cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
obsessionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsessionists
Etymology: From obsession + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The best bit is the most obscure: When Vivien announces her plans to stay temporarily with a local antiques dealer, Ethel Mae Potter, only “Lucy” obsessionists may recognize Ethel Mertz’s maiden name.
ref: 2015 August 24, Anita Gates, “Review: ‘Drop Dead Perfect,’ Winking Melodrama, Returns to St. Clement’s”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person who has an obsession; an obsessive.
obsessionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obsessionist
obsessionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From obsession + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Obsessiveness.
Derived terms: obsessionist
froggered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frogger
froggering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frogger
santhara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: No practice is more demanding than santhara, which was first mentioned in texts written more than 1,500 years ago and derives from a word in the ancient Prakrit language meaning “bed of grass.”
ref: 2015 August 24, Ellen Barry, “Sect’s Death Ritual Clashes With Indian Law”, in New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of sallekhana.
synonyms: word: sallekhana
sallekhana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit सल्लेखना (sallekhanā).
Senses: glosses: The religious practice of facing death voluntarily at the end of one's life, with fasting and meditation.
Synonyms: santhara
discernably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discernably
form: most discernably
Etymology: From discernable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The voltage rose discernably with increasing electrode diameter.
ref: 2015 August 25, “Effects of Electrode Material on the Voltage of a Tree-Based Energy Generator”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a way that can be discerned; observably.
elastoviscosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elastoviscosities
Etymology: From elasto- + viscosity.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of mechanical stimuli, the tear film is expected to act as a limited filter for mechanical forces and an increase in its thickness and/or elastoviscosity would decrease the transmission of force to the nerve endings so that the same stimulus would be less intensely felt.
ref: 2015 August 25, “The Effect of Tear Supplementation on Ocular Surface Sensations during the Interblink Interval in Patients with Dry Eye”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Quality or degree of being elastoviscous.
elastoviscosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elastoviscosity
epidermises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epidermis
gellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Blinking rate, interblink ocular surface sensations and corneal sensitivity to the different stimuli were explored before and 5 minutes after instillation of a drop of sterile saline or hydroxypropyl-guar gellable lubricant eye drop (Systane Balance Lubricant Eye Drops; Alcon, Alcon Inc, Fort Worth, TX, USA) in one eye of each participants.
ref: 2015 August 25, “The Effect of Tear Supplementation on Ocular Surface Sensations during the Interblink Interval in Patients with Dry Eye”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gelable.
immunomicroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + microscopic.
Senses: examples: text: For immunomicroscopic analysis, monoclonal antibodies, prepared as described by Kohler and Milstein (1976), have several advantages over conventional antisera or autoantibodies.
ref: 1982 December, Bryan M. Turner, “Immunofluorescent staining of human metaphase chromosomes with monoclonal antibody to histone H2B”, in Chromosoma, volume 87, number 3, page 345:
text: These questions will need to be addressed using mono-specific AhLPAT2 antibodies and immunomicroscopic analysis of native peanut tissues.
ref: 2015 August 25, “The Peanut ( Arachis hypogaea L.) Gene AhLPAT2 Increases the Lipid Content of Transgenic Arabidopsis Seeds”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to immunomicroscopy.
interblink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + blink.
Senses: examples: text: The aim of this study was to investigate the characteristics of ocular surface sensations and corneal sensitivity during the interblink interval in dry eye patients before and shortly after tear supplementation.
ref: 2015 August 25, “The Effect of Tear Supplementation on Ocular Surface Sensations during the Interblink Interval in Patients with Dry Eye”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between blinks of the eye.
elastoviscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From elasto- + viscous.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: viscous, but deforming elastically under short-duration stresses
interacetabular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + acetabular.
Senses: examples: text: The human spine (relative to the great apes) has invaginated ventrally (forward) into the abdominal cavity in order to closely coincide the center of mass with the vertebrae centers of rotation, thereby reducing torsional and bending stresses on the spine and increasing the mechanical moment produced by the erector spinae muscles, thus also assisting in balancing the torso over the interacetabular axis during pregnancy.
ref: 2015 August 25, “The Lumbar Lordosis in Males and Females, Revisited”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between acetabula.
loricrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, significantly higher levels of loricrin and transglutaminase-3 mRNA were observed in the SM group.
ref: 2015 August 25, “Dietary Milk Sphingomyelin Prevents Disruption of Skin Barrier Function in Hairless Mice after UV-B Irradiation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A major protein component of the cornified cell envelope found in terminally differentiated epidermal cells.
aconuresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -uresis.
