cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
laying on of hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: layings on of hands
form: laying-on of hands
Senses: examples: text: And when Simon ſaw that through laying on of the Apoſtles hands', the holy Ghoſt was giuen, hee offered them money,[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 8:18, column 1:
text: He holds daily levees, which are crowded, at Metropolitan Hall, where he proclaims that he has been sent of God to heal diseases by the touch. Many are fools enough to try the experiment . . . . His formula is, "Disease, depart," accompanied with a laying on of hands.
ref: 1865 April 2, “From the West”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Jan 2013:
text: They cast out devils by magic charms, cured diseases by the laying on of hands, drank deadly poisons unharmed, and unharmed played with deadly snakes—or so they claimed.
ref: 1915, Jack London, The Jacket (The Star-Rover), ch. 17
text: This monstrous parody of divine compassion . . . performs, in the presence of moving picture cameras, a grotesque parody upon the laying on of hands and the healing of the sick.
ref: 1922, Upton Sinclair, chapter 35, in They Call Me Carpenter: A Tale of the Second Coming:
text: Popoff would race around an auditorium, striding up to dozens of people he had never met, greeting them by name, reciting their addresses, diagnosing their illnesses and then pretending to heal them with a laying on of hands.
ref: 2001 June 24, Leon Jaroff, “Fighting Against Flimflam”, in Time:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The practice of using touch to communicate spiritual energy from one person to another, especially as an act of healing.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The charism whereby new bishops are initiated into the apostolic succession.
Synonyms: chirothesia
Related terms: word: lay hands on
word: lay on hands
word: faith healer
word: simony
word: slay someone in the Spirit
laying-on of hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: layings-on of hands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of laying on of hands.
ice cream parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice cream parlors
form: ice cream parlour
form: ice-cream parlour
form: icecream parlour
form: ice-cream parlor
form: icecream parlor
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: creamery
synonyms: ice cream shop
glosses: A retail business that sells ice cream and related products.
zarph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zarphs
form: zarf
Etymology: From Turkish zarf, from Arabic ظَرْف (ẓarf, “dish, container”). See also zarf.
Senses: glosses: A highly decorated and bejewelled Turkish tea cup.
Ross seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ross seals
Senses: glosses: A seal, Ommatophoca rossii, which is found around Antarctica
Ethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions.
B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G.
R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir.
B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W?
R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.
ref: 1993 May 16, “Return to New York”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
glosses: Alternative form of Ethel: a female given name.
weddingzilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɛdɪŋˈzɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: weddingzillas
Etymology: From wedding + -zilla (suffix forming nouns and names suggesting a monster or a thing of extremely large size or great destructiveness) (a back-formation from Godzilla).
Senses: examples: text: She wasn't in the family gathering to see Sarah's weddingzilla dress burn.
ref: 2007 November 6, “alanG”, “Audreh SNUK”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st (Usenet):
text: It can be hard for a man to understand how an otherwise sweet and reasonable woman can go all weddingzilla: "My dress must have a 50-foot train, trimmed with the skins of puppies!"
ref: 2012 April 11, Amy Alkon, “Advice goddess”, in Colorado Springs Independent:
text: At least he's making Weddingzilla-ism slightly more of an equal-opportunity affair.
ref: 2013 April 23, Megan Garber, “We Have Ourselves a Groomzilla”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A person overly concerned with ensuring that a wedding goes exactly as they envision it.
Hyponyms: bridezilla
groomzilla
weddingzillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weddingzilla
destination wedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destination weddings
Senses: glosses: A wedding (planned in advance) in a foreign country, usually at a high-end resort, where the couple, the wedding party and their guests stay for about a week, and where all activities related to that wedding take place.
bunchflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunchflower
nubbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nubby: more nubby
nubbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nubby: most nubby
bovicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bovicides
Etymology: From Latin bōs + -icide.
