cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diisooctyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + isooctyl.
Senses: examples: text: The settings for electrospray ionization were as follows: oven temperature of 300°C, sheath gas of 8 arb. units and source voltage of 1.5 kV. The acquired data were internally calibrated with diisooctyl phthalate as a contaminant in methanol (m/z 391.2843).
ref: 2015 December 17, “Non-Catalyzed Click Reactions of ADIBO Derivatives with 5-Methyluridine Azides and Conformational Study of the Resulting Triazoles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Two isooctyl groups in a molecule
isooctyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isooctyls
Etymology: From iso- + octyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several octyl isomers that have a sidechain, but especially 6-methyl-heptyl
Derived terms: diisooctyl
dodecaploidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecaploidizations
Etymology: From dodecaploid + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Using this approach, a recent study that included genetic data from four of the new species described here proposed that tetraploidization occurred at least once in subgenus Silurana and once in subgenus Xenopus, octoploidization occurred at least three times in subgenus Xenopus, and that dodecaploidization occurred at least three times in subgenus Xenopus.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Genetics, Morphology, Advertisement Calls, and Historical Records Distinguish Six New Polyploid Species of African Clawed Frog ( Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of becoming dodecaploid.
entopterygoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛɹɪɡɔɪd
Forms: form: entopterygoids
Etymology: From ento- + pterygoid.
Senses: examples: text: At the symphysis, the entopterygoid articulates with its counterpart through a striated articular surface which is oval in outline.
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:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A certain ventral bone of reptiles or fish
Related terms: ectopterygoid
ereynetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Ereynetes + -al
Senses: examples: text: For both subsets of parasites, the representatives infecting Xenopus have exceptional specializations such as the brood pouch and velum of the leech Marsupiobdella, the attachment organ and excretory system of the monogenean Gyrdicotylus, and the ereynetal organ of the mite, Xenopacarus [reviewed in 101].
ref: 2015 December 17, “Genetics, Morphology, Advertisement Calls, and Historical Records Distinguish Six New Polyploid Species of African Clawed Frog ( Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of mites of the genus Ereynetes.
gymnostom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnostoms
Senses: examples: text: Anterior part of the stoma (Cheilostom) cuticularized; gymnostom together with prostegostom and mesostegostom forming main part of the stoma, cylinder-like and slightly funnel-shaped; metastegostom ridges present, but lacking teeth or denticles; telostegostom short (Fig 2D and 2E).
ref: 2015 December 17, “Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Phasmarhabditis huizhouensis sp. nov. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae), a New Rhabditid Nematode from South China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A "naked" stoma, one without a peristome.
Coordinate terms: cheilostom
stegostom
Related terms: gymnostomous
hemithioacetal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemithioacetals
Etymology: From hemi- + thioacetal.
Senses: examples: text: Two diastereoisomers of each adduct are observed due to the formation of a stereogenic hemithioacetal group.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Studies on the Glutathione-Dependent Formaldehyde-Activating Enzyme from Paracoccus denitrificans”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of compounds of general formula R₂C(OH)SR' (where R' is not H).
hyperexpress
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperexpresses
form: hyperexpressing
form: hyperexpressed
form: hyperexpressed
Etymology: From hyper- + express.
Senses: glosses: To express much more than normally
glosses: To modify by hyperexpression
hyperexpressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For each marker of risk that was hyperexpressed, one unit was added to the score.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Genetic and Immunohistochemical Expression of Integrins ITGAV, ITGA6, and ITGA3 As Prognostic Factor for Colorectal Cancer: Models for Global and Disease-Free Survival”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of hyperexpress
hyperexpressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hyperexpress
hyperexpressing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A pattern of association was observed between the number of hyperexpressing markers and GS (Table 7 ), with a good association observed between the presence of one or two markers and the ability to predict GS (Table 7 ).
ref: 2015 December 17, “Genetic and Immunohistochemical Expression of Integrins ITGAV, ITGA6, and ITGA3 As Prognostic Factor for Colorectal Cancer: Models for Global and Disease-Free Survival”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That causes hyperexpression
hypermannosylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + mannosylation.
