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Meaning of monitor, hormone, renal, metatarsal, transport vesicle, autotroph, cofactor, fatty acid, occur, halide

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Meaning of monitor (verb)
forms: monitored; monitored; monitoring

to watch or record information

Example
The baby's heart rate was monitored because it was in distress.

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Meaning of hormone (noun)
form plural: hormones

chemical secreted in small amounts from endocrine glands that passes in the bloodstream to another tissue or organ where it alters the function or structure of that organ

Example
Hormones coordinate the growth and activities of living things.
It is equally apparent today when many people go to considerable lengths to maintain the appearance of youthfulness by the use of vitamins, beauty preparations of all descriptions, hormone treatment, plastic surgery and much else besides.

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Meaning of renal (adjective)
relating to the kidney

Example
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories can cause renal failure.
High dose oral mesalazine does not seem to be nephrotoxic in rats when given for four weeks but both rats and dogs develop renal papillary necrosis when fed high dose mesalazine for 6 to 12 months.

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Meaning of metatarsal (noun)
form plural: metatarsals

small bones of the feet

Example
The metatarsals lie between the tarsals and the phalanges.

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Meaning of transport vesicle (noun)
form plural: transport vesicles

sac that takes proteins made in the endoplasmic reticulum to other organelles

Example
Transport vesicles bud off the endoplasmic reticulum.

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Meaning of autotroph (noun)
form plural: autotrophs

organism that makes their own food from simple food sources

Example
Algae, plants and certain bacteria are autotrophs.

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Meaning of cofactor (noun)
form plural: cofactors

a non-protein substance, often a metal ion; that is needed for normal enzyme action

Example
Some enzymes have two parts - an apoenzyme and a cofactor.

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Meaning of fatty acid (noun)
form plural: fatty acids

a long chain of carbon atoms with a carboxyl group (COOH) at the end

Example
Fats are made up of glycerol and fatty acids.

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Meaning of occur (verb)
forms: occurred; occurred; occurring

to happen; to take place

Example
Labour would not tolerate the regional imbalances that disfigured the economy, and the waste of resources which had occurred under the Tories.

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Meaning of halide (noun)
form plural: halides

halogen with a more electropositive element

Example
Acyl halides are substances with carbonyl groups bonded to halides.
In a conventional film emulsion the silver halide grains look like cubes, octahedra or irregular pebbles.

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