cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nanovaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanovaccines
Etymology: From nano- + vaccine.
Senses: examples: text: The capacity of both nanovaccine formulations to generate humoral (antibody) and cell-mediated responses in sheep were compared to the responses in sheep immunisation with Opti-E2 (500 μg) together with the conventional adjuvant Quil-A (1 mg), a saponin from the Molina tree (Quillaja saponira).
ref: 2015 November 5, “Immunisation of Sheep with Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus, E2 Protein Using a Freeze-Dried Hollow Silica Mesoporous Nanoparticle Formulation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any vaccine containing nanoparticles
neurosteroidogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neurosteroid + -o- + -genesis.
Senses: examples: text: In conclusion, mGluR5 driven glutamatergic activity regulates astrocytic functions associated with PBR (cholesterol transport, neurosteroidogenesis, glial phenotype) during maturation and could be associated with neuropsychiatric disorders in offspring.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Loss of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 Function on Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor in Mice Prenatally Exposed to LPS”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The genesis of neurosteroids
bell housing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bell housings
form: bellhousing
Etymology: From being a bell-shaped cover; in a shape reminiscent of a stereotypical bell (ie. servant call bell, church bell, bell curve shaped).
Senses: glosses: A cover over certain parts of the transmission in a motor vehicle.
nevocellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nevo- + cellular.
Senses: examples: text: Excessive melanin production occurs in melasma, lentigo, nevocellular nevi and malignant melanoma, whereas the loss of melanocyte function leads to vitiligo.
ref: 2015 November 5, “(E)-4-(3,4-Dimethoxyphenyl)but-3-en-1-ol Enhances Melanogenesis through Increasing Upstream Stimulating Factor-1-Mediated Tyrosinase Expression”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or composed of, nevus cells
nicothianamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The repression of chloroplast folate-biopterin transporter Fbt1 [51 ] and methionine synthase Ms1 [52 ] and the induction of homocysteine S-methyltransferase Hmt3 [53, 54 ] could also trigger the production of nicothianamine precursor “SAM” (Fig 7 ).
ref: 2015 November 5, “Deciphering Mineral Homeostasis in Barley Seed Transfer Cells at Transcriptional Level”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of nicotianamine.
nicotianamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nicotianamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme inhibitor N-(N-(3-amino-3-carboxypropyl)-3-amino-3-carboxypropyl)azetidine-2-carboxylic acid or its derivatives
permanova
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Again, we used a Bray-Curtis dissimilarity measure for permanova analysis.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Key Edaphic Properties Largely Explain Temporal and Geographic Variation in Soil Microbial Communities across Four Biomes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of PERMANOVA.
polypeptone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypeptones
Etymology: From poly- + peptone.
Senses: examples: text: Our current hypothesis is that polypeptone within the media contains some factor(s) that facilitates uracil consumption, but this remains to be proved.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Cell Lysis in S . pombe ura4 Mutants Is Suppressed by Loss of Functional Pub1, Which Regulates the Uracil Transporter Fur4”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A polymeric peptone
preconstricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + constricted.
Senses: examples: text: Phenylephrine hold stable the constriction of the vessels for enough time necessary to observe clearly the action of the G1 showed in traces B and D respectively for NP and P. Several experiments were done and the data were summarized in Fig 1E that suggested G1, tested in the range (10 -12 –10 -6 M), induced vasodilation in a concentration-dependent manner in preconstricted radial uterine arteries from both NP and P rats.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Pregnancy Augments G Protein Estrogen Receptor (GPER) Induced Vasodilation in Rat Uterine Arteries via the Nitric Oxide - cGMP Signaling Pathway”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: constricted in advance of another operation
pretargeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + targeted.
Senses: examples: text: To label cells pretargeted with norbornene-bearing antibodies, the tetrazine-containing amino acid 2 was conjugated to a commercially available far-red indocyanine fluorophore, Vivo-Tag 680 (Fig 2 ).
ref: 2015 November 5, “Tetrazine-Containing Amino Acid for Peptide Modification and Live Cell Labeling”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: targeted prior to some other operation
proteochemometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proteo- + chemometric.