Senses: examples: text: Other chronic diseases surveyed were assessed with the following questions “Within the last 12 months did you have allergic asthma/ other forms of asthma/ allergies/ diabetes/ cataract/ tinnitus/ hypertension/ myocardial infarction/ insult or cerebral haemorrhage/ chronic bronchitis or emphysema/ aconuresis/ cancer/ gastric or intestinal ulcer/migraine?” with the answer categories “yes” or “no”.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Associations and Synergistic Effects for Psychological Distress and Chronic Back Pain on the Utilization of Different Levels of Ambulatory Health Care. A Cross-Sectional Study from Austria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: urinary incontinence (inability to control urination)
mechanonociceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanonociceptor
mechanosensations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanosensation
mechanonociceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanonociceptors
Etymology: From mechano- + nociceptor.
Senses: glosses: A mechanoreceptor involved in the sensation of pain.
anthocyanosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antho- + cyanosis.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of the initial necrotic symptoms typical of PD, the lower leaves (closest to the inoculation zones) of inoculated plants showed prominent anthocyanosis with green veinal areas (Fig 4C and 4D ).
ref: 2015 July 29, “Three New Pierce's Disease Pathogenicity Effectors Identified Using Xylella fastidiosa Biocontrol Strain EB92-1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A purple discolouration of flowers (due to a virus)
meibomitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Meibomian + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Subjects with ophthalmic conditions other than dry eye or systemic disease including blepharitis, meibomitis, lid abnormalities as well as contact lens wearers were also excluded.
ref: 2015 August 25, “The Effect of Tear Supplementation on Ocular Surface Sensations during the Interblink Interval in Patients with Dry Eye”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: inflammation of the meibomian glands
nanoporosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoporosity
postreperfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + reperfusion.
Senses: glosses: After reperfusion.
autocyclization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocyclizations
Etymology: From auto- + cyclization.
Senses: examples: text: The chromophore responsible for the optical properties in GFP-like proteins is composed of X-Tyr-Gly and is able to form an imidazolinone structure through an autocyclization step, which involves the residues in the vicinity of the chromophore environment such as the highly conserved E215 and R95 in DsRed and the E222 and R96 in avGFP.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Chromophore Deprotonation State Alters the Optical Properties of Blue Chromoprotein”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of a ring between two fragments of RNA.
reconvolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒlv
Forms: form: reconvolves
form: reconvolving
form: reconvolved
form: reconvolved
Etymology: From re- + convolve.
Senses: examples: text: Then the neuronal signals from the left ACC seed were multiplied with regressors modeling the task effect and then reconvolved with the canonical HRF. The task effect represents the pairwise comparison of the romantic gift from the liked vs. the uninteresting giver, because we were interested in connectivity in the specific condition in which a participant judges a romantic gift from the liked giver.
ref: 2015 August 25, “Women’s Preference for a Male Acquaintance Enhances Social Reward Processing of Material Goods in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To convolve again.
reconvolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconvolve
reconvolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconvolve
reconvolving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconvolve
bioimprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + imprinting.
Senses: examples: text: Polystyrene (PS) macroporous resin has also been used to immobilize the lipase from Burkholderia cepacia, and this resin has been successfully demonstrated to enhance lipase activity together with bioimprinting and interfacial activation[21 ].
ref: 2015 July 29, “Immobilization, Regiospecificity Characterization and Application of Aspergillus oryzae Lipase in the Enzymatic Synthesis of the Structured Lipid 1,3-Dioleoyl-2-Palmitoylglycerol”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: biological imprinting
swellability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swellabilities
Etymology: From swell + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: We also observed significantly lower swellability for hydrogel nanocomposites relative to neat hydrogels, consistent with previous work suggesting that nanoparticles can mediate pseudo crosslinking within polymer networks.
ref: 2015 August 25, “Experimental Investigation of Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Silica Nanoparticle-Reinforced Poly(acrylamide) Nanocomposite Hydrogels”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Quality or degree of being swellable.
swellabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swellability
trisynaptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + synaptic.
