cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
drop-crotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop-crotches
form: drop crotch
Senses: examples: text: If a drop-crotch cut will remove too much foliage from a limb, the limb either should be removed entirely, or not cut at all.
ref: 1998, Arborist News, page 11:
glosses: A style of pruning in which an upper limb is cut back to the next lower lateral.
examples: text: I tried on a pair of drop-crotch pants one day because they were trendy and I thought maybe, just maybe, I could rock them.
ref: 2015, Dina Gachman, Brokenomics: 50 Ways to Live the Dream on a Dime, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: A style of trousers with extra room in the crotch region, such as in harem pants.
drop-crotch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drop-crotches
form: drop-crotching
form: drop-crotched
form: drop-crotched
form: drop crotch
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes restoring a top or drop-crotching or even selectively removing certain branches will achieve the same result that the client had in mind — they may call it topping but in reality what I do is far different.
ref: 2001, Arborist News - Volumes 10-11:
glosses: To prune using the drop-crotch technique.
drop-crotches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop-crotch
drop-crotches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop-crotch
drop-crotching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop-crotch
drop-crotching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Drop-crotching holds the crown within set limits without spoiling appearance.
ref: 1972, Herbert Leeson Edlin, Collins guide to tree planting and cultivation, page 124:
glosses: Drop-crotch pruning.
drop-crotched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop-crotch
drop crotch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drop crotches
Senses: examples: text: When lowering the height of Deciduous trees, especially under utility lines, utilize drop crotch pruning where possible to minimize the likelihood of suckering.
ref: 1980, Arboriculture Specifications, page 13:
glosses: Alternative form of drop-crotch.
A style of pruning.
examples: text: He was a few inches shorter than Alex was and he had the punk rock style written all over him with that leather vest he was wearing and black drop crotch pants he had on.
ref: 2014, K. Farah, Evasion: A Journey To Remember, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: Alternative form of drop-crotch.
A style of trousers.
drop crotch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drop crotches
form: drop crotching
form: drop crotched
form: drop crotched
Senses: examples: text: Never drop crotch to a horizontal limb — the pros call it a bench cut — which will produce more water sprouts than you can count.
ref: 2003, Karan Davis Cutler, Pruning Trees, Shrubs & Vines, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: Alternative form of drop-crotch.
drop crotches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop crotch
drop crotches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of drop crotch
drop crotching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drop crotch
drop crotching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There is a technique called drop crotching, in which the highest crotch formed by a scaffold branch and the trunk is removed, or dropped, to a lower one. This does not always work.
ref: 1992, Kenneth Druse, The Natural Shade Garden, page 24:
glosses: Alternative form of drop-crotching.
drop crotched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drop crotch
dameship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dameships
Etymology: From dame + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Such sentence and the dameship's cool conceit Roused in the other a maternal heat, Who answered that her daughter was as good As any lordling of her dameship's brood;
ref: 1886, William Maestravick Stenhouse, Poems, Songs, and Sonnets, page 213:
glosses: Damehood.
dameships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dameship
creditism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creditisms
Etymology: From credit + -ism.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A socio-economic system associated with capitalism but distinguished from it due to wealth being loaned out rather than being invested.
glosses: A theory that the quantity of credit is a more important financial indicator for central banks to use to govern the economy than the money supply or interest rates.
qualifier: political economy
glosses: Social creditism.
Related terms: capitalism
loanable funds
monetarism
quantitative easing
creditisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creditism
dirigibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dirigible + -ity.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: directability
synonyms: steerability
hypernyms: manageability
glosses: The quality or state of being dirigible.
indirigibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indirigible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It is not generally recognised that complications of this kind arise solely through the indirigibility of tramcars.
ref: 1906 January 4, “Dangerous Tram and Trap”, in Motor Traction, volume 2, page 12:
text: […] extension of the tramway system which involves not only the permanent congestion of streets by reason of the indirigibility of the vehicles […]
ref: 1906 July 14, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, volume 65, page 772:
text: Its success was natural enough, reflecting as it did and in reflecting magnifying, the hopes, fears, follies and prejudices of the ordinary middle-class man, and by focussing them all together upon any desired end achieving weight and power — if also the indirigibility — of an avalanche.
ref: 1930, Oliver Madox Hueffer, "Cousins German", page 93:
glosses: The quality or state of being indirigible or unsteerable.
indirigible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indirigible
form: most indirigible
Etymology: From in- + dirigible.
