stannite
— Noun
– English
~ a dark grey mineral with a metallic luster that is a source of tin
stannous fluoride
— Noun
– English
~ a white powder that is used to fluoridate toothpaste
stansemaskine
— Noun
– Danish
~ maskine til at stanse med
Stanton
— Noun
– English
~ United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)
stanza
— Noun
– English
~ a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Spenserian stanza
— Noun
– English
~ a stanza with eight lines of iambic pentameter and a concluding Alexandrine with the rhyme pattern abab bcbc c; "the Spenserian stanza was introduced by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene"
stapedectomy
— Noun
– English
~ surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear
stapelia
— Noun
– English
~ any of various plants of the genus Stapelia having succulent leafless toothed stems resembling cacti and large foul-smelling (often star-shaped) flowers
Stapelias asterias
— Noun
– English
~ stapelia of Cape Province having mostly dark red-brown flowers with flat starlike corollas
stapes
— Noun
– English
~ the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea
staph
— Noun
– English
~ spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections
Staphylaceae
— Noun
– English
~ a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Sapindales found mostly in the north temperate zone
Staphylea
— Noun
– English
~ a genus of small trees or shrubs of the family Staphylaceae
staphylococcal enterotoxin B
— Noun
– English
~ a form of staphylococcal enterotoxin that has been used as an incapacitating agent in biological warfare
staphylococcal enterotoxin
— Noun
– English
~ a soluble exotoxin produced by some strains of staphylococcus; a cause of food poisoning
staphylococcal infection
— Noun
– English
~ an infection with staphylococcus bacteria; usually marked by abscess formation
staphylococci
— Noun
– English
~ spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections