| AMBLYOPIA | • amblyopia n. Dimness or blurring of the eyesight due to a fault in transmission of signals to the brain from an otherwise… • amblyopia n. A disorder of visual development in which the brain partially or wholly ignores input from one or both eyes. • AMBLYOPIA n. impaired sight without any apparent damage to the eye. |
| AMBLYOPIC | • amblyopic adj. Of, relating to, or suffering from amblyopia. • AMBLYOPIC adj. of or pertaining to amblyopia, partial loss of sight not due to disease of eye. |
| AMPHIBOLY | • amphiboly n. (Grammar) An ambiguous grammatical construction. • AMPHIBOLY n. a grammatically ambiguous phrase or sentence, also AMPHIBOLOGY. |
| BIOGRAPHY | • biography n. A person’s life story, especially one published. • biography n. The art of writing this kind of story. • biography v. (Transitive) To write a biography of. |
| BIOPIRACY | • biopiracy n. (Derogatory) The appropriation of indigenous biomedical knowledge, especially by patenting naturally… • BIOPIRACY n. the use of wild plants by international corporations to develop drugs without recompensing the countries from which they are taken. |
| BIOPSYING | • biopsying v. Present participle of biopsy. • BIOPSY v. to examine tissue from a living body. |
| HYPOBARIC | • hypobaric adj. Of, relating to, or utilizing less than normal air pressure. • HYPOBARIC adj. below normal pressure. |
| IMPROBITY | • improbity n. A lack of probity, honesty or integrity. • IMPROBITY n. dishonesty. |
| LYOPHOBIC | • lyophobic adj. (Chemistry, of a colloid) Having no affinity for the dispersion medium and thus easily precipitated. • LYOPHOBIC adj. of a colloid, not readily dispersed, also LYOPHOBE. |
| POLYBASIC | • polybasic adj. (Chemistry, of an acid) containing two or more replaceable hydrogen atoms; see also polyprotic. • polybasic adj. (Chemistry, of a salt) having two or more atoms of a univalent metal. • polybasic adj. (Chemistry, of a base) Having two or more basic groups; see also polybase and polyprotic. |
| POLYBRIDS | • POLYBRID n. a type of hybrid plant. |
| PROBINGLY | • probingly adv. In a probing way. • PROBINGLY adv. PROBING. |
| PYROBORIC | • pyroboric adj. Of or relating to pyroboric acid or its derivatives. • PYROBORIC adj. as in pyroboric acid. |
| SAPROBITY | • saprobity n. (Ecology) A measure of the amount of decaying organic material in an environment such as a river. • SAPROBITY n. the state of being a saprobe. |