cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
remuscularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remuscularizes
form: remuscularizing
form: remuscularized
form: remuscularized
Etymology: From re- + muscularize.
Senses: examples: text: The first results of transplantation of human ESC-CMs in a large animal model of non-human primates are promising since hESC-CMs showed to remuscularize the heart.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Xenotransplantation of Human Cardiomyocyte Progenitor Cells Does Not Improve Cardiac Function in a Porcine Model of Chronic Ischemic Heart Failure. Results from a Randomized, Blinded, Placebo Controlled Trial”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To muscularize again.
remuscularized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remuscularize
remuscularizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remuscularize
remuscularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remuscularize
spectrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectrin
tricarboxylates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricarboxylate
caudipterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caudipterids
Senses: examples: text: It is also consistent with the exhibition of less resting forelimb flexion in Caudipteridae than in other feathered theropods, because caudipterid forelimbs are shorter than those of most other feathered dinosaurs, eliminating the possibility of contact between feathers and the ground, hence also eliminating the need for tight forelimb folding.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Resting Orientations of Dinosaur Scapulae and Forelimbs: A Numerical Analysis, with Implications for Reconstructions and Museum Mounts”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the †Caudipteridae, a family of oviraptorosaurian dinosaurs.
caudipterids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caudipterid
coplanarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coplanar + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Up to 11 vascular bundles are coplanarly arranged in the middle part of a cone scale.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Taxonomic Revision of Pinus fujiii (Yasui) Miki (Pinaceae) and Its Implications for the Phytogeography of the Section Trifoliae in East Asia”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In coplanar fashion.
digeneans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digenean
dodecaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: duodecaploid
Etymology: From dodeca- + -ploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having twelve complete sets of chromosomes in a single cell.
dodecaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecaploids
form: duodecaploid
Etymology: From dodeca- + -ploid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell that has twelve complete sets of chromosomes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism whose cells have twelve complete sets of chromosomes.
Derived terms: allododecaploid
dodecaploidization
dodecaploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecaploid
hyperfluorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + fluorescence.
Senses: examples: text: Progressive hyperfluorescence with late leakage was considered a sign of lesion activity.
ref: 2015 December 17, “MHC Class I Chain-Related Gene A Polymorphisms and Linkage Disequilibrium with HLA-B and HLA-C Alleles in Ocular Toxoplasmosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being hyperfluorescent.
incisiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Modern Gymnarchus have teeth that vary in shape from incisiform at the symphysis to caniniform distally on the jaw.
ref: 2015 December 17, “A Fish Assemblage from the Middle Eocene from Libya (Dur At-Talah) and the Earliest Record of Modern African Fish Genera”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Shaped like an incisor
incisiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incisiforms
Senses: glosses: Such a tooth
interquantile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + quantile.
Senses: glosses: Between quantiles.
isomalabaricane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isomalabaricanes
Etymology: From iso- + malabaricane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A malabaricane whose three carbon rings are connected in trans-syn-trans conformation.
isomalabaricanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isomalabaricane
macrohabitats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrohabitat
retinochoroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retino- + choroidal.
Senses: examples: text: However, independent studies show that individuals with primary toxoplasmic retinochoroiditis without a pre-existing retinochoroidal lesion were older than those with recurrent ocular toxoplasmosis.
ref: 2015 December 17, “MHC Class I Chain-Related Gene A Polymorphisms and Linkage Disequilibrium with HLA-B and HLA-C Alleles in Ocular Toxoplasmosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the retina and choroid.
ruminally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ruminal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To investigate the feasibility of applying an intercropping system as a forage supply source to ruminants, two consecutive experiments (experiments 1 and 2) involving a field cultivation trial and a subsequent in vivo degradable experiment were conducted to determine the forage production performance and the ruminally degradable characteristics of a harvested mixture from an alfalfa/corn-rye intercropping system.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Legume-Cereal Intercropping Improves Forage Yield, Quality and Degradability”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, the rumen.
superimposability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From superimpose + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: In DOC patients, the evoked responses were more delayed in latency and smaller in amplitude in comparison to HC, but they still showed a low intra-subject variability, and a similar inter-train superimposability.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Cortical Responsiveness to Nociceptive Stimuli in Patients with Chronic Disorders of Consciousness: Do C-Fiber Laser Evoked Potentials Have a Role?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The quality of being superimposable.
tirucallanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tirucallane
xenocontamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + contamination.