Senses: glosses: Not dirigible.
Derived terms: indirigibility
Related terms: undirectable
uxorophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Latin uxor (“wife”) + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An inordinate fear of one's own wife, or of wives.
demonagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dəˈmɒ.nəˌɡɒɡ/
Forms: form: demonagogues
Senses: glosses: A medicine used to exorcize a demon.
schnicklefritz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schnicklefritzes
Senses: examples: text: She's going to be eight already, and such a little schnicklefritz. Always into mischief.”
ref: 2014, Marta Perry, Abandon The Dark, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of snicklefritz.
reval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revals
Etymology: Shortening of revalidated.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A revalidated ticket.
vaguebook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪɡˌbʊk/
Forms: form: vaguebooks
form: vaguebooking
form: vaguebooked
form: vaguebooked
Etymology: Blend of vague + Facebook
Senses: examples: text: While watching that video of the 2012 New Year’s Eve party, both the president and first lady realize they have something to hold over their rival’s head. What it is, exactly, remains unclear. Which is maddening; these two talk to each other the way some people “vaguebook” on Facebook.
ref: 2016 March 8, Jen Chaney, “‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 7: Rock Star Candidate”, in New York Times:
text: There. You’ve just had a taste of VAGUEBOOKing, a fabulous word that has been around for a while, but which makes its New York Times Crossword debut today as VAGUEBOOKS. If you have an active Facebook account, you undoubtedly have at least one friend who tends to do this.
ref: 2017 July 6, Deb Amlen, “Intentionally Mysterious Update”, in New York Times:
text: A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.
ref: 2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:
hypernyms: vagueblog
coordinate_terms: subtweet
glosses: To post deliberately cryptic statements on social media (particularly Facebook) so as to elicit attention or requests for detail.
Portillo moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Portillo moments
Etymology: Originally referred to the 1997 United Kingdom general election in which Michael Portillo, a prominent Conservative representing what was thought to be a safe seat, unexpectedly lost to the Labour candidate.
Senses: examples: text: But with FF seat losses by the dozen all over the country, the Portillo moments were stacked on several levels, like a good tin of biscuits.
ref: 2013, Paddy Duffy, Did That Actually Happen?: A Journey Through Unbelievable Moments in Irish Politics, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: Possibly the biggest Portillo moment north of the border, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury is also in danger of losing his seat according to the marginal polls.
ref: 2015 May 7, Sebastian Payne, “Election night: the ten ‘Portillo moments’ to watch out for”, in The Spectator:
text: It's the 2015 General Election's Portillo moment - but who is the Tory who's scalped shadow chancellor Ed Balls by just 422 votes?
ref: 2015 May 8, Dan Bloom, “Andrea Jenkyns ousts Ed Balls: Everything you need to know about Tory who defeated Labour giant”, in The Mirror:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An election loss for a prominent politician.
Synonyms: decapitation
scalp
scalping
geewunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geewunners
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of G1 (Generation One) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For every "whiny geewunner" out there, there are at least three or four anti-fans who bash, ridicule, and disparage them.
ref: 2007 November 20, Kittie Rose, “This is why I don't like moderated TF boards,Somebody got named #1 TF fan.”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):
text: I might be becoming a bit more of a Geewunner myself -- I just don't see the point in the latest reboot (Prime), despite it being well done.
ref: 2012 February 1, Gustavo, “Gustavo mutters about Fansproject Insecticons.”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):
text: Yep. I see it as an attempt to please me, as a "geewunner." They failed, but at least an attempt was made.
ref: 2012 July 24, Primus, “your favorite Bay movie?”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Someone who prefers the first generation of a franchise, especially when elitist or snobbish about later generations.
Synonyms: genwunner
NIHL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of noise-induced hearing loss.
antiterminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiterminators
Etymology: From anti- + terminator.
Senses: examples: text: Our results demonstrated up-regulation of tagatose pathway genes, Leloir pathway genes, lactose-specific IIA & IIBC component encoding genes (lacF2and lacE2), and the lacT gene, encoding a transcriptional antiterminator.
ref: 2015 October 3, “The Small Molecule DAM Inhibitor, Pyrimidinedione, Disrupts Streptococcus pneumoniae Biofilm Growth In Vitro”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that promotes antitermination
bifunctionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + functionalization.
