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Meaning of thermometer, lactation, vertex, meiosis, metamorphosis, mibefradil, immunocompromised, desmosome, formula, gonadotrophin

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Meaning of thermometer (noun)
form plural: thermometers

instrument that is used to measure temperature

Example
Thermometers contain mercury.

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Meaning of lactation (noun)
form plural: lactations

the secretion of milk by the mammary glands

Example
Hormones such as oxytocin and prolactin control lactation.

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Meaning of vertex (noun)
form plural: vertexes

the highest point of the skull; the top of the head

Example
In practice many laboratories use two electrodes on the scalp, one at the vertex (midway centrally between the bridge of the nose and the inion, or bony bump at the base of the cranium), and one frontally, about two centimetres behind the hairline.

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Meaning of meiosis (noun)
form: no plural

cellular division that produces reproductive cells with only half the number of chromosomes

Example
Meiosis is vital so that when the male and female gametes meet the number of chromosomes of the offspring remains the same as that of the parents.

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Meaning of metamorphosis (noun)
form plural: metamorphoses

change in the form of an organism that occurs during development

Example
Larvae undergo metamorphosis to become butterflies.

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Meaning of mibefradil (noun)
form: no plural

brand name for a drug that belongs to a group of medicines calcium channel blockers

Example
Mibefradil is a T-type and L-type calcium channel blocker (CCB) released in the United States in 1997 for management of hypertension and chronic stable angina.

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Meaning of immunocompromised (adjective)
forms: more immunocompromised; most immunocompromised

unable to resist disease

Example
People with AIDS are immunocompromised.

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Meaning of desmosome (noun)
form plural: desmosomes

plaque that helps hold adjacent cells together

Example
Epithelial cells are held together by desmosomes.

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Meaning of formula (noun)
forms plural: formulas; formulae

symbols showing what elements a compound contains

Example
The formula for calcium fluoride is CaF.

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Meaning of gonadotrophin (noun)
form plural: gonadotrophins

hormone made in and released from the pituitary gland that act on the gonads (sex organs)

Example
FSH is an example of a gonadotrophin.
If we give a woman controlled quantities of a substance called human gonadotrophin, we can make her produce ova to order, as it were.

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