Senses: examples: text: Second, the possibility of xenocontamination during transplantation by mouse feeder layer, fetal bovine serum, or recombinant growth factors could therefore be avoided.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Y-27632, a ROCK Inhibitor, Promoted Limbal Epithelial Cell Proliferation and Corneal Wound Healing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Contamination by a different species.
bisimilarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisimilarity
counterjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʰaʊntɚd͡ʒɛt/
Forms: form: counterjets
Etymology: From counter- + jet.
Senses: examples: text: We estimate a total mass ~0.1 Msun and a kinetic energy of at least ~1 x10^50 erg for S-rich ejecta in the NE jet and SW counterjet.
ref: 2015, Robert A. Fesen, Dan Milisavljevic, “An HST Survey of the Highest-Velocity Ejecta in Cassiopeia A”, in arXiv:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An opposing jet.
counterjets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterjet
homogenizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homogenize + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: We show that the observation that a purely real isofrequency line of the PC is close to a mathematical circle is insufficient for establishing homogenizability.
ref: 2015, Vadim A. Markel, Igor Tsukerman, “Can photonic crystals be homogenized in higher bands?”, in arXiv:
glosses: The quality of being homogenizable.
limbward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From limb + -ward.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Toward a limb.
limbward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From limb + -ward.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Toward a limb.
semimodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + modular.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a semimodule.
undecelerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decelerated.
Senses: examples: text: Such angular distances imply undecelerated ejecta knot transverse velocities of 15,600 and 12,700 km/s respectively, assuming an explosion date ~1670 AD and a distance of 3.4 kpc.
ref: 2015, Robert A. Fesen, Dan Milisavljevic, “An HST Survey of the Highest-Velocity Ejecta in Cassiopeia A”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not decelerated.
anubandhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anubandha
incoercibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: About incoercibility, provided that erasable-state voting booths which disable voters to memorize complete information exchanged between them and election authorities for constructing votes are available, coercer C cannot know candidates that voters coerced by C had chosen even if the candidates are unique to the voters.
ref: 2015, Shinsuke Tamura, Hazim A. Haddad, Nazmul Islam, Kazi Md. Rokibul Alam, “An Incoercible E-Voting Scheme Based on Revised Simplified Verifiable Re-encryption Mix-nets”, in Information Security and Computer Fraud, volume 3, pages 32–38:
glosses: The quality of being incoercible.
mechanostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanostats
Etymology: From mechano- + -stat.
Senses: glosses: A model describing bone growth and bone loss, based on a refinement of Wolff's law, and according to which these processes are stimulated by the local mechanical elastic deformation of bone.
mechanostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanostat
polysulfates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polysulfate
polysulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polysulphates
Etymology: From poly- + sulphate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polysulfate.
polysulphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polysulphate
spin waves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spin wave
spinwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinwaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spin wave.
spinwaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinwave
subdirectly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From subdirect + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a subdirect manner.
superradiantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From superradiant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superradiant manner.
tracelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From traceless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being traceless.
interrun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + run.
Senses: glosses: Between runs (in various senses).
intrarun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + run.
Senses: glosses: Within a single run (in various senses).
electrocochleograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrocochleogram
cochleograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cochleogram
deharden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehardens
form: dehardening
form: dehardened
form: dehardened
Etymology: From de- + harden.
Senses: examples: text: It is possible by careful adjustment of concentrations to deharden the gelatine and cut down any obnoxious soaking periods to convenient times.
ref: 1930, Camera: A Practical Magazine for Photographers, volume 41:
text: Below freezing winter temperatures must last long enough for the tree to begin the dehardening process necessary for the beginning of sap production; should this period become too short, tree physiology and vigor could be affected which would reduce sap production.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Impacts of Climate Change on the Timing of the Production Season of Maple Syrup in Eastern Canada”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: To make or become less hard (resistant to pressure).
dehardened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deharden
dehardens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deharden
dehardening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deharden
endothelialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endothelialises
form: endothelialising
form: endothelialised
form: endothelialised
Senses: examples: text: In this study this concept is applied to endothelialise a gas-permeable membrane to develop a biomimetic oxygenator test-device (ENDOXY).
ref: 2015 December 19, “ENDOXY - Development of a Biomimetic Oxygenator-Test-Device”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of endothelialize.
Derived terms: reendothelialise
endothelialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endothelialise
endothelialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of endothelialise
endothelialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endothelialise
euphausiaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphausiacean
exopodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exopod + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to exopods.
mystacocarid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystacocarids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Mystacocarida, a subclass or order fo the maxillopods.
mystacocarids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystacocarid
ovitrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovitraps
Etymology: From ovi- + trap.
