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gender(dictionary)
Gender(health)
Gender(medicine)
gender(1)(dictionary)
gender(2)(dictionary)
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nocifensor (medicine) and gender(1) (iou)


nocifensor (medicine)


nocifensor


Denoting processes or mechanisms that act to protect the body from injury; specifically, a system of nerves in the skin and mucous membranes that react to adjacent injury by causing vasodilation.

Origin: noci-+ L. Fendo (only in compounds), to strike, ward off


gender(1) (iou)



gender noun. LME.
[Old French gendre (mod. genre) from Proto-Romance from Latin genus, gener-: see GENUS.]
Kind, sort, class, genus. LME-L18.
Grammar. Any of the classes (masculine, feminine, neuter, common) of nouns and pronouns distinguished by the modification which they require in words syntactically associated with them and roughly corresponding to the sex or sexlessness of the objects which they denote; the property of belonging to such a class; (of adjectives) the appropriate form for accompanying a noun of one such class; the classification of nouns and Other words in this way, as a grammatical principle. LME.
grammatical gender: see GRAMMATICAL adjective.
C. Isherwood Das Glueck, le bonheur, la felicidadthey have given it all three genders.
The state of being male, female, or neuter; sex; the members of one or Other sex. Now chiefly colloq. or euphem. LME.
M. W. Montagu Of the fair sex..my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance..of never being married to any one among them.
b. Sex as expressed by social or cultural distinctions. M20.
attrib.: A. Oakley Sex differences may be 'natural', but gender differences have their source in culture.
Comb.: gender-bender colloq. a person who dresses and behaves in a way characteristic of the opposite sex.
gendered adjective specific to or biased towards one particular sex L20.
genderless adjective (Grammar) without distinction of gender L19.