Senses: examples: text: The Fc variants contained two mutations (C228S and C231S) in the hinge region to exclude Fc homodimerization by eliminating the natural disulfide bonds in the hinge region and an N297Q mutation to avoid yeast hypermannosylation by removing the N-linked glycosylation site in the CH2 domain.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Engineering of Immunoglobulin Fc Heterodimers Using Yeast Surface-Displayed Combinatorial Fc Library Screening”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Excessive mannosylation
hypoallergen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoallergens
Etymology: From hypo- + allergen.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the only disease modifying approach in allergy treatment is thought to be allergen-specific immunotherapy in which the modified hypoallergen is considered to be potential candidate molecule for vaccination in future.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Purification, Cloning and Immuno-Biochemical Characterization of a Fungal Aspartic Protease Allergen Rhi o 1 from the Airborne Mold Rhizopus oryzae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: An allergen that has been modified to be less than normally allergenic.
Related terms: hypoallergenic
hypoexpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + expression.
Senses: examples: text: These scores were assigned for each category of risk (hyper- or hypoexpression, depending on the marker) and these added up to 1.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Genetic and Immunohistochemical Expression of Integrins ITGAV, ITGA6, and ITGA3 As Prognostic Factor for Colorectal Cancer: Models for Global and Disease-Free Survival”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Less than the normal amount of expression
immunoscreened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + screened.
Senses: examples: text: The purified nRhi o 1 was found to retain IgE reactivity as immunoscreened with mold allergy patient sera.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Purification, Cloning and Immuno-Biochemical Characterization of a Fungal Aspartic Protease Allergen Rhi o 1 from the Airborne Mold Rhizopus oryzae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: screened by means of immunoscreening
isoelectrofocused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For a particular patient, P/N ≥ 3.5 was considered as having markedly elevated level of allergen specific IgE. Mass spectrometry and N-terminal sequencing The purified native Rhi o 1 was isoelectrofocused in 2D gel using IPG strip, pH 4–7, (GE Healthcare, Uppsala, Sweden).
ref: 2015 December 17, “Purification, Cloning and Immuno-Biochemical Characterization of a Fungal Aspartic Protease Allergen Rhi o 1 from the Airborne Mold Rhizopus oryzae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: focused by means of isoelectrofocusing
mesiotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesio- + temporal.
Senses: examples: text: However, the region anterior to the brainstem was frequently included in the mask, leading to mesiotemporal overestimations.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Neuroanatomical Correlates of Recognizing Face Expressions in Mild Stages of Alzheimer’s Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: mesial and temporal
microsequenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + sequenced.
Senses: examples: text: For N-terminal sequence analysis, the purified Rhi o 1 was transferred from gel to PVDF membrane using 10 mM CAPS buffer (pH 11) containing 10% methanol and then microsequenced in a Procise protein sequencer (Applied Biosystems, Weiterstadt, Germany).
ref: 2015 December 17, “Purification, Cloning and Immuno-Biochemical Characterization of a Fungal Aspartic Protease Allergen Rhi o 1 from the Airborne Mold Rhizopus oryzae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: sequenced using microsequencing
midposterior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
Etymology: From mid- + posterior.
Senses: examples: text: The fibular condyle projects laterally and possesses a shallow notch in the midposterior part.
ref: 2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In the middle of the posterior part
Derived terms: midposteriorly
octoploidization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octoploidizations
Etymology: From octoploid + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Using this approach, a recent study that included genetic data from four of the new species described here proposed that tetraploidization occurred at least once in subgenus Silurana and once in subgenus Xenopus, octoploidization occurred at least three times in subgenus Xenopus, and that dodecaploidization occurred at least three times in subgenus Xenopus [21 ].
ref: 2015 December 17, “Genetics, Morphology, Advertisement Calls, and Historical Records Distinguish Six New Polyploid Species of African Clawed Frog ( Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Modification to become octoploid
osteoglossiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoglossiforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Osteoglossiformes
osteoglossiforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The features exhibited by their teeth are not found in any other extinct or extant fish, and they are clearly different from the teeth of relatives, among osteoglossiforms and characiforms, respectively.
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: plural of osteoglossiform
overimposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From overimpose + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the two averaged trains of stimuli were overimposable.