Senses: examples: text: The seasonal pattern of egg laying activity of a French Mediterranean population of the Asian tiger mosquito was monitored weekly for 2 years with ovitraps.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Seasonal Synchronization of Diapause Phases in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A device that resembles the preferred breeding site of mosquitoes, used to attract them and capture their eggs in scientific studies.
Related terms: ovistrip
ovitrapping
ovitraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovitrap
perithreshold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + threshold.
Senses: glosses: Around a threshold value
perithreshold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perithresholds
Etymology: From peri- + threshold.
Senses: glosses: The region near a threshold
spherophakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Clinical signs of WMS include glaucoma, ectopia lentis (lens luxation), lenticular myopia, spherophakia, and short stature.
ref: 2015 December 19, “A Novel Genome-Wide Association Study Approach Using Genotyping by Exome Sequencing Leads to the Identification of a Primary Open Angle Glaucoma Associated Inversion Disrupting ADAMTS17”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An abnormal condition where the lens of the eye is spherical.
Derived terms: microspherophakia
spherophakic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spherophakic
form: most spherophakic
Etymology: From spherophakia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, spherophakia.
microphakic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microphakia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, microphakia.
microspherophakic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + spherophakic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, microspherophakia.
microphakia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + phakia.
Senses: glosses: Abnormal small size of the lens of the eye.
Derived terms: microphakic
subgender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgenders
Etymology: From sub- + gender.
Senses: examples: text: Although German, Polish and Russian all have a three-way gender system consisting of masculine, feminine and neuter nouns, only Polish and Russian have additional subgenders based on animacy and/or personhood.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Age Effects in L2 Grammar Processing as Revealed by ERPs and How (Not) to Study Them”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sublevel of grammatical gender.
subgenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgender
thermosbaenacean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermosbaenaceans
Senses: examples: text: In the case of leptostracans, brooding takes place ventrally between the mother’s thoracopods, which form a large basket holding the developing embryos, while brooding in thermosbaenaceans takes place dorsally under an enlarged part of the carapace, and that of isopods take place ventrally in a marsupium formed, probably, by modified thoracopodal epipods.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Naupliar and Metanaupliar Development of Thysanoessa raschii (Malacostraca, Euphausiacea) from Godthåbsfjord, Greenland, with a Reinstatement of the Ancestral Status of the Free-Living Nauplius in Malacostracan Evolution”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the Thermosbaenacea, a group of crustaceans found in thermal springs.
thermosbaenaceans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermosbaenacean
unyago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swahili unyago.
Senses: examples: text: Largely missing from the discussion on multiple concurrent sexual partnerships is how the lessons and experiences on sexuality at a young age, by traditions such as unyago, play out in adult life.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Female-Driven Multiple Concurrent Sexual Partnership Systems in a Rural Part of a Southern Tanzanian Province”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In Swahili culture, a set of rituals that use music and dance to celebrate the coming of age of girls, teaching them about sex and conjugal life.
zugunruhe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zugunruhe, from Zug (“move, migration”) and Unruhe (“anxiety, restlessness”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
zoology
glosses: Anxious behaviour in migratory animals, especially in birds, experienced at the beginning of the normal migration period.
Hypatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hypatian
form: most Hypatian
Etymology: From Hypatia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hypatia.
Hypatia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Hypatia, from Ancient Greek Ὑπατία (Hupatía), from ὕπατος (húpatos, “highest, best”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek].
glosses: Hypatia of Alexandria (born c. AD 350–370; died 415), an Ancient Greek mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, and head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria.
Derived terms: Hypatian
nonindulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + indulgent.
Senses: glosses: Not indulgent.
bang bang chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bon bon chicken.
bon bon chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bam bam chicken
form: bang bang chicken
Etymology: Imitating the sound of the meat being tenderized by being hit with a stick or hammer.
Senses: glosses: A Chinese dish of sliced chicken in a spicy sauce with onions and other ingredients.
Related terms: bang bang
on it like a car bonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From English on it with the fanciful elaboration like a car bonnet, the latter part chosen because it rhymes with the first part.
