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thymus hormones (medicine)


thymus hormones
Humoral factors secreted by the thymus gland. They participate in the development of the lymphoid system and the maturation of the cellular immune response.


imprison (iou)



imprison verb trans. Also (earlier) emprison. ME.
[Old French emprisoner (mod. -onner), formed as EM-1, IM-1 + PRISON noun.]
Put or keep in a prison or Other place of confinement; confine, shut up, (lit. & fig.).
G. K. Chesterton A desperate thing imprisoned in this box of thin wood. V. Glendinning She was imprisoned for her political activities and for her advocacy of birth control. Karl Miller The inscrutable child who appears..both excluded and imprisoned, locked out and locked in. P. Lively I..am as imprisoned by my time as you were by yours.
imprisonable adjective able to be imprisoned, liable to imprisonment; (of an offence) for which a person can be imprisoned: E17.
imprisoner noun M17.