Senses: examples: text: They also illustrate the advantage of biological synthesis to achieve bifunctionalization, as exemplified by several of our bi-halogenated compounds.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Precursor-Directed Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Cinnamoyl, Dihydrocinnamoyl, and Benzoyl Anthranilates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The process of making something bifunctional
biomanufacture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biomanufactures
Etymology: From bio- + manufacture.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, through co-expression with the adequate synthases, the capacity of 4CL5 to activate dihydrocinnamates creates the potential for biomanufacture of valuable natural products, such as the antibacterial dihydrocinnamoyl forms of flavans and chalcones [41 ,42 ].
ref: 2015 October 3, “Precursor-Directed Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Cinnamoyl, Dihydrocinnamoyl, and Benzoyl Anthranilates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: manufacture aided by biological methods
biomanufacture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biomanufactures
form: biomanufacturing
form: biomanufactured
form: biomanufactured
Etymology: From bio- + manufacture.
Senses: glosses: To manufacture by such methods
debrominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debrominates
form: debrominating
form: debrominated
form: debrominated
Etymology: From de- + brominate.
Senses: glosses: To remove bromine atoms, especially those added by a previous bromination
debrominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debrominate
debrominated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Reductive dehalogenation effectively removes TBBPA, but the debrominated product bisphenol A exhibits higher estrogenic activity than the parent compound [15 ,16 ].
ref: 2015 October 3, “Rapid Removal of Tetrabromobisphenol A by Ozonation in Water: Oxidation Products, Reaction Pathways and Toxicity Assessment”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Produced by debromination
detubulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detubulates
form: detubulating
form: detubulated
form: detubulated
Etymology: From de- + tubulate.
Senses: examples: text: Formamide-induced osmotic shock has been used to detubulate isolated adult rat ventricular myocytes (i.e., disrupt the surface membrane-T tubule junction).
ref: 1999 August 1, Makoto Kawai, “Excitation-contraction coupling in rat ventricular myocytes after formamide-induced detubulation”, in Heart and Circulatory Physiology:
glosses: To remove or disrupt a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).
Related terms: detubulation
detubulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detubulate
detubulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They therefore examined the effect of detubulation, and found all AT 1 R-mediated effects were eliminated in detubulated myocytes.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor-Mediated Electrical Remodeling in Mouse Cardiac Myocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by detubulation
detubulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + tubulation.
Senses: examples: text: They therefore examined the effect of detubulation, and found all AT 1 R-mediated effects were eliminated in detubulated myocytes.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor-Mediated Electrical Remodeling in Mouse Cardiac Myocytes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The removal or severing of a tubule (especially the T tubules of the heart).
Related terms: detubulate
dianthramide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dianthramides
Senses: examples: text: DHavnD and dianthramide B were obtained from Enamine Ltd (Monmouth Jct., NJ) and Sigma-Aldrich (Saint-Louis, MO), respectively.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Precursor-Directed Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Cinnamoyl, Dihydrocinnamoyl, and Benzoyl Anthranilates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of aromatic amide found in plants of the genus Dianthus.
flutemetamol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A 30-minute acquisition was started 40-minutes post-injection of PiB, a 20-minute acquisition was performed 50-minutes post-injection of florbetapir and 90-minutes post-injection of flutemetamol.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Amyloid-Related Memory Decline in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease Is Dependent on APOE ε4 and Is Detectable over 18-Months”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic fluorine compound 2-[3-fluoro-4-(methylamino)phenyl]-1,3-benzothiazol-6-ol which is sometimes used as a radiopharmaceutical
frontomedial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːdiəl
Etymology: From fronto- + medial.
Senses: examples: text: It was also shown that gene expression in the rat brain, although similar, differs between cortical regions, with 30 genes found to be enriched in the frontomedial cortex [51 ,52 ].
ref: 2015 October 3, “The Effects of Different Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) Protocols on Cortical Gene Expression in a Rat Model of Cerebral Ischemic-Reperfusion Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In the front, near the midline
heteroxenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Heteroxenia + -ic
Senses: examples: text: However, as we mentioned previously, we believe that the model is applicable to understanding similar processes in most symbioses, including heteroxenic associations (including more than one species of host in the life cycle) [27 –29 ].
ref: 2015 October 3, “Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to soft corals of the genus Heteroxenia
immunoneutralised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + neutralised.