Senses: glosses: The killing of a cow.
glosses: One who kills cows.
glosses: A cow that has been killed
glosses: A cow that has killed
glosses: A cow that has killed another cow.
Derived terms: bovicidal
bovicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bovicide
malunited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malunited
form: most malunited
Etymology: From mal- + united.
Senses: examples: a malunited fracture of the distal radius
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: united badly or wrongly
Machiavellianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Machiavellianism
Madelung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: German
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Madelung constant
Madelung deformity
Madelung's deformity
Madelung syndrome
Madelung's syndrome
Maedi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maedi
Etymology: From Latin Maedi, from Ancient Greek Μαῖδοι (Maîdoi).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Thracian or Illyrian tribe once occupying the area between Paionia and Thrace.
malakoplakic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From malakoplakia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to malakoplakia.
malakoplakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæl.ək.oʊˈplæk.i.ə/
rhymes: -ækiə
Forms: form: malakoplakias
form: malacoplakia
Etymology: From malako- (“soft”) + -plakia (“plate”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the mucous membrane of a hollow organ (as the urinary bladder) characterized by the formation of soft granulomatous lesions.
Derived terms: malakoplakic
malakoplakias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malakoplakia
magnetocardiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to magnetocardiography.
Derived terms: magnetocardiographically
magnetocardiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From magneto- + cardiography.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of magnetic fields produced by electrical activity in the heart.
Synonyms: MCG
maduromycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Madura + -o- + mycosis.
Senses: glosses: Madura foot, a form of eumycetoma.
macroparasites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroparasite
macroparasitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + parasitic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to macroparasites.
macrorestriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + restriction.
Senses: glosses: In physical gene mapping, the digestion of DNA of high molecular weight with a restriction enzyme having a low number of restriction sites.
macrolabia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + Latin labia (“lips”).
Senses: glosses: macrocheilia
macrognathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of having abnormally large jaws.
macrocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrocysts
Etymology: From macro- + cyst.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An aggregate of cells of Dictyosteliida formed during sexual reproduction enclosed in a cellulose wall
Derived terms: macrocystic
macrocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrocyst
macroglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + glia.
Senses: glosses: Any of various glial cells that are larger than microglia.
macropenis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropenises
Etymology: From macro- + penis.
Senses: examples: text: Russell-Silver syndrome […] is characterised by IUGR, small triangular facies, hemihypertrophy, clinodactyly, occasionally macropenis with or without precocious puberty, and sometimes GH deficiency.
ref: 2001, Desai, Meena P., Vijayalakshmi Bhatia & P.S.N. Menon, Pediatric Endocrine Disorders, page 60:
text: Boys develop a macropenis usually by 2 to 3 years of age and undergo premature sexual development with growth of pubic and axillary hair and appearance of adult body odor[…]
ref: 2002, Ronald G. Davidson, PDQ Medical Genetics, page 88:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormally large penis.
Synonyms: word: macrophallus
word: megalophallus
word: megalopenis
word: megaphallus
word: megapenis
word: cunt buster
word: donkey cock
word: donkey dick
word: horse cock
word: horse dick
word: monster cock
word: monsterdick
word: supercock
word: superdick
word: superpenis
word: third leg
Hypernyms: word: penis
Related terms: word: macrophallic
maltobiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: maltose
maltases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltase
malrotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malrotations
Etymology: From mal- + rotation.
Senses: examples: intestinal malrotation
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: An anomaly of rotation; aberrant movement of parts in a rotating fashion.
Related terms: maltorsion
malrotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malrotation
mannoheptulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mannoheptuloses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexokinase inhibitor found in avocados.
mannoheptuloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannoheptulose
maneb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manebs
Senses: glosses: A foliate fungicide consisting of a polymeric complex of manganese with the ethylene bis(dithiocarbamate) anionic ligand.
Derived terms: mancozeb
margate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑ(ɹ)ɡɪt/
/ˈmɑ(ɹ)ɡeɪt/
Forms: form: margates
Senses: glosses: A white margate, of the species Haemulon album of fishes.