Senses: examples: text: In this regard, Lapinsh et al., introduced and improvised proteochemometric analysis (PCM), a machine learning technique involving partial least square modeling for predicting the biological activities and analyzing the receptor-drug interaction space based on physiochemical descriptors of multiple proteins and ligands [4 ,5 ].
ref: 2015 November 5, “Multivariate PLS Modeling of Apicomplexan FabD-Ligand Interaction Space for Mapping Target-Specific Chemical Space and Pharmacophore Fingerprints”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to chemometrics involving proteins
sagittaly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: A thin sagittaly elongate groove between the pterygoids extends anteriorly from the choana.
ref: 2015 November 5, “New Crocodyliforms from Southwestern Europe and Definition of a Diverse Clade of European Late Cretaceous Basal Eusuchians”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of sagittally.
seroincidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroincidences
Etymology: From sero- + incidence.
Senses: examples: text: Annual HIV seroincidence and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using the 155-day window period and the standard seroincidence formula as described elsewhere [20 ].
ref: 2015 November 5, “Assessing the HIV-1 Epidemic in Brazilian Drug Users: A Molecular Epidemiology Approach”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The incidence of a particular material in blood serum (typically HIV)
Related terms: seroincident
sialophosphoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialophosphoproteins
Etymology: From sialo- + phosphoprotein.
Senses: examples: text: In human, the distribution of dentin sialophosphoprotein regulates mineral deposition and when mutated, it resembles the abnormal tooth biomineralization by defective cyclin M4 (cnnm4) [89 ].
ref: 2015 November 5, “Deciphering Mineral Homeostasis in Barley Seed Transfer Cells at Transcriptional Level”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any phosphoprotein containing sialic acid
vacucentrifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacucentrifuges
Senses: examples: text: The two extracted portions were combined and placed in a vacucentrifuge to speed dry for 45 min.
ref: 2015 November 5, “Assessment of Flooring Renovations on African Elephant ( Loxodonta africana ) Behavior and Glucocorticoid Response”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A centrifugal evaporator that operates at greatly reduced pressure
Synonyms: vacufuge
Related terms: vacuum
ventrolingually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ventrolingual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The two teeth preserved in the maxilla have conical morphology and are pointed and slightly curved ventrolingually.
ref: 2015 November 5, “New Crocodyliforms from Southwestern Europe and Definition of a Diverse Clade of European Late Cretaceous Basal Eusuchians”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a ventrolingual direction
ventrolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From ventro- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: ventral to the tongue
Related terms: ventrolingually
sociocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociocide
Paludian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paludians
Etymology: From Latin paludis (“of a slough or mire”).
Senses: glosses: A member of any of various schools in Slough, Berkshire, England.
Paludians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paludian
anastylotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to anastylosis.
unmisogynistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmisogynistic
form: most unmisogynistic
Etymology: From un- + misogynistic.
Senses: glosses: Not misogynistic.
stormers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stormer
inflectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inflected + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Repairing the mismatch entailed giving up declension in favour of a simple number contrast where the semantic nondefaultness of plurality matches the inflectedness of the plural form.
ref: 2017, Nikolas Gisborne, Anrew Hippisley, Defaults in Morphological Theory, page 40:
glosses: The quality of being inflected.
uninflectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uninflected + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uninflected.
Haggardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Haggardian
form: most Haggardian
Etymology: From Haggard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations.
ghostess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghostesses
Etymology: From ghost + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female ghost.
ghostesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ghostess
keratotorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəs
Etymology: From kerato- + torus.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to keratoconus, which can be regarded as an irregular deformity, there is keratotorus in which there is regular increase in curvature over a limited area of the cornea.
ref: 1972, Arnold Sorsby, Modern ophthalmology: Topical aspects, →ISBN, page 246:
text: The effect of such a peripheral ectasia may be the development of irregular astigmatism, although in this case it would result from keratotorus which is an inverse form of keratoconus.
ref: 1980, Ronald A. Schachar, Norman S. Levy, Les Schachar, Radial Keratotomy, page 159:
text: There is some consensus that keratoconus, keratotorus, keratoglobus, and pellucid zone degeneration are related because these different conditions have been found to coexist in families.
ref: 2000, Daniel M. Albert, Frederick A. Jakobiec, Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology, →ISBN, page 735:
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A corneal herniation accompanied by severe regular myopic astigmatism.
racecation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racecations
Etymology: Blend of race + vacation
Senses: glosses: A vacation consisting mainly of visiting race venues.