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: superimposable
paleoploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + -ploid.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, DArT has been applied successfully to species with large genomes such as barley [2 ] and with complex or/and polyploid genomes such as the decaploid sugarcane [3 ], hexaploid wheat and oat [4 ,5 ] or the paleoploid apple [6 ].
ref: 2015 December 17, “Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) Marker Platforms for Diversity Analysis and Linkage Mapping in a Complex Crop, the Octoploid Cultivated Strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa )”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having the ploidy that the organism had in the distant past
peloderan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Males have an open peloderan bursa that is supported by 9 pairs of genital papillae and 1 terminal pair of phasmids.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Phasmarhabditis huizhouensis sp. nov. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae), a New Rhabditid Nematode from South China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the caudal alae of a nematode
phosphoglycan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoglycans
Etymology: From phospho- + glycan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any glycan that is associated with a phospholipid
Derived terms: lipophosphoglycan
proteophosphoglycan
Related terms: phosphoglucan
phosphoglycans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, inositol phosphoglycans comprise a major family of intracellular signaling molecules, including the mediation of insulin action [69 ].
ref: 2015 December 17, “Serum Metabolite Biomarkers Discriminate Healthy Smokers from COPD Smokers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of phosphoglycan
incidious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of insidious.
I don't want it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker does not want to take something that is being offered.
Related terms: I'm not interested
I don't want to buy anything
I don't want to talk about it
I'm not interested
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Related terms: I don't want it
I don't want to buy anything
I don't want to talk about it
no thank you
I'll pass
I'm good
atoothfairyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atoothfairyists
Etymology: From a- + tooth fairy + -ist, based on atheist.
Senses: glosses: A person who does not believe in the tooth fairy.
Hypernyms: nonbeliever
Coordinate terms: adragonist
afairyist
aleprechaunist
asantaist
aunicornist
atoothfairyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atoothfairyist
unsnare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsnares
form: unsnaring
form: unsnared
form: unsnared
Etymology: From un- + snare.
Senses: glosses: To release from a snare
snow-on-the-mountain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: smoke-on-the-prairie
ghostweed
glosses: A small shrub in the family Euphorbiaceae, having white-margined leaves and white flowers; Euphorbia marginata.
Related terms: word: fire-on-the-mountain
taxonomic: Aegopodium podagraria
word: snow-in-the-mountain
Haftarah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhɑːftɑːˈɹɑː/
/ˌhɑːftəˈɹɑː/
/həfˈtʌ.ɹə/
/həfˈtɔː.ɹə/
Forms: form: Haftarot
form: Haftaros
form: Haftarahs
form: Haftaroth
form: haftarah
form: Haftorah
form: haftorah
form: Haftara
form: haftara
form: haphtara
form: haphtarah
Etymology: From Hebrew הַפְטָרָה (haftará), also through Yiddish הפֿטרה (haftore).
The alternative spellings with -or- and pronunciations with /ɔːɹ/ – which may appear even outside of Ashkenazi pronunciation traditions – may possibly be strengthened due to influence from Torah or reanalysis to half + Torah, as the haftarah follows the reading of the Torah and is of secondary importance.
Senses: examples: text: Recent scholars, on the other hand, without much show of reason, as it would appear, variously hold the Haftarah to have sprung from the sermon or homiletic exercise which accompanied the reading in the Pentateuch, and took its exordium (as Haftarah, by an extraordinary linguistic passage, adapted in a manner to the Mosaic text under consideration; or, again, they imagine the Haftarah to have taken its rise spontaneously during the exile itself, and that Ezra retained and enforced it in Palestine.
ref: 1874, Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch, page 320:
text: Every year between Tisha B'av and Rosh Hashanah, we read the Seven Haftarot of Consolation from Isaiah 40-61.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Comfort, Oh Comfort My People”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page ix:
glosses: A selection from the books of Nevi'im and Ketuvim of the Tanach, usually corresponding to the week's parashah, publicly read in synagogue following the parashah.
nose bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose bridges
form: nosebridge
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The upper, bony part of the human nose, overlying the nasal bones.
glosses: The section of the frame that rests over the nose between both lenses.
raw_tags: of eyeglasses
Synonyms: nasal bridge
Related terms: nasal bone
nosebridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosebridges
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of nose bridge.
nose bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nose bridge
nosebridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosebridge
murder-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murder-holes
Senses: examples: text: Immediately inside the doorway is a small lobby which is defended by a cross loop which would have been manned from inside the main chamber and defended by a murder-hole over.
ref: 1999, David Sweetman, Medieval Castles of Ireland, page 148:
text: The murder-hole above the outer end of the passage survives, but only the descending grooves mark the position of the outer portcullis within it, beneath the recess to receive it in the outer E. wall
ref: 2000, Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, An inventory of the ancient monuments in Glamorgan:
text: This corridor is entered from the Castle by a tunnel cut through the rampart, its exit through the wall being guarded by a murder-hole above, and made more secure by a double right-angle bend and a narrow doorway.
