilohydrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The hydration level in poikilohydrous photosynthetic tissues may influences diffusion of CO 2 [37 ].
ref: 2015 December 24, “Photosynthetic Light Responses May Explain Vertical Distribution of Hymenophyllaceae Species in a Temperate Rainforest of Southern Chile”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of poikilohydric.
synonyms: word: poikilohydric
Ing-Manske procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A technique used in Gabriel synthesis, involving reaction with aqueous or ethanolic hydrazine at reflux. This produces a precipitate of phthalhydrazide along with the primary amine.
nanovaccination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + vaccination.
Senses: examples: text: The nanovaccination approach offers a new portfolio of adjuvants, which may help to overcome the challenges of vaccinating in countries of poor sanitary infrastructure, lacking of trained personnel, cold chain maintenance, proper waste management, syringes sterilization.
ref: 2016 March 3, “Ultradeformable Archaeosomes for Needle Free Nanovaccination with Leishmania braziliensis Antigens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The administration of a nanovaccine.
cold chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold chain
polyandrogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + androgynous.
Senses: examples: text: Our results show that the opportunity for selection on each sex was of similar magnitude (0.69–0.98), consistent with this polyandrogynous mating system.
ref: 2015 December 24, “The Opportunity for Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in the Ectoparasitic Pea Crab, Dissodactylus primitivus (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to polyandrogyny
ultradeformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultradeformable
form: most ultradeformable
Etymology: From ultra- + deformable.
Senses: glosses: Very highly deformable.
neuroretinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroretina
centonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin centō (stem centōn-) + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: In technical terms, the Zadonščina could be defined as a centonical palinode, i.e. as a composition built up primarily on literal or paraphrased quotations and intended to counterbalance or refute the quoted work.
ref: 1966, Roman Jakobson, Slavic Epic Studies, page 551:
text: The end of the poem offers a good example of his centonical procedure.
ref: 1978, Robert Marcellus Browning, German poetry in the Age of the Enlightenment: from Brockes to Klopstock:
text: Ballads in the black tradition are also often centonical—they borrow thematic elements from a variety of sources to build something new.
ref: 2012, Kip Lornell, Exploring American Folk Music, page 181:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a cento (work quoting from other authors).
polyandrogyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + androgyny.
Senses: glosses: A mating strategy in which both males and females have multiple mates at the same time
Related terms: polyandrogynous
olomoucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Olomouc + -ine. Named after the city where it was discovered.
Senses: glosses: An inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinase, derived from purine, used in oncology
perinuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perinucleus
pseudofissitunicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + fissitunicate.
Senses: examples: text: The fissitunicate ascus dehiscence, referred to as pseudofissitunicate in unitunicate ascomycetes by Eriksson [81 ], was observed in Calosphaeria africana [7 ].
ref: 2015 December 24, “Phylogenetic Reconstruction of the Calosphaeriales and Togniniales Using Five Genes and Predicted RNA Secondary Structures of ITS, and Flabellascus tenuirostris gen. et sp. nov.”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Apparently fissitunicate
phytoglycogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoglycogens
Etymology: From phyto- + glycogen.
Senses: examples: text: If the bond joining β particles together to form α particles was not more acid-labile than the glycosidic linkages holding glycogen together, then the single α-particle peak would decrease over time but remain monomodal, as is seen when phytoglycogen is acid-hydrolyzed.
ref: 2016 March 3, “Molecular Structure of Human-Liver Glycogen”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A highly biocompatible polysaccharide extracted from plants, especially millet.
phytoglycogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytoglycogen
prepandemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmɪk
Forms: form: pre-pandemic
Etymology: From pre- + pandemic.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the overall risk benefit in prophylactic vaccination against pandemic and prepandemic lethal viral fevers was declared positive by the WHO, the use of squalene emulsions to adjuvant vaccines against a disease caused by a non lethal protozoan parasite is at least uncertain.