Senses: examples: text: Students have described being focused like... / ... An eagle watching its prey ... a footballer with their eye on the ball ... ‘on it like a car bonnet’ ... catching a wave ... ‘just do it’ ... rolling your sleeves up ... keeping the rhythm in a band ... in the zone ... in a bubble ...a tiger
ref: 2015, Jeff Gill, Will Medd, Get Sorted: How to Make the Most of Your Student Experience, Palgrave, →ISBN, page 49:
text: ‘I had my researchers check the files on all the mispers and cold cases five years either side of that date estimate, on females of that approximate age. This is what they found. Fill your boots.’ He took a large gulp of his drink. / ‘I’m impressed, you've been moving fast.’ / ‘On it like a car bonnet, mate.’
ref: 2015, Peter James, You Are Dead, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN:
text: We'll spin it that you and me were having a friendly chat over a pint, and you just happened to mention the victim hiring you to find a necklace. Whereupon I, seeing as how I knew stuff you didn't, was on it like a car bonnet and got you to sing like a canary what's won the X Factor and got top billing at the Royal Opera House.
ref: 2016 July, J. L. Merrow, Blow Down: The Plumber's Mate, Cincinnati, Oh.: Samhain Publishing, →ISBN:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of on it (“actively working to solve a problem, etc.”).
synonyms: word: on it
extra: (“actively working to solve a problem, etc.”).
Amygism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪmiˌd͡ʒɪzəm/
Etymology: Blend of Amy + imagism, coined by the poet Ezra Pound.
Senses: examples: text: Many examples of what Pound called "Amygism" have permeated reference sources; besides the Britannica, they may be found in entries on "cadence" and "free verse" in the Merriam-Webster and Random House dictionaries, and under "Free Verse" in the venerable Thrall and Hibbard Handbook to Literature. These definitions continue to give the impression that free verse had a metric of its own, quite independent of accentual-syllabic prosody.
ref: 1998, H. T. Kirby-Smith, The Origins of Free Verse, page xii:
glosses: The American school of imagist poetry influenced by Amy Lowell (1874–1925).
wikipedia: Ezra Pound
Related terms: Amygist
Amygist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amygists
Etymology: Blend of Amy + imagist
Senses: glosses: Any of the imagist poets of the American school influenced by Amy Lowell (1874–1925).
Related terms: Amygism
Amygists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amygist
Rimbaudian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rimbaudian
form: most Rimbaudian
Etymology: From Rimbaud + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet.
Rimbaudesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rimbaudesque
form: most Rimbaudesque
Etymology: From Rimbaud + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the works of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), French poet.
pigloo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigloos
Etymology: Blend of pig + (ig)loo.
Senses: glosses: A farrowing pen for pigs.
glosses: A shelter built in snow by a pig.
glosses: An igloo-shaped shelter for a guinea pig.
pigloos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigloo
subnavel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + navel.
Senses: examples: text: To produce variable intensities and fast changes of tone, such as staccatos with pianissimo and fortissimo, the role of the intercostal, abdominal and subnavel muscles is essential.
ref: 2006, Jean Abitbol, Odyssey of the Voice, page 381:
glosses: Below the navel.
subnavel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subnavels
Etymology: From sub- + navel.
Senses: examples: text: Without even thinking it through, his hand went […] to bikini panties, which, had he actually seen them, would have been revealed to be decorated with a faded repetition of Roadrunners chasing Tweety Birds around and around from subnavel to ass.
ref: 2005, Meg Wolitzer, The Position, Vintage, published 2012, page 45:
glosses: The area below the navel; the lower stomach.
acetolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acetolyzes
form: acetolyzing
form: acetolyzed
form: acetolyzed
Senses: glosses: To promote, or to undergo, acetolysis.
acetolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acetolyze
acetolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Light microscopy inspection of acetolyzed pollen samples shows that in all varieties, most of pollen corresponds to the normal tricolporate type with evident furrows and without significant differences in size.
ref: 2015 October 7, “Pollen Morphology and Boron Concentration in Floral Tissues as Factors Triggering Natural and GA-Induced Parthenocarpic Fruit Development in Grapevine”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: modified by acetolysis
teenagerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From teenager + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Holly poured the curved, cooked widgets of pasta into an enormous colander, and the water surged into the sink, sending up a wave of steam from which she recoiled, although in her teenagerdom and desire to cleanse herself, she suddenly realized that this was like a minifacial, and so she leaned over the sink, letting her pores open.
ref: 2005, Meg Wolitzer, The Position, Vintage, published 2012, page 45:
text: Of course, negotiating with children as they move their way through childhood and teenagerdom takes a variety of skills.
ref: 2012, Joshua N Weiss, The Negotiator in You:
glosses: The state of being a teenager.
antrochoanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antro- + choanal.
