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nosematosis (medicine)


nosematosis


An infection of rabbits with the protozoan parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi that can cause a focal interstitial nephritis; one case of nosematosis has been reported in humans.


due(2) (iou)



due adjective & adverb. [dju:] ME.

A. adjective.
That is owing or payable as an obligation or Debt. ME.
fall due, become due become immediately payable.
J. R. Green The amount of service due from the serf had become limited by custom.
That ought to be or to be done; fitting, proper, rightful, appropriate. ME.
due diligence Law reasonable steps taken by a person in order to avoid committing an offence, especially in buying or selling something. due process (of law) fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen's entitlement. in due course, in due time, etc., after a suitable interval, at the proper time. with all due respect: see RESPECT noun.
H. Green Everything must proceed, and in due order. I. Watt His..sense that due decorums must also be attended to.
pred. Foll. by to: belonging to or incumbent upon by right or as a duty or necessity. LME-M17.
pred. That ought to be given, granted, or administered to. LME.
Steele The first Place among our English Poets is due to Milton.
Merited, deserved. LME.
Joseph Hall The Lord..shall execute due vengeance upon Satan. H. Adams Somewhat more than her due share of conventional moral reproof.
Adequate, sufficient. LME.
J. Wesley A due Degree of Exercise.
due to:
a. adjectival phr. Attributable to, ascribable to. M17.
E. M. Forster Death..was due to heart disease. B. Bainbridge He liked touching peopleit was due to him being a foreigner.
b. prepositional phr. (Often considered erron., though widely used.) Because of, on account of, owing to. L19.
J. D. MacDonald The beach dwindled due to erosion.
pred. Expected, intended, or under engagement to arrive or appear, or to do something, at a specified time or absol. now; scheduled or in line for something at a specified time or absol. now. M19.
F. M. Ford He advised me to buy Caledonian Deferred, since they were due to rise. L. MacNeice My boat to Lochboisdaledue at 5.30. K. Amis They were due back the day before yesterday. A. Price He was due for a CID transfer in a few months' time. F. Weldon Susan enquires when the baby is due.
Special collocations: due date: on which payment of a bill etc. falls due.
b. adverb.
= DULY. arch. L16.
Shakespeare 2 Henry IV Every third word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's tribute.
Of a compass point, or a direction: exactly, directly. L16.
M. Innes There is a..mission station about eighty miles due north. G. L. Harding From Karak the road runs almost due south.
dueful adjective (arch.) due, appropriate L16.
dueness noun LME.