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monocoque (iou) and niacinamide (medicine)


monocoque (iou)



monocoque noun & adjective. E20.
[French, from mono- MONO- + coque eggshell.]
A. noun.
An aircraft fuselage or Other structure having an outer covering in the form of a rigid load-bearing shell, usu. without longerons or stringers. E20.
A motor vehicle underframe and body built as a single rigid structure (or in racing cars as a number of boxlike sections) throughout which the stresses are distributed. M20.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Designating or based on a structure of this type. E20.

niacinamide (medicine)


niacinamide
<biochemistry> Member of the water soluble B vitamin group, used in the production of fatty acids, steroids and cholesterol, deficiency is known as pellagra. Has cholesterol-lowering and vasodilating properties.