Russian Far East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the Russian part of the East Asia, between Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean
Synonyms: english: administrative entity
translation: administrative entity
word: Far Eastern Federal District
Stodger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stodgers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Stodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Stodger
Stodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stodgers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
OSA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of obstructive sleep apnea.
glosses: Initialism of osteosarcoma.
glosses: Initialism of on-shelf availability.
OSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ontario Soccer Association.
glosses: Initialism of Ontario Society of Artists.
glosses: Initialism of Open Solutions Alliance.
glosses: Initialism of Oregon Student Association.
glosses: Initialism of Old South Arabian.
OSA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of opposite-sex attracted.
baptismal names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baptismal name
wt
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: wᵗ
form: wͭ
Senses: examples: text: Wᵗ condicion that at the tyme of the Lavatory eueryche of theym turne theym to the people, and exorte theym to pray for ye soules following...
ref: 1513, Robert Fabyan, last will and testament
text: They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wᵗ nales and hammers, that it moue not.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:
glosses: Abbreviation of with.
Synonyms: wth
w/
w
wt
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. […] U C wt I mn?
ref: 2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80:
glosses: Abbreviation of what.
rifs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rif
hollow of the knee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollows of the knees
form: hollows of the knee
Senses: glosses: A poplit. (a shallow depression located at the back of the knee joint)
Stodges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stodges
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Chomskyist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chomskyist
form: most Chomskyist
Etymology: From Chomsky + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the theories of Noam Chomsky.
Chomskyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chomskyists
Etymology: From Chomsky + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who subscribes to the theories of Noam Chomsky.
Synonyms: Chomskyite
mathematicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mathematical + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre).
ref: 2004, Michał Kokowski, Copernicusʹs Originality: Towards Integration of Contemporary Copernican Studies:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.
antiterminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the Thermoanaerobacter glycobiome revealed the dynamics and the cooperating nature of pentose and hexose co-utilization, which were obviously regulated by transcriptional antiterminators of the BglG family [15 ].
ref: 2015 November 6, “Carbon Catabolite Repression and the Related Genes of ccpA, ptsH and hprK in Thermoanaerobacterium aotearoense”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of antiterminator
arbusculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, the increase in both SlAOX1a and SlAOX1c observed in the present work can be hypothesized as linked to an increase in cell respiration in the arbusculated cells to support the continuous increment in Pi released into the cell as a consequence of root colonisation, while the AMF AOX would be mainly associated to the early stages of the plant-fungus interaction.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Intra and Inter-Spore Variability in Rhizophagus irregularis AOX Gene”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having arbuscules
authochtonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The effects of diversity from donor communities versus authochtonous diversity within the recipient system may be a worthwhile future comparison due to differences in feedbacks that may alter selection pressures for efficiency.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Diversity of Riparian Plants among and within Species Shapes River Communities”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of autochtonous.
biweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biweights
Etymology: From bi- + weight.
Senses: examples: text: We began by mapping peptides to all possible proteins, and we then took the weighted mean (also known as Tukey’s biweight; implemented in the R Bioconductor package “affy”) to obtain a protein intensity that is more robust than the summation of intensities [36 –38 ].
ref: 2015 November 6, “A Pilot Proteogenomic Study with Data Integration Identifies MCT1 and GLUT1 as Prognostic Markers in Lung Adenocarcinoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of various weighted means
Derived terms: Tukey's biweight
condylarth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condylarths
Etymology: From the (disused) order name Condylarthra, from Ancient Greek κόνδυλος (kóndulos, “knuckle”) + ἄρθρον (árthron, “joint”).
Senses: examples: text: In the 10 million years after the mass extinction, the first perissodactyls emerged from the confused wastebasket of animals called condylarths.
ref: 2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
glosses: Any of a group of extinct placental mammals, early ungulates, known from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs.
condylarths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Recently, proteomics analyses of bone collagen have recently been used to yield a molecular phylogeny for a range of mammals including the unusual ‘Malagasy aardvark’ shown to be most closely related to the afrotherian tenrecs, and the south American ungulates supporting their morphological association with condylarths.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Collagen Sequence Analysis of the Extinct Giant Ground Sloths Lestodon and Megatherium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of condylarth
cytoresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyto- + resistance.