Senses: examples: text: Three exclusion criteria were employed patients younger than 18 years of age; patients previously treated with antibiotics, systemic or topical corticosteroids, or other immune-modulating drugs for 4 weeks; and patients with antrochoanal polyps, allergic fungal sinusitis, cystic fibrosis, or immotile ciliary disease.
ref: 2015 October 7, “Non-Eosinophilic Nasal Polyps Shows Increased Epithelial Proliferation and Localized Disease Pattern in the Early Stage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the nasal cavity
autoradiochromatograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoradiochromatographs
Senses: examples: text: One gel was used for radioactivity measurements using a phosphor screen (Multisensitive Medium MS; Perkin Elmer, Courtaboeuf, France) revealed by an autoradiochromatograph scanner (Cyclone Storage Phosphor System; Perkin Elmer).
ref: 2015 October 7, “Anti-CD20 Immunoglobulin G Radiolabeling with a 99m Tc-Tricarbonyl Core: In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A chromatograph that employs autoradiography
dysesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dysaesthetic
Etymology: From dys- + esthetic.
Senses: examples: text: Previous research on visually induced seizures has indicated that initial epileptic discharges of BA17 can create dysesthetic symptoms by translating visual signals through the dorsal pathway and can generate limbic lobe symptoms by the ventral pathway.
ref: 2015 October 7, “The Brain Activity in Brodmann Area 17: A Potential Bio-Marker to Predict Patient Responses to Antiepileptic Drugs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to dysesthesia
endoaperture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æpə(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)
-æpə(ɹ)tʃʊə(ɹ)
-æpə(ɹ)tjʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: endoapertures
Etymology: From endo- + aperture.
Senses: glosses: An aperture in the inner layer of the sporoderm of a pollen grain
Related terms: ectoaperture
mesoaperture
endoapertures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ectoapertures of pollen grains of all analyzed cultivars are narrow and long whereas endoapertures are circular (Fig 2N ).
ref: 2015 October 7, “Pollen Morphology and Boron Concentration in Floral Tissues as Factors Triggering Natural and GA-Induced Parthenocarpic Fruit Development in Grapevine”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of endoaperture
euthyreotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: All the other subjects were clinically euthyreotic.
ref: 2015 October 7, “Adipose Tissue Dysfunction and Altered Systemic Amino Acid Metabolism Are Associated with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of euthyroid.
synonyms: word: euthyroid
hepatokine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatokines
Etymology: From hepato- + -kine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several cytokines found in the liver
hepatokines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: However, studies have suggested that NAFLD can also develop in the absence of marked insulin resistance and increased adipose tissue lipolysis [41 ], and that hepatokines may be involved in the cross-talk between liver and extra-hepatic tissues [42 ].
ref: 2015 October 7, “Adipose Tissue Dysfunction and Altered Systemic Amino Acid Metabolism Are Associated with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of hepatokine
hopeaphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Therefore polyphenols, which are known to inhibit COX–2 in vitro, i.e. nobiletin, naringenin, apigenin, wogonin, genistein, epigallocatechingallat (EGCG) and resveratrol, as well as the resveratrol oligomers ε-viniferin and hopeaphenol, were comprehensively analyzed regarding their effects on COX–2.
ref: 2015 October 7, “Food Polyphenols Fail to Cause a Biologically Relevant Reduction of COX-2 Activity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular tetrameric stilbenoid.
immunodensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunodensities
Etymology: From immuno- + density.
Senses: examples: text: By contrast, BSSG-fed animals were found to display and increase in immunolabeling for Grp78, with significantly higher immunodensity at 8 and 10 months following initial toxin exposure, relative to controls.
ref: 2015 October 7, “The Progressive BSSG Rat Model of Parkinson's: Recapitulating Multiple Key Features of the Human Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The density of antibodies found during western blot analysis etc.
A-bombers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A-bomber
kamebakaurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Given that kamebakaurin has been reported to inhibit the nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) pathway [30 ], we tested whether established NF-κB inhibitors, AZ-TAK1 [31 ] and 5Z-7-Oxoeaneol [32 ], could repress Hh signaling.
ref: 2015 October 7, “A Group of ent -Kaurane Diterpenoids Inhibit Hedgehog Signaling and Induce Cilia Elongation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular diterpenoid, derived from kaurane, that has physiological action
top bollocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: breasts
longipedlactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longipedlactones
Senses: examples: text: Longipedlactone L [23 ] was isolated from Kadsura ananosma and longipedlactone H [24 ] from Kadsura longipedunculata as described.
ref: 2015 October 7, “A Group of ent -Kaurane Diterpenoids Inhibit Hedgehog Signaling and Induce Cilia Elongation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a particular class of polycyclic cytotoxic triterpenoid lactones
longipedlactones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The 2 triterpene dilactones, longipedlactones L and H, had similar structures and activities (Fig 2A and 2B, S1 Fig ).
ref: 2015 October 7, “A Group of ent -Kaurane Diterpenoids Inhibit Hedgehog Signaling and Induce Cilia Elongation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of longipedlactone
microcavitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + cavitation.
