oxygenator (from the article "artificial heart") ...blood circulation and oxygenation during heart surgery by diverting blood from the venous system, directing ...
oxyhalide (from the article "sulfur") ...With fluorine, sulfur forms sulfur fluorides, the most useful of which is sulfur hexafluoride, SF6 , ...
oxyhemoglobin (from the article "hemoglobin") ...the red blood cells (erythrocytes) of vertebrates-that transports oxygen to the tissues. Hemoglobin forms an ...
oxyhydroxy-halide (from the article "halide mineral") ...three broad categories of halide minerals are recognized; these categories, which are also distinguishable in ...
oxymoron (from the article "paradox") When a paradox is compressed into two words as in "loud silence," "lonely crowd," or ...
oxymyoglobin (from the article "meat processing") ...to the air, beef slowly turns to a bright cherry-red colour in a process called ...
Oxyphotobacteria (from the article "bacteria") ...green sulfur bacteria (Chlorobium ); and filamentous green bacteria (Chloroflexus ). Class ...
Oxypolis (from the article "cowbane") any of several poisonous plants, including seven species of Oxypolis, in the parsley family (Apiaceae), ...
Oxyrhynchus ancient capital of the 19th Upper Egyptian nome (province), on the western edge of the ...
Oxyrhynchus papyri (from the article "Oxyrhynchus") ...capital of the 19th Upper Egyptian nome (province), on the western edge of the Nile ...
oxytetracycline (from the article "beekeeping") American foulbrood can be spread to healthy colonies by transferring equipment or allowing the bees ...
oxytocin hormone used clinically to help begin or to continue labour, to control bleeding following delivery, ... [9 Related Articles]
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Oyampi (from the article "South American forest Indian") ...fiance during the period in which he is obliged to work for his future father-in-law. ...
Oyapock River river that forms the border between French Guiana and the Brazilian state of Amapa. It ...
Oyem town, northern Gabon. It lies on a plateau at an elevation of about 3,000 feet ...
Oyeyemi, Helen (from the article "Literature") ...for the award were Doreen Baingana (Uganda), Jamal Mahjoub (The Sudan), Muthal Naidoo (South Africa), ...
Oyo (from the article "Ewe") ...Togo who speak various dialects of Ewe, a language of the Kwa branch of the ...
Oyo state, western Nigeria. Oyo was reduced in size when Osun state was created out of ...
Oyo town, Oyo state, southwestern Nigeria. Oyo lies 32 miles (51 km) north of Ibadan. In ...
Oyo empire Yoruba state north of Lagos, in present-day southwestern Nigeria, that dominated, during its apogee (1650-1750), ... [8 Related Articles]
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Oyrat any of the peoples speaking western dialects of the Mongol language group. [9 Related Articles]
Oyrat language (from the article "Altaic languages") ...written Khalkha and Buryat differ from one another much more than do the closely related ...
oyster any member of the families Ostreidae (true oysters) or Aviculidae (pearl oysters), bivalve mollusks found ... [5 Related Articles]
Oyster Bay town (urbanized township), Nassau county, southeastern New York, U.S. It extends from the north to ...
Oyster Bay pine (from the article "cypress pine") ...known as turpentine pine. Most of these timber trees are about 25 metres (about 80 ...
oyster cap (from the article "Agaricales") ...rot in trees. The cap and stalk of P. squarrosa , an edible mushroom, are covered ...
oyster crab (from the article "decapod") ...of some hermit crab species, for example, carry anemones or bryozoan colonies on the shell ...
oyster drill (from the article "oyster") Oysters, in turn, are eaten by birds, sea stars, and snails, as well as by ...
oyster mushroom (from the article "fungus") ...fungi secrete adhesive substances over the surface of their hyphae, causing a passing animal that ...
oyster plant (from the article "Commelinales") ...D. thyrsiflora , both grown as blue-flowered foliage plants; Callisia , especially C. fragrans , a fragrant waxy ...
Oyster Rocks (from the article "Karachi") Karachi Harbour, on the shores of which the city is situated, is a safe and ...
oyster sauce (from the article "fish sauce") ...Cambodia, ngan-pya-ye in Myanmar (Burma), and ketjap ikan in Indonesia, fish sauce is as ubiquitious ...
oyster spiny (from the article "pre-Columbian civilizations") ...are not known, but one feature was paramount in Andean eyes: throughout the central and ...
oyster toadfish (from the article "paracanthopterygian") Eggs of the oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau ) of the western Atlantic-one of the most carefully ...
oystercatcher any of several shorebirds, notable for their long, flattened, orange-red bills, constituting the genus Haematopus, ... [6 Related Articles]
oystershell scale a species of insect in the armoured scale family, Diaspididae (order Homoptera), that is found ...
Oz (from the article "Baum, L. Frank") American writer known for his series of books for children about the imaginary land of ...