Derived terms: black margate
margate fish
margate grunt
margates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margate
manrent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manrents
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots manrent, from Northern Middle English manreden, from Old English manrǣden. Doublet of manred.
Senses: examples: text: Although there is no precise statistical analysis of assythments, bonds of manrent were only very rarely used in such circumstances.
ref: 2003, Christine Peters, Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640, page 25:
glosses: A contract, usually military and between Scottish clans, in which a weaker man or clan pledged to serve, in return for protection, a stronger lord or clan.
manrents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manrent
Marians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Marian
liberational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liberational
form: most liberational
Etymology: From liberation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: But when it comes to telling Third World communities ― just emerging into Liberational consciousness ― what they should or should not include on their agendas, here I think we should have to realize that our never-properly-examined hetero-imitative ethnocentric hangovers from our pre-coming-out-years are showing.
ref: 1990 April 28, Harry Hay, “Identifying As Gay ― Here's The Key”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Relating to, or aiding, liberation; liberatory.
liberationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberationisms
Etymology: From liberation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A belief in, or policy of, liberation.
Related terms: liberationist
liberationisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liberationism
mansonellosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mansonella + -osis.
Senses: glosses: infection with Mansonella nematodes
mansonelliasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəsɪs
Etymology: Mansonella + -iasis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mansonellosis.
mammillaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæmɪˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌmæməˈlɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: mammillarias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: For some years back collections of mammillarias, from whatever parts of the world they came, were grown in our hothouses, and many of them are still kept there.
ref: 1841, John Claudius Loudon, The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement, volume 7, page 511:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the cactus genus Mammillaria.
mammillarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mammillaria
mannoheptoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mannoheptose
marsdenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsdenias
Etymology: From Marsden + -ia, from the genus name, named after William Marsden (orientalist).
Senses: examples: text: The odour of the 'Madagascar chaplet-flower' came floating out, mingled with the fragrant scents of the marsdenias, and the sloping shelves were one mass of varied bloom.
ref: 1872, Matilda Mary Pollard, The miner's son, and Margaret Vernon, page 194:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Marsdenia of apocynaceous plants.
wikipedia: William Marsden (orientalist)
marsdenias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsdenia
marsupialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marsupialisations
Etymology: From marsupial + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marsupialization.
marsupialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marsupialisation
mandrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandrins
Etymology: From French mandrin. See mandrel.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A metal wire or stylet inserted into a flexible catheter to give it shape and firmness while passing through a hollow tubular structure.
Synonyms: mandrel
mandrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandrin
malonyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malonyltransferases
Etymology: From malonyl + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of malonyl.
malonyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malonyltransferase
malononitriles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malononitrile
malondialdehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malondialdehyde
malonaldehydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malonaldehyde
mastodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastodynias
Etymology: From masto- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: mastalgia; pain in the breast
mastodynias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastodynia
mammalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mamm- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: mastalgia; pain in the breast
mastodontons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastodonton
lambda probe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambda probes
Senses: glosses: A device that is used to measure the proportion of oxygen in a fluid
Blackian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Blackian
form: most Blackian
Etymology: From Black + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Donald Black (sociologist), American sociologist.
mazopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: disease of the female breast
mechanotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛkənəʊˈθɛɹəpi/
Forms: form: mechanotherapies
Etymology: From mechano- + therapy, after Swedish mekanoterapi.
Senses: examples: text: They were anxious to ship me to Milan where there were better X-ray facilities and where, after the operation, I could take mechano-therapy.
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 78:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of physiotherapy designed to promote health through exercise and massage.
Related terms: mechanotherapist
mechanotherapeutic
mediastinoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediastinoscopes
Senses: glosses: A thin tube-like instrument used in mediastinoscopy to examine the tissues and lymph nodes in the mediastinum.
mediastinoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From mediastinoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mediastinoscopy.