ref: 2002, David Freke, E. P. Allison, Excavations on St. Patrick's Isle, Peel, Isle of Man, 1982-88, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Marcus caught up another large rock, but before hurling it he paused, squinting eagerly down his murder-hole.
ref: 2006, Jonathan Stroud, The Last Siege, →ISBN, page 230:
glosses: Alternative form of murder hole.
examples: text: The pits were of the kind which have become known as murder-holes, for the reason already explained that they were used by the barons, who had power of pit and gallows, to punish malefactors summarily.
ref: 1877, Charles Gibbon, In Love and War: A Romance - Volume 1, page 294:
text: Some of the murder-holes or pits, are said to be eighty feet deep, from which human bones have been brought forth, and their origin has been referred to the feudal grants, which were conferred on so many barons, of having and using " pit and gallows."
ref: 1884, Alexander W. M. Clark Kennedy, Robert the Bruce: A Poem, Historical and Romantic, page 222:
text: Drowning is a very old mode of punishment in Scotland; and in Galloway there were pits of great depth appropriated to that punishment, still called murder-holes, out of which human bones have occasionally been taken in great quantities.
ref: 2012, Sir Walter Scott, The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland, →ISBN:
glosses: A deep pit used for drowning malefactors as a punishment.
murder-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murder-hole
murder hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murder holes
form: murder-hole
Senses: examples: text: The ground floor entrance, a gothic doorway, is in the east wall and gives access to a small vestibule with a murder hole. The stairs on the left leads up to a short landing, over which is a second smaller murder hole.
ref: 1997, John Kirwan, Kilkenny: studies in honour of Margaret M. Phelan, page 41:
text: While tradition and speculation has it that murder holes were commonly used to throw stones and other heavy missiles onto the heads of unsuspecting besiegers, they quite likely originated as devices that allowed defenders to quench the flames of an enemy's fire burning the timber defenses situated within the passage.
ref: 2006, Lise Hull, Britain's Medieval Castles, →ISBN, page 58:
text: She said the nearest she could recall was when one of King Stephen's sentries got drunk on shipwreck brandy and fell through the murder hole, breaking his leg.
ref: 2013, Michelle Cooper, A Brief History of Montmaray, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A slit or hole above the entrance to a fortification, thought to provide access for defenders to kill invaders.
examples: text: On the first floor, over the gate passage and tower rooms, was a massive hall, well-appointed despite its having to accommodate the inner portcullis and murder hole, the slots for which may still be seen in the floor.
ref: 1992, Sian E. Rees, A Guide to Ancient and Historic Wales: Dyfed, →ISBN, page 160:
text: Within it a passage with what is described by Westropp as a 'murder hole' on the roof just inside the doorway. This 'murder hole' extends the width of the passage and is covered over by well fitting stone slabs.
ref: 1998, The parish of Kilkeedy: a local history, →ISBN, page 75:
text: The archers on the ramparts, naturally, saw them plain, as did the towermaster in the 'murder hole' above the gate.
ref: 2006, Michael Flynn, Eifelheim, →ISBN, page 268:
glosses: A chamber above the entrance to a fortification where defenders hide and shoot at invaders trapped in the entryway below.
Related terms: oubliette
murder holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murder hole
Murder Hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Murder Hole is the thing for me—that tells no tales—a single scuffle—a single plunge—and the fellow is dead and buried to your hand in a moment.
ref: 1989, Islay Murray Donaldson, The Life and Work of Samuel Rutherford Crockett, page 122:
text: The name appears to refer to, and in fact to be an alternative one for, the Murder Hole of Carrick (q.vj which lies 200 or 300 yards west of the croft biggin.
ref: 1947, John Kevan McDowall, Carrick Gallovidian:
text: The Murder Hole was supposedly near the property Moira and Paul rented, but they hardly knew a soul who had seen it, except for one: the old man who patched their roof.
ref: 2003, Cathryn Hankla, The Land Between, page 1:
text: The other brother replied, 'The Murder Hole for me. It makes for a cleaner job — you just slit their throats and drop them in. It's all by in a flash.'
ref: 2009, Dane Love, Legendary Ayrshire: custom, folklore, tradition, page 208:
glosses: A waterhole or pit in a bog where the bodies of murder victims were thrown.
regulatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regulatresses
Etymology: From regulator + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: […] that it was unanimously resolved by the aforesaid village sages and venerable female regulatresses, whose wisdom was truly inscrutable […]
ref: 1825 February 18, “Moral Tales”, in The New-York Mirror, and Ladies' Literary Gazette, volume 3, number 30:
glosses: A female regulator.