ref: 2016 March 3, “Ultradeformable Archaeosomes for Needle Free Nanovaccination with Leishmania braziliensis Antigens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: The growth, fueled by strong consumer spending and robust business investment, brought output, adjusted for inflation, back to its prepandemic level.
ref: 2021 July 29, Ben Casselman, “The U.S. economy grew 1.6 percent in the second quarter, returning to prepandemic size.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The things that used to make my day in prepandemic times were small and unplanned for — noticing a street sign that prohibited the capture of pigeons or overhearing one stranger scolding another for ordering salad at a barbecue restaurant.
ref: 2022 April 5, Michal Leibowitz, “‘I Didn’t Feel Like Going, but I’m Glad I Did’: My Motto of the Moment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
antonyms: postpandemic
coordinate_terms: intrapandemic
interpandemic
glosses: Before a pandemic.
Related terms: interepidemic
intraepidemic
postepidemic
preepidemic
before times
puboischiofemoralis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pubo- + ischiofemoralis.
Senses: examples: text: In the basal ornithischian Lesothosaurus, Maidment and Barrett (2011) [61 ] reconstructed two slips of the femoral adductor musculature as originating on the ventral and dorsal edges of the ischial shaft, and placed the insertion of the puboischiofemoralis externus between them.
ref: 2015 December 24, “A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A muscle that extends from the pubis to the femur in some reptiles
preconventional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + conventional.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Belonging to the earliest of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, focusing on self-interest and on obedience for the sake of avoiding punishment.
Coordinate terms: conventional
postconventional
postconventional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + conventional.
Senses: topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Belonging to the last of Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development, involving a social contract orientation and universal ethical principles.
Coordinate terms: conventional
preconventional
rethoracotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rethoracotomies
Etymology: From re- + thoracotomy.
Senses: examples: text: The median length of the surgical procedure was 6.5 hours (IQR: 6.0–8.0 hours) and 19 patients (36%) underwent a rethoracotomy because of rebleeding after transplantation.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Pretransplant HRCT Characteristics Are Associated with Worse Outcome of Lung Transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A second or subsequent thoracotomy
pseudoacini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoacinus
pseudopalisades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudopalisade
spermiograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermiogram
semiquantitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: semiquantitates
form: semiquantitating
form: semiquantitated
form: semiquantitated
Etymology: From semi- + quantitate.
Senses: glosses: To measure semiquantitatively
semiquantitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The antibody staining was semiquantitated by measuring mean fluorescence intensities (MFIs) with NIH Image J software (U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA).
ref: 2015 December 24, “Memantine Attenuates Alzheimer’s Disease-Like Pathology and Cognitive Impairment”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of semiquantitate
thesis defense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thesis defenses
Senses: qualifier: academy
glosses: The final step in earning a doctorate: an oral examination in which the doctorand publicly defends his/her thesis to the examiners.
Synonyms: english: in India
translation: in India
word: viva voce
transcuprein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans- + cupro- + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Albumin (about 69 kDa) has a very high affinity Cu(II) site at its N-terminus (Kd about 10−12 M) in most mammals; and transcuprein, which in humans is alpha-2-macroglobulin, has an even higher Cu affinity.
ref: 2016 March 3, “Mechanism of Copper Uptake from Blood Plasma Ceruloplasmin by Mammalian Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small protein with a specific role in plasma copper transport.
spermiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These roles of TMF are manifested during the spermiogenic process, and, while acrosome formation is linked to the Golgi-related function of TMF inside spermatogenic cells, the effect on testosterone secretion may be attributed to its presence in other cells in the male reproductive system, such as Leydig cells [4 ].
ref: 2015 December 24, “TMF/ARA160 Governs the Dynamic Spatial Orientation of the Golgi Apparatus during Sperm Development”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to spermiogenesis
synaptoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From synapto- + plastic.