Derived terms: mediastinoscopically
mediastinoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediastinoscope
megalencephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalencephalies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of macrencephaly.
synonyms: word: macrencephaly
Hyponyms: hemimegalencephaly
Derived terms: megalencephalic
hemimegalencephaly
megalencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megalencephalic
form: most megalencephalic
Etymology: From megalencephaly + -ic or megalo- + encephalic.
Senses: glosses: macrencephalic; having a large brain
Meckel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: German
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Meckelian
Meckel's cartilage
Meckel's cave
Meckel's diverticulum
Meckel-Serres law
Meckel's ganglion
Meckel syndrome
diktyomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diktyoma
diktyomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diktyoma
medulloepithelioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medulloepitheliomas
Etymology: From medullo- + epithelioma.
Senses: glosses: A rare, fast-growing brain tumor thought to stem from cells of the embryonic medullary cavity.
medulloepitheliomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medulloepithelioma
megacephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mega- + -cephaly.
Senses: glosses: macrencephaly
megagnathia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: macrognathia
centre forwards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centre forward
megalokaryocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalokaryocytes
Etymology: From megalo- + karyocyte.
Senses: glosses: megakaryocyte
megalokaryocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megalokaryocyte
mildronate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: meldonium
glosses: An antiischemic drug mainly used to treat angina and myocardial infarction.
ischemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ischemia
ischaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ischaemia
antiischemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + ischemic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Countering ischemia.
megadosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of megadose
megadosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of megadose
medialuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medialunas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish medialuna (literally “half moon”).
Senses: glosses: A crescent-shaped corral used in Chilean rodeos.
glosses: A kind of Argentinian croissant.
medialunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medialuna
megacystis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rare disease that is identified by an abnormally large or distended bladder.
Related terms: Berdon syndrome
megacardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: megalocardia
Maule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A region and former province of Chile.
glosses: A commune in Yvelines department, Île-de-France, France.
Derived terms: Maule's quince
Maule tuco-tuco
tuco-tuco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuco-tucos
form: tucotuco
form: tucutuco
form: tucu-tuco
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tuco-tuco. Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Tuco-tucos groom themselves to remove loose sand from their fur by combing with the stiff bristles that grow near the bases of the hind claws.
ref: 2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, editors, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, 3rd edition, volume 20: Tree squirrel - water spider, New York: Marshall Cavendish, page 2772:
text: The eyes of tuco-tucos are almost level with the top of the head, which is adaptive for surveying the horizon from their shelter without exposing themselves to predators.
ref: 2010, Joseph F. Merritt, The Biology of Small Mammals, page 76:
text: The tuco-tuco is a vegetarian rodent very similar in appearance and behaviour to the ground squirrel.
ref: 2011, Erin McCloskey, Argentina, page 56:
glosses: Any of the caviomorph South American rodents of the genus Ctenomys, which have a large head, small ears, and hairy tail.
Hyponyms: Famatina tuco-tuco
Scaglia's tuco-tuco
Talas tuco-tuco
tuco-tucos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuco-tuco
mazamorra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazamorras
Etymology: From Spanish mazamorra.
Senses: glosses: A traditional maize-based pudding or drink of Latin America.
mazamorras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mazamorra
Mataco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Matacos
form: Mataco
Senses: glosses: A member of the Wichí people.
Wichí
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wichís
form: Wichí
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous tribal people of Argentina and Bolivia.
Synonyms: Mataco
Matacos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mataco
Wichís
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wichí
Wichitan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wichitan
form: most Wichitan
Etymology: From Wichita + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Wichita.
Wichitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wichitans
Etymology: From Wichita + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Wichita.
Wichitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wichitan
melanoacanthoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanoacanthomas
Etymology: From melano- + acanthoma.
