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Quellung

Definition: Quellung

Quellung

Noun

1. The swelling of the capsule surrounding a microorganism after reaction with an antibody; the basis of certain tests for identifying microorganisms; "pneumococcus quellung".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Quellung

Synonym: quellung reaction (n). (additional references)

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Expression: Quellung

Expression using "quellung": quellung reaction. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Quellung

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-l-l-n-q-u-u"

-2 letters: lunule, unglue.

-3 letters: lunge, quell.

-4 letters: genu, glen, glue, gull, luge, lulu, lune, lung, null.

-5 letters: ell, eng, gel, gen, gnu, gul, gun, leg, leu, lug, ulu.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Quellung


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

51 75 65 6C 6C 75 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.-    ..-    .    .-..    .-..    ..-    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010001 01110101 01100101 01101100 01101100 01110101 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#117 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#117 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0075 0065 006C 006C 0075 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5187717878878073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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