Senses: examples: text: The ability for one-trial rapid learning is a hippocampus-specific cognitive function requiring place information to traverse the full trisynaptic pathway (entorhinal cortex → DG → CA3 →CA1 → entorhinal cortex).
ref: 2015 August 25, “Changes in Diffusion Kurtosis Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in a Direct Cranial Blast Traumatic Brain Injury (dc-bTBI) Model”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Involving three synapses.
xanthoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An intermediate in the biosynthesis of the plant hormone abscisic acid.
ciliobrevin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciliobrevins
Senses: examples: text: Curiously, when assaying the effect of ciliobrevin, a specific inhibitor of cytoplasmic dynein, on oligodendrocyte PC, we noted that its effect on PC morphology was countered by Shh treatment, suggesting that this pathway is not only dependent on the PC but also partially capable of rescuing this organelle from drug-induced loss.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Shh Signaling through the Primary Cilium Modulates Rat Oligodendrocyte Differentiation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of quinazolinylidene derivatives that are inhibitors of cytoplasmic dynein
edrioasteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edrioasteroids
Senses: examples: text: Hints and Miidel [15 ] reported encrustation by the edrioasteroid echinoderm Cyathocystis.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Bioerosion of Inorganic Hard Substrates in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any echinoderm of class Edrioasteroidea
endoglucase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoglucases
Etymology: From endo- + glucase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any endozymatic glucase
endozymatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + zymatic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to an endoenzyme
Murph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɜːf/
ipa: /mɝf/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)f
Forms: form: Murphs
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Murphy.
A surname. A diminutive of the surname Murphy.
glosses: Diminutive of Murphy.
A diminutive of the unisex given name Murphy.
endoglucases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The fact that an increasing number of high-resolution three-dimensional structures of endoglucases from both bacterial and fungal sources have been determined allows us to investigate the structure-function relationship [18, 20, 21 ].
ref: 2015 July 29, “Site-Directed Mutagenesis of a Hyperthermophilic Endoglucanase Cel12B from Thermotoga maritima Based on Rational Design”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of endoglucase
road games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of road game
xenotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenotoxin
biholomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biholomorphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a biholomorphic manner.
conglomerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The existence of a solution to this problem is related to the notion of conglomerability, originally introduced by Dubins to study finitely additive conditional probability.
ref: 2015, Gianluca Cassese, “Conglomerability and Finitely Additive Representations”, in arXiv:
glosses: Quality of being conglomerable.
gliomedin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Recently, auto-antibodies against neurofascin-186 and gliomedin were described in more than 60% of patients with multifocal motor neuropathy.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Contactin-1 and Neurofascin-155/-186 Are Not Targets of Auto-Antibodies in Multifocal Motor Neuropathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An particular olfactomedin
crowdsensing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crowd + sensing.
Senses: examples: text: In this study, a socially-aware crowdsensing system is advocated, in which a cloud-based platform incentivizes mobile users to participate in sensing tasks by leveraging social trust among users, upon receiving sensing requests.
ref: 2015, Xiaowen Gong, Xu Chen, Junshan Zhang, H. Vincent Poor, “Exploiting Social Trust Assisted Reciprocity (STAR) towards Utility-Optimal Socially-aware Crowdsensing”, in arXiv:
glosses: The sensor measurement of a phenomenon (such as air pollution) by combining readings from numerous devices carried by different individuals.
xenotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenotoxins
Etymology: From xeno- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any toxin that originates outside the target organism.
Related terms: xenotoxic
xenotoxicity
conglomerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conglomerable
form: most conglomerable
Senses: glosses: Able to, or liable to conglomerate, or to cause conglomeration
finitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finitizes
form: finitizing
form: finitized
form: finitized
form: finitise
Etymology: From finite + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make finite.
Derived terms: finitization
finitizable
finitizability
glutamylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: As indicated in Fig 1, immunodetection of glutamylated tubulin (Glut-Tub, Fig 1A ) and acetylated-tubulin (Ace-Tub, Fig 1B ) show solitary rod-like structures that project 1 μm away from the OPC cell body which, when assayed by double immunofluorescence, display also γ-tubulin staining at their cell-proximal end (Fig 1, merged images and projection in S1 Video ).
ref: 2015 July 29, “Shh Signaling through the Primary Cilium Modulates Rat Oligodendrocyte Differentiation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by reaction with glutamic acid
Derived terms: hexaglutamylated
hyperglutamylated
monoglutamylated
nonglutamylated
pentaaglutamylated
polyglutamylated
finitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of finitize
finitizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of finitize
finitizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finitize
hemodiluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: haemodiluted
Etymology: From hemo- + diluted.
