Category: S
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Standardise
To make all things of the same type follow the same standard.
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Stand
To be in an upright position with your bodyweight resting on your feet, or to put a person in this position. To get to your feet from a sitting position.
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Stamp out
To remove something completely.
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Stammerer
A person who stammers.
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Stammer
A speech difficulty in which someone repeats parts of a word or the whole word several times or stops to try to pronounce a word.
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Stamey procedure
A surgical operation to cure stress incontinence in women. A minor abdominal incision is made as well as a vaginal incision, and the neck of the bladder is stitched to the abdominal wall.
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Staining
The process of colouring tissue, bacterial samples or other materials to make it possible to examine them and to identify them under the microscope. Condition in which fluorescein which has been instilled into the eye adheres to the corneal tissue in one or more areas, causing this tissue to fluoresce under ultra violet light. Adding…
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Stain
A substance used to give colour to tissues which are going to be examined under the microscope. Pigment or dye, especially one used to impart color to microorganisms or cell parts for microscopic study. A dye that colors bacteria or tissue making them visible to examine under the microscope. A dye used to color tissues…
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Stagnant loop syndrome
A condition which occurs in cases of diverticulosis or of Crohn’s disease, with steatorrhoea, abdominal pain and megaloblastic anaemia.
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Stagger
To move unsteadily from side to side while walking.