carboxymethylcellulose

(plural: carboxymethylcelluloses)

(alternative form: carboxymethyl cellulose)

A cellulose derivative with carboxymethyl groups bound to some of the hydroxyl groups of the glucopyranose monomers that make up the cellulose backbone. It is often used as its sodium salt, sodium carboxymethylcellulose. It used to be marketed under the name Tylose, a registered trademark of SE Tylose.
"NPB304 was suspended in a 0.5% solution of carboxymethylcellulose."
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subarachnoid

Of, relating to, or situated below the arachnoid membrane.
"In patients without subarachnoid hemorrhage from a separate aneurysm, larger aneurysms also were more likely to rupture."
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An Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Tanzania and Indonesia. The territory comprises the seven atolls of the Chagos Archipelago with over 1,000 individual islands (many very small) amounting to a total land area of 60 square kilometres (23 square miles). The largest and most southerly island is Diego Garcia, 27 square kilometres (10 square miles), the site of a Joint Military Facility of the United Kingdom and the United States.
"The only inhabitants in British Indian Ocean Territory are British and United States military personnel, and associated contractors, who collectively number around 3,000 as of 2018."
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megacaryocyte

(plural: megacaryocytes)

Alternative form of megakaryocyte.
"Under appropriate culture conditions, the megacaryocyte burst-forming cell can develop into 40 to 500 megacaryocytes within 1 week."
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caramelaphobia

(alternative forrms: karamelaphobia, sitophobia)

(plural: caramelaphobias)

The phobia of candy.
"Caramelaphobia is a pretty uncommon phobia."
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ni-Vanuatu

"Long-term Santo resident, New Zealand-born Russell drives us through the plateau's back roads, introducing us to his ni-Vanuatu friends."
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ne'er-do-weel

(plural: ne'er-do-weels)

Alternative form of ne'er-do-well.
"She was abandoned by her ne'er-do-weel father."
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