Senses: examples: text: Changes include microhemorrhages, edema, vascular changes ranging from increased numbers of delicate telangiectatic vessels to fibrinoid vascular necrosis and hyalinization, development of foamy macrophages, infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes, astrocytosis, and loss of tissue elements, ranging from neuronal loss to frank involvement of all tissue elements with microcavitation.
ref: 2015 October 7, “A Gamma-Knife-Enabled Mouse Model of Cerebral Single-Hemisphere Delayed Radiation Necrosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: microscopic cavitation
microcoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcoils
Etymology: From micro- + coil.
Senses: glosses: A very small coil
microcoils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If the patients passed the occlusion test, we deployed the detachable balloons, microcoils and/or injected acrylic adhesive to occlude the pathologic lesion and its adjacent carotid artery (Fig 1C and 1D ).
ref: 2015 October 7, “Endovascular Management of Post-Irradiated Carotid Blowout Syndrome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microcoil
microphysiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + physiological.
Senses: examples: text: We present a customizable Lego ® -like plug & play system, μOrgano, which enables initial individual culture of single organ-on-a-chip systems and subsequent connection to create integrated multi-organ microphysiological systems.
ref: 2015 October 7, “μOrgano: A Lego ® -Like Plug & Play System for Modular Multi-Organ-Chips”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to microphysiology
microphysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + physiology.
Senses: glosses: physiology studied on a very small scale
Related terms: microphysiological
nontraumatized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + traumatized.
Senses: examples: text: Reductions in gray matter density or volume of the dACC have been found in patients with child abuse-related PTSD compared with nontraumatized controls [33 ] and in adults with adverse childhood experiences broadly defined [34 ].
ref: 2015 October 7, “Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Thickness Is Related to Alexithymia in Childhood Trauma-Related PTSD”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not affected by trauma
oculocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oculo- + cutaneous.
Senses: examples: text: The primary clinical diagnosis for each individual was mainly based on the symptoms of progressive cerebellar ataxia, dysarthria and oculocutaneous telangiectasia, as well as signs of cerebellar atrophy revealed on MRI, elevated serum α-fetoprotein, and altered immunoglobulin profiles (Fig 1, Table 1 ).
ref: 2015 October 7, “Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Revealed Novel Mutations in Chinese Ataxia Telangiectasia Patients: A Precision Medicine Perspective”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That affects the eyes and the skin
pacifastins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Based on knowledge acquired from the study of pacifastins derived from the desert locust Schistocerca gregaria, we predict that the first pacifastin domain is probably a chymotrypsin inhibitor, based on the presence of a leucine residue at the P1 position.
ref: 2015 October 7, “What’s in the Gift? Towards a Molecular Dissection of Nuptial Feeding in a Cricket”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of pacifastin
pascichnial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pascichnia + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pascichnia
examples: text: Our holistic study of these modern-day traces suggests it to be a complex trace arising from domichnial, fodinichnial and possibly pascichnial behavior of polychaetes.
ref: 2015 October 7, “New Insights into Polychaete Traces and Fecal Pellets: Another Complex Ichnotaxon?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Characterized by grazing
pascichnion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pascichnia
Etymology: From Latin pāscor (“graze”) + -ichnion.
Senses: glosses: A trace fossil of a distinctive kind indicating an animal grazing.
Coordinate terms: fodinichnion
mortichnium
Derived terms: pascichnial
pharyngocutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharyngo- + cutaneous.
Senses: examples: text: CBS tends to occur in patients with HNC and those with radiation-induced necrosis, recurrent tumors, wound complications, or pharyngocutaneous fistulas [6 –8 ].
ref: 2015 October 7, “Endovascular Management of Post-Irradiated Carotid Blowout Syndrome”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the pharynx and the skin
prefertilization
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prefertilization
form: most prefertilization
Etymology: From pre- + fertilization.