Senses: examples: text: Data were subjected to analysis of variance (ANOVA) to detect significant intergroup differences (Tissue comparison; Fed vs Ins immunoneutralised).
ref: 2015 October 3, “Phylogenesis and Biological Characterization of a New Glucose Transporter in the Chicken ( Gallus gallus ), GLUT12”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of immunoneutralized.
immunoneutralized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + neutralized.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Modified by immunoneutralization.
immunosorting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + sorting.
Senses: examples: text: Briefly, endothelial cells were isolated from mouse lungs by magnetic immunosorting employing specific antibodies against CD31 and ICAM-2 (Dynal/Invitrogen).
ref: 2015 October 3, “MAP-Kinase Activated Protein Kinase 2 Links Endothelial Activation and Monocyte/macrophage Recruitment in Arteriogenesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The immunological sorting of proteins, cells etc
logopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logo- + -penia.
Senses: examples: text: The other two most frequent neurobehavioral changes besides “incontinence”, i.e., logopenia and apathy, are negative symptoms.
ref: 2015 October 3, “The Global Cognition, Frontal Lobe Dysfunction and Behavior Changes in Chinese Patients with Multiple System Atrophy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: logopenic progressive aphasia
macroanatomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: macroanatomic
Etymology: From macro- + anatomical or macroanatomy + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Standard MRI provides macroanatomical information, which can appear quite similar radiographically between asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals including degree of spinal cord compression [14 –16 ], spinal canal diameter, and even presence of spinal cord signal change.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Prediction of Neurological Impairment in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy using a Combination of Diffusion MRI and Proton MR Spectroscopy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to large-scale anatomical features
Hypernyms: english: anatomic
translation: anatomic
word: anatomical
Coordinate terms: alt: microanatomic
word: microanatomical
Related terms: macroanatomy
microproteomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + proteomics.
Senses: examples: text: Future work should utilize microproteomics assays to study patterns of chemokine and cytokine expression in individual cells from vocal fold lamina propria, which will help to determine the time course after injury.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Characterization of the Leukocyte Response in Acute Vocal Fold Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The proteomics of microproteins
midmembraneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + membraneous.
Senses: examples: text: Nine animals underwent transmuscular surgical injury bilaterally to the vocal folds by removing a biopsy at the midmembraneous point from the epithelium down to the thyroarytenoid muscle using 2mm cup microforceps.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Characterization of the Leukocyte Response in Acute Vocal Fold Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the middle of a membrane
midsutural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mid- + sutural.
Senses: examples: text: Data suggest slight decreases in markers of proliferation in the periosteal and midsutural areas analyzed.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Effects of Citalopram on Sutural and Calvarial Cell Processes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In the middle of a suture
overpredictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These species also show overpredictions in the lowlands of the Pacific and Caribbean regions, with dispersal potential blocked by the Oriental Cordillera.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Spatial Distribution of Sand Fly Vectors and Eco-Epidemiology of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Transmission in Colombia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of overprediction
Sachiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese さちこ (Sachiko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Tomoko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ともこ (Tomoko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Tomomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
unvigintillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unvigintillion
archaeoacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From archaeo- + acoustics.
Senses: examples: text: In the nascent science of archeoacoustics, experts test the ancient sites for locations of "sonic intensity": echoes, rocks that gong when struck, etc.
ref: 2007, Albert Goldbarth, The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007, Graywolf Press:
text: Interestingly, the field of archaeoacoustics suggests that the design of sound- shaping sculptures by humans may have a much longer history than previously thought.
ref: 2014, Nina Levent, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: The study of the role of sound in historical artifacts and sites.
glosses: The theory that patterns on ancient artifacts encode the sounds produced while they were being created, now considered a pseudoscience.
paerucumarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From P. aeruginosa, the organism from which it was obtained.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, PASS2 also lacks genes for the production of paerucumarin (PA2254-PA2257), chitinase (PA2300), and AMB toxin (PA2302-PA2306).
ref: 2015 October 3, “Genetically and Phenotypically Distinct Pseudomonas aeruginosa Cystic Fibrosis Isolates Share a Core Proteomic Signature”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isonitrile derivative of coumarin
pancreatobiliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pancreato- + biliary.
