A treatise on gnomonics.

Origin: Gnomon. Cf. Gnomonology.

Source: Websters Dictionary

(01 Mar 1998)

Spontaneous lysis (rupture) of cells or organelles produced by the release of internal hydrolyic enzymes. Normally associated with the release of lysosomal enzymes.

(02 Jan 1998)

Staging of breast cancer is based on the TNM Classification which classifies the size, site and spread of the disease.Therapeutic decisions are formulated in part according to staging (they are formulated primarily according to lymph node status and ER and PR receptor levels in the tumourous tissue, refer definition of ER and PR in this dictionary). The numbers I, II, III and IV are used to denote the stages and each number refers to a possible combination of TNM factors. For example: a Stage I breast cancer is defined by the TMN group: T1, N0, M0 which mean:T1 - Tumour is 2cm or less in diameter, N0 - No regional lymph node metastasis, M0 - No distant metastasis. A complete outline of TMN and Staging is available from PDQ, for which refer to the resource centre’s listing of information services.

(16 Dec 1997)

Caries occurring in old age, usually interproximally and in the cementum.

(05 Mar 2000)

Paired beats, each pair consisting of an A-V nodal beat followed by a reciprocal beat.

(05 Mar 2000)

Inflammation of the loose cellular tissue surrounding a muscle.

Synonym: perimysiitis, perimysitis.

(05 Mar 2000)

Extension of the great toe and abduction of the other toes instead of the normal flexion reflex to plantar stimulation, considered indicative of pyramidal tract involvement (”positive” Babinski).

Synonym: Babinski reflex, Babinski’s phenomenon, great-toe reflex, paradoxical extensor reflex, toe phenomenon.

(05 Mar 2000)

The homeopathic formula expressing the law of similars, the doctrine that any drug capable of producing morbid symptoms in the healthy will remove similar symptoms occurring as an expression of disease. Another reading of the formula, employed by Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, is similia similibus curentur, let likes be cured by likes.

Origin: L. Likes are cured by likes

(05 Mar 2000)

Do not confuse with celb protein, a component of the phosphoenolpyruvate sugar phosphotransferase system

Registry number: EC 3.2.1.-

(26 Jun 1999)

1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. “Barca or Cyrene’s torrid soil.”

2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. “Torrid heat.

” Torrid zone, that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.

Origin: L. Torridus, fr. Torrere to parch, to burn, akin to E. Thist: cf. F. Torride. See Thirst.

Source: Websters Dictionary

(01 Mar 1998)