Senses: examples: text: Some Megastigmus species target conifer species with ovules at prefertilization stages, others target conifers with ovules that are post-fertilization [16 ].
ref: 2015 October 7, “Host-Parasite Interactions from the Inside: Plant Reproductive Ontogeny Drives Specialization in Parasitic Insects”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Prior to fertilization
prefrontally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prefrontal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Such a progressive shift to prefrontally mediated executive processes may account for the increasing link between processing speed and myelin in anterior regions with advancing age.
ref: 2015 October 7, “Myelination Is Associated with Processing Speed in Early Childhood: Preliminary Insights”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a prefrontal direction; in a prefrontal region
sensorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /sɛnˈsɔː.ɹi.ə.li/
Etymology: From sensorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Larry and Andy Wachowski lay it on thick in "Speed Racer," a frenetic, densely layered, narratively scrambled blob of moviemaking that will leave viewers alternately baffled and sensorially stunned.
ref: 2008 May 9, Ann Hornaday, “'Speed Racer': Take a Detour”, in The Washington Post:
text: Nina’s life now, in her later years, was a struggle against pain and a failing effort to stay sensorially in tough with the world outside herself.
ref: 2014, Kelly Cherry, “Faith, Hope, and Clarity”, in A Kind of Dream: Stories, Madison: Terrace Books, →ISBN, page 109:
text: Since annoying sounds in our experiment were comparable to shocks or negative pictures in the way that they were all hedonic experience which are sensorially or emotionally aversive, we could expect to see difference of these ERP components if different anchor numbers were perceived as different cues to the following sounds.
ref: 2015 October 7, Qingguo Ma, Diandian Li, Qiang Shen, Wenwei Qiu, “Anchors as Semantic Primes in Value Construction: An EEG Study of the Anchoring Effect”, in PLOS One, →DOI:
glosses: With regard to the senses.
spermatophylax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatophylaxes
Etymology: From spermato- + phylax.
Senses: examples: text: Male decorated crickets Gryllodes sigillatus transfer a spermatophore to the female during copulation that is composed of an edible gift, the spermatophylax, and the ampulla that contains the ejaculate.
ref: 2015 October 7, “What’s in the Gift? Towards a Molecular Dissection of Nuptial Feeding in a Cricket”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A nutritive bolus ejected by some male insects during copulation
spermatophylaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To facilitate protein identification, we coupled proteomics analysis to the transcriptome sequencing of male accessory glands, the tissue producing spermatophylaxes in male G.
ref: 2015 October 7, “What’s in the Gift? Towards a Molecular Dissection of Nuptial Feeding in a Cricket”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of spermatophylax
tetracolporate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + colporate.
Senses: examples: text: In the same species, silencing of the meiosis-associated gene MEZ1 (ZPT2-5), yields plants producing tetracolporate pollen grains with increased DNA content that lead to premature seed abortion after pollination and fertilization [51 ].
ref: 2015 October 7, “Pollen Morphology and Boron Concentration in Floral Tissues as Factors Triggering Natural and GA-Induced Parthenocarpic Fruit Development in Grapevine”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having four colpi and pores.
transductively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transductive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In Principal Component Analysis FOBA (PCA FOBA), PCA was used transductively to select a subset of features (PCA features) and FoBa was used to fit a model.
ref: 2015 October 7, “Variable-Selection Emerges on Top in Empirical Comparison of Whole-Genome Complex-Trait Prediction Methods”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: By means of transduction
trilobated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + lobated.
Senses: examples: text: With the exception of Syrah, normal pollen from all cultivars appeared as subspherical, trilobated and radially symmetrical without significant morphological differences among the cultivars (Fig 2A–2D ).
ref: 2015 October 7, “Pollen Morphology and Boron Concentration in Floral Tissues as Factors Triggering Natural and GA-Induced Parthenocarpic Fruit Development in Grapevine”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having three lobes
techno-determinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of technodeterminism.
technodeterminists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technodeterminist
techno-determinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno-determinists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of technodeterminist.
techno-determinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of techno-determinist
object lessons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of object lesson
anodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a brand name which is a Blend of anodized + aluminum.
Senses: examples: text: This toughness is the result of a uniquely fine grain size imparted by vanadium to steel, anodium steels are readily cast, forged, and rolled.
ref: 1943, Product Engineering - Volume 14, Issues 7-12, page 251:
text: Terrazzo is not recommended as a wall covering but rather 12 in. by 8 in. tiles of a soft green colour particularly for the operating rooms where too, shelves may be of polished anodium covered with green rubber pad.
ref: 1945, Building Science Abstracts - Volumes 18-19, page 125:
text: Most of the items can be supplied in any of the following finishes : brass bronze, nickel silver, chromium, anodium, satin chrome.
ref: 1961, East African Trade & Industry - Issues 89-97, page 29:
text: External doors: mortice latch-locks, anodized anodium lever handles and 4 in. steel butts.
ref: 1963, Great Britain Ministry of Education, Youth Club: Withywood Bristol, page 59:
text: The ability to anodize at these high core densities is attributable to a novel method of transporting the electrolyte over the anodium surface in a direction opposite to the travel of the strip.
ref: 1967, Chemical Processing - Volume 13, Part 2, page v:
glosses: Anodized aluminum.
anodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There had been a “cosmium” and “neutronium” (“element”), too, to say nothing of “archonium,” “asterium,” “aetherium,”and the Ur-element “anodium", from which all the other elements supposedly were built.
ref: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothesized substance from which all other elements were formed.
dipcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipcoats
form: dip-coat
form: dip coat
Etymology: From dip + coat.