Senses: examples: text: The dramatic increase in cholesterol content that follows the induction of experimental acute renal failure characterises the acquired cytoresistance response, i.e. the partial renal resistance to further ischemic or toxic damage [4 –5 ].
ref: 2015 November 6, “The Tm7sf2 Gene Deficiency Protects Mice against Endotoxin-Induced Acute Kidney Injury”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: cellular resistance to injury
difficidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We confirmed the published TSS of bmyD, but identified the previously unknown TSSs for plantazolicin and difficidin gene clusters (S8 Fig).
ref: 2015 November 6, “dRNA-Seq Reveals Genomewide TSSs and Noncoding RNAs of Plant Beneficial Rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An antibacterial antibiotic produced by Bacillus subtilis.
electropherotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electropherotypes
Senses: examples: text: Instead of the long electropherotype found in most Wa-like strains, strains PCB-180, SKT-109, and SSKT-41 had the short electropherotype found in most DS-1-like strains.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Emergence and Characterization of Unusual DS-1-Like G1P[8] Rotavirus Strains in Children with Diarrhea in Thailand”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A phenotype or serotype differentiated by electrophoresis
electropherotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electropherotypes
form: electropherotyping
form: electropherotyped
form: electropherotyped
Senses: glosses: To analyse or to separate such serotypes
electropherotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Strains PCB-180, SKT-109, and SSKT-41 were confirmed to have G1P[8] genotypes and a DS-1-like genetic backbone, as indicated on PCR-based G and P genotyping, and electropherotyping, respectively (Tacharoenmuang et al., in preparation).
ref: 2015 November 6, “Emergence and Characterization of Unusual DS-1-Like G1P[8] Rotavirus Strains in Children with Diarrhea in Thailand”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The differentiation of electropherotypes
gravelometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravelometers
Etymology: From gravel + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: All individual samplers selected similar-sized substrates (+/- one size class of the gravelometer) at three predetermined locations along a transect (location 1 (chi-sq = 0.72, df = 3, P = 0.87), location 2 (chi-sq = 1.31, df = 3, P = 0.73), location 3 (chi-sq = 7.25, df = 3, P = 0.06); Kruskal-Wallis test, α = 0.016 with Bonferroni correction; Fig 3A ).
ref: 2015 November 6, “How Big of an Effect Do Small Dams Have? Using Geomorphological Footprints to Quantify Spatial Impact of Low-Head Dams and Identify Patterns of Across-Dam Variation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A device that measures the resistance to damage of a surface caused by flying grit and gravel etc.
homeostasome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeostasomes
Etymology: From homeostasis + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of this study was to gain insight into the regulation mechanisms of the Ca 2+ homeostasome in non-excitable, PV-expressing cells.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Antagonistic Regulation of Parvalbumin Expression and Mitochondrial Calcium Handling Capacity in Renal Epithelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The collection of molecules that are components in the homeostasis of a particular organism or system
hypermethylator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermethylators
Etymology: From hyper- + methylator.
Senses: examples: text: Of note, miR-29c is itself a post-transcriptional regulator of DNMT3b, and others have shown that DNMT3b is overexpressed in breast cancer cell lines with a hypermethylator phenotype [12, 38 ].
ref: 2015 November 6, “Molecular Subtype-Specific Expression of MicroRNA-29c in Breast Cancer Is Associated with CpG Dinucleotide Methylation of the Promoter”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any entity responsible for hypermethylation
hyperpermeabilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + permeabilized.
Senses: examples: text: Oxidative stress produced by macrophages in the luminal wall due to a hyperpermeabilized intestinal wall may account for the accumulation of α-synuclein in the intestinal mucosa.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Intestinal Dysbiosis and Lowered Serum Lipopolysaccharide-Binding Protein in Parkinson’s Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: More than usually permeabilized
developmentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more developmentalist
form: most developmentalist
Etymology: From developmental + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [Eisenhower] did it in the end by drawing heavily on Cold War rhetoric: he painted developmentalism as the first step on the road to communism, and by connecting developmentalist governments to the USSR he was able to tar them in the mind of American citizens.
ref: 2017, Jason Hickel, “The Age of the Coup”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
glosses: Of, or related to developmentalism.
developmentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: developmentalists
Etymology: From developmental + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He was a developmentalist, a universalist, and a believer in social values and cultural influences.
ref: 1987, The Bulletin of the Caucus on Social Theory and Art Education, Issue 7:
glosses: A follower or proponent of developmentalism.
Derived terms: neo-developmentalist
hyperresorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + resorption.