Senses: glosses: A benign, darkly pigmented cutaneous condition characterized by a skin lesion with a dull or lackluster surface, and involving a proliferation of keratinocytes and melanocytes.
melanoacanthomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanoacanthoma
melastoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melastomas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Melastoma of flowering plants.
melastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melastoma
meiocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meiocytes
Etymology: From meio- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of cell that differentiates into a gamete through the process of meiosis.
meiocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meiocyte
melanonychia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanonychias
Etymology: From melano- + onych- + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A black or brown pigmentation of the nail plate.
Related terms: chromonychia
melanonychias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanonychia
melanotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanotrophs
Etymology: From melano- + -troph.
Senses: glosses: A cell in the pituitary gland that generates melanocyte-stimulating hormone from its precursor proopiomelanocortin.
Synonyms: melanotrope
Derived terms: corticomelanotroph
melanotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanotropes
Etymology: From melano- + -trope.
Senses: glosses: melanotroph
melanotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanotroph
melanotropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanotrope
melanotropins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanotropin
menaphthone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: menadione
meganucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meganuclei
Etymology: From mega- + nucleus.
Senses: glosses: macronucleus
meganuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meganucleus
melanoglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From melano- + -glossia.
Senses: glosses: Blackening of the tongue, usually caused by a bacterial infection or allergic reaction.
Related terms: black hairy tongue syndrome
membranella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membranellae
Senses: glosses: A membranelle.
membranelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membranelles
Senses: glosses: One of a set of structures found around the mouth, or cytostome, in ciliate protists, and from which the cilia emerge.
Synonyms: membranella
Derived terms: membranellar
membranellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of membranella
membranelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of membranelle
Meigs syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Demons-Meigs syndrome
form: Demons-Meigs' syndrome
form: Meigs' syndrome
form: Meigs's syndrome
Etymology: Named after Joe Vincent Meigs (1892-1963), American obstetrician and gynecologist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The triad of ascites, pleural effusion, and benign ovarian tumor (fibroma).
wikipedia: Joe Vincent Meigs
unhappy triad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unhappy triads
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament, and medial meniscus.
Macdonald triad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after John Macdonald (psychiatrist), who proposed it in the 1960s.
Senses: glosses: A set of three behavioral characteristics — cruelty to animals, firesetting, and bedwetting past the age of five — claimed to be associated with later violent tendencies.
wikipedia: John Macdonald (psychiatrist)
megavoltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megavoltages
Etymology: From mega- + voltage.
Senses: glosses: A voltage in the region of millions of volts.
megavoltages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megavoltage
melodiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodiographs
Etymology: From melody + -o- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A form of melograph.
melodiographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodiograph
melanostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanostatins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Melanocyte-inhibiting factor (an endogenous peptide fragment derived from cleavage of the hormone oxytocin).
melanostatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melanostatin
meningism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meningisms
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A set of symptoms similar to those of meningitis but not caused by it, involving the triad of nuchal rigidity (neck stiffness), photophobia, and headache, a sign of irritation of the meninges.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Such symptoms as identified clinically but before knowledge of their cause is ascertained (that is, before diagnosis or before its confirmation); meningeal symptoms.
Synonyms: meningismus
pseudomeningitis
meningisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meningism
meningismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meningism.
megaloureter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From megalo- + ureter.
Senses: glosses: megaureter
defecographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From defecography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to defecography.
megarectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megarectums
Etymology: From mega- + rectum.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormally large rectum.
megarectums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megarectum
banjolinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banjolinists
Etymology: From banjolin + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One who plays the banjolin.
melorheostotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to melorheostosis.
melorheostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A developmental disorder and mesenchymal dysplasia in which the bony cortex widens and becomes hyperdense in a sclerotomal distribution.
hyperdense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperdense
form: most hyperdense
Etymology: From hyper- + dense.
Senses: examples: a hyperdense liver
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Extremely dense.
Related terms: hyperdensity
mesenteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesentera
Etymology: From meso- + enteron.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The midgut.
