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1. Aanderaa, n. View full entry 1969
...attrib. Designating an instrument for measuring, recording, and transmitting oceanographic data, typically the direction and speed of currents and the water temperature; esp. in Aanderaa current meter....
2. A band, n. View full entry 1939
...In fibrils of striated muscle: each of the transverse bands which alternate with I bands, appearing dark under polarized light and composed of interdigitating filaments of actin and myosin....
3. abasic, adj.2 View full entry 1982
...Of a nucleotide: lacking a purine or pyrimidine base. Of DNA, or a specific site in a sequence of nucleotides: containing a nucleotide or nucleotides of this type....
4. abdominoplasty, n. View full entry 1969
...Plastic surgery of the abdominal wall, esp. as a cosmetic operation to remove excess skin and fat; an instance of this....
5. Abell, n. View full entry 1959
...With following numeral: any of certain galaxy clusters distinguished by their richness (i.e. the number and density of galaxies in their central regions) and listed by Abell in his catalogue....
6. abetalipoproteinaemia | abetalipoproteinemia, n. View full entry 1960
...A rare inherited (autosomal recessive) disorder characterized by absence of certain types of lipoprotein from the blood, malabsorption of fat and fat-soluble vitamins, and acanthocytosis, often with retinal and neuromuscular abnormalities....
7. abfrontal, adj. View full entry 1903
...Designating the surface of an organ or structure which faces away from the front, or is on the opposite side from the surface designated as frontal; of or relating to such a...
8. abhyanga, n. View full entry 1988
...In Ayurvedic medicine: a whole-body massage intended to cleanse the body of toxins....
9. abience, n. View full entry 1931
...Withdrawal from a stimulus (cf. abient); avoidance behaviour; the tendency to display this. Opposed to adience...
10. abient, adj. View full entry 1931
...Designating a response of withdrawal from or avoidance of a stimulus; characterized by or exhibiting such a response; avoidant. Opposed to adient...
11. abiotrophy, n. View full entry 1902
...Premature degeneration of cells or tissue (now usually within the central nervous system), esp. when hereditary or otherwise independent of external factors; an instance of this; any condition characterized by this....
12. ablow, adj.2 View full entry 1905
...Of the wind: blowing. In predicative use only....
13. abmigrate, v. View full entry 1929
...intr. Of a bird: to migrate from the region where it was born and where it wintered to the distant summer breeding area of others of its species....
14. abmigration, n. View full entry 1923
...The migration of a bird which was born and has wintered in one region to the distant summer breeding area of others of its species....
15. abortee, n. View full entry 1912
...A woman who undergoes an induced abortion....
16. abortorium, n. View full entry 1933
...A hospital, clinic, etc., in which abortions are performed....
17. abortus fever, n. View full entry 1925
...A usually mild form of brucellosis in humans caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus, the natural host of which is the cow (cf. contagious abortioncontagious2c)....
18. abreact, v. View full entry 1909
...trans. To subject (a psychic trauma) to abreaction; to treat by abreaction....
19. abreaction, n. View full entry 1909
...Discharge of the emotional energy associated with a psychic trauma that has been forgotten or repressed; the process of bringing such a trauma back to consciousness, esp. as a psychotherapeutic technique; an...
20. abreactive, adj. View full entry 1937
...Of or involving abreaction....