Senses: examples: text: A possible explanation for these findings is that the lack of the Mg 2+ shuttle PV is compensated by an increased passive paracellular uptake in the proximal tubules and the thick ascending limb of Henle or by intestinal hyperresorption of Mg 2+ .
ref: 2015 November 6, “Antagonistic Regulation of Parvalbumin Expression and Mitochondrial Calcium Handling Capacity in Renal Epithelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: resorption to a greater extent than normal
hypermethylators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypermethylator
homeostasomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeostasome
severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A clinical condition prevalent in East Asia caused by SFTS virus (SFTS, Huaiyangshan virus), a phlebovirus in the family Bunyaviridae.
yesterday's news
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: old news
yesterday's fish and chips[stale]]ness>
hypernyms: old hat
glosses: Something no longer novel and, in some cases, no longer even relevant.
Related terms: Queen Anne's dead
immunoenzymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + enzymatic.
Senses: examples: text: The further identification of anti-proteinase (PR) 3 and anti-myeloperoxidase (MPO) antibodies was performed by the immunoenzymatic assays (ELISA anti-PR3 and ELISA anti-MPO; Euroimmun, Lubeck, Germany).
ref: 2015 November 6, “Unfavorably Altered Fibrin Clot Properties in Patients with Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss Syndrome): Association with Thrombin Generation and Eosinophilia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: That uses enzymes in an immunological assay
Derived terms: immunoenzymatically
immunoprofile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoprofiles
Etymology: From immuno- + profile.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An immunological profile
immunoprofile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunoprofiles
form: immunoprofiling
form: immunoprofiled
form: immunoprofiled
Etymology: From immuno- + profile.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: To analyze such profiles
immunoprofiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: IMGT/HighV-QUEST, the first web portal, and so far the only one, for the next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis of IG and TR, is the paradigm for immune repertoire standardized outputs and immunoprofiles of the adaptive immune responses.
ref: 2015 November 6, “IMGT/HighV-QUEST Statistical Significance of IMGT Clonotype (AA) Diversity per Gene for Standardized Comparisons of Next Generation Sequencing Immunoprofiles of Immunoglobulins and T Cell Receptors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of immunoprofile
malformin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malformins
Etymology: From malform + -in.
Senses: examples: text: The pure compound was identified as malformin C via comparison of data with those previously reported [16 ].
ref: 2015 November 6, “Study of Malformin C, a Fungal Source Cyclic Pentapeptide, as an Anti-Cancer Drug”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of bicyclic peptides, produced by Aspergillus niger or close relatives, that are mycotoxins.
Dines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dineses
Etymology: Patronymic from Dain.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mitocalcin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With a focus on genes implicated in mitochondrial Ca 2+ transport and membrane potential, uncoupling protein 2 (Ucp2), mitocalcin (Efhd1), mitochondrial calcium uptake 1 (Micu1), mitochondrial calcium uniporter (Mcu), mitochondrial calcium uniporter regulator 1 (Mcur1), cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COX1), and ATP synthase subunit β (Atp5b) were found to be up-upregulated.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Antagonistic Regulation of Parvalbumin Expression and Mitochondrial Calcium Handling Capacity in Renal Epithelial Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mitochondrial calcium-binding protein
nanomol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanomols
Etymology: From nano- + mol.
Senses: examples: text: These data demonstrated that PfG from Plasmodium has Ras-like GTPase properties rather than kinetic characteristics of a canonical G-protein: i) Although the determined Km value for BODIPY FL GTPγS 1.77 ± 0.36 nmol is in the nanomol range, the affinity for binding a fluorophoric GTP analogue is low compared to the human Gα 0 and G αi1 subunits with a Km of 14±8 nmol and 87±22 nmol, respectively ii) PfG from Plasmodium hydrolyses GTP rather quickly.
ref: 2015 November 6, “A Putative Non-Canonical Ras-Like GTPase from P . falciparum : Chemical Properties and Characterization of the Protein”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of nanomole.
monotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + toxicity.
Senses: examples: text: Case report studies conducted in USA regarding diphenhydramine monotoxicity concluded that the most common symptoms for all cases were cardiac dysrhythmias, seizure activity, and/or sympathetic pupil responses.
ref: 2015 November 6, “A Review of the Ingredients Contained in Over the Counter (OTC) Cough Syrup Formulations in Kenya. Are They Harmful to Infants?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: toxicity of a single compound, present in a mixture
Related terms: monointoxication
mixtoxicity
liability insurances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liability insurance
neurocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + centric.
