See Also: P-aminohippuric acid(medicine)
aminohippuric acids(medicine)
p-aminohippuric acid synthase(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
skew(dictionary)
skew(4)(dictionary)
skew(6)(dictionary)
skew(5)(dictionary)
skew(3)(dictionary)
skew(2)(dictionary)

P-aminohippuric acid (medicine) and skew(2) (iou)


P-aminohippuric acid (medicine)


p-aminohippuric acid
<chemical> N-(4-aminobenzoyl)glycine. A diagnostic aid used as the sodium salt in renal function tests.

Chemical name: Glycine, N-(4-aminobenzoyl)-


skew(2) (iou)



skew adjective & adverb. [skju:] E17.
[from SKEW verb1 or aphet. from ASKEW.]
A. adjective.
Oblique in direction or position; slanting; turned to one side. E17.
A. Fugard The toes were crooked, the nails skew.
Math. Neither parallel nor intersecting; not lying in the same plane. M19.
Statistics. Of a statistical distribution: not symmetrical about its mean. L19.
Special collocations & comb.: skew arch, skew bridge an arch or bridge whose line of arch is not at right angles to the abutment. skew chisel: with an oblique edge. skew field Math. a ring whose non-zero elements form a group with respect to multiplication; a set which satisfies the axioms for a field except that multiplication is not commutative. skew gear: consisting of two cog-wheels having non-parallel, non-intersecting axes. skew-symmetric adjective (Math.) (of a matrix etc.) having all the elements of the principal diagonal equal to zero, and each of the remaining elements equal to the negative of the element in the corresponding position on the Other side of the diagonal; gen. designating an array of any dimension having an analogous equivalence between its elements. skew-symmetry the property of being skew-symmetric. skew system Math. = skew field above.
b. adverb. Obliquely, askew. rare. E18.