Oz Beg Mongol leader and khan of the Golden Horde, or Kipchak empire, of southern Russia, under ... [4 Related Articles]
Oz, Amos Israeli novelist, short-story writer, and essayist in whose works Israeli society is unapologetically scrutinized. [2 Related Articles]
Ozaki Koyo novelist, essayist, and haiku poet, one of the pioneers of modern Japanese literature. [1 Related Articles]
Ozaki Yukio noted democratic politician who was elected to the Japanese House of Representatives a total of ...
Ozal, Turgut Turkish politician, prime minister from 1983 to 1989 and president from 1989 to 1993. [2 Related Articles]
Ozama River (from the article "Dominican Republic") ...coastal plain to the north from a wider belt of rolling lowlands to the south, ...
Ozamis city, on Zamboanga peninsula, northwestern Mindanao, Philippines. The city lies on Panguil Bay, an extension ...
Ozanam, Antoine Frederic French historian, lawyer, and scholar who founded the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
Ozanam, Jacques (from the article "number game") ...writer Paul Halcken, and A.H. Guyot's four volumes of Nouvelles Recreations physiques et mathematiques , etc. ...
Ozark city, seat (1870) of Dale county, southeastern Alabama, U.S., about 20 miles (30 km) northwest ...
Ozark Dome (from the article "North America") ...to be developed. The Illinois, Kansas, and Oklahoma basins lie in the huge quadrilateral formed ...
Ozark hellbender (from the article "hellbender") The Ozark hellbender (C. alleganiensis bishopi ) is somewhat smaller, and its spots tend to be ...
Ozark Mountains heavily forested group of highlands in the south-central United States, extending southwestward from St. Louis, ... [5 Related Articles]
Ozark-Saint Francis National Forest forest areas mainly in central and northwestern Arkansas, U.S., but also including a segment along ...
ozarkodiniform conodont, or small fossil that is toothlike in form and structure, that has a prominent, ...
Ozarks, Lake of the lake in south-central Missouri, U.S., about 42 miles (68 km) southwest of Jefferson City, one ... [2 Related Articles]
Ozawa Jisaburo (from the article "Philippine Sea, Battle of the") It began on the morning of June 19, when Admiral Ozawa Jisaburo, determined on a ...
Ozawa, Ichiro Ichiro Ozawa, architect of Japan's unfolding political realignment, lost his hold on the levers of ... [1 Related Articles]
Ozawa, Seiji Japanese American conductor especially noted for his energetic style and his sweeping performances of 19th-century ... [1 Related Articles]
Ozd city, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen megye (county), northern Hungary. It is 19 mi (30 km) west-northwest of Miskolc ...
Ozel, Ismet (from the article "Turkish literature") ...(1959; "The Gulf") and Siirler VI (1980; "Poems VI"). Karakoc also published ...
OzEmail (from the article "Turnbull, Malcolm") Turnbull then entered the business world, establishing a merchant bank in 1987, founding the Internet ...
Ozenfant, Amedee French painter and theoretician, who cofounded the 20th-century art movement known as Purism. [3 Related Articles]
Ozette site (from the article "Washington") ...in arid eastern Washington, has yielded a 10,000-year sequence of tools left by hunters and ...
Ozick, Cynthia American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and intellectual whose works seek to define the challenge of ... [3 Related Articles]
ozier pattern in tableware, molded basket-weave pattern produced in Germany in the 1730s on Meissen porcelain tableware. ...
Ozma, Project attempt undertaken in 1960 to detect radio signals generated by hypothetical intelligent beings living near ...
ozokerite (from Greek ozokeros, "odoriferous wax"), naturally occurring, light yellow to dark brown mineral wax composed ...
Ozolua African king, the greatest warrior-king of Benin (in modern Nigeria). Ozolua was able to extend ... [1 Related Articles]
ozone (O3 ), triatomic allotrope of oxygen (a form of oxygen in which the molecule contains three ... [21 Related Articles]
ozone crack (from the article "elastomer") Atmospheric ozone reacts readily with elastomers containing C&doublehorzbond;C double bonds, leading to breakage of molecules ...
ozone depletion (from the article "Antarctica") A major focus of upper atmospheric research in Antarctica is to understand the processes leading ...
ozonide any of a class of chemical compounds formed by reactions of ozone (q.v. ) with other ...
ozonolysis (from the article "Harries, Carl Dietrich") Ozonolysis-Harries' technique of rupturing the double bonds of an unsaturated substance with ozone, followed by ...
ozonosphere region in the upper atmosphere between about 10 and 50 km (6 and 30 miles) ... [13 Related Articles]
Ozoyong (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...Japanese bugaku dances has been noted. Others believe "The Five Displays" derive from the "hundred ...
Ozu Yasujiro motion-picture director who originated the shomin-geki ("common-people's drama"), a genre dealing with lower-middle-class Japanese family ... [1 Related Articles]
Ozzfest (from the article "Osbourne, Ozzy") ...Grammy Award for best metal performance for the song I Don't Want ...
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