Senses: examples: text: The model is based on overall energy balance of the body, which is regulated by neurocentric sensing of fat-mass accumulation via insulin and leptin.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Dissecting Long-Term Glucose Metabolism Identifies New Susceptibility Period for Metabolic Dysfunction in Aged Mice”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Centered on the brain or on neurons
neuroimmunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + immunity.
Senses: examples: text: Compared with vehicle-treated controls, rapamycin protected against the tau-induced neuronal loss, synaptotoxicity, reactive microgliosis and astrogliosis, and activation of innate neuroimmunity.
ref: 2015 November 6, “The mTOR Inhibitor Rapamycin Mitigates Perforant Pathway Neurodegeneration and Synapse Loss in a Mouse Model of Early-Stage Alzheimer-Type Tauopathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: immunity from neural damage
Derived terms: psychoneuroimmunity
nothrotheriid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nothrotheriids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct ground sloth of the family †Nothrotheriidae.
nothrotheriids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The inclusion of Mylodontidae as the sister taxon of Megalonychidae does not support the monophyly of Megatherioidea (including the megatheriids, nothrotheriids and megalonychids) as in the widely accepted phylogenetic reconstruction proposals by Gaudin [47 ] based on craniodental morphological traits.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Collagen Sequence Analysis of the Extinct Giant Ground Sloths Lestodon and Megatherium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of nothrotheriid
preadsorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preadsorptions
Etymology: From pre- + adsorption.
Senses: examples: text: Validation of this antibody in chick CNS was confirmed through the reduction of signal observed in Western blotting (data not shown) and immunofluorescence after preadsorption with recombinant human Trx2 (Fig 1A–1D ).
ref: 2015 November 6, “Thioredoxin-2 Modulates Neuronal Programmed Cell Death in the Embryonic Chick Spinal Cord in Basal and Target-Deprived Conditions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Prior adsorption
premammillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + mammillary.
Senses: examples: text: Leptin, a hormone secreted by adipocytes, not only directly stimulates the release of gonadotropin from the anterior pituitary gland, but it also stimulates the hypothalamic ventral premammillary neurons to release glutamate, which activates GnRH neurons [16 ].
ref: 2015 November 6, “A Significant Increase in the Incidence of Central Precocious Puberty among Korean Girls from 2004 to 2010”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: In front of the mammillary body
superrepressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superrepressors
Etymology: From super- + repressor.
Senses: examples: text: For this end, we crossed IKK MyHC animals with animals expressing a mutated form of IκBα -(IκBα (S32A, S36A, Y42F) ), which is impervious to phosphorylation-induced degradation and thus acts as a superrepressor of NF-κB signaling[11 ].
ref: 2015 November 6, “Cardiac-Specific Activation of IKK2 Leads to Defects in Heart Development and Embryonic Lethality”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particularly effective repressor
surnatant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sur- + natant.
Senses: glosses: Lying below a floating solid
surnatant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surnatants
Etymology: From sur- + natant.
Senses: glosses: The liquid that lies under a floating solid
Related terms: supernatant
textularid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textularids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of textulariid.
textularids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The sequences were automatically aligned by using the MUSCLE algorithm [43 ] with other textularids of the species Spiroplectammina sagittula and Textularia pseudogramen, and of the genus Spirotextularia from different locations published in NCBI GenBank (accession numbers are shown on the tree).
ref: 2015 November 6, “Molecular Phylogeny and Ecology of Textularia agglutinans d’Orbigny from the Mediterranean Coast of Israel: A Case of a Successful New Incumbent”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of textularid
transbilayer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + bilayer.
Senses: examples: text: Detailed studies have shown that LmrP mediates the transbilayer movement of the amphiphilic cationic substrate TMA-DPH (1-(4-(trimethylamino)phenyl)-6-phenylhexa-1,3,5-triene) from the inner leaflet of the cytoplasmic membrane to the external side of the cell [5 ], thus effectively facilitating the transbilayer efflux of substrate across a permeability barrier at a rate that exceeds the rate of passive substrate influx.
ref: 2015 November 6, “Hoechst 33342 Is a Hidden “Janus” amongst Substrates for the Multidrug Efflux Pump LmrP”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Across or through a bilayer.
vanadomolybdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanadomolybdates
Senses: examples: text: The samples were wet-digested with concentrated H 2 SO 4 and H 2 O 2 (30%), and then N content was measured with the micro-Kjeldahl procedure, and P determined by the vanadomolybdate method [19 ].
ref: 2015 November 6, “Rational Phosphorus Application Facilitates the Sustainability of the Wheat/Maize/Soybean Relay Strip Intercropping System”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of molybdovanadate.
synonyms: word: molybdovanadate
rest day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rest days
form: day of rest
Etymology: Possibly a continuation of Middle English resten-dei, restandæȝ, from Old English restendæġ (“day of rest; Sabbath”).
