See Also: nucleochyme(medicine)

Wharncliffe (iou) and nucleochyme (medicine)


Wharncliffe (iou)



Wharncliffe noun. M19.
[James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776-1845).]
Used attrib. to designate a standing order in Parliament requiring the directors of a company wishing to promote a private Bill for the extension of the company's powers to secure the consent of its shareholders, or a meeting at which this consent is sought.

nucleochyme (medicine)


nucleochyme -->
karyolymph


The presumably fluid substance or gel of the nucleus in which stainable elements were believed to be suspended; much that was formerly considered to be karyolymph is now known to be euchromatin.

Synonym: nuclear hyaloplasm, nuclear sap, nucleochylema, nucleochyme.

Origin: karyo-+ L. Lympha, clear water