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blackleg: plant disease
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

blackleg: acute specific infectious disease of cattle,sometimes of sheep,and likewise of pigs,caused by Clostridium chauvoei(feseri)and characterised by the presence of rapidly increasing swellings containing gas,and occuring in the region of the shoulder,neck,thigh,quarter,and sometimes on the trunk
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

blepharoplegia: paralysis of an eyelid
Category: Medicine

college: The Members of the EFTA Surveillance Authority
Category: The European Communities

collegial: management system based on the manager being supported by an advisory committee which helps him in his decision-making.; emphasises the use of committees to increase the flow of ideas from less experienced managers and to train them for positions of greater responsibility
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

cycloplegia: paralysis of the ciliary muscle and the power of accommodation,usually accompanied by a dilated pupil
Category: Medicine

delegate: Voting representative at a meeting.
Category: General

delegate: to assign to some other person the duty of carrying out some portion of the total task which is the responsibility of the assigner.
Category: Economics

delegate: one designated to act for or represent another or others.
Category: General

delegation: Representatives of a particular country or organization at a meeting.
Category: General

delegatus: the inability of an agent to delegate his authority
Category: Insurance

dephlegmator: a device surmounting the rectifying column of a still whose function is to condense portions of the vapours rich in high boiling point constituents and return the condensate to the column as reflux
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

dog-legged: the result of the characteristic gradual change in weft tension that occurs as some types of weft pirn are unwound,regular changes in selvedge width being present at each pirn change
Category: Various industries and crafts

elegant: term applied to the quality of fine wines
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

foreleg: all that part of a horse from the withers forwards.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

hemiplegia: paralysis of one lateral half of the body or part of it resulting from injury to the motor centres of the brain
Category: The European Communities

illegal: pertains to a program that contains errors which must be detected at compilation time by every Ada compiler(such a program is not a legal Ada program)
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

illegality: clause in a loan agreement which allows the lender to ask for repayment of his funds if a change in national legislation obliges him to withdraw from the loan
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

jackleg: a support on which a jackhammer is mounted while drilling.
Category: Mining

leg: main strut of landing gear
Category: Mechanical engineering

leg: the part used to attach body and coulter to the beam of a plough
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

leg: a path in a routine or subroutine
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

leg: one of the wires or chains connecting net to dan leno or bridle or otter board
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

leg: the femur,tibia and fibula together with the surrounding musculature.The two cuts shall be made at the joints
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

leg: leg means only the part of the lower limb between knee and ankle
Category: Medicine

leg: the portion of a channel between a drop off the main route and a drop on such route or on another leg.
Category: News-systems and communications

leg: a course or path taken in a program from one branch point to another
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

leg: D.one of a pair of strips of material (as drapery)...hung to mask the extreme offstage sides of a set.
Category: General

leg: a narrow flat, or strip of canvas or other cloth, hung vertically from a border to the stage floor.
Category: General

leg: support for camera, consisting of three -- usually hinged together at one end to a component which carries a tripod screw.
Category: General

legally: person unable to understand the information relevant to making a decision about a treatment,admission to a care facility or personal assistance service and unable to appreciate the forseeable consequences of a decision or lack of decision
Category: Management in the public and private sector

legatee: one to whom a legacy is left.
Category: Law

Legendre: a set of polynomials due to Legendre (1785); they have important orthogonal properties and can be transformed linearly so that they are orthonormal on the interval (0,1)
Category: Mathematics

legging: a covering for the leg(without feet)usually of leather or cloth
Category: Various industries and crafts

legibility: Image quality of a character depending on character shape,spacing,size and colour.
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

legionnaire: A severe form of pneumonia caused by a previously unrecognized bacterium which is now called Legionella.The disease owes its name to an epidemic that occurred in a hotel during a convention of American legionnaires.
Category: Medicine

legionnaire: an acute infectious disease with prodromal influenza-like symptoms and rapidly rising high fever,followed by severe pneumonia and production of usually nonpurulent sputum,mental confusion,hepatic fatty changes and renal tubular degeneration
Category: Domestic economy

legionnaires: A severe form of pneumonia caused by a previously unrecognized bacterium which is now called Legionella.The disease owes its name to an epidemic that occurred in a hotel during a convention of American legionnaires.
Category: Medicine

legislation: L series of the Official Journal of the European Communities
Category: Management in the public and private sector

legit: a transform of quantal data used in genetics
Category: Mathematics

legitimate: the smoke from any authorised use of fire,e.g.locomotive,industrial operations,permitted burning of debris
Category: Management in the public and private sector

legs: a walking mechanism allowing a robot to take steps; it has the ability to chase a stable foothold, minimise lurching, and step over obstacles while maintaining a stable payload platform
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

legume: a leguminous plant, esp. one grown as a forage or green-manure crop, as any of various clovers, alfalfa, soybean etc.; a leguminous plant is one grown as a forage or green manure crop, such as various clovers, alfalfa, soybeans
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

legumes: a leguminous plant, esp. one grown as a forage or green-manure crop, as any of various clovers, alfalfa, soybean etc.; a leguminous plant is one grown as a forage or green manure crop, such as various clovers, alfalfa, soybeans
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

leguminosae: a very large family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Rosales
Category: Botany and zoology

medicolegal: the forensic pathologist goes beyond the mere cause of death; he must establish all the fact, both lethal and nonlethal, with any potential bearing whatsoever on the criminal or civil litigation
Category: Medicine

ophthalmoplegic: pertaining to paralysis of the ocular muscles
Category: Medicine

paraplegia: paralysis of both lower extremities and, generally, the lower trunk; may arise as a result of severe injury to the back caused by work accidents
Category: Medicine

phlegm: the first portion of the distillate which is particularly rich in volatile impurities
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

phototelegraphy: a system of facsimile telegraphy,having special regard to half-tone reproduction in which reception involves photographic processes
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

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