Malay Peninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Malay Peninsula
form: Malacca peninsula
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in Southeast Asia containing the southernmost tip of Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia and Southern Thailand.
boybits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of boy bits.
transisthmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + isthmic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of transisthmian.
synonyms: word: transisthmian
polypteriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypteriforms
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the order Polypteriformes
polypteriforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The ganoin, a peculiar type of enamel found in polypteriforms and recognised here, covers the outer surface of the scales and certain skull bones.
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: plural of polypteriform
presaturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presaturates
form: presaturating
form: presaturated
form: presaturated
Etymology: From pre- + saturate.
Senses: glosses: To saturate in advance of some other process
Related terms: presaturation
presaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For positive control, the sera were presaturated with 5μg of rRhi o 1 and auto inhibition was performed in the blot.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Purification, Cloning and Immuno-Biochemical Characterization of a Fungal Aspartic Protease Allergen Rhi o 1 from the Airborne Mold Rhizopus oryzae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of presaturate
procathepsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procathepsins
Etymology: From pro- + cathepsin.
Senses: examples: text: The activity was estimated by reducing the incubation time to 2 min to avoid procathepsin L activation [17 ,19 ].
ref: 2015 December 17, “An Active 32-kDa Cathepsin L Is Secreted Directly from HT 1080 Fibrosarcoma Cells and Not via Lysosomal Exocytosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins that are involved in the production of cathepsins
Derived terms: preprocathepsin
pterygopalate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When excluding the symphysal enlargement and the pterygopalate process, which both project dorsally, jaw bones are roughly as high as the tooth plates (Fig 2B ).
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: Synonym of pterygopalatine.
synonyms: word: pterygopalatine
pyrimiphos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Recently, to prevent the spread of bendiocarb resistance [11 ], the NMCP used pyrimiphos methyl in mosaic with bendiocarb to manage pyrethroids and carbamates resistance in Atacora, northern Benin [16 ].
ref: 2015 December 17, “Impact of Insecticide Resistance on the Effectiveness of Pyrethroid-Based Malaria Vectors Control Tools in Benin: Decreased Toxicity and Repellent Effect”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of pirimiphos.
racemoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racemosides
Senses: examples: text: Studies conducted with other types of natural compounds, such as saponin racemoside A [46 ], polyphenol curcumin [47 ], lignan yangambin [48 ] and monoterpene citral [49 ], also induced apoptosis in L.
ref: 2015 December 17, “The Effect of Ursolic Acid on Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis Is Related to Programed Cell Death and Presents Therapeutic Potential in Experimental Cutaneous Leishmaniasis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of a family of nonsteroidal saponins that induces programmed cell death in Leishmania
rhabditiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Rhabditida + -iform
Senses: examples: text: The adult female has a robust body, a relatively short and wide buccal capsule conjoined by a rhabditiform pharynx.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Morphological and Molecular Characterization of Phasmarhabditis huizhouensis sp. nov. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae), a New Rhabditid Nematode from South China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having the form of a nematode of the order Rhabditida.
sacrocostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sacro- + costal.
Senses: examples: text: The distal end of the sacrodorsal rib is fused to the sacrocostal yoke.
ref: 2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the sacrum and the ribs
sacrodorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From sacro- + dorsal.
Senses: examples: text: Abbreviations: k, ventral keel; ns, neural spine; pre, prezygapophysis; sd, sacrodorsal vertebra; sdr, sacrodorsal rib; sr, sacral ribs; sy, sacral yoke; s5, sacral vertebra 5; tp, transverse process.
ref: 2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the sacrum and the back
styracosternan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: styracosternans
Etymology: Styracosterna + -an
Senses: examples: text: The recognition of Morelladon beltrani gen. et sp. nov. indicates that the Iberian Peninsula was home to a highly diverse medium to large bodied styracosternan assemblage during the Early Cretaceous.
ref: 2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any dinosaur of the taxon †Styracosterna.
styracosternans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Phylogenetic analyses reveal that the new Iberian form is more closely related to its synchronic and sympatric contemporary European taxa Iguanodon bernissartensis and Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis, known from Western Europe, than to other Early Cretaceous Iberian styracosternans (Delapparentia turolensis and Proa valdearinnoensis).
ref: 2015 December 17, “A New Sail-Backed Styracosternan (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Morella, Spain”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of styracosternan
subcontemporaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subcontemporaneous
form: most subcontemporaneous
Etymology: From sub- + contemporaneous.