Senses: examples: text: Non-included patients were more likely to have been diagnosed with abdominal sepsis, and to have been treated with carbapenems; and less likely to have been admitted to the ICU, and to harbor gastrointestinal and pancreatobiliary disease (Table 1 ).
ref: 2015 October 3, “Factors Associated to Prevalence and Incidence of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Fecal Carriage: A Cohort Study in a Mexican Tertiary Care Hospital”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the pancreas and to the bile ducts or gall bladder
Derived terms: extrapancreatobiliary
paucicellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pauci- + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: Our study establishes, for the first time, the feasibility of detecting HIV DNA from frozen paucicellular CSF cell pellet samples using the (dd)PCR method [10 ].
ref: 2015 October 3, “Comparative Analysis of Cell-Associated HIV DNA Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Peripheral Blood by Droplet Digital PCR”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having few (or a sparse distribution of) cells
pericollateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + collateral.
Senses: examples: text: This is also supported by the remarkably similar phenotypes of mice deficient for the cognate receptor of MCP-1, CCR-2 [5 ], and MK2 in the mouse model of HLI. Both show strongly impaired growth of collaterals and pericollateral recruitment of macrophages associated with marked impairment of ischemic blood flow recovery.
ref: 2015 October 3, “MAP-Kinase Activated Protein Kinase 2 Links Endothelial Activation and Monocyte/macrophage Recruitment in Arteriogenesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Surrounding a collateral artery.
phosphocarrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphocarriers
Etymology: From phospho- + carrier.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, expressions of the ptsH gene, encoding the phosphocarrier protein HPr, and the SPD_0082 gene, encoding a sensor histidine kinase, were down-regulated 1.6- and 1.4-fold, respectively.
ref: 2015 October 3, “The Small Molecule DAM Inhibitor, Pyrimidinedione, Disrupts Streptococcus pneumoniae Biofilm Growth In Vitro”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of cytoplasmic protein that is involved in the phosphorylation of sugars
physicochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From physico- + chemistry.
Senses: glosses: physical chemistry
physicochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The distribution model itself is defined by the physicochemistry of the drug such as its lipophilicity.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Bayesian Population Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Approach for a Physiologically Realistic Characterization of Interindividual Variability in Clinically Relevant Populations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of physiochemistry.
pinocembrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Using this screening system, we found that several food compounds, including pinocembrine, 1-dodecanol, hesperetin, fisetin, piperine, and 1-tetradecanol, stimulated LDLR gene promoter activity (S1 Table ).
ref: 2015 October 3, “Piperine Induces Hepatic Low-Density Lipoprotein Receptor Expression through Proteolytic Activation of Sterol Regulatory Element-Binding Proteins”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of pinocembrin.
polyarthropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyarthropathies
Etymology: From poly- + arthropathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: polyarthrosis
hypernyms: arthropathy#Noun
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disease#Noun
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glosses: Disease in multiple joints.
polyarthropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the current analysis, we chose to investigate cerebrovascular diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory polyarthropathies, fractures, osteoporosis, ischemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, pneumonia and malignant neoplasms based on their clinical significance, their potential to cause disability, and the availability of data.
ref: 2015 October 3, “The State of Health in Older Adults in Japan: Trends in Disability, Chronic Medical Conditions and Mortality”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of polyarthropathy
polydispersivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydispersivities
Etymology: From poly- + dispersivity.
Senses: examples: text: The polydispersivity of the samples, which was lower than 25%, indicates that Sfβgly-N and Sfβgly-C were homogeneous throughout the incubation period.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Half-Barrels Derived from a (β/α) 8 Barrel β-Glycosidase Undergo an Activation Process”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being polydispersive
prelaryngeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪndʒiəl
-ɪnʒiəl
-ɪndʒəl
-iːəl
Etymology: From pre- + laryngeal.
Senses: examples: text: Central lymph nodes were divided into three or four subgroups in some articles: ipsilateral paratracheal, pretracheal, contralateral paratracheal, and prelaryngeal.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Risk Factors for Central Lymph Node Metastasis in CN0 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: anterior to the larynx
pretracheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːˈtɹeɪ.ki.əl/
ipa: /ˌpɹiː.tɹəˈkiː.əl/
ipa: /pɹiˈtɹeɪ.ki.əl/
rhymes: -eɪkiəl
rhymes: -iːəl
Etymology: From pre- + tracheal.
