| CRYSTALLOID | • crystalloid n. (Chemistry) Any substance that can be crystallized from solution; a water-soluble crystalline substance… • crystalloid n. (Botany) One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur… • crystalloid adj. Crystal-like; transparent like crystal, or shaped like a crystal. |
| ENCEPHALOID | • encephaloid adj. Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform. • encephaloid n. A malignant cancer of brain-like consistency. • ENCEPHALOID adj. like or resembling a brain. |
| ERYSIPELOID | • erysipeloid adj. (Medicine) Resembling erysipelas. • erysipeloid n. (Pathology, usually uncountable) A mild cutaneous infection by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in humans… • erysipeloid n. (Medicine, countable) A cutaneous cancer metastasis, most commonly associated with breast carcinoma… |
| HETEROPLOID | • heteroploid adj. (Biology) Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species. • heteroploid n. (Biology) An organism having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number… • HETEROPLOID n. an organism having a chromosome number that is not an integral multiple of the haploid. |
| HYPERBOLOID | • hyperboloid n. A particular surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space, the graph of a quadratic with all three variables… • HYPERBOLOID n. a solid figure in which some of the plane sections are hyperbolas. |
| HYPOCYCLOID | • hypocycloid n. (Geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping inside… • HYPOCYCLOID n. a curve generated by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls on the inside of another circle. |
| HYPODIPLOID | • hypodiploid adj. (Genetics) Having fewer than the diploid number of chromosomes. • hypodiploid n. Such an organism. • HYPODIPLOID adj. having slightly fewer than the diploid number of chromosomes. |
| PROTHALLOID | • PROTHALLOID adj. relating to the prothallus, the gametophyte or sexual generation in ferns and related plants. |
| SIPUNCULOID | • sipunculoid adj. (Zoology) Relating to the Sipunculidea. • sipunculoid n. (Zoology) Any of the Sipunculidea. • SIPUNCULOID n. a kind of marine worm with a retractile proboscis, also SIPUNCULID. |
| STRONGYLOID | • strongyloid adj. (Zoology) Like, or relating to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms. • strongyloid n. (Zoology) Any worm of the genus Strongylus. • STRONGYLOID n. a strongyl, a parasitic threadworm. |
| TENTACULOID | • tentaculoid adj. Resembling or characteristic of a tentacle. • TENTACULOID adj. like a tentacle. |
| TUBERCULOID | • tuberculoid adj. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a tubercule. • tuberculoid adj. Of or pertaining to tuberculosis. • TUBERCULOID adj. resembling tuberculosis esp. in the presence of tubercles. |
| VARICELLOID | • varicelloid adj. Resembling varicella. • VARICELLOID adj. resembling varicella, chicken pox. |
| VIBRACULOID | • vibraculoid adj. Characteristic of a vibraculum. • VIBRACULOID adj. of or like a vibraculum, one of the movable, slender, spinelike organs or parts with which certain bryozoans are furnished, also VIBRACULAR. |