The period or state of full expansion in a flower.
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the formation of new blood vessels
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The act of adding; application; accretion.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.The act or state of sticking together; close union.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.Cell production or development; cytogenesis.
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.A bursting into flower; a blossoming.
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.The process of forming into a leaf or leaves.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Developmental psychology, Biology, Psychology, Economics, Paediatrics, Development economics.The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or…
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Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.a blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.any of the group of common autoantibodies present in blood.; "The presence an antiphospholipid antibody in blood, such as the lupus an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing aw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels; results from the systole of the left ventricle of the he…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.a blood thinner (trade name Plavix) approved for the treatment of mild heart attacks; works by preventing blood platelets from stickin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: formation, blood, vessels.The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls…
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