See Also: heteroxanthine(medicine)

dockyard (iou) and heteroxanthine (medicine)


dockyard (iou)



dockyard noun. E18.
[from DOCK noun3 + YARD noun1.]
An area with docks and workshops for the building, outfit, and repair of ships; esp. a Government establishment of this kind for the use of the Royal Navy.
Comb.: dockyard man, (colloq.) dockyard matey a male employee in a Government dockyard.

heteroxanthine (medicine)


heteroxanthine


7-Methylxanthine;one of the alloxuric bases in urine, representing end products of purine metabolism.