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Annular(medicine)
annular(dictionary)
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annular lipid(medicine)
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annular lipid (medicine) and bezoar (iou)


annular lipid (medicine)


annular lipid


The layer(s) of lipid bound to and/or surrounding an integral membrane protein.


bezoar (iou)



bezoar noun. L15.
[French bezoard (earlier bezar, bezahar(d)), Spanish bezar, mod. Latin beza(h)ar, ult. from Arab. badizahr, bazahr from Persian padzahr antidote, from pad protecting (from) + zahr poison.]
1. A stone, a concretion. L15-M17.
2. A concretion with a hard nucleus found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals (chiefly ruminants), formerly believed to be antidotal. L16.
3. An antidote. Passing into fig. use of sense 2. L16-M18.
4. More fully bezoar goat, bezoar antelope. The wild goat of Persia (the best-known source of the concretion of sense 2). E17-L18.
bezoardic (a) adjective of or pertaining to a bezoar, antidotal; (b) an antidote: E17.