Senses: examples: text: Central lymph nodes were divided into three or four subgroups in some articles: ipsilateral paratracheal, pretracheal, contralateral paratracheal, and prelaryngeal.
ref: 2015 October 3, Wei Sun, Xiabin Lan, Hao Zhang, Wenwu Dong, Zhihong Wang, Liang He, Ting Zhang, Siming Liu, “Risk Factors for Central Lymph Node Metastasis in CN0 Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS One, volume 10, number 10, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Anterior to the trachea.
sapintoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapintoxins
Senses: examples: text: The 17 gene signature derived from this model was confirmed with other PKC-activating tumor promoters including phorbol-12,13-dibutyrate, sapintoxin D, mezerein, (-)-Indolactam V and resiniferonol 9,13,14-ortho-phenylacetate (ROPA) with quantitative real-time PCR (QPCR).
ref: 2015 October 3, “Synergistic Gene Expression Signature Observed in TK6 Cells upon Co-Exposure to UVC-Irradiation and Protein Kinase C-Activating Tumor Promoters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a class of irritant phorbol esters obtained from milktrees of the genus Sapium.
selenocompound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenocompounds
Etymology: From seleno- + compound.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organometallic compound of selenium
vasectomization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasectomisation
Etymology: From vasectomize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of sterilizing the male reproductive system by binding or snipping the ejaculatory ducts.
selenocompounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Se and selenocompounds could be toxic for most the plants and Astragalus plants are known to tolerate high levels of Se, also in our previous study, A.
ref: 2015 October 3, “De Novo Transcriptome Assembly and Comparative Analysis Elucidate Complicated Mechanism Regulating Astragalus chrysochlorus Response to Selenium Stimuli”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of selenocompound
subnormothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subnormothermic
form: most subnormothermic
Etymology: From sub- + normothermic.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, some researchers have demonstrated that subnormothermic conditions cause reduction of metabolic rate and allow short-term storage of cells and tissues more efficiently in comparison to normothermic conditions (+37°C) [20 ,21 ].
ref: 2015 October 3, “Influence of Factors of Cryopreservation and Hypothermic Storage on Survival and Functional Parameters of Multipotent Stromal Cells of Placental Origin”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a lower than normal body temperature
transmuscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌskjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From trans- + muscular.
Senses: examples: text: Nine animals underwent transmuscular surgical injury bilaterally to the vocal folds by removing a biopsy at the midmembraneous point from the epithelium down to the thyroarytenoid muscle using 2mm cup microforceps.
ref: 2015 October 3, “Characterization of the Leukocyte Response in Acute Vocal Fold Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Across or through a muscle
tubulobulbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tubulo- + bulbar.
Senses: examples: text: The Sertoli cell is phagocytotic and helps to remove spermatid cytoplasm through the tubulobulbar complexes and by phagocytosis of the residual bodies and degenerating germ cells [52 ].
ref: 2015 October 3, “Beyond Testis Size: Links between Spermatogenesis and Sperm Traits in a Seasonal Breeding Mammal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having the form of tubes and bulbs
flyworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flyworthy
form: most flyworthy
form: fly-worthy
Etymology: From fly + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: […] formations were so decimated that, apart from the special air units stationed at Stalino and Makeyevka, the Germans stopped referring to their aircraft as part of a group or squadron, and classified them only as flyworthy or unflyworthy.
ref: 1985, Janusz Piekalkiewicz, The Air War, 1939-1945:
text: With two aircraft riddled with hits and no longer flyworthy, the balance four flights were called off.
ref: 2010, Raj K. Mehta, Lost Victory:
text: Although seemingly complete, even to the non-aviator the craft was blatantly not fly-worthy as parts of the fuselage carried gaping holes.
ref: 2013, Nicholas Frankcom, Missing Louise:
glosses: Capable of flight; airworthy
Synonyms: flyable
debromomarinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic produced by marine actinomycetes.
haemoparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemoparasites
Etymology: From haemo- + parasite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemoparasite.
Related terms: haemoparasitic
haemoparasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemoparasite
interlabel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + label.
Senses: glosses: Between labels; especially (anatomy) between biological markers used to gauge the rate of bone formation.
intrachromosome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + chromosome.
Senses: glosses: Within a single chromosome.
