See Also: Schmidt-Thannhauser method(medicine)
lyre bird(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
lyre(encyclopedia)
lyre(dictionary)
lyre(dictionary)
Lyre(medicine)
Schmidt(dictionary)
Schmidt, Henry(medicine)
Schmidt, Henry D(medicine)

Schmidt-Thannhauser method (medicine) and lyre bird (medicine)


Schmidt-Thannhauser method (medicine)


Schmidt-Thannhauser method


A method for fractionation of nucleic acid, based upon the fact that RNA but not DNA is hydrolyzed to nucleotides by alkali; RNA can be hydrolyzed in about 2 hours in 0.75 n NaOH, but 18 hours and 0.3 n NaOH usually are used.


lyre bird (medicine)


lyre bird
<ornithology> Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of the genus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tail feathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre. The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting new South Wales, is about the size of a grouse. Its General colour is brown, with rufous colour on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail.

Synonym: lyre pheasant and lyre-tail.

Source: Websters Dictionary