Senses: examples: text: Lastly, plasma volume increases 50% during pregnancy resulting in a hemodiluted and hyponatremic state that under conditions of BBB disruption such as seizure may drive water into the brain due to decreased osmolality [42 ].
ref: 2015 July 29, “The Contribution of Normal Pregnancy to Eclampsia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Subjected to hemodilution
linearisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linearisation
Layfield
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Laycock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A small village west of Keighley, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0341).
Pocock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pococks
Etymology: Variant of Peacock.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
hemodilution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemodilutions
Etymology: From hemo- + dilution.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An increase in the fluid content of blood (and thus a diminution of the number of cells).
Derived terms: autohemodilution
Related terms: hemodilutional
multifilamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + filamentary.
Senses: examples: text: Iron-based superconductors have been considered to be very promising in high-field applications, for which multifilamentary wire and tape conductors with high mechanical strength are essential.
ref: 2015, Chao Yao, He Lin, Qianjun Zhang, Xianping Zhang, Dongliang Wang, Chiheng Dong, Yanwei Ma, Satoshi Awaji, Kazuo Watanabe, “Critical current density and microstructure of iron sheathed multifilamentary Sr1-xKxFe2As2/Ag composite conductors”, in arXiv:
glosses: Of more than one filament.
nanonetwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanonetworks
Etymology: From nano- + network.
Senses: examples: text: In this paper, we examine the feasibility of designing a molecular receiver, in a physical domain other than synthetic biology, meeting the basic requirements of nanonetwork applications.
ref: 2015, Murat Kuscu, Ozgur B. Akan, “On the Physical Design of Receiver for Molecular Communications”, in arXiv:
glosses: A network of interconnected nanomachines, capable of performing simple computing tasks.
nanonetworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanonetwork
nonarithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + arithmetic.
Senses: examples: text: A classification of all GL(2,R) orbit closures in hyperelliptic components of strata (up to computing connected components and up to finitely many nonarithmetic rank one orbit closures) is provided conditional on the sparsity conjecture..
ref: 2015, Paul Apisa, “GL(2,R) Orbit Closures in Hyperelliptic Components of Strata”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not arithmetic.
nonmonotonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + monotonically.
Senses: examples: text: Surprisingly, we find that the model parameters behave nonmonotonically as we change the oscillation frequency and/or the gel concentration.
ref: 2015, Thomas Gibaud, Christophe Perge, Stefan B. Lindstrom, Nicolas Taberlet, Sebastien Manneville, “Multiple yielding processes in a colloidal gel under large amplitude oscillatory stress”, in arXiv:
glosses: In a way that is not monotonic.
photocleavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + cleavage.
Senses: examples: text: We also perform IR-VIS absorbance measurements and find that the results suggest that during irradiation some of the dye molecules form dimers and trimers and that the polymer host is irreversibly damaged by photooxidation and Norrish type I photocleavage.
ref: 2015, Benjamin R. Anderson, Ray Gunawidjaja, Hergen Eilers, “Photodegradation and self-healing in a Rhodamine 6G dye and Y₂O₃ nanoparticle-doped polyurethane random laser”, in App. Phys. B, volumes 1-12, pages 1–12:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The cleavage of a bond by photolysis.
hypersynchrony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersynchronies
Etymology: From hyper- + synchrony.
Senses: examples: text: It has also been reported that restoring hippocampal inhibitory cells activity and inhibitory synaptic currents is able to reduce premature mortality, network hypersynchrony, and memory deficits in hAPP mice.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Amyloid- β (25-35) Modulates the Expression of GirK and KCNQ Channel Genes in the Hippocampus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Increased synchronization of neuronal activity
polydisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydiscs
Etymology: From poly- + disc.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A Cartesian product of discs.
