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As S: symbol for "spherical lens," "serine," "siemens," "smooth" (colony), "substrate," "sulfur," "Svedberg unit," and "sacral vertebrae" (S1 through S5).
As s: symbol for "second."
As s: symbol for "sample standard deviation."
Any of a group of tumors usually arising from connective tissue, although the term now includes some of epithelial origin; most are malignant. Many types have prefixes denoting the type of tissue or structure involved; See chondrosarcoma , fibrosarcoma , lymphosarcoma , melanosarcoma , myxosarcoma , osteosarcoma , rhabdomyosarcoma , etc.
As S: symbol for "spherical lens," "serine," "siemens," "smooth" (colony), "substrate," "sulfur," "Svedberg unit," and "sacral vertebrae" (S1 through S5).
As s: symbol for "second."
As s: symbol for "sample standard deviation."
The triangular bone just below the lumbar vertebrae, formed usually by five fused vertebrae (sacral vertebrae) that are wedged dorsally between the two hip bones.
Primary coccidioidomycosis.
As S: symbol for "spherical lens," "serine," "siemens," "smooth" (colony), "substrate," "sulfur," "Svedberg unit," and "sacral vertebrae" (S1 through S5).
As s: symbol for "second."
As s: symbol for "sample standard deviation."
1. Shaped like or resembling an arrow; straight.
2. Situated in the plane of the sagittal suture or parallel to it; said of an anteroposterior plane or section parallel to the median plane of the body.
Plural for sanatorium .
A downward deflection of the QRS complex following the R wave in the normal electrocardiogram and representing late depolarization of the ventricles.
See sutura sagittalis .
1. An old term for an establishment for the treatment of sick persons, such as a private hospital for convalescents or those who are not extremely ill, particularly an establishment for the open-air treatment of tuberculous patients.
2. A health resort in a hot region.
A pouch; a baglike organ or structure.
Salty; of the nature of a salt; containing a salt or salts.
1. Authoritative approval.
2. A measure designed to enforce a law or standard.
3. To give approval to; ratify.
One of a series of carbohydrates, including the sugars. The saccharides are divided into monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides, according to the number of monosaccharide groups (CnH2nOn-1) composing them.
A solution of sodium chloride, or common salt, in purified water.
Approved.
Characterized by sacculation or by the presence of saccules.
A slightly alkaline secretion of water, mucin, protein, salts, and often a starch-splitting enzyme that is secreted into the mouth by salivary glands, lubricates ingested food, and often begins the breakdown of starches.
Parathyroid glands.
1. The quality of being sacculated, or pursed out with little pouches.
2. Sacculus.
Pertaining to the saliva.
Mentally sound and healthy; also, sensible, rational.
Sacculus.
A group of cells located within the mouth whose combined secretion constitutes the saliva.
See saponification .
1. A little pouch or sac.
2. Saccule: the smaller of the two divisions of the membranous labyrinth within the vestibule; it communicates with the cochlear duct by way of the ductus reuniens.
1. Sodium chloride, or common salt.
2. Any compound of a base and an acid; any compound of an acid some of whose replaceable hydrogen atoms have been substituted.
3. In the plural, a saline purgative.
The act or process of converting fats into soaps and glycerol by heating with alkalis. In chemistry, the term now denotes hydrolysis of an ester by an alkali, resulting in the production of a free alcohol and an alkali salt of the ester acid.
Resembling a sac.
1. In the singular: sodium chloride, or common salt.
2. Any compounds composed of a base and an acid; any compound of an acid some of whose replaceable hydrogen atoms have been substituted.
3. In the plural, a saline purgative.
1. Having a type of nutrition involving uptake of organic materials in dissolved form obtained from dead or decaying plant or animal matter; said of plants or so-called plantlike organisms (e.g., certain protozoa, bacteria, or fungi).
2. Saprozoic.
See os sacrum.
1. A representative part taken to typify the whole.
2. A subset of a population that is selected for inclusion in a research study.
1. Sarcoidosis.
2. A sarcomalike tumor.
3. Fleshlike.
See os sacrum.
See correlation coefficient .
1. Sarcoidosis.
2. A sarcomalike tumor.
3. Fleshlike.
Pertaining to the sacrum and ilium; denoting the joint or articulation between the sacrum and ilium and the ligaments associated therewith.
An estimate of the population standard deviation, usually determined (from a sample of size n) by dividing the sum of the squared deviations from the sample mean by n-1 and taking the square root; n-1 is used (rather than n) in order to obtain an unbiased estimate of the population variance. Symbol s.
A chronic, progressive, systemic granulomatous reticulosis of unknown etiology, characterized by hard tubercles in almost any organ or tissue, including the skin, lungs, lymph nodes, liver, spleen, eyes, and small bones of the hands and feet. Laboratory findings may include hypercalcemia and hypergammaglobulinemia; there is usually low or absent reactivity to tuberculin, and in active cases, a positive Kveim reaction. The acute form has an abrupt onset and a high spontaneous remission rate, whereas the chronic form, insidious in onset, is progressive. Called also "sarcoid," "Besnier-Boeck disease," "Boeck's disease" or "Boeck's sarcoid," and "Schaumann's disease," "Schaumann's sarcoid," or "Schaumann's syndrome."
Articulatio sacroiliaca. The joint formed between the auricular surfaces of the sacrum and ilium; called also sacroiliac symphysis , and iliosacral articulation .
The selection or making of a sample.
The delicate plasma membrane which invests every striated muscle fiber.
Sacroiliac articulation.
Primary coccidioidomycosis.
Any of a group of tumors usually arising from connective tissue, although the term now includes some of epithelial origin; most are malignant. Many types have prefixes denoting the type of tissue or structure involved; See chondrosarcoma , fibrosarcoma , lymphosarcoma , melanosarcoma , myxosarcoma , osteosarcoma , rhabdomyosarcoma , etc.