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  • somaesthesia — sensory perception of bodily feelings like touch, pain, position of the limbs, etc
  • somatic cell — one of the cells that take part in the formation of the body, becoming differentiated into the various tissues, organs, etc.
  • somaticizing — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • somatization — to convert (anxiety) into physical symptoms.
  • somatostatin — a polypeptide hormone, produced in the brain and pancreas, that inhibits secretion of somatotropin from the hypothalamus and inhibits insulin production by the pancreas.
  • somatotensic — (of certain plants that are eaten as food) restoring equilibrium
  • somatotropin — a hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, that stimulates growth in humans.
  • somers point — a town in SE New Jersey.
  • somnambulism — sleepwalking.
  • somnambulist — sleepwalking.
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • somniloquism — sleep-talking
  • somniloquize — to talk in one's sleep
  • sophomorical — characteristic of a sophomore
  • soybean milk — a milk substitute made of soy flour and water, used especially in the making of tofu.
  • spanish moss — an epiphytic plant, Tillandsia usneoides, of the southern U.S., having narrow, grayish leaves and growing in long festoons that drape the branches of trees.
  • spasmophilia — a condition in which only moderate mechanical or electrical stimulation produces spasms, convulsions, or tetany.
  • spasmophilic — of or noting spasmophilia.
  • spermagonium — Botany, Mycology. spermogonium.
  • spermatocide — spermicide.
  • spermatozoid — a motile male gamete produced in an antheridium.
  • spermogonium — one of the cup-shaped or flask-shaped receptacles in which the spermatia of certain fungi and red algae are produced.
  • spermophytic — able to produce seed
  • sporangiolum — a small sporangium
  • stakhanovism — a method for increasing production by rewarding individual initiative, developed in the Soviet Union in 1935.
  • stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
  • steam boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • steam-boiler — a receptacle in which water is boiled to generate steam.
  • stercoranism — the belief that the consecrated Eucharistic elements, the bread and wine, are subject to decay and pass through the body like other ingested things
  • stereocilium — any of the long, flexible microvilli that superficially resemble cilia and occur as a brush border or series of tufts on the surface of various epithelial tissues.
  • stereoisomer — any of two or more isomers exhibiting stereoisomerism.
  • stereometric — the measurement of volumes.
  • stichomythia — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
  • stichomythic — dramatic dialogue, as in a Greek play, characterized by brief exchanges between two characters, each of whom usually speaks in one line of verse during a scene of intense emotion or strong argumentation.
  • stigmasterol — a crystalline, water-insoluble steroid, C 2 9 H 4 8 O, present in soybeans or calabar beans, used chiefly as a raw material in the manufacture of progesterone.
  • storm signal — a visual signal, as a flag, giving advance notice of a heavy storm, used especially along coastal areas.
  • storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
  • stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
  • streptomycin — an antibiotic, C 2 1 H 3 9 N 7 O 1 2 , produced by a soil actinomycete, Streptomyces griseus, and used in medicine in the form of its white, water-soluble sulfate salt, chiefly in the treatment of tuberculosis.
  • stretch limo — A stretch limo is a very long and luxurious car in which a rich, famous, or important person is driven somewhere.
  • strobiliform — shaped as a strobilus
  • stromatolite — a laminated calcareous fossil structure built by marine algae and having a rounded or columnar form.
  • strontium 90 — a harmful radioactive isotope of strontium, produced in certain nuclear reactions and present in their fallout.
  • sub-mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
  • subabdominal — below or beneath the abdomen
  • subcommittee — a secondary committee appointed out of a main committee.
  • subcommunity — a self-contained community usually within the suburbs of a large urban area.
  • submicrogram — containing or relating to a mass of less than one microgram
  • suction pump — a pump for raising water or other fluids by suction, consisting essentially of a vertical cylinder in which a piston works up and down, both the cylinder and the pump having valves that control the flow of the fluid.
  • sulphonamide — any of a class of organic compounds that are amides of sulphonic acids containing the group –SO2NH2 or a group derived from this. An important class of sulphonamides are the sulfa drugs
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