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Dot blot(medicine)
blot(dictionary)
blot(2)(dictionary)
blot(1)(dictionary)
blot(medicine)
blot 2, noun(dictionary)
blot 1, verb(dictionary)
Northern blot(medicine)
Southern blot(dictionary)

blot 2, noun (oh) and Fungia (medicine)


blot 2, noun (oh)



2 n [C]
[Date: 1300-1400; Origin: Probably from a Scandinavian language]
a mark or dirty spot on something, especially made by ink
:: ink blots
a building, structure etc that is ugly and spoils the appearance of a place
::The new power station is a blot on the landscape .
something that spoils the good opinion that people have of someone or something
blot on
::The increase in juvenile crime is a blot on our time.

Fungia (medicine)


fungia
<zoology> A genus of simple, stony corals; so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

Origin: NL, fr. L. Fungus mushroom: cf. F. Fongie.

Source: Websters Dictionary