Senses: examples: text: The ichthyological diversity registered confirms the presence of a permanent freshwater environment in the African northern region with a probable hydrological system of significant size and including streams and possibly lakes or ponds (see also environmental discussion on the subcontemporaneous site at Birket Qarun [6 ]).
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: beneath (and therefore older than) a contemporaneous layer or site
submodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + modal.
Senses: examples: text: Hence, we observed that 17.5% of the tumors were strongly and diffusely immunoreactive for p16 Ink4A, whereas a submodal positivity was restricted to 22.3% tumors.
ref: 2015 December 17, “The Contrasting Role of p16 Ink4A Patterns of Expression in Neuroendocrine and Non-Neuroendocrine Lung Tumors: A Comprehensive Analysis with Clinicopathologic and Molecular Correlations”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Less than modal
underdispersed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + dispersed.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, their interspike-time and count distributions are well described by underdispersed gamma processes, indicating regularity in the release patterns.
ref: 2015 December 17, “Vesicle Motion during Sustained Exocytosis in Chromaffin Cells: Numerical Model Based on Amperometric Measurements”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Less than normally dispersed
ambispective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ambi- + Latin spectum + -ive, on the pattern of retrospective and prospective.
Senses: examples: text: An ambispective cohort study of 129 patients with osteomyelitis was conducted and the proportions for qualitative variables and central tendency and dispersion measures for quantitative variables were calculated; the latter were tested for normality using the Shapiro-Wilk test.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Differences in the Clinical Outcome of Osteomyelitis by Treating Specialty: Orthopedics or Infectology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having both retrospective and prospective components
circasemidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Summarizing the main results, the existence of biological rhythms, but not daily and maybe circasemidian, was confirmed for the three hormones at the earliest period of lactation.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Milk Leptin Surge and Biological Rhythms of Leptin and Other Regulatory Proteins in Breastmilk”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Following a twelve hour (half a day) rhythm
Related terms: circadian
embryonating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Virus isolation was performed in embryonating chicken egg culture according to the methods described by Woolcock and influenza subtypes determined by genomic sequencing.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Avian Influenza Ecology in North Atlantic Sea Ducks: Not All Ducks Are Created Equal”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In which embryos are forming
hepatocanalicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + canalicular.
Senses: examples: text: Cholestasis is defined as an impairment of normal bile flow and is divided into extra-hepatic cholestasis and intra-hepatic cholestasis, the latter can be of hepatocanalicular or ductal origin.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Genetics and Molecular Modeling of New Mutations of Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis in a Single Italian Center”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to the canaliculi of the liver
hypotrochanteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + trochanteric.
Senses: examples: text: The hypotrochanteric fossa is extensive SI and ML, merging across a wide area with the gluteal crest (S1 Fig ), rather than being a distinct and narrow fossa that distinguishes the lateral wall of the femur from the weakly developed proximo-lateral buttress, as is typically seen when this feature is developed in AMH femora.
ref: 2015 December 18, “A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Beneath the trochanter of the femur
triacontagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacontagons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῐᾱ́κοντᾰ (trĭā́kontă) + -gon.
Senses: examples: text: After projection onto the (x₁, x₂) plane, the A’s, B’s, C’s, and D’s form four concentric triacontagons, inscribed in circles of radii a, b, c, and d.
ref: 1947, H. S. M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, published 2012, unnumbered page:
text: 1964 July, B. L. Chilton, On the Projection of the Regular Polytope {5, 3, 3} into a Regular Triacontagon, Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, Volume 7, Number 3, page 386,
In the projection the 600 points can be classified in 12 sets: each set consists of either of 30 or of 60 vertices which lie on a circle concentric with the outer triacontagon.
text: 1997, Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, Judith Veronica Field (translators), The Harmony of the World, [1619, Harmonices Mundi], American Philosophical Society, Volume 309, page 59,
What should the decision now be about the sides of the Triacontagon?
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with thirty sides.