Derived terms: mesenteronal
mesaxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesaxons
Etymology: From meso- + axon.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurobiology
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A pair of parallel plasma membranes of a Schwann cell, marking the point of edge-to-edge contact by the Schwann cell encircling the axon.
mesaxons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesaxon
MERRF syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for "myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers".
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: medical genetics
glosses: A rare mitochondrial disease characterized by progressive myoclonic epilepsy and clumps of diseased mitochondria that accumulate in the subsarcolemmal region of the muscle fiber and appear as "ragged red fibers" when stained.
mesentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mesentery.
meromelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meromelias
Etymology: From mero- (“part, partial”) + Ancient Greek Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) + -ia (“disease suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: As already mentioned, limb deficiencies – amelias and meromelias – represent an important group of limb abnormalities.
ref: 2006, Patrizia Ferretti, Andrew Copp, Cheryll Tickle, Embryos, Genes and Birth Defects, page 126:
glosses: A birth defect characterized by the lacking of a part, but not all, of one or more limbs with the presence of a hand or foot, resulting in a shrunken and deformed extremity.
meromelias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meromelia
mentha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menthas
Etymology: From the genus name, Mentha, from Latin mentha (“mint”). Doublet of mint.
Senses: examples: text: Very aromatic; all culinary menthas can be used for sauces, jellies, and candied leaves.
ref: 1974, Daniel J. Foley, Herbs for Use and for Delight: An Anthology from The Herbarist, page 89:
text: In the plots where black peppermint were planted as inter-row crop, there were 4 rows of Citronella or other menthas with alternate rows of black peppermint.
ref: 1976, Agriculture and Agro-industries Journal, volume 9, page 19:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.
menthas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentha
interrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + row.
Senses: examples: interrow cultivation
glosses: Between rows, especially rows of crops.
underminable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underminable
form: most underminable
Etymology: From undermine + -able.
Senses: glosses: Susceptible to being undermined.
mesosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesosomes
Etymology: From meso- + -some.
Senses: glosses: A folded invagination in the plasma membrane of bacteria, produced by the chemical fixation techniques used to prepare samples for electron microscopy, but previously thought to be part of the normal structure of the cell.
Derived terms: mesosomal
mesosomic
mesosome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mesosome
form: most mesosome
Etymology: From meso- + -some.
Senses: glosses: Average-bodied; neither broad nor narrow in proportion to height or length.
Coordinate terms: eurysome
leptosome
mesosomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesosome
mesosoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesosomas
Etymology: From meso- + soma.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The middle part of the body, or tagma, of arthropods whose body is composed of three parts (the other two being the prosoma and the metasoma), bearing the legs and (in winged insects) the wings.
menotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛn.əˈtɹəʊ.pɪn/
ipa: /ˌmɛn.əˈtɹoʊ.pɪn/
rhymes: -əʊpɪn
Forms: form: menotropins
Etymology: Blend of menopausal + gonadotropin
Senses: glosses: human menopausal gonadotropin; an active substance for the treatment of fertility disturbances
menotropins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menotropin
mesiodens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mesio- + Latin dens (“tooth”).
Senses: glosses: A supernumerary malformed, peg-like tooth occurring between the maxillary central incisors.
mesotendon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesotendons
Etymology: From meso- + tendon.
Senses: glosses: A vinculum, in vertebrate anatomy.
mesotendons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesotendon
metafemale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metafemales
Etymology: From meta- + female.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: superfemale
glosses: A female with triple X syndrome.
metafemales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metafemale
triple X syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: trisomy X
triple X
glosses: A form of chromosomal variation characterized by the presence of an extra X chromosome in each cell of a human female, sometimes leading to tall stature, learning disabilities, and/or epicanthic folds.