Senses: examples: text: With overtime, rest day working and other payments, a union source said many drivers can expect to earn well in excess of £75,000.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Network News: SWR drivers' pay rise offer includes DCO clause”, in Rail, page 22:
glosses: A day spent resting from work or any other activity.
hair loss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Loss of hair from the head or body due to a medical condition.
Related terms: alopecia
male pattern baldness
telogen effluvium
bald spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bald spots
Senses: synonyms: bald patch
glosses: An area on the head which, due to hair loss, has little or no hair.
examples: text: from the forest, there lay before him, over an enormous extent of space, an even, velvety cover of green, without a single bald spot or washout, only here and there, in the swales, spotted with remnants of melting snow. He was not angered by the sight of a peasant horse and yearling colt, which were trampling his sprouting fields (he ordered a peasant whom he met to drive them off), [...]
ref: 1904, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Leo Wiener, The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy: Anna Karénin, page 244:
text: He joins Fagre and Erich at the edge of the rock rib where it meets the ice and snow. They uncoil the rope and tie bowlines to clip into their harnesses. The two men look to Fagre for instructions. Dan Fagre just points, unusual for a loquacious man. Ahead, about two hundred yards into the glacier, toward the headwall, is a bald spot. The snow has melted away or been scoured by the wind to reveal a stretch of disturbed ice and crevasses about the size of a football field.
ref: 2013, Christopher White, The Melting World: A Journey Across America’s Vanishing Glaciers, →ISBN:
glosses: An area where a covering layer is absent; for example, a place where there is a break in the forest covering an area, or where snow has melted.
bald spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bald spot
coffee klatsch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee klatsches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coffee klatch.
coffee klatsch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coffee klatsches
form: coffee klatsching
form: coffee klatsched
form: coffee klatsched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coffee klatch.
cartoonistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cartoonistic
form: most cartoonistic
Etymology: From cartoon + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: It depicted Nast bowing with cartoonistic exaggeration before the American minister to Chile.
ref: 1927, Henry Lane Wilson, Diplomatic episodes in Mexico, Belgium, and Chile, Kennikat Press:
text: His face was a construction of overlapping planes, almost cartoonistic, an illusion that was furthered by the black patch over his left eye socket.
ref: 2015, Ellery Queen, What's in the Dark?:
glosses: Having qualities of, or resembling a cartoon.
coffee klatsches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee klatsch
coffee klatsches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coffee klatsch
grow some skin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grows some skin
form: growing some skin
form: grew some skin
form: grown some skin
Senses: glosses: To cease being offended.
Related terms: thick-skinned
CCR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Creedence Clearwater Revival (60s–70s American band).
CCR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCRs
Senses: topics: law
related: word: CC&R
qualifier: housing
glosses: Acronym of covenant, condition, and restriction.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of condition code register.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Acronym of closed circuit rebreather.
Related terms: homeowner association
ependymites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ependymitis
developmentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of developmentalist
grossology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gross + -ology, invented by the writer Sylvia Branzei as a title of her 1992 non-fiction children’s book Grossology.
Senses: examples: text: Hilarious fables for the modern kid interested in grossology tell about a musk ox and cabbage who are appalled by a skunk's smell, an echidna who swallows her new friend ant, and lunch buddies no one wants to have around—shark, wasp, and bacteria.
ref: 2008, Jan Irving, Story Celebrations: A Program Guide for Schools and Libraries:
text: Dad's been a big proponent of the grossology trend in science museums: meaning he creates exhibits about things like boogers and farts. It's a little too much for me, but Dad loves it.
ref: 2010, Veronica Chambers, Plus:
text: Welcome to the world of yuck, or what the academic world calls grossology.
ref: 2010, New Scientist, Mick O'Hare, How to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free:
glosses: The study of things that are indelicate or gross.
wikipedia: Grossology (books)
boy-friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy-friends
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boyfriend.
boy-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boy-friend
boy friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boy friend
guy friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guy friends
form: guy-friend
form: guyfriend
Etymology: From guy + friend.
