| BATHOPHILOUS | • bathophilous adj. (Biology) That inhabits very deep water. • BATHOPHILOUS adj. of an organism, living in very deep water. |
| BLASTOSPORES | • blastospores n. Plural of blastospore. • BLASTOSPORE n. the orifice of a gastrula. |
| HAPLOBIONTIC | • haplobiontic adj. (Biology) Describing a plant or fungus that has either a haploid or a diploid phase (but not both) in… • HAPLOBIONTIC adj. of or like a haplobiont, an organism living in a salt environment. |
| HAPTOGLOBINS | • haptoglobins n. Plural of haptoglobin. • HAPTOGLOBIN n. a protein that combines with free haemoglobin in the blood and prevents its filtration through the kidney. |
| OBSTROPALOUS | • obstropalous adj. Alternative form of obstropulous. • OBSTROPALOUS adj. (colloquial) noisy, unruly, also OBSTREPEROUS, OBSTROPULOUS. |
| OPPOSABILITY | • opposability n. The condition or quality of being opposable (capable of being placed opposite to something else). • opposability n. The condition or quality of being opposable (capable of being resisted). • OPPOSABILITY n. the state of being opposable. |
| PALAEOBOTANY | • palaeobotany n. Alternative spelling of paleobotany. • palæobotany n. Obsolete spelling of palaeobotany. • PALAEOBOTANY n. the study of fossil plants, also PALEOBOTANY. |
| PALEOBOTANIC | • paleobotanic adj. Alternative form of paleobotanical. • PALEOBOTANIC adj. relating to paleobotany, also PALEOBOTANICAL. |
| PATHOBIOLOGY | • pathobiology n. (Biology) The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than… • pathobiology n. (Medicine) pathology (in any of its senses: study of disease, instance of disease, mechanism of disease). • pathobiology n. (Medicine) The biologic explanations of pathogenesis, to include both pathoanatomy and pathophysiology. |
| PHOTOLYSABLE | • photolysable adj. Capable of photolysis. • PHOTOLYSABLE adj. capable of being photolysed, also PHOTOLYZABLE. |
| PHOTOLYZABLE | • photolyzable adj. Alternative form of photolysable. • PHOTOLYZABLE adj. capable of being photolyzed, also PHOTOLYSABLE. |
| POLYSORBATES | • polysorbates n. Plural of polysorbate. • POLYSORBATE n. an emulsifier. |
| SPONGIOBLAST | • spongioblast n. (Cytology) A neuroepithelial cell that develops into neuroglial and ependymal cells. • SPONGIOBLAST n. any of numerous columnar epithelial cells in the brain and spinal cord that develop into neuroglia. |
| SUBAPOSTOLIC | • subapostolic adj. Pertaining to the period after the apostolic age (the time of Christ’s apostles) and the early Catholic… • SUBAPOSTOLIC adj. of the time just after that of the apostles. |
| TROPHOBLASTS | • trophoblasts n. Plural of trophoblast. • TROPHOBLAST n. the outermost layer of cells in the morula that attaches the fertilized ovum to the uterine wall and acts as a nutritive pathway. |