Related terms: metafemale
superfemale
XXX
mesosalpinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælpɪŋks
Forms: form: mesosalpinges
Etymology: From meso- + salpinx.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Part of the lining of the abdominal cavity in higher vertebrates, specifically the portion of the broad ligament that stretches from the ovary to the level of the uterine tube.
mesosalpinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesosalpinx
mesophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesophils
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mesophile.
mesophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesophil
mepacrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -crine (“acridine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of quinacrine.
synonyms: word: quinacrine
meowings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meowing
mercaptopurines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercaptopurine
acacatechin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.kəˈkæt.ə.t͡ʃɪn/
ipa: /ˌæ.kəˈkæt.ə.ʃɪn/
ipa: /ˌæ.kəˈkæt.ə.kɪn/
rhymes: -ætətʃɪn
Forms: form: acacatechins
Etymology: Formed from ac- (a shortening of acacia) + catechin (“a pheno-alcohol (C₁₅H₁₄O₆)”)
Senses: glosses: An antioxidant for fatty oils obtained from Acacia catechu.
acacatechins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acacatechin
metabiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + -biotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, metabiosis.
Derived terms: metabiotically
metabiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + -biosis.
Senses: glosses: A form of commensalism in which one organism creates or prepares a suitable environment for another.
Related terms: metabiotic
mesothelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesothelium
metachromatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: metachromasia
cacophonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cacophonically
form: most cacophonically
Etymology: From cacophonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cacophonous manner; in a manner that produces harsh, unpleasant or discordant sounds.
menologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menology
dabblesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dabblesome
form: most dabblesome
Etymology: From dabble + -some.
Senses: examples: text: In the law's eyes, Dinwiddie was a mere dabblesome amateur.
ref: 2003, Marly Youmans, The Wolf Pit, page 49:
glosses: Tending to dabble.
mesopneumonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A pulmonary ligament connecting the lung and mesogaster.
meteoropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meteoropathies
Etymology: From meteoro- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas meteoropathy is strictly individual, air-conditioning technology homogenizes indoor climates and contributes to the emergence of a monolithic global city culture and correspondingly standardized global urban somas. While meteoropathy illustrates the fragility of the natural body and its involuntary corresspondence with the elements, air conditioning is paradigmatic for climatic voluntarism and the formation of a cultural, normalized body ever more removed from the chaning natural weather forces that alter its feelings and behavior.
ref: 2019, Bodies in the Streets: The Somaesthetics of City Life, page 57:
text: Symptoms of meteoropathy often occur 1-2 days before or after the arrival of the weather change, rather than at the time of the change itself.
ref: 2021, Mladjen Ćurić, Oliver Zafirovski, Vlado Spiridonov, Essentials of Medical Meteorology, page 94:
text: Symptoms of meteoropathy include headache, muscle pain, joint pain, general fatigue, weakness, discouragement, apathy, iritability, difficulty concentrating, and insomnia (or sleepiness).
ref: 2023, Colin R. Martin, Victor R. Preedy, Vinood B. Patel, Handbook of Anger, Aggression, and Violence, page 1136:
glosses: A physical condition or symptom associated with weather conditions, such as humidity or temperature.
Related terms: meteoropathic
meteoropathology
meteoropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meteoropathy
degerminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degerminators
Etymology: From de- + germinate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The grains are then broken up in the degerminator, usually an impact mill.
ref: 2007, Y. H. Hui, PhD; Ramesh C. Chandan; Stephanie Clark, Handbook of Food Products Manufacturing, page 374:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A device that separates the germ from the husk of a cereal grain.
degerminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of degerminator
metacycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛt.əˈsaɪˌklin/
Forms: form: methacycline
Etymology: Blend of methylidene + oxytetracycline.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A semisynthetic tetracycline antibiotic C₂₂H₂₂N₂O₈ with longer duration of action than most other tetracyclines used in the treatment of gonorrhea especially in penicillin-sensitive subjects and as a precursor in the industrial synthesis of doxycycline.
