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blastocytoma (medicine) and resource (iou)


blastocytoma (medicine)


blastocytoma -->
blastoma
<tumour> A neoplasm composed chiefly or entirely of immature undifferentiated cells (i.e., blast forms), with little or virtually no stroma.

Synonym: blastocytoma, embryonal carcinosarcoma.

Origin: blasto-+ G. -oma, tumour


resource (iou)



resource noun & verb. E17.
[French ressource, -ourse use as noun of fem. pa. pple of Old French dial. resourdre rise again, recover from Latin resurgere: see RESURGE.]
A. noun.
a. A means of supplying a deficiency; a stock or reserve which can be drawn on when necessary; N. Amer. available assets. Now usu. in pl. E17.
resource allocation, resource planning, etc. human resources: see HUMAN adjective. LEARNING resource.
P. Roazen A woman's greatest resource is her..inner perceptiveness. P. Auster We pooled our resources.
b. In pl. The collective means possessed by a country for its own support or defence. L18.
Times Countries with..large natural resources.
Possibility of aid or assistance. Chiefly in without resource. arch. L17.
J. S. C. Abbott The French army was lost without resource.
An action or strategy which may be resorted to in a difficulty or emergency; an expedient, a device. L17.
one's own resources one's personal capabilities, ingenuity.
George Eliot Flight was his only resource.
A means of relaxation; a leisure occupation. L18.
L. C. Knights Her Other occupations and resources: visiting..and small talk.
Capability in devising expedients or in meeting difficulties; practical ingenuity. M19.
P. G. Wodehouse Resource in moments of crisis is largely a matter of preparedness.
Comb.: resource centre a library or Other centre which houses a collection of resources for educational purposes; such a collection of Educational Materials; resource industry N. Amer. an industry, the raw materials of which occur as natural resources; resource person (chiefly N. Amer.) a person kept in reserve and called upon as necessary to perform a certain task; a person whose function it is to obtain resources.
b. verb trans. Provide or supply (a person etc.) with resources. Chiefly as resourced ppl adjective. L20.
Times An inadequately resourced service.