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tracing (iou) and enterotoxins (medicine)


tracing (iou)



tracing noun. LME.
[from TRACE verb1 + -ING1.]
a. Drawing, delineation; the copying of a drawing etc. by means of a transparent sheet placed over it. LME.
b. That which is produced by tracing or drawing; spec. a copy made by tracing; a recording from a self-registering instrument. LME.
c. The marking out of a figure on the ice when skating; a pattern thus made. E20.
The following of traces, tracking. Formerly also (in pl.), traces, tracks. E16.
The procedure of making a list of all the headings under which a given item occurs in an index or catalogue; an entry in such a list. E20.
The following of the course of the groove on a gramophone record by a stylus. Freq. in tracing distortion below. M20.
Computing. The process of performing a trace (TRACE noun1 9). M20.
Comb.: tracing distortion: occurring when a stylus does not describe exactly the same path as the groove on a gramophone record; tracing-paper translucent paper for copying drawings etc. by tracing; tracing table: having a translucent top illuminated from underneath; tracing-wheel a toothed wheel or roulette for marking out patterns.

enterotoxins (medicine)


enterotoxins
Substances that are toxic to the intestinal tract causing vomiting, diarrhoea, etc.; most common enterotoxins are produced by bacteria.