Derived terms: meclocycline
methacycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛθ.əˈsaɪˌklin/
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of metacycline.
metaproterenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: orciprenaline
esquireship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esquireships
Etymology: From esquire + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: He says that there is a vacancy in Percy's household, owing to one of his esquires being made a knight, and a page has been promoted to an esquireship.
ref: 1903, George Alfred Henty, Both sides the border: a tale of Hotspur and Glendower, page 32:
glosses: The position or office of an esquire.
esquireships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esquireship
metaraminol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A potent sympathomimetic amine used in the prevention and treatment of hypotension and in the treatment of priapism.
Synonyms: metaradrine
metaradrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: metaraminol
metaxalone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular muscle relaxant.
metarteriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metarterioles
Etymology: From meta- + arteriole.
Senses: glosses: An arterial capillary; a short vessel linking arterioles and venules.
Related terms: metarteriolar
metarterioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metarteriole
metarteriolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From metarteriole + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Relating to metarterioles.
metapyrocatechase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapyrocatechases
Etymology: From meta- + pyrocatechase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Catechol 2,3-dioxygenase, an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction catechol + O₂ ⇌ 2-hydroxymuconate semialdehyde.
metapyrocatechases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metapyrocatechase
metathalamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metathalami
Etymology: From meta- + thalamus.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A composite structure of the thalamus, consisting of the medial geniculate nucleus and the lateral geniculate nucleus.
Related terms: metathalamic
metathalami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metathalamus
metaphyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphysis
metadrenaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + adrenaline.
Senses: glosses: metanephrine
metanephrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metanephrines
Etymology: Blend of meta- + epinephrine
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metabolite of epinephrine (adrenaline) created by the action of catechol-O-methyl transferase on epinephrine.
Synonyms: metadrenaline
Derived terms: normetanephrine
metanephrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metanephrine
Metaphone
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A phonetic algorithm for indexing words by their English pronunciation.
metamorphopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metamorphopsias
Etymology: From metamorph + -opsia.
Senses: glosses: A visual distortion, associated with macular degeneration, in which a grid of straight lines appears wavy and parts of the grid may appear blank.
metamorphopsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metamorphopsia
nonchoroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + choroidal.
Senses: glosses: Not choroidal.
monographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monographic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: We are now, of course, discussing publications of those conferences which are held repeatedly, since it can be assumed that publications of conferences which are held only once are handled monographically as a matter of course.
ref: 1989, Ellis Mount, The Role of Conference Literature in Sci-Tech Libraries, page 32:
glosses: In a monographic manner; in the manner of a scholarly book or a treatise on a single subject or group of subjects.
methoxamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An α₁-adrenergic receptor agonist used as a vasoconstrictor.
methoserpidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antihypertensive drug related to reserpine.
acacetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkæs.ə.tn̩/
Forms: form: acacetins
Etymology: From acacia + acetin (an acetate formed when glycerol and acetic acid are heated together).
Senses: glosses: A glycoside forming in the leaves of the common locust tree; C₁₆H₁₂O₅.
metharbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈθɑɹ.bəˌtɔl/
Etymology: Blend of methyl + barbital.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An anticonvulsant barbiturate C₉H₁₄N₂O₃.
methitural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A barbiturate derivative used as an ultra-short-acting intravenous anesthetic.
Synonyms: methioturiate
methioturiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: methitural
methyclothiazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular diuretic.
methoxyphenamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A β-adrenergic receptor agonist of the amphetamine class, used as a bronchodilator.
acacetins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acacetin
methiodal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A molecule used as a contrast medium.
methallenestril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methallenoestril
form: methallenestrol
Etymology: From meth- + allene + -estr- (“estrogen”) + -yl.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic, non-steroidal estrogen formerly used to treat menstrual problems.
metipranolol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A non-selective beta blocker used in eyedrops to treat glaucoma.
Derived terms: desacetylmetipranolol
metolazone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thiazide-like diuretic mainly used to treat congestive heart failure and high blood pressure.
methylnitronitrosoguanidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A biochemical substance used experimentally as a carcinogen and mutagen. It acts by adding alkyl groups to the O⁶ of guanine and O⁴ of thymine.
Synonyms: MNNG