See Also: plummer-block(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Plummer's dilator(medicine)
disease, plummer's(medicine)
Plummer's disease(medicine)
Plummer, Henry(medicine)
Plummer-Vinson syndrome(medicine)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Complete Heart Block (heart block)(health)
Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)

Grackle (medicine) and plummer-block (iou)


Grackle (medicine)


grackle
<ornithology> One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. Versicolour). See Crow blackbird, under Crow.

An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See Myna.

Origin: Cf. L. Graculus jackdaw.

Source: Websters Dictionary


plummer-block (iou)



plummer-block noun. E19.
[from 1st elem. of uncertain origin (perh. from the surname Plummer) + BLOCK noun.]
Mechanics. A metal box that supports a revolving shaft, with a movable cover fastened by bolts giving access to the bearings.