See Also: cytostatic(medicine)
sewer gas(medicine)
sewer(medicine)
sewer(1)(dictionary)
sewer(2)(dictionary)
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sewer(4)(dictionary)
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SEWER(law)

sewer(1) (iou) and cytostatic (medicine)


sewer(1) (iou)



sewer noun1. ME.
[Anglo-Norman sever(e), Old Northern French se(u)wiere channel for carrying off overflow from a fish-pond (whence medieval Latin seweria) from Proto-Romance, from base also of SEW verb2.]
A watercourse built to drain marshy land and carry off surface water into a river or the sea. Also water-sewer. ME.
A channel or conduit, now usually covered and underground, built to carry off and discharge drainage water and sewage. E17.
ellipt. = commissioner of sewers below. obsolete exc. Hist. E17.
Phrases: commission of sewers Hist. (a) a royal commission constituting specified people; a temporary court with authority for the repair and maintenance of sewers (sense 1 above), bridges, streams, and Other coastal defences of a district liable to flooding; such people collectively; (b) a body of municipal officers responsible for the control of sewers (sense 2 above) in the City of London. commissioner of sewers Hist. a member of a commission of sewers. common sewer a drain through which most of the sewage of a town passes, a main drain collecting and discharging the contents of auxiliary drains. law of sewers a local law relating to embankment and draining. storm sewer: see STORM noun.
Comb.: sewer-air, sewer-gas atmospheric air mixed with gas formed by the decomposition of sewage; sewer-rat a rat which lives in sewers and drains, esp. the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus.
sewerless adjective not provided with sewers, without sewers M19.
sewery adjective (rare) of, pertaining to, or resembling a sewer or sewers; (of a smell) unpleasant, offensive: M19.

cytostatic (medicine)


cytostatic
<pharmacology> An agent that suppresses cell growth and multiplication.

Origin: Gr. Statikos = bringing to a stand still