Hyponyms: bidisc
polydiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polydisc
bidisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bidisks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bidisc.
polydisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydisks
Etymology: From poly- + disk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polydisc.
polydisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polydisk
bidisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidisk
bidiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bidisc
immunoinflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + inflammatory.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, we provide evidence of differential regulation of visceral adiposity, liver steatosis, inflammation and fibrosis in Th1 and Th2 dominant mouse strains which could be related to differences in immunoinflammatory response to high fat feeding in C57Bl/6 and BALB/c mice.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Differential Immunometabolic Phenotype in Th1 and Th2 Dominant Mouse Strains in Response to High-Fat Feeding”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to inflammation caused or modified by antibodies
sparsistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sparse + consistency
Senses: examples: text: Its implementation can be done with available packages under a variety of models and, in the linear regression model, we show it is sparsistent under conditions similar to those ensuring sparsistency for an oracular version of the reference stratum strategy.
ref: 2015, Edouard Ollier, Vivian Viallon, “Regression modeling on stratified data: automatic and covariate-specific selection of the reference stratum with simple L_1-norm penalties”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Let mathbf b be a vector and define the support operatorname supp( mathbf b)=i: mathbf bᵢ≠0 where mathbf bᵢ is the ith element of mathbf b. Let ̂mathbf b be an estimator for mathbf b. Then sparsistency is the property that the support of the estimator converges to the true support as the number of samples grows to infinity.
Related terms: sparsistent
sparsistent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of sparse + consistent
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting sparsistency.
superlubric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However, the energy dissipation process conditioning the sustainability of superlubric state has not yet been well understood.
ref: 2015, Anle Wang, Qichang He, Zhiping Xu, “Predicting the Lifetime of Superlubricity”, in arXiv:
glosses: Exhibiting superlubricity.
antihaemolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antihemolytic.
antihemolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + hemolytic.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, the mechanisms of action of the antihemolytic effect of G. lucidum and that of the effect of Pb on the hepatic tissues were discussed.
ref: 2015 August 2, Shahdat Hossain et al., “Oral Administration of Ganoderma lucidum to Lead-Exposed Rats Protects Erythrocytes against Hemolysis: Implicates to Anti-Anemia”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Inhibiting hemolysis
biharmonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + harmonical.
Senses: examples: text: Color-coded BC values of the MST per electrode were plotted on a 2-D head model using biharmonical spline interpolation […]
ref: 2015 August 20, Marjolein MA Engels et al., “Declining functional connectivity and changing hub locations in Alzheimer’s disease: an EEG study”, in BMC Neurology, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of biharmonic.
synonyms: word: biharmonic
biolung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biolungs
Etymology: From bio- + lung.
Senses: examples: text: After four to eight days of incubation, this biolung was grafted on to a rat.
ref: 2015 August 2, J.-F. Stoltz et al., “Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Myth or Reality of the 21th Century”, in Stem Cells International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: An artificial lung that uses tiny hollow fibers to mimic the structure of a human lung.
biolungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biolung
biovigilance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + vigilance.
Senses: glosses: The detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of biological issues in society.
libfems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libfem
macroborings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are two macroborings in the Cambrian, which contrasts with nine ichnotaxa known from the Ordovician [26, 20 ].
ref: 2015 July 29, “Bioerosion of Inorganic Hard Substrates in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of macroboring
chondrodystrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, safe intradiscal injection of thermoresponsive CXB-loaded and unloaded pNIPAAM MgFe-LDH hydrogels was demonstrated in a large animal model, i.e., chondrodystrophic dogs, with naturally occurring IVD degeneration.
ref: 2015 August 20, Nicole Willems et al., “Biocompatibility and intradiscal application of a thermoreversible celecoxib-loaded poly-N-isopropylacrylamide MgFe-layered double hydroxide hydrogel in a canine model”, in Arthritis Research & Therapy, volume 17, →DOI:
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to chondrodystrophy.
Derived terms: nonchondrodystrophic
chondroprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chondro- + protection.
Senses: examples: text: In a study of the effects of MSC in a caprine model of traumatic osteoarthritis it was showed that intra-articular delivery of autologous cells to meniscectomized joints resulted in significant meniscal and regeneration and chondroprotection.
ref: 2015 August 2, J.-F. Stoltz et al., “Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Myth or Reality of the 21th Century”, in Stem Cells International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: chondroprotective activity
clonability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clone + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: And the proliferation, clonability, migration, invasion and cell cycle of ovarian cancer cells are significantly correlated with the expression of clusterin.
ref: 2015 August 21, Yanxia Fu et al., “Lentivirus-mediated shRNA interference of clusterin blocks proliferation, motility, invasion and cell cycle in the ovarian cancer cells”, in Journal of Ovarian Research, volume 8, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being clonable.
megaloschizont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaloschizonts
Etymology: From megalo- + schizont.