Related terms: interchromosome
ulinastatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This study aims to evaluate the protective role of ulinastatin, an anti-inflammatory agent, against acute kidney injuries in infant piglets model undergoing surgery on HLF cardiopulmonary bypass.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Ulinastatin Protects against Acute Kidney Injury in Infant Piglets Model Undergoing Surgery on Hypothermic Low-Flow Cardiopulmonary Bypass”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A glycoprotein, either derived from urine or produced synthetically, that acts as a trypsin inhibitor and can be used to treat various medical conditions.
strophomenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strophomenids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Strophomenida, a large extinct order of articulate brachiopods.
strophomenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strophomenid
pseudopupils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudopupil
pseudopupil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopupils
Etymology: From pseudo- + pupil.
Senses: glosses: A dark spot that moves across the compound eye of an invertebrate as it is rotated, caused by absorption and reflection of incident light by the ommatidia.
preactivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In other words, the improvement in recognizing a “visual cloudy” SFM stimulus preceded by an unambiguous SFM stimulus of the same object might be due to the preactivations of neurons tuned to the same SFM stimuli (not just shape, but shape plus motion) at both ventral and dorsal pathways […]
ref: 2015 December 15, “The Visual Priming of Motion-Defined 3D Objects”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of preactivation
posterolabially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From posterolabial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The anterior cap (ac) is small and oval, and it is longitudinally symmetrical in young individuals (Fig 2: G1, H1) but slightly posterolabially stretched in old individuals (Fig 2: I1, J1).
ref: 2015 December 15, “Into Tibet: An Early Pliocene Dispersal of Fossil Zokor (Rodentia: Spalacidae) from Mongolian Plateau to the Hinterland of Tibetan Plateau”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a posterolabial orientation.
nonsurface
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + surface.
Senses: examples: nonsurface structures
glosses: Not at or relating to the surface.
periopathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more periopathogenic
form: most periopathogenic
Etymology: From perio- + pathogenic.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, in the current study MMP2, aMMP8, MMP9 and MMP12 were measured in the bronchial fluid of 91 patients undergoing elective diagnostic bronchoscopy and these findings correlated with the presence of periopathogenic marker species.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Elevated Matrix Metalloproteinase Levels in Bronchi Infected with Periodontopathogenic Bacteria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Contributing to periodontitis.
Related terms: periodontopathogenic
pentastomid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentastomids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Pentastomida, an enigmatic group of parasitic invertebrates
Derived terms: pentastomidosis
pentastomids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentastomid
vestitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular isoflavonoid found in Brazilian red propolis.
Derived terms: neovestitol
neovestitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + vestitol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular isoflavonoid found in Brazilian red propolis.
nauseogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nauseogenic
form: most nauseogenic
Senses: examples: text: Vibration in this frequency range is characteristic of nauseogenic vehicles.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Relationship between Spectral Characteristics of Spontaneous Postural Sway and Motion Sickness Susceptibility”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Causing nausea.
nanotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanotherapies
Etymology: From nano- + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: In this manner, the design of nanotherapy parameters (including dosing schedules) could benefit from a theoretical framework integrating mathematical modeling and computational simulation with laboratory observation and measurements.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Computational Modeling of Tumor Response to Drug Release from Vasculature-Bound Nanoparticles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The use of nanomedicine.
nanotherapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanotherapy
microvolumes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microvolume
microgap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgaps
Etymology: From micro- + gap.
Senses: examples: text: In oral implantology, bacteria are present in dental plaque and along with in the microgap between implant and prosthesis screws on implants.
ref: 2015 December 15, “Antibacterial Peptide-Based Gel for Prevention of Medical Implanted-Device Infection”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A microscopic gap.
microgaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microgap
implantologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implantologists
Etymology: From implantology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies implantology.
implantological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From implantology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to implantology.
implantologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implantologist
flavorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavorants
Senses: glosses: A flavoring agent.
flavorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flavorant
bibundles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibundle
Pachner move
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pachner moves
Etymology: Named after Udo Pachner.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
synonyms: bistellar flip
glosses: Any of a set of ways of replacing a triangulation of a piecewise linear manifold by a different triangulation of a homoeomorphic manifold.
