See Also: Y-linkage(medicine)
linkage map(medicine)
linkage(dictionary)
map, linkage(medicine)
linkage(encyclopedia)
Linkage(medicine)
linkage(dictionary)
Linkage disequilibrium(health)
phosphodiester linkage(medicine)
linkage marker(medicine)

gall(3) (iou) and linkage (oh)


gall(3) (iou)



gall noun3. LME.
[Old & mod. French galle from Latin galla oak-apple, gall.]
An excrescence produced on a tree (esp. the oak) or Other plant by the action of a fungus, bacterium, an insect, etc.
Comb.: gall-apple = GALL noun3; gallberry US either of two hollies, Ilex glabra and I. coriacea (the large or sweet gallberry); gall-fly any of various insects which cause galls by laying their eggs in plant tissues; spec. any fly of the dipteran family Tephritidae; gall-gnat, gall-midge any gall-forming insect of the dipteran family Cecidomyidae; gall-nut = GALL noun3; gall-wasp any gall-forming insect of the hymenopteran superfamily Cynipoidea.

linkage (oh)



[U and C] formal a link 2(1)
linkage between
::the linkage between wages and prices
[U and C] a system of links or connections
[singular, U] a condition in a political or business agreement, by which one country or company agrees to do something, only if the Other promises to do something in return