Senses: glosses: A very large schizont
megaloschizonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Parasites that infect macrophages or endothelial cells can develop into megaloschizonts, generating more merozoites.
ref: 2015 July 29, “The Gametocytes of Leucocytozoon sabrazesi Infect Chicken Thrombocytes, Not Other Blood Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of megaloschizont
condylopatellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From condylo- + patellar.
Senses: examples: text: The authors concluded that a lateral condylopatellar sulcus exceeding 1.5 mm depth, which corresponds to a standard deviation 3 times above the norm, would be a strong indicator for a sustained ACL injury.
ref: 2015 August 21, Thomas Hoffelner et al., “Segmentation of the lateral femoral notch sign with MRI using a new measurement technique”, in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the condyle and the patella.
microorganismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + organismal.
Senses: examples: text: Despite the lack of significance in these results at the individual microorganismal level, P.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Oral Administration of P . gingivalis Induces Dysbiosis of Gut Microbiota and Impaired Barrier Function Leading to Dissemination of Enterobacteria to the Liver”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a microorganism
deparaffinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + paraffin + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: After deparaffinisation, sections were stained with Alcian blue/Van Gieson/HTX to obtain a histological overview of the tendon samples.
ref: 2015 August 20, Eva Runesson et al., “Nucleostemin- and Oct 3/4-positive stem/progenitor cells exhibit disparate anatomical and temporal expression during rat Achilles tendon healing”, in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of deparaffinization.
ecoclimatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eco- + climatic.
Senses: examples: text: Kalifabougou is in the savanna ecoclimatic zone where annual rainfall is 800–1,200 mm/year.
ref: 2015 August 22, Shibu Yooseph et al., “Stool microbiota composition is associated with the prospective risk of Plasmodium falciparum infection”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to an ecoclimate
equitoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From equi- + toxic.
Senses: examples: text: These studies administered equitoxic doses of TCDD in sensitive rats and mice (100 and 500 μg/kg in rat and mouse respectively).
ref: 2015 August 20, Jamie Lee et al., “Male and female mice show significant differences in hepatic transcriptomic response to 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI:
glosses: Equally toxic.
equitoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: Equal toxicity.
gastroprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gastro- + protection.
Senses: examples: text: To determine the possible mechanism by which substances can act to promote gastroprotection, several antioxidants molecules such as quercetin and curcumin were previously investigated.
ref: 2015 August 20, Kaïs Rtibi et al., “Gastroprotective effect of carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) against ethanol-induced oxidative stress in rat”, in BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: gastroprotective activity
geomean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geomeans
Etymology: From geo- + mean.
Senses: glosses: geometric mean
geomeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geomean
paranode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranodes
Etymology: From para- + node.
Senses: glosses: The edge of the node of Ranvier of a myelinated axon (between the node and the juxtaparanode).
Derived terms: juxtaparanode
paranodal
paranodin
paranodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Double-immunofluorescence staining using patients’ sera and polyclonal rabbit anti-caspr (Abcam, Cambridge, UK, 1:1,000) or polyclonal rabbit anti-pan-neurofascin (Abcam, 1:400) was performed to detect paranodes.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Contactin-1 and Neurofascin-155/-186 Are Not Targets of Auto-Antibodies in Multifocal Motor Neuropathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of paranode
perisinusoidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From perisinusoidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the vicinity of the sinusoids.
heterochronicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heterochronic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being heterochronic.
intradiscally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intradiscal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Based on these clinical and histological findings, in combination with the avascular nature of the IVD, we concluded that the hydrogel would be well tolerated when applied intradiscally.
ref: 2015 August 20, Nicole Willems et al., “Biocompatibility and intradiscal application of a thermoreversible celecoxib-loaded poly-N-isopropylacrylamide MgFe-layered double hydroxide hydrogel in a canine model”, in Arthritis Research & Therapy, volume 17, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within a disc.
intradiscal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + discal.
Senses: examples: text: We have demonstrated the biocompatibility and safety of a pNIPAAM MgFe-LDH hydrogel via subcutaneous application in mice and via intradiscal administration in a large animal model.
ref: 2015 August 20, Nicole Willems et al., “Biocompatibility and intradiscal application of a thermoreversible celecoxib-loaded poly-N-isopropylacrylamide MgFe-layered double hydroxide hydrogel in a canine model”, in Arthritis Research & Therapy, volume 17, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Within a disc.
