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Soulier, Jean Pierre (medicine) and selection (iou)


Soulier, Jean Pierre (medicine)


Soulier, Jean Pierre
<person> French haematologist, *1915.

See: Bernard-Soulier disease, Bernard-Soulier syndrome.


selection (iou)



selection noun. E17.
[Latin selectio(n-), formed as SELECT verb: see -ION.]
The action or an act of selecting something or someone; the fact of being selected. E17.
O. Dopping The selection of cards which fulfill certain conditions.
A particular choice; a thing or person selected; a number of selected things or persons; a range of things from which one or more may be selected. E19.
V. S. Pritchett She..bought me a selection of Victor Hugo's poems. A. Brookner The elderly pianist..had now returned with further selections from indeterminate sources.
a. The action of a breeder in selecting individuals from which to breed, in order to obtain some desired characteristic in the descendants. M19.
b. Biology. Any process, artificial or natural, which establishes a particular modification of a kind of organism by favouring in successive generations the reproduction of individuals that have heritable variations from the ancestral form in the direction of that modification; esp. = natural selection s.v. NATURAL adjective. M19.
kin selection: see KIN noun. natural selection: see NATURAL adjective. r selection: see R, R 5.
Austral. History. More fully free selection. (A scheme enabling) the selection and acquisition of plots of land for small farming, on terms favourable to the buyer; a tract of land so acquired. M19.
Forestry. A system of forest Management under which there is a continuing selection of individual trees for felling over the whole area, on the basis of their saleability. Usu. attrib. (see below). L19.
selection felling, selection method, selection system, etc.
A horse or horses or Other contestant(s) selected or tipped as likely to win or obtain a place in a race. E20.
nap selection: see NAP noun3 3.
Comb.: selection pressure Biology (an agent of) differential mortality or fertility such as tends to make a population adapt genetically; selection rule Physics any of a number of rules which describe, within certain limits, which particular quantum transitions can occur in an atom, molecule, etc., and which are forbidden.
selectional adjective M20.
selectionally adverb M20.