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traveller (iou) and citrullinaemia (medicine)


traveller (iou)



traveller noun. Also travailer, traveler. See also TRAVAILER. LME.
[from Travel verb + -ER1.]
I.
See TRAVAILER. LME.
II.
a. A person who is travelling or on a journey; a person who travels or journeys, esp. abroad. LME.
b. An itinerant beggar, a hawker, (now dial.); a Gypsy; Austral. an itinerant worker. L16.
c. A representative of a company who visits shops etc. to show samples and gain orders. Also commercial traveller. L18.
An animal that can go quickly or for long distances. M17.
A device or mechanism which moves or runs along a rope, groove, etc., or acts as a guide for something else to move or run along; esp. a travelling crane. Also spec. (Nautical), an iron ring able to move freely along a mast, spar, or rope. M18.
b. A tool for measuring the circumference esp. of a wheel. Now dial. L19.
A piece of luggage; a suitcase, a trunk, a bag. Chiefly US. L19.
Phrases: commercial traveller: see sense 2c above. New Age traveller. traveller's cheque, travellers' cheque, travellers cheque a cheque for a fixed amount of money which may be cashed or used in payment abroad, on the holder's signature. traveller's joy a woody climbing plant of the buttercup family, Clematis vitalba, of hedges on chalk and limestone, with greenish-white flowers and feathery fruiting styles; also called old man's beard. traveller's palm, traveller's tree a palmlike tree, Ravenala madagascariensis (family Strelitziaceae), native to Madagascar and valued by travellers for the rainwater held in the bases of the leaf-stalks. traveller's tale an incredible and probably untrue story.
travelleress noun (rare) a female traveller E19.

citrullinaemia (medicine)


citrullinaemia


A disease of amino acid metabolism (usually classed as a type of aminoaciduria) in which citrulline concentrations in blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid are elevated; manifested clinically by vomiting, ammonia intoxication, and mental retardation beginning in infancy; autosomal recessive inheritance.