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cor biloculare(medicine)
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glue(1) (iou)



glue noun. [glu:] ME.
[Old & mod. French glu from late Latin glus, glut-, from Latin gluten.]
A hard brittle brownish gelatin made by boiling hides and bones and used in solution for sticking things together; the solution itself; any sticky or viscous substance used for the same purpose. ME.
A plant gum. LME-E19.
Birdlime. LME-E18.
Bitumen, pitch. Only in LME.
Comb.: glueball Particle Physics a bound state of two or more gluons; glue ear a condition in which a viscous fluid blocks the Eustachian tube and impairs hearing, occurring chiefly in children as a result of infection of the middle ear; glue-pot (a) a pot in which glue is heated, having an outer vessel which holds hot water; (b) colloq. an area of ground sticky because of wet or mud; glue-sniffing the inhalation of the fumes of plastic cement for their stimulating effects.
gluish adjective (now rare) somewhat gluey LME.
gluelike adjective resembling glue E19.

Cor biloculare (health)


A two-chambered heart. Cor biloculare is due to failure of development of the walls that normally separate the two atria (interatrial septum) and the two ventricles (interventricular septum).