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  • hyperaccumulator — a plant that absorbs toxins, such as heavy metals, to a greater concentration than that in the soil in which it is growing
  • hyperandrogenism — (medicine) An abnormally high production of androgens.
  • hypercompetitive — Extremely competitive.
  • hyperlipoidaemia — Alt form hyperlipoidemia.
  • hyperstimulation — to rouse to action or effort, as by encouragement or pressure; spur on; incite: to stimulate his interest in mathematics.
  • hyperthermophile — (biology) An organism that lives and thrives in an extremely hot environment, such as a deep sea smoker vent; often a member of the Archaea.
  • hypervitaminosis — an abnormal condition caused by an excessive intake of vitamins.
  • hypnagogic image — an image experienced by a person just before falling asleep, which often resembles a hallucination
  • hypoaeolian mode — a plagal church mode represented on the white keys of a keyboard instrument by an ascending scale from E to E, with the final on A.
  • hypoalimentation — insufficient or inadequate nourishment.
  • hypophosphatemia — (medicine) An electrolyte disturbance in which there is an abnormally low level of phosphate in the blood, most commonly seen when malnourished patients are given large amounts of carbohydrates, creating a high phosphorus demand in the cells of the body.
  • hypophysectomies — Plural form of hypophysectomy.
  • incomprehensibly — impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
  • intracytoplasmic — Located in the cytoplasm of a cell.
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • lymphangiography — x-ray visualization of lymph vessels and nodes following injection of a contrast medium.
  • macapagal arroyo — Gloria
  • macrophotography — Photography that is done up close; close-up photography.
  • majority opinion — an opinion in a case that is shared by more than half of the members of a court
  • make a photocopy — If you make a photocopy of a document, you make a copy of it using a photocopier.
  • malchus-porphyry — (Malchus) a.d. c233–c304, Greek philosopher.
  • mammographically — Using a mammograph, by means of mammograph.
  • many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
  • megaphanerophyte — any tree with a height over 30 metres
  • methyl parathion — a synthetic pesticide, C 8 H 1 0 NO 5 PS, used in the control of mites and various insects, as aphids, boll weevils, and cutworms.
  • microgametophyte — (biology) Any gametophyte that develops from a microspore.
  • microphotography — microfilm (def 1).
  • microsporophylls — Plural form of microsporophyll.
  • misanthropically — In a misanthropic manner.
  • monopolistically — In a monopolistic manner.
  • monterey cypress — a tree, Cupressus macrocarpa, of southern California, being pyramid-shaped in youth, but spreading in age: occurs naturally in only two groves on the coast of Monterey County, California, but is cultivated extensively.
  • moral philosophy — philosophy dealing with the principles of morality; ethics.
  • morphophysiology — The (study of the) biological interrelationship between form and physiological function.
  • mortgage company — business providing loans to property buyers
  • mortgage payment — instalment paid on a housebuyer's loan
  • multiple myeloma — a malignant plasma cell tumor of the bone marrow that destroys bone tissue.
  • myelosuppression — (medicine) A reduction of bone marrow activity that leads to a lower concentration of platelets, red blood cells and white blood cells.
  • natural monopoly — the situation when, due to the economies of scale of a particular industry, the maximum efficiency of production and distribution is realized through a single supplier
  • non-contemporary — existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
  • non-metaphysical — pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.
  • one-party system — a political system in which only one party is allowed
  • onomatopoeically — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
  • opening ceremony — a ceremony held in celebration of the start of something
  • operating system — (operating system)   (OS) The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not. The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs. Example operating systems include 386BSD, AIX, AOS, Amoeba, Angel, Artemis microkernel, BeOS, Brazil, COS, CP/M, CTSS, Chorus, DACNOS, DOSEXEC 2, GCOS, GEORGE 3, GEOS, ITS, KAOS, Linux, LynxOS, MPV, MS-DOS, MVS, Mach, Macintosh operating system, Microsoft Windows, MINIX, Multics, Multipop-68, Novell NetWare, OS-9, OS/2, Pick, Plan 9, QNX, RISC OS, STING, System V, System/360, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TRUSIX, TWENEX, TYMCOM-X, Thoth, Unix, VM/CMS, VMS, VRTX, VSTa, VxWorks, WAITS.
  • operating-system — the collection of software that directs a computer's operations, controlling and scheduling the execution of other programs, and managing storage, input/output, and communication resources. Abbreviation: OS.
  • orthosympathetic — Of or pertaining to the sympathetic component of the autonomic nervous system.
  • overcompensatory — a pronounced striving to neutralize and conceal a strong but unacceptable character trait by substituting for it an opposite trait.
  • paleoclimatology — the branch of paleogeography dealing with the study of paleoclimates.
  • paraformaldehyde — a white, crystalline polymer of formaldehyde, (HCOH) n , from which it is obtained by evaporation of the aqueous solution: used chiefly as an antiseptic.
  • pharmacodynamics — the branch of pharmacology dealing with the course of action, effect, and breakdown of drugs within the body.
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