Thursday Thirteen #3

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Days like today, I rue my decision to major in a social science and a language, rather than a hard science... and let's just not mention my loathing of Latin because I thought it was "dead" and nobody spoke it anymore...



Thirteen Terms I Had To Look Up in Wikipedia Today (yes, just today)
Or That I Had To Google Because Wikipedia Failed Me


1. angiopoietin

2. Tie 2 receptor

3. genetic rescue

4. retinopathy

5. leiomyoma

6. tyrosine kinase

7. Ang 1

8. luciferase

9. adenoviral vectors

10. transfect

11. bicistronic

12. angiogenesis/lymphangiogenesis - which, being so similar, count as one, besides which, if I didn't count them as one, I wouldn't be able to include my favorite of all time:

13. syngeneic Balb/c mice (and actually, "syngeneic" was misspelled...)



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Comments

Susan Helene Gottfried said…
Yowie. Those are toughies all right!

I keep a dictionary and a thesaurus -- the old, paper kind -- on my desk. They are buried under things, but for emergencies like you clearly had, I've got 'em!
10:42
Kathleen Oxley said…
Wow - I could guess at a few of those, but I don't know any for sure.

Happy TT! :)
12:31
Bethanie said…
*sigh*

I know them all now. And I'd post the definitions, but then you'd fall asleep, like, halfway through number 2.
16:42
Darla said…
I'd have to look those up, too. Yikes.

Sorry I'm so late returning your visit. I'll be back later, though!
07:28
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