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Lineage (medicine) and Lucern (medicine)


Lineage (medicine)


lineage
<genetics> Term used to describe cells with a common ancestry, that is developing from the same type of identifiable immature cell.


Lucern (medicine)


lucern


1. A sort of hunting dog; perhaps from Lucerne, in Switzerland. "My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine." (Chapman)

2. An animal whose fur was formerly much in reqest (by some supposed to be the lynx).

Alternative forms: lusern and luzern] "The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase." (Beau. & Fl)

Origin: Etymology uncertain.

<botany> A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder.

Synonym: alfalfa.

Alternative forms: lucerne.

Origin: F. Luzerne.

Source: Websters Dictionary