Senses: examples: text: The dipcoat is sprayed with a coarse sand while it is still wet.
ref: 1952, Rawson L. Wood, Investment Castings for Engineers, page 144:
text: From the practical point-of-view, the basis of the investigation was that one should apply the primary dipcoat to pattern-assemblies using two different dipcoat-viscosities, two pattern-washing techniques, and two methods of draining the...
ref: 1969, The Foundry Trade Journal - Volume 126, page 519:
text: To assure adherence of the dipcoat to the wax, prewetting in a suitable agent to remove mold parting lubricant and microscopically roughen the wax surface may be necessary.
ref: 1969, Industrial Arts & Vocational Education - Volume 58, page 37:
text: If one or more of the slurry components reacts with the silica binder, dipcoat gellation may occur.
ref: 1990, LeRoy D. Hart, Esther Lense, Alumina chemicals: science and technology handbook, →ISBN, page 514:
text: Recommended application is by spray, dipcoat, or roller.
ref: 2009, NPCS Board of Consultants & Engineers, Handbook on Paints and Enamels, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: A coating that is applied by immersing an object in a liquid, often applied to prevent corrosion.
dipcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dipcoats
form: dipcoating
form: dipcoated
form: dipcoated
form: dip-coat
form: dip coat
Etymology: From dip + coat.
Senses: examples: text: Glass plates of (1x3) cm2 were dipcoated 15 times from the ZnS:Mn2+ suspension at a lift-rate of 0.5 mm/s while the suspension was slowly stirred.
ref: 2002, M. Cahay, Advanced Luminescent Materials and Quantum Confinement II, →ISBN:
text: Correlation between thickeness of membrane and withdrawing velocity in dipcoating fabrication process
ref: 2005, James Duncan, Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention MICCAI, →ISBN, page 931:
text: The easiest approach to incorporating drugs into electrospun fibers is to dipcoat the fibrous constructs (mats, tubes, etc.) into appropriate organic or inorganic solvents that contain the drug in question.
ref: 2014, Abraham J. Domb, Wahid Khan, Focal Controlled Drug Delivery, →ISBN, page 418:
glosses: Alternative form of dip-coat.
dipcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dipcoat
dipcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dipcoat
dipcoating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dipcoat
dipcoated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dipcoat
dip-coat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dip-coats
form: dip-coating
form: dip-coated
form: dip-coated
form: dipcoat
form: dip coat
Etymology: From dip + coat.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, it was described in 1941 how a solution of the enzyme pepsin could be used to remove gelatine from the expensive part of the lacquer record, the even and flat metal blank, and how to cook new gelatine and how to dip-coat the cleaned blank.
ref: 2012, Dr Simon Zagorski-Thomas, Professor Simon Frith, The Art of Record Production, →ISBN:
text: A mandrel may be utilized to cast or dip-coat the polymeric substrate.
ref: 2013, Artificial Materials—Advances in Research and Application, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Then you'll dip-coat them with darkly colored soap.
ref: 2015, Alicia Grosso, DIY Artisanal Soaps: Make Your Own Custom, Handcrafted Soaps!, →ISBN:
glosses: To immerse in liquid in order to apply a dipcoat.
dip-coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dip-coats
form: dipcoat
form: dip coat
Etymology: From dip + coat.
Senses: examples: text: There appeared to be no difference in the movement of a dip-coat on glass or wax.
ref: 1969, The Foundry Trade Journal - Volume 126, page 858:
text: Binder penetrates dip-coat pores and cracks. Poor adherence of dip-coat to pattern.
ref: 1988, LaRoux K. Gillespie, Troubleshooting Manufacturing Processes, →ISBN:
text: The major differences between the dip-coat and the plate coat are summarized in Table 13.2.
ref: 1992, A.C. Tan, Tin and Solder Plating in the Semiconductor Industry, →ISBN, page 298:
glosses: Alternative form of dipcoat.