See Also: vesicocutaneous fistula(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
Strain(health)
re-strain(dictionary)
strain(1)(dictionary)
strain(2)(dictionary)
strain(4)(dictionary)
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vesicocutaneous fistula (medicine) and strain(1) (iou)


vesicocutaneous fistula (medicine)


vesicocutaneous fistula


A fistula between the bladder and the skin.


strain(1) (iou)



strain noun1.

Gain, acquisition; treasure. OE-ME.
Begetting, generation. Only in ME.
A speck, spot, or thread found in an egg (esp. representing, or thought to represent, the embryo). ME-M18.
Offspring, progeny. Now arch. rare. ME.
P. J. Bailey The starry strain of spirit, thence we are.
Pedigree, lineage, ancestry, descent. arch. ME.
T. Heywood Epaphus..To Phaeton objects, that he was bred Of mortall straine.
a. The descendants of a common ancestor; a race, a stock, a line. ME.
M. Prior The long Heroes of the Gallic Strain.
b. A specified line of ancestry; a genealogical admixture of a specified kind. M19.
G. J. Whyte-Melville The strain of Greek blood..tempered his Roman courage, with the pliancy, essential to conspiracy. Pall Mall Gazette These animals are..better if dashed with a strain of the bloodhound.
a. A tendency, quality, or feature of a person's character or constitution perceived as being hereditary; an admixture of a specified quality in a person's character. L16.
J. O'Hara The suicide strain had skipped one generation to come out in the next. A. S. Byatt Single-mindedness was another strain in the Potter character.
b. Character or constitution perceived as being hereditary. E17.
J. Tillotson Infirmities and diseases, which being propagated, spoil the Strain of a Nation.
A kind or class of person or thing having some attribute in common. Now rare. L16.
R. W. Emerson A genius of so fine a strain.
A breed or stock of animals, plants, etc.; a variety developed by breeding; a distinct (natural or cultured) variety of a micro-organism. E17.
Strain 19 a strain of the bacterium Brucella abortus used as a vaccine against brucellosis in horses and cattle.
R. Carson Insects..developing strains resistant to chemicals. J. Raban To cross-breed cattle and develop new strains of maize.