Synonyms: 30-gon
Related terms: triacontagonal
triacontagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triacontagon
swevening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈswɛve.nɪŋ/
Forms: form: swevenings
Etymology: From Middle English swevenyng, from sweven (“dream”) and thus equivalent to sweven + -ing. Germanic cognates include Danish søvn (“sleep”), Icelandic svefn (“sleep”), Norwegian søvn (“sleep”), Swedish sömn (“sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: He saw distorted, dancing shapes in a nightmarish swevening.
glosses: A dreaming.
immunevasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, HIV-1 infection has been shown to alter glycosylation in host cells, and it is conceivable that HIV-1 might affect HLA class I glycosylation, either as a host response mechanism or a direct immunevasive tactic depending on whether HLA class I binding to NK cell receptors is enhanced or diminished by the altered glycosylation pattern.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Influence of Glycosylation Inhibition on the Binding of KIR3DL1 to HLA-B*57:01”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of immunoevasive.
immunoalkaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: immuno-alkaline
Etymology: From immuno- + alkaline.
Senses: examples: text: Immunohistochemistry (IHC) assays on sections of oviduct tissues were performed by using a polymer-based colorimetric indirect immunoalkaline phosphatase method with a polyclonal rabbit anti-T-cadherin antibody, as previously described [100 ].
ref: 2015 December 18, “Role of Epithelial-Mesenchyme Transition in Chlamydia Pathogenesis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Describing a phosphatase enzyme used in cytology
intradiol
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + diol.
Senses: examples: text: Local oxygen levels may be further reduced by the up regulation of a putative secreted intradiol dioxygenase (PAU_03890), as this class of enzyme utilise molecular oxygen.
ref: 2015 December 18, “From Insect to Man: Photorhabdus Sheds Light on the Emergence of Human Pathogenicity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Between the carbon atoms that carry the two hydroxyl groups of a diol
Related terms: extradiol
maleylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From maleyl + -ated.
Senses: examples: text: To investigate if apoA-I signals through SR-BI in endothelial cells, we synthesized maleylated albumin (mal-albumin), a molecule that clearly competitively antagonizes SR-BI-mediated ligand binding (Fig 4A ) [39 –42 ].
ref: 2015 December 18, “A Novel Anti-Inflammatory Effect for High Density Lipoprotein”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Modified by reaction with maleic acid or a maleate derivative
microdrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdrops
Etymology: From micro- + drop.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, the stained embryos were suspended in a microdrop with blocking solution and photographed with a confocal laser-scanning microscope (Zeiss LSM 710 Meta; Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany).
ref: 2015 December 18, “Eight-Shaped Hatching Increases the Risk of Inner Cell Mass Splitting in Extended Mouse Embryo Culture”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A microscopic drop
microdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All embryos were cultured in microdrops of medium in tissue culture dishes (Falcon 3001; Becton Dickinson, USA) overlaid with mineral oil (Irvine Scientific, USA).
ref: 2015 December 18, “Eight-Shaped Hatching Increases the Risk of Inner Cell Mass Splitting in Extended Mouse Embryo Culture”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of microdrop
pericolorectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + colorectal.
Senses: examples: text: The tumor invaded through the muscularis propria into pericolorectal fat tissues.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase Rearrangement in Digestive Tract Cancer: Implication for Targeted Therapy in Chinese Population”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the colon and rectum
platymeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In terms of the platymeric index, a Kruskal-Wallis test revealed significant differences among sample medians (p0.040): post hoc comparisons revealed significant differences between MPHO and NEAN (p0.016), and NEAN and EULU (p0.014) (Fig 2F).
ref: 2015 December 18, “A Hominin Femur with Archaic Affinities from the Late Pleistocene of Southwest China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Having a broad femur
Derived terms: platymeric index
rhabduscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The natural product rhabduscin, produced by several Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus strains, was recently shown to inhibit the insect Phenol-Oxidase (PO) cascade [30 ].
ref: 2015 December 18, “From Insect to Man: Photorhabdus Sheds Light on the Emergence of Human Pathogenicity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amidoglycosyl- and vinyl-isonitrile tyrosine derivative that is a perimeter defense molecule in entomopathogenic bacteria
subhaplotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subhaplotypes
Etymology: From sub- + haplotype.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, eight subhaplotypes were combined within three SNPs in TOMM40, and the only subhaplotype G-T-C (rs157581-rs11556505-rs1160985) was significantly susceptible to LOAD risk.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Polygenic Analysis of Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease from Mainland China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A subtype of a haplotype
subhaplotypes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With regard to two SNPs in MS4A, a total of four subhaplotypes were grouped, while no significant difference was identified between cases and controls (Table 3 ).
ref: 2015 December 18, “Polygenic Analysis of Late-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease from Mainland China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of subhaplotype
subtrajectory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtrajectories
Etymology: From sub- + trajectory.