Senses: examples: text: Deficits in these synaptoplastic processes could underlie some of the cognitive deficits exhibited by schizophrenia patients.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Reactive Transformation and Increased BDNF Signaling by Hippocampal Astrocytes in Response to MK-801”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to synaptic plasticity
cavendishioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cavendishioid
form: most cavendishioid
Etymology: From Cavendishia + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Lineage radiations of the core group of ericoid and cavendishioid mycorrhizal Sebacinales started probably in the Eocene, coinciding with diversification events of their hosts.
ref: 2016 March 4, “Divergence Times and Phylogenetic Patterns of Sebacinales, a Highly Diverse and Widespread Fungal Lineage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling the woody perennial plants of the genus Cavendishia.
cavendishia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavendishias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Cavendishia of woody perennial plants.
cavendishias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cavendishia
cerebroelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cerebro- + electrical.
Senses: examples: text: Others,^([sic]) have shown that ginseng and ginkgo change cerebroelectrical activity by shortening the latencies of auditory-evoked potentials, and reducing theta and beta activity.
ref: 2016 March 4, “Ginseng and Ginkgo Biloba Effects on Cognition as Modulated by Cardiovascular Reactivity: A Randomised Trial”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to electrical activity in the cerebrum.
tridecylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tridecyl + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The most prevalent fatty acids were tridecylic acid (C13:0), palmitic acid (C16:0), stearic acid (C18:0), oleic acid (C18:1n9c), and linoleic acid (C18:2 n6c).
ref: 2015 December 24, “Feed Conversion, Survival and Development, and Composition of Four Insect Species on Diets Composed of Food By-Products”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to the fatty acid that has 13 carbon atoms
unistratose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + stratose.
Senses: examples: text: Filmy ferns have unistratose leaves and are likely to be CO 2 diffusion-limited at high irradiance [50 ].
ref: 2015 December 24, “Photosynthetic Light Responses May Explain Vertical Distribution of Hymenophyllaceae Species in a Temperate Rainforest of Southern Chile”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Composed of a single layer of cells
jungermannioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jungermannioid
form: most jungermannioid
Etymology: From Jungermannia + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The diversification of Sebacinales with jungermannioid interactions started during the Oligocene, and occurred much later than the diversification of their hosts.
ref: 2016 March 4, “Divergence Times and Phylogenetic Patterns of Sebacinales, a Highly Diverse and Widespread Fungal Lineage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Characteristic of the genus Jungermannia of liverworts.
unstimulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stimulatory.
Senses: examples: text: On unstimulatory surfaces T-cells adhere but do not spread or form circumferential F-actin rings and Nef-expressing cells are undistinguishable from control cells […]
ref: 2015 December 24, “A Conserved GPG-Motif in the HIV-1 Nef Core Is Required for Principal Nef-Activities”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not stimulatory.
lordosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting lordosis.
kyphosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting kyphosis.
hyperglutaminemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperglutaminemic
form: most hyperglutaminemic
Etymology: From hyper- + glutamine + -emic.
Senses: glosses: Having an excessive level of glutamine in the bloodstream.
hyperglutaminemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + glutamine + -emia.
Senses: glosses: An excessive level of glutamine in the bloodstream.
viridofulvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Other pharmacologically unrelated medications that happen to include the word part vir, such as virginiamycin and viridofulvin, may be misinterpreted as antivirals.
ref: 2015 December 24, “Patient Safety in Medication Nomenclature: Orthographic and Semantic Properties of International Nonproprietary Names”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The polyhydroxy polyunsaturated macrocyclic ketone 16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32-nonahydroxy-17,35-dimethyl-1-oxacyclohexatriaconta-3,5,7,9,11,13,33-heptaen-2-one.
hyperexpresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hyperexpress
procerci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procercus
mahrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mahr
psilostachyin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psilostachyins
Etymology: From psilostachya + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Psilostachyin and psilostachyin C, two sesquiterpene lactones isolated from Ambrosia spp., have been demonstrated to have trypanocidal activity.
ref: 2016 March 4, “Mode of Action of the Sesquiterpene Lactones Psilostachyin and Psilostachyin C on Trypanosoma cruzi”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of bioactive isolates of Ambrosia psilostachya.
