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adjective
- (anatomy) Of the sacrum.
- Relating to sacred rites. (Synonym for sacred.)
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| sacroiliac |
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noun
- (context, anatomy) The region of the sacrum and the ilium in the lower back.
adjective
- (context, anatomy) Referring to the region of the sacrum and the ilium in the lower back.
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| sacrum |
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noun (sacra, pl2=sacrums)
- (anatomy) A large triangular bone located between the two hipbones and formed from fused vertebrae.
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| SAP |
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initialism
- Scientific Advisory Panel
- statutory, Statutory adoption, Adoption pay, Pay - payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child.
- (South Africa) South African Police.
- (South Africa, obsolete) South Africa Party.
- Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung, one of the worlds largest software companies.
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| sartorial |
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adjective
- Of or relating to the tailoring of clothing.
:- "His sartorial rebellions were slight: he wore jeans, for example, when giving tutorials." --Parini, Jay, "By Their Clothes Ye Shall Know Them," in The Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 Dec 2001, B24.
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| scalene |
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adjective
- (geometry) (of a triangle) having each of its three sides of different lengths.
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| scalp |
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noun
- The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from
verb
- The removal of the part of the head from where the hair grows, by brutal act or accident.
- (context, slang) To sell for a greatly inflated price to those in desperation, as in scalping tickets to a ball game.
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| scaphoid |
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noun
- (anatomy) A navicular bone.
adjective
- shaped like a boat, navicular
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| scapula |
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noun (pl2=scapulae)
- (context, anatomy) Either of the two large, flat, bones forming the back of the shoulder.
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| sciatic |
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adjective
- Of, or relating to the ischium.
- Of, or relating to sciatica.
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| scrotum |
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noun (pl2=scrota)
- (anatomy) The bag of skin and muscle that contains the testicles in mammals.
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| scruff |
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noun
- (Also scruff of the neck) The back of the neck
- He grabbed his unruly kid by the scruff of the neck, and took him home.
- Someone with an untidy appearance
- That candidate will never get the job, he's a right scruff.
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| sebaceous gland |
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noun
- (anatomy) A gland of the skin which secretes an oily substance, sebum, usually into a hair follicle near the surface of the skin.
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| seminiferous |
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adjective - Conveying, containing, bearing, or producing semen.
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| sesamoid |
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noun
- (anatomy) A sesamoid bone or sesamoid cartilage.
adjective
- Resembling a sesame seed in size or shape.
- Of or relating to a sesamoid bone.
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| shank |
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noun
- The lower part of the leg; shin.
- meat, Meat from that part of an animal.
- A straight, narrow part of an object; shaft; stem
- A protruding part of an object, by which it is or can be attached.
- The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece of the bit, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached
- (sports) A poorly played golf shot in which the ball is struck by the part of the club head that connects to the shaft. See thin,fat,toe
- (slang) An improvised stabbing weapon
- (slang) Bad.
verb
- (archaic) To travel on foot
- (slang) To stab
adjective
- bad, Bad.
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| shin |
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noun
- The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
verb (shinn, ing)
- To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up.
- to up a mast
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| shinbone |
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noun
- (anatomy) The tibia.
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| shoulder |
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noun
- (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding area.
- have broad shoulders
- A part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency; a hard shoulder (UK)
- He stopped the car on the of the highway to change the flat tire.
verb
- (context, transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
- (context, transitive) To carry (something) on one's shoulders.
- (context, figurative, transitive) To accept responsibility for.
- shoulder the blame
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| shoulder blade |
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noun
- Either of the large flat bones at the back of the shoulder.
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| shunt |
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noun
- A switch on a railway
- A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
- A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
- (informal) A minor collision
verb - To turn away or aside
- To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another
- To divert electric current by providing an alternative path
- To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery
- (informal) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car
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| siderocyte |
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noun
- An abnormal red blood cell that has iron granules that are not part of the hemoglobin.
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| sigmoid |
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noun
- (math) A function having a graph whose shape is sigmoid. See w:Sigmoid, Wikipedia, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SigmoidFunction.html Mathworld.
adjective
- (geometry) Curved in two directions, like the letter "S", or the Greek � (sigma).
- (context, geometry, archaic) semi-circular, Semi-circular, like the lunar sigma (similar to English C).
- (anatomy) Relating to the sigmoid flexure of the large intestine.
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| sinew |
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noun
- (anatomy) A tendon.
- vigorous, Vigorous strength; muscular power.
- (figuratively) source, Source of acquire, acquiring strength (often plural).