Senses: glosses: A subset of a trajectory
subtrajectories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hence, features developed for the classification of entire trajectories could also be applied to subtrajectories, with little modification.
ref: 2015 December 18, “Developing and Integrating Advanced Movement Features Improves Automated Classification of Ciliate Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of subtrajectory
transectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transection + -al.
Senses: examples: text: From the digitalized images (n of 8 mice per group, average of 3 images/mouse), the axonal counts (C) across the lateral column, as well as total axonal transectional diameter (D), were obtained.
ref: 2015 December 18, “1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D 3 Protects against Immune-Mediated Killing of Neurons in Culture and in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Of, related to, or being a transection.
Related terms: transected
transectioned
Sass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: Initialism of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets, a style sheet language.
Libshitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Trøndelag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Trøndelag.
Senses: glosses: A county of Norway.
biometamorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + metamorphic.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: That has a biological form and is metamorphic
chapparel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chapparels
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of chaparral.
coffeehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffeeheads
Etymology: From coffee + -head.
Senses: glosses: A person who is addicted to or regularly consumes coffee.
acidobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acidobacteria
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any acidophilic bacteria of the genus Acidobacterium, the family Acidobacteriaceae, or the phylum Acidobacteria, which engage in non-oxygenic photosynthesis.
acidobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Compared with OFS, CFS had higher relative abundances of the actinobacteria belonging to the family Nakamurellaceae, acidobacteria of the family Koribacteraceae, proteobacteria of the groups SC-I-84, Ellin6067, Oxalobacteriaceae (particularly the genus Janthinobacterium) and Ralstonia and bacteria, belonging to the genera Paenibacillus and Pedobacter.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Comparative Analysis of Prokaryotic Communities Associated with Organic and Conventional Farming Systems”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: plural of acidobacterium
calyptopis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Euphausiaceans go through a number of phases during their development: a nauplius (= ortho-nauplius) phase, a metanauplius ‘phase’, a calyptopis phase, and a furcilia phase, each of which may contain more than one larval stage, but with a relatively constant morphology within each phase.
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
glosses: The phase of larval development characterized by compound eyes beneath the carapace.
cohybridize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cohybridizes
form: cohybridizing
form: cohybridized
form: cohybridized
Etymology: From co- + hybridize.
Senses: glosses: To hybridize together with another
Related terms: cohybridization
cohybridized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: For each sample, HpaII and MspI LM-PCR libraries were labeled with Cy5 and Cy3 dyes respectively and cohybridized to the Nimbelgen array.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Genome Wide Methylome Alterations in Lung Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: simple past and past participle of cohybridize
gammaridian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Other abundant groups included actinarian and zoanthid anemones, bryozoans, caprellid and gammaridian amphipods, clionid sponges, hydroids, ophiuroids, and tunicates.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Success in Competition for Space in Two Invasive Coral Species in the western Atlantic – Tubastraea micranthus and T . coccinea”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Misspelling of gammaridean.
gammaridean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gammarideans
Etymology: Gammaridea + -an
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: gammarid
glosses: Any amphipod of the suborder Gammaridea.
hyperallometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + allometric.
Senses: examples: text: The relationship between male and female thorax length was significantly hyperallometric, indicating a greater evolutionary divergence in male body size, even though the other traits showed isometric relationships.
ref: 2015 December 19, “Body Size Adaptations to Altitudinal Climatic Variation in Neotropical Grasshoppers of the Genus Sphenarium (Orthoptera: Pyrgomorphidae)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That grows at a more than an allometric rate
raw_tags: of a population
Related terms: hyperallometry
hyperpneumaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + pneumaticity.
Senses: examples: text: We regard this account as strong evidence of the presence of pneumaticity in Deinocheirus, which is clearly unlike the condition in other ornithomimosaurs, and might represent the evolution of hyperpneumaticity associated with giant body size [17 ].
ref: 2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being hyperpneumatic
werecow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: werecows
Etymology: From were- + cow.
Senses: topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A person who transforms into a cow or cowlike creature, like a werewolf transforms into a wolf or wolflike creature.
werecows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of werecow
hyperpneumatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + pneumatic.
Senses: glosses: Having more than the normal number of air-filled cavities
Related terms: hyperpneumaticity