Senses: glosses: A male friend.
Related terms: chickfriend
guy-friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guy-friends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guy friend.
guy-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guy-friend
guy friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guy friend
ultraflexible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + flexible.
Senses: examples: text: From this viewpoint, ultraflexible organic thin‐film devices have attracted much attention recently. Here we report our recent progress of ultraflexible organic thin‐film devices, their emerging applications, remaining issues and future prospects.
ref: 2015, CMOS Emerging Technologies Research, CMOSETR 2015 Abstracts:
glosses: Extremely flexible.
chick-friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chick-friends
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chickfriend.
chick-friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chick-friend
chick friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chick friends
Senses: glosses: Dated form of chickfriend.
chick friends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chick friend
ultraflexibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + flexibility.
Senses: examples: text: Or is the argument there really only in terms of ultraflexibility in the labour market thereby pushing the cost of unemployment, and responsibility for it, onto the shoulders of labour and maintaining the market as a disciplinary force?
ref: 1999, Bernard Corry, Sami Daniel, Philip Arestis, Money and Macroeconomic Policy:
glosses: The quality of being ultraflexible.
non-fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-fans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonfan.
icewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ice water.
non-fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-fan
propositional constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propositional constants
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of a set of letters or symbols which are assigned fixed truth values independently of any interpretation or valuation, and each of which qualifies as a prime formula of their language.
Related terms: propositional variable
fuckology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fuck + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: They could've gave her a Ph.D. in fuckology. Know what I'm saying?
ref: 2005, Jamise L. Dames, Pushing Up Daisies: A Novel:
text: What exactly is your obvious anti-God, anti-ET and otherwise naysay (aka pagan fuckology) contribution to this otherwise nifty topic?
ref: 2006 January 12, Brad Guth, “Re: Belief in God is NOT incompatible with science!!”, in talk.atheism (Usenet):
text: 2011, Warren Kinsella, Fury's Hour: A (sort-of) Punk Manifesto
A sociology lecture! With a bit of psychology! And a bit of neurology! A bit of fuckology ... no fun! Yeee-haaaw!
glosses: Useless specialty, study, or degree.
bioconcretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioconcretions
Etymology: From bio- + concretion.
Senses: examples: text: These relatively inert materials simply collect within the biomass and can sometimes gradually become bioconcretions.
ref: 2007, D. Roy Cullimore, Practical Manual of Groundwater Microbiology, Second Edition:
glosses: Hardened biological materials.
bioconcretions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioconcretion
K-Mid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation of Kate Middleton, a diminutive of Catherine and her maiden name.
Senses: examples: text: K-Mid’s look was completed with grey Rupert Sanderson high heels. Unusually, her hair was curled beneath the brim for the Queen’s Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.
ref: 2016, Joely Chilcott, Fifty shades of K: Duchess shows her greys in drab hat and coat (in The Sun newspaper)
glosses: Catherine, Princess of Wales.
FLUTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of feline lower urinary tract disease.
rebinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebinders
Etymology: From rebind + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which rebinds.
rebinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebinder
nonhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonheads
Etymology: From non- + head.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Any grammatical element that is not a head.
nonheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhead
nonheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + headed.
Senses: glosses: Not headed.
headering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of header
barrel bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrel bomb
home invasions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home invasion
Zuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /zʌk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: Zucc
Etymology: Clipping of Zuckerberg.
Senses: examples: text: And no matter whom we work for — or whether we’re employed at all — we’re generating value for Bezos and Zuck.
ref: 2022 October 28, Malcolm Harris, “Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984), founder of the social network Facebook
vanadomolybdates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanadomolybdate
malformins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malformin
semiformalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiformalizations
Etymology: From semi- + formalization or semiformal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something semiformal.
semiformalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiformalization
unextractible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + extractible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unextractable.
denominationalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From denominational + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of denominationalizing.
espousable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From espouse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being espoused.
lickability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lick + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The degree in which something is lickable.
counterexemplary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + exemplary.
Senses: glosses: Serving as a counterexample.
counter-commuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counter-commute