psilostachyins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psilostachyin
quinabactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, it has been shown that PYL2 can mediate a sulfonamide ABA agonist referred to as quinabactin, which forms a hydrogen bond with PYL2/PP2C to contribute to interference with stomata opening, reduction of water loss, and improvement of drought tolerance in soybean plants and adult Arabidopsis.
ref: 2016 March 4, “CmWRKY1 Enhances the Dehydration Tolerance of Chrysanthemum through the Regulation of ABA-Associated Genes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A synthetic sulfonamide that improves drought tolerance in plants.
seroprotectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sero- + protective + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The rate of seroprotectivity of anti-HBs was highest among infants under 5 years (79.1%), and declined gradually to 43.9% in children aged 5–10 and 16.9% in adolescents aged 11–20.
ref: 2016 March 4, “The Success of a Universal Hepatitis B Immunization Program as Part of Thailand’s EPI after 22 Years’ Implementation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The degree of seroprotection conferred by something.
subpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpools
Etymology: From sub- + pool.
Senses: examples: text: We initially tested the single peptides in subpools of 3 peptides each and determined that the reactive peptides were localized in the first 2 subpools including peptides C1-C3 and C4-C6.
ref: 2016 March 4, “Immune Responses to the Cancer Testis Antigen XAGE-1b in Non Small Cell Lung Cancer Caucasian Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A pool making up part of a larger pool; a subgroup or subcategory.
subpools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpool
dermoodontodysplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dermo- + odonto- + dysplasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder that includes dental problems, trichodysplasia, and nail and skin problems.
polyomaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to polyomaviruses.
folliculodystrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder of follicle growth.
finalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From finalize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, we show that FTM remains coNP-complete for resident-minimal instances, if the maximum quota of the hospitals is 2 or larger. We also give a polynomial-time decidable sufficient condition for a tentative match to be finalizable in the general case.
ref: 2016, Hisao Tamaki, “Finalizing tentative matches from truncated preference lists”, in arXiv:
glosses: Capable of being finalized.
hopsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopset
intercore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + core.
Senses: examples: text: Based on a characterization of intercore crosstalk, we perform additional simulations highlighting that classical data bandwidths beyond 1Tb/s can be supported with high speed QKD on the same fiber.
ref: 8081-8087 (2016), J. F. Dynes, S. J. Kindness, S. W.-B. Tam, A. Plews, A. W. Sharpe, M. Lucamarini, B. Fröhlich, Z. L. Yuan, R. V. Penty, A. J. Shields, “Quantum key distribution over multicore fiber”, in Optics Express, volumes 8081-8087, pages 8081–8087:
glosses: Between cores.
nonradially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + radially.
Senses: examples: text: The NASA Kepler spacecraft data revealed a large number of multimode nonradially pulsating gamma Dor and delta Sct variable star candidates.
ref: 2016, Joyce A. Guzik, Katie Kosak, Paul A. Bradley, Jason Jackiewicz, “Amplitude Variability in gamma Dor and delta Scuti stars observed by the Kepler Spacecraft”, in arXiv:
glosses: In a manner that is not radial.
quasiderivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasiderivation
semiartinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + Artinian.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a module _RM: such that, for every M→N epimorphism, where N≠0, the socle of N is essential in N.
sociomaterially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sociomaterial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In sociomaterial terms.
sociomaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From socio- + material.
Senses: examples: text: Using converging hermeneutic circles, the paper first reviews literature for evidence of sociomaterial applications to online community research, and then proposes a framework for expressing participation in online communities from a sociomaterial perspective.
ref: 2016, Geri Harris, Babak Abedin, “Participating or Not Participating? A Sociomaterial Perspective of the Embeddedness of Online Communities in Everyday Life”, in arXiv:
glosses: Relating to sociomateriality.
sociomateriality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sociomaterialities
Etymology: From socio- + materiality.
Senses: glosses: The study of the interlinked social and material aspects of the use of technology in the workplace.
Related terms: sociomaterial
sociomaterially
sociomaterialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociomateriality