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dastard (medicine)


dastard


One who meanly shrinks from danger; an arrant coward; a poltroon. "You are all recreants and dashtards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility." (Shak)

Origin: Prob. From Icel. Daestr exhausted. Breathless, p. P. Of daesa to groan, lose one's breath; cf. Dasask to become exhausted, and E. Daze.

Source: Websters Dictionary


oxysome (medicine)


oxysome
<cell biology> Multimolecular array that acts as a unit in oxidative phosphorylation.

Origin: Gr. Soma = body