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| skeletal |
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adjective
- of, or relating to the skeleton
- haggard, cadaverous, emaciated or gaunt
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| skull |
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noun
- (anatomy) The main bone of the head; the cranium.
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| small intestine |
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noun
- (anatomy) The upper part of the intestine, between the stomach and the large intestine, divided into the duodenum, the jejunum and the ileum.
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| smooth muscle |
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noun
- (anatomy) involuntary muscle, Involuntary muscle which is found within the intestines, throat, uterus, and blood vessel walls.
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| snood |
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noun
- A band or ribbon for keeping the hair in place, including the hair-band formerly worn in Scotland and northern England by young unmarried women.
- A small hairnet or cap worn by women to keep their hair in place.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 264:
- :serious girls with their hair in snoods entered numbers into logbooks ....
- The flap of skin on the beak of a turkey.
- A short line of horsehair, gut, monofilament, etc., by which a fishhook is attached to a longer (and usually heavier) line; a snell.
verb
- To keep the hair in place with a snood.
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| snout |
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noun
- The long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- ''The pig rooted around in the dirt with its
- The nose of a man, (in contempt).
- His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent .
- The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
- If you place the right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; -- called also rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles.
verb to snout
- To furnish with a nozzle or point.
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| solar plexus |
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noun
- (anatomy) A complex network of nerves and ganglion, ganglia, located within the abdomen behind the stomach.
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| spermatic |
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adjective
- of, pertaining to, or resembling sperm
- producing, conveying or containing sperm; seminiferous
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| sphincter |
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noun
- (anatomy) A ringlike band of muscle that surrounds a bodily opening, constricting and relaxing as required for normal physiological functioning.
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| spinal |
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adjective - of or related to the spine
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| spinal canal |
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noun
- (anatomy) The canal which runs down through the vertebrae and contains the spinal cord and spinal meninges.
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| spinal column |
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noun
- (anatomy) The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that extends from the cranium to the coccyx, which encloses and protects the spinal cord.
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| spinal cord |
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noun (Commons, Spinal cord)
- (anatomy) A thick, whitish cord of nerve tissue which is a major part of the vertebrate central nervous system. It extends from the brainstem down through the spine, with nerves branching off to various parts of the body.
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| spleen |
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noun
- (context, anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
- (context, archaic, except in the set phrase ''"to vent
- Verb, vent one"s spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness.
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| splenic |
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adjective
- Of, related to, or located near the spleen
- 1619: w:Samuel Purchas, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrim: Microcosmus, Or the Historie of Man
- :The Liuer by the splenike branch, transferreth them to the Serjeant of the scullery the Splene.
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| stapes |
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noun (stapes, pl2=stapedes)
- (anatomy) A small stirrup-shaped bone of the middle ear.
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| sternal |
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adjective
- Of, relating to, or near the sternum.
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| stomach |
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noun
- An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
- (informal) The belly.
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| striation |
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noun - (countable) (mineralogy) One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock, formed by repeated twinning of crystals.
- (countable) (geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers dragged rocks across the landscape.
- The action of marking with a stria.
- The result of being marked with a stria.
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| stroma |
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noun (plural stromata)
- (anatomy) the tissue structure of an organ etc that serves to support it
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| subclavian artery |
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noun (subclavian arteries)
- (anatomy) One of two major arteries (left and right) of the upper thorax located beneath the clavicle and supplying the upper extremities and head.
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| subcutaneous |
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adjective
- Pertaining to the fatty layer under the skin.
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| substantia nigra |
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noun
- The name given to the dopaminergic pars in the tegmentum, which is naturally colored black.
- Another part is the pars reticulata GABAergic close to pallidum
- The nucleus which is damaged in the brain of Parkinson's and Parkinsonian patients.
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| sulcus |
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noun (sulci)
- (anatomy) a furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue
- (anatomy) any of the grooves that mark the convolutions of the surface of the brain
- (planetology) subparallel grooves and ditches formed by geological processes
(wikipedia, sulcus (neuroanatomy))
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| superior vena cava |
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noun
- (anatomy) The large vein which returns blood from the head, neck, thorax and both upper limbs to the right atrium of the heart.
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| suprarenal |
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adjective
- located on, or above the kidney
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| suprarenal gland |
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noun
- The adrenal gland, which is located just above the kidney in humans.
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| symphysis |
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noun (symphyses)
- The process of two, originally separate bones growing together as the mammalian subject matures, as with the pubic bones or lower jawbones in humans.
- A line discernable on x-ray showing such fusion.
- The cartilagenous material that adjoins and facilitates the junction of such bones, with or without synovia.
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