Derived terms: intradiscally
perlustrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The EGF domain has already been found in several reported SMPs from other Mollusca, such as perlustrin from H.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Layer-by-Layer Proteomic Analysis of Mytilus galloprovincialis Shell”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein found in the shell of abalones
maxillectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: maxillectomies
Etymology: From maxilla + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: The patient underwent partial maxillectomy and a split-thickness skin graft under general anesthesia in late February 2013 in the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
ref: 2015 August 2, Masanori Kudoh et al., “Massive Neurilemoma of the Hard Plate in Which Preoperative Diagnosis Was Difficult”, in Case Reports in Surgery, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: surgical removal of the maxilla
Derived terms: hemimaxillectomy
prefeed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + feed.
Senses: examples: text: The restricted placement of prefeed does not impede rapid discovery by possums: a field study of the movements of 22 radio collared possums showed that most were immediately attracted from as far away as 250m to a line of prefeed (visits peaking on the second day of prefeed availability), and possums continued to look for bait for up to 18 days after all bait was removed.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Aerial Prefeeding Followed by Ground Based Toxic Baiting for More Efficient and Acceptable Poisoning of Invasive Small Mammalian Pests”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Feed provided prior to some other operation (typically baiting).
prefeed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prefeeds
form: prefeeding
form: prefed
form: prefed
Etymology: From pre- + feed.
Senses: glosses: To feed material into a machine, etc. in preparation for some process.
prefeed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + feed.
Senses: glosses: Prior to feeding.
Related terms: prefeeding
maxillectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxillectomy
methylenetetrahydrofolatereductase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛ.θɪ.liːnˌtɛ.tɹəˌhʌɪ.dɹə(ʊ)ˌfəʊ.leɪt.ɹɪˈdʌk.teɪz/
ipa: /ˌmɛ.θə.liːnˌtɛ.tɹəˌhaɪ.dɹəˌfoʊ.leɪt.ɹɪˈdʌk.teɪz/
Senses: examples: text: Evaluation of thrombophilia disorders established the patient to be heterozygous for methylenetetrahydrofolatereductase C677T gene mutation as the only finding.
ref: 2013 August 23, Paul-Ann D Green et al., “Unilateral adrenal infarction in pregnancy”, in BMJ Case Reports, volume 2013, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase.
MTHFR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase.
prestaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + staining.
Senses: examples: text: Sequential staining is critical as Pyronin Y can also bind DNA and the prestaining of DNA with Hoechst 33342 blocks this.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Multiparametric Cell Cycle Analysis Using the Operetta High-Content Imager and Harmony Software with PhenoLOGIC”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: staining prior to some other operation.
methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylenetetrahydrofolatereductase
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rate-limiting enzyme in the methyl cycle, which catalyzes the conversion of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate to 5-methyltetrahydrofolate.
Synonyms: MTHFR
necrosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necrosols
Etymology: From necro- + -sol.
Senses: examples: text: The results of this study highlight the need for microbial analysis of necrosols using more sensitive laboratory techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction assays; however it would increase the cost of research.
ref: 2015 August 2, Ireneusz Całkosiński et al., “Microbiological Analysis of Necrosols Collected from Urban Cemeteries in Poland”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: A type of anthropogenic soil commonly found at burial sites, characterised by the presence of human remains.
necrosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necrosol
prewet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prewets
form: prewetting
form: prewet
form: prewet
form: prewetted
form: prewetted
Etymology: From pre- + wet.
Senses: glosses: To wet (a surface) prior to some other operation
prewetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Non-polar and minor polar macroporous resins AB-8, D3520, NKA, SD300, SD600, DM11, and DM130 were successively prewetted in 10% NaCl, 95% ethanol, 5% HCl and 2% NaOH for 4 h and washed with deionized water.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Immobilization, Regiospecificity Characterization and Application of Aspergillus oryzae Lipase in the Enzymatic Synthesis of the Structured Lipid 1,3-Dioleoyl-2-Palmitoylglycerol”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of prewet
nonacupoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acupoint.
Senses: examples: text: Jin et al. conducted a single blinded, randomized, controlled trial on acupuncture treatment of functional dyspepsia and found that acupuncture manipulation exhibited better effects on improving dyspeptic symptoms, mental status, and quality of life in patients with FD than nonacupoint without manipulation.
ref: 2015 August 2, Xiaochun Yu et al., “Acupoint Sensitization, Acupuncture Analgesia, Acupuncture on Visceral Functional Disorders, and Its Mechanism”, in Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Not involving acupoints.
nonacupoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonacupoints
Etymology: From non- + acupoint.
