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101liver cells — Usually implies hepatocytes, even though other cell types are found in the liver (Kupffer cellsfor example). Hepatocytes are relatively unspecialised epithelial cells and are the biochemist s typical animal cell …
102rejection — Usually used of grafts. Any process leading to the destruction or detachment of a graft or other specified structure …
103somatic cell — Usually any cell of a multicellular organism that will not contribute to the production of gametes, ie. most cells of which an organism is made: not a germ cell. Notice, however, the alternative use in somatic mesoderm …
104surface-active compound — Usually, in biological systems, means a detergent like molecule that is amphipathic and that will bind to the plasma membrane, or to a surface with which cells come in contact, altering its properties from hydrophobic to hydrophilic, or vice… …
105King’s Road — (usually the King’s Road) the main street in the district of Chelsea in central London, England. It is known for its many fashionable and colourful shops selling clothes and things for the home. In the 1970s it was a centre of punk fashion. * * * …
106National Theatre — (usually the National Theatre, also infml the National) a modern building containing three theatres on London’s South Bank, and the theatre company that performs there. The National Theatre company was started in 1963. Its home was the Old Vic… …
107permissive society — (usually the permissive society) n [sing] (often disapprov) the social conditions and attitudes in countries such as Britain and the US in the 1960s and 1970s, when there was a new freedom of sexual behaviour and a greater willingness to tolerate …
108banana republic — Usually Disparaging. any of the small countries in the tropics, esp. in the Western Hemisphere, whose economies are largely dependent on fruit exports, tourism, and foreign investors. [1930 35] * * * …
109clay eater — Usually Disparaging. (in the South Atlantic States) a poor, uneducated person from a rural area. [1835 45, Amer.] * * * …
110degenerate state — Usually, degenerate states. Physics. a quantum state of a system, having the same energy level as, but a different wave function from, another state of the system. [1925 30] * * * …
