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New Age movement(encyclopedia)
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movement(dictionary)
movement(dictionary)
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nonaligned movement(encyclopedia)
passive movement(medicine)

amyloid (iou) and mass movement (medicine)


amyloid (iou)



amyloid adjective & noun. M19.
[formed as AMYLO- + -OID.]
A. adjective.
Resembling (the chemical structure of) starch. M19.
Medicine. Of or pertaining to amyloid. L19.
b. noun. Medicine. A glycoprotein (orig. thought to be akin to starch) deposited in connective tissue in certain diseases. L19.
amyloi'dosis noun deposition of amyloid in the tissues E20.

mass movement (medicine)


mass movement -->
mass peristalsis


Forcible peristaltic movements of short duration, occurring only three or four times a day, which move the contents of the large intestine from one division to the next, as from the ascending to the transverse colon.

Synonym: mass movement.