See Also: chemokine(medicine)
Chemokine(health)
chemokine receptor(medicine)
receptor, chemokine(medicine)
receptors, chemokine(medicine)
Chemokine receptor(health)

bum(1) (iou) and Chemokine (health)


bum(1) (iou)



bum noun1. LME.
[Origin unkn.]
(The region of) the buttocks. LME.
tits and bums: see TIT noun1.
A lazy or worthless person. Now identified with BUM noun2. M16.
Hist. In full bum-bailiff. [So called as approaching from behind.] A bailiff employed in arrests. E17.
Comb.: bumbag a small bag or pouch worn on a belt around the waist; bum-bailiff: see sense 3 above; bumbaste verb trans. (obsolete exc. dial.) beat on the buttocks, flog; bum-boat (a) a scavenger's boat removing refuse and filth from ships moored in the River Thames (and also bearing provisions); (b) a boat bearing fresh provisions etc. to ships; bumboy slang a young male homosexual, esp. a prostitute; a catamite; bum-fluff slang the sparse, downy hair of an adolescent boy's beard and moustache; bum-fodder slang = BUMF; bum-freezer, bum-perisher, bum-shaver slang a short jacket, coat, etc.; bum-suck verb intrans. (slang) toady, suck up; bum-sucker (slang) a sycophant.

Chemokine (health)


One of a large group of proteins that act as lures and were first found attracting white blood cells. The chemokines are involved in a wide variety of processes including acute and chronic types of inflammation, infectious diseases, and cancer. Chemokines may lure cancer cells and help determine the sites to which cancer cells spread by metastasis.