See Also: calcipexis(medicine)

abelian (iou) and calcipexis (medicine)


abelian (iou)



abelian adjective. M19.
[from Abel (see below) + -IAN.]
Math. Of a form arising from work by the Norwegian mathematician Niels H. Abel (1802-29); spec. designating groups in which the operation is commutative.

calcipexis (medicine)


calcipexis


Calcipexy

Fixation of calcium in the tissues, an occasional cause of tetany in infants.

Origin: calcium + G. Pexis, a fixing