Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.
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Shaped like a shallow cup; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx.
A limpid, colorless, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.
Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde.
A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.
a white crystalline compound (HO.C6H4.NH.CO.CH3) used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic. It has molecular weight 151.16. It is the active ingredient in the commercial analgesics Tylenol and Datril.
An amide formed from aniline and an acetyl group (C6H5.NH.CO.CH3); it is a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic. It has molecular weight 135.16.
Used in salads; as, acetarious plants.
An acid pulp in certain fruits, as the pear.
A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.
Combined with acetic acid.
Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation. Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.
The act of making acetous or sour; the process of converting, or of becoming converted, into vinegar.
An apparatus for hastening acetification.
To turn acid.
An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.
The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it.
A combination of acetic acid with glycerin.
To acetify.
Methyl ketol; also, any of various homologues of the same.
Same as Acetimeter.
A morbid condition characterized by the presence of ketone bodies (including acetone, acetoacetic acid and beta-hydroxybutyric acid) in the blood, as in diabetes.
A volatile liquid (CH3.CO.CH3); pyroacetic spirit; methyl ketone; -- obtained by fermentation, the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime. It is commonly used as a solvent.
Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.
Excess of ketone bodies (including acetone, acetoacetic acid and beta-hydroxybutyric acid) in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes
A white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.
A crystalline ketone, CH3.CO.C6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.
Sour like vinegar; acetous.
The quality of being acetous; sourness.
Having a sour taste; sour; acid.
a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic.
A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts of carbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide is acetic acid.
introduce an acetyl group into a chemical compound
a neurotransmitter released by the transmitting dendron at autononmous synapses and at neuromuscular junctions. It is a quaternary amine with an obligatory negative counterion. The nominal formula for the hydroxide form is C7H17NO3. Structural formula (CH3)3N(+)CH2CH2.O.CO.CH3.OH(-).
an enzyme which exists in nerve cells and hydrolyses acetylcholine into choline and acetic acid.
A gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant.
Of or pertaining to Achaia in Greece; also, Grecian. A native of Achaia; a Greek.
Savage fierceness; ferocity.
An agate.
A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa.
Purveyor; acater.
To suffer pain; to have, or be in, pain, or in continued pain; to be distressed.
A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
See Ach/an, Achaian.
Pertaining to an achene.
A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.
A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
death's-head moth.
Of or pertaining to Acheron; infernal; hence, dismal, gloomy; moribund.
a genus of Orthopteran insects consisting of common house and field crickets.
the possibility of being achieved or accomplished; -- a property which may be possessed by a contemplated act.
Capable of being achieved.
Achievement.
To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.
The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.
One who achieves; a winner.
Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.
a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the seige of Troy.
The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.
Without a lip.
any plant of the genus Achimenes having gloxinialike flowers.
That aches; continuously painful. See Ache.
Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.
Not possessing a mantle; -- said of certain gastropods.
Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.
Deficiency or lack of bile.
Lacking bile.
A stony meteor lacking chondrules.
of or pertaining to achondrite.
A skeletal disorder beginning before birth; cartilage is converted to bone resulting in dwarfism.
of or pertaining to achondroplasia.
A genus of tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit.
Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.
In an achromatic manner.
Achromatism.
Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes.
not readily colored by stains; -- of substance of a cell nucleus
remove color from.
The state or quality of being achromatic; as, the achromatism of a lens; achromaticity.
The act or process of achromatizing.
To deprive of color; to make achromatic.
Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.
Lacking, or deficient in, color; as, achromatous blood.
Free from color; colorless; as, in (Physiol. Chem.), the achromic point of a starch solution acted upon by an amylolytic enzyme is the point at which it fails to give any color with iodine.
See Acronyc.
Dextrin not colorable by iodine. See Dextrin.
Colorless; achromatic.
Without chyle.
Without chyme.
One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.
Needle-shaped; slender like a needle or bristle, as some leaves or crystals; also, having sharp points like needles.
Furnished with acicul/. Acicular. Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle.
Needle-shaped; acicular.
Needle ore.
A sour substance.
yielding an acid in aqueous solution
thriving in a relatively acid environment; -- especially of plants requiring a pH well below 7
to wash (blue jeans) in acid, so as to cause the color to fade.
Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic.
Containing or yielding an acid.
Capable of being acidified, or converted into an acid.
Producing acidity; converting into an acid.
The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.
A simple or compound principle, whose presence is necessary to produce acidity, as oxygen, chlorine, bromine, iodine, etc.
To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.
An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids.
The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required.
The quality of being sour; sourness; tartness; sharpness to the taste; as, the acidity of lemon juice.
Sourly; tartly.
Acidity; sourness.
growing well in an acid medium; said of some bacteria
abnormally high acidity of the blood and other body fluids.
of or pertaining to acidosis; suffering from acidosis.
To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat.
made slightly acidic
Having an acid quality; sour; acidulous.
Slightly sour; sub-acid; sourish; as, an acidulous tincture.
The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.
Shaped like a needle.
Containing seeds or stones of grapes, or grains like them.
A short sword or saber.
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