Senses: examples: text: A series of nonacupoints located 5mm lateral to ST36 or PC6 original location served as controls.
ref: 2015 November 3, “Electroacupuncture Ameliorates Acute Renal Injury in Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Rabbits via Induction of HO-1 through the PI3K/Akt/Nrf2 Pathways”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A place on the body that is not an acupoint.
prewets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prewet
prewetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prewet
nonembryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + embryonic.
Senses: examples: text: The present interest of this type of lines and its nonembryonic origin is the possibility of establishing specific lines of deficient patients for clinical research.
ref: 2015 August 2, J.-F. Stoltz et al., “Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Myth or Reality of the 21th Century”, in Stem Cells International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Not embryonic.
nonmesodermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mesodermal.
Senses: examples: text: Recent publications even state that they can differentiate into nonmesodermal cells such as hepatocytes, neurons, or astrocytes.
ref: 2015 August 2, J.-F. Stoltz et al., “Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Myth or Reality of the 21th Century”, in Stem Cells International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Not mesodermal.
nonmyeloablative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + myeloablative.
Senses: examples: text: In the second approach, adult patients with newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus underwent nonmyeloablative chemotherapy after receiving reinfused stem cells from autologous bone marrow.
ref: 2015 August 2, J.-F. Stoltz et al., “Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: Myth or Reality of the 21th Century”, in Stem Cells International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Not myeloablative.
nonpharmacologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pharmacologic.
Senses: examples: text: These guidelines have also addressed pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic strategies for risk factor modification.
ref: 2015 August 2, Margot K. Davis et al., “The Prevalence of Cardiac Risk Factors in Men with Localized Prostate Cancer Undergoing Androgen Deprivation Therapy in British Columbia, Canada”, in Journal of Oncology, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Not pharmacologic.
proventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.
ref: 2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297:
glosses: Relating to the proventriculus
examples: text: In contrast to ALBA proteins that are RNA-binding proteins involved in parasite development in the tsetse fly, the signal was not reduced in proventricular stages [42 ].
ref: 2015 July 29, “The Flagellar Arginine Kinase in Trypanosoma brucei Is Important for Infection in Tsetse Flies”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the stage in the lifecycle of some parasites when they migrate to the proventriculus or midgut.
oesophagogastrostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oesophagogastrostomies
Senses: examples: text: We routinely perform radical resections of oesophageal carcinomas with an intrathoracic oesophagogastrostomy.
ref: 2015 August 12, Yi Shen et al., “Oesophagectomy in a patient with azygos vein continuation of the inferior vena cava: report of a case”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology, volume 13, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of esophagogastrostomy.
oesophagogastrostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oesophagogastrostomy
tonotopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The tonotopical representations that are formed in the peripheral auditory system can traced up to the auditory cortex, albeit with less detail.
ref: 2015 July 29, “Modelling the Noise-Robustness of Infants’ Word Representations: The Impact of Previous Experience”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: tonotopic
orthoptist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthoptists
Senses: examples: text: This could be of particular benefit to orthoptists, who have the most regular contact with parents and children, and are more likely to suggest conservative treatments such as occlusion and minus lenses.
ref: 2015 August 22, Jan Lecouturier et al., “Treating childhood intermittent distance exotropia: a qualitative study of decision making”, in BMC Ophthalmology, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: One who practices orthoptics (muscular irregularities of the eye).
orthoptists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orthoptist
esophagogastrostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esophagogastrostomy
osteointegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of osseointegration.
paraspeckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraspeckles
Etymology: From para- + speckle.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An irregularly shaped compartment of the cell, found in the nucleus's interchromatin space
Related terms: microspeckle
paraspeckles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraspeckle
peritendon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peritendons
Etymology: From peri- + tendon.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The membrane surrounding the tendon.
peritendons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peritendon
reparatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Therapeutic administration of stem cells does not have to be derived only from bone marrow but also from adipose tissue and umbilical cord and other sources and released cytokines are main driving molecules in reparatory processes in CLI patients with different results (Table 1).
ref: 2015 August 2, Rita Compagna et al., “Cell Therapy in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia”, in Stem Cells International, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to repair or reparation.