Pachner moves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pachner move
bribeproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bribeproof
form: most bribeproof
Etymology: From bribe + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to bribery; incapable of being bribed.
counterelectrodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterelectrode
equisingularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + singularity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being equisingular.
fluorophlogopite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorophlogopites
Etymology: From fluoro- + phlogopite.
Senses: examples: text: The film with a thickness of 10 nm is grown by van der Waals epitaxy on fluorophlogopite mica and Hall-bar devices are fabricated from the as-grown film directly on the mica substrate.
ref: 2015, Yumei Jing, Shaoyun Huang, Kai Zhang, Jinxiong Wu, Yunfan Guo, Hailin Peng, Zhongfan Liu, H. Q. Xu, “Weak antilocalization and electron-electron interaction in coupled multiple-channel transport in a Bi₂Se₃ thin film”, in arXiv:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluorine-rich variety of phlogopite.
fluorophlogopites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorophlogopite
hyperconjugative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + conjugative.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hyperconjugation.
Hoffa's fat pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hoffa's fat pads
Etymology: Named after Albert Hoffa.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A cylindrical piece of fat that is situated under and behind the patella bone within the knee.
wikipedia: Albert Hoffa
paddable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pad + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Under a weaker assumption, that some problem in BQP is hard on average for P/poly, we show that every paddable language outside BPP is sculptable in this way.
ref: 2015, Scott Aaronson, Shalev Ben-David, “Sculpting Quantum Speedups”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being padded; said of a set whose strings can be transformed into infinitely many further strings in the set.
Kodaira vanishing theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Kunihiko Kodaira.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A basic result of complex manifold theory and complex algebraic geometry, describing general conditions under which sheaf cohomology groups with indices q > 0 are automatically zero.
wikipedia: Kunihiko Kodaira
reproven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of reprove
quasiminimality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quasi- + minimality.
Senses: glosses: The property of being quasiminimal.
centillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The ordinal form of the number one centillion (10³⁰³ short scale, or 10⁶⁰⁰ long scale).
centillionth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centillionths
Etymology: From centillion + -th (ordinal suffix).
Senses: glosses: The person or thing in the centillionth position.
glosses: One of a centillion equal parts of a whole
centillionths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centillionth
presegmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presegmentations
Etymology: From pre- + segmentation.
Senses: examples: text: A major advantage of TED compared to other methods is that it does not depend on any specific hemodynamic response model, and it also does not require a presegmentation of the data for dimensionality reduction as it can handle large networks consisting of tens of thousands of voxels.
ref: 2015, Gabriele Lohmann, Johannes Stelzer, Verena Zuber, Tilo Buschmann, Daniel Margulies, Andreas Bartels, Klaus Scheffler, “Task-related edge density (TED) - a new method for revealing large-scale network formation in fMRI data of the human brain”, in arXiv:
glosses: segmentation in advance
presegmentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presegmentation
semipositivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + positivity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being semipositive.
symplecticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From symplectic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being symplectic.
transadmittance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transadmittances
Etymology: From trans- + admittance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The alternating current equivalent of transconductance
transadmittances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transadmittance
overdispersive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more overdispersive
form: most overdispersive
Etymology: From over- + dispersive.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to overdispersion.
underdispersive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more underdispersive
form: most underdispersive
Etymology: From under- + dispersive.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to underdispersion.
Elsan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Elsans
Etymology: From a trade name, formed from the initials of the founder (Ephraim Louis Jackson) and sanitation.
Senses: glosses: A chemical toilet.
Elsans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Elsan
old sins have long shadows
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: old sins cast long shadows
Senses: examples: text: "'Old sins have long shadows,'" he went on musingly. "And this shadow of Bou Smain may yet engulf you if I am not quick.
ref: 1929, Camilla Hope, Long Shadows, page 253:
text: “But if it doesn't exist how can it matter?” asked Nichol. “Old file, old company, old news.” “Old sins have long shadows,” said Gamache. “And this is an old sin.”
ref: 2013, Louise Penny, How The Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery, →ISBN:
text: Lucinda was happy and deeply in love, but ‘old sins have long shadows’, and on the very night of her engagement party the dark, dangerous shadow of her past confronted her.
ref: 2014, Denise Robins, Reputation, →ISBN:
glosses: Past misdeeds are liable to return to haunt a person.
Related terms: a lie has no legs
chickens come home to roost
murder will out
skeleton in the closet
old sins cast long shadows
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of old sins have long shadows.
hools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hool