metesthesiologist (medicine) and bear(1) (iou)

metesthesiologist (medicine)

metesthesiologist

1. A proposed substitute for the term anaesthesiologist to indicate the extent to which the clinical practice of a physician trained in administration of anaesthetics has expanded beyond the operating room into resuscitation, critical care, Management of acute and chronic pain.

2. A physician board certified and legally qualified both to administer anaesthesia and to engage in related activities outside the operating room.

Origin: G. Meta, beyond, + anaesthesiologist

bear(1) (iou)

bear noun1.

Any of several large heavily-built mammals constituting the family Ursidae (order Carnivora), with thick fur and a plantigrade gait. OE.
black bear either of two bears, (a) (more fully American black bear) Ursus americanus, of N. American forests; (b) (more fully Asian black bear) Selenarctos thibetanus, a small, mainly herbivorous bear of SE Asia. brown bear a bear, Ursus arctos, of western N. America and parts of Eurasia that is the world's largest carnivore (cf. GRIZZLY adjective1 2, KODIAK). cinnamon bear, polar bear, sloth bear, spectacled bear, white bear, etc.
b. With specifying word: an animal resembling or likened to a bear. E17.
koala bear, sea-bear, skunk bear, etc.
Astronomy. the Bear (more fully the Great Bear) = URSA Major; the Lesser Bear, the Little Bear = URSA Minor. LME.
fig. A rough, unmannerly, or uncouth person. L16.
Ld Macaulay This great soldier..was no better than a Low Dutch bear.
Stock Exchange etc. [Perh. with ref. to expression 'selling the bear's skin before killing the bear'.] Orig., stock contracted to be sold at a set price at a future date, in the seller's expectation of lower market prices then. Now, a person who sells such stock, a speculator for a fall. Cf. BULL noun1 4. E18.
A rough or shaggy mat, esp. a block covered with matting for scrubbing the deck of a vessel. L18.
the Bear, Russia, the former USSR. E19.
W. S. Churchill The left paw of the Bear bars Germany from the Black Sea.
A figure of a bear made as a child's toy. Cf. TEDDY. E20.
[Ellipt. for Smokey Bear s.v. SMOKY.] A police officer; (collect.) the police. slang (orig. US). L20.
sky bear: see SKY noun.
Other phrases: like a bear with a sore head colloq. angry, ill-tempered. loaded for bear US colloq. fully prepared. play the bear with treat rudely and roughly. Smokey Bear: see SMOKY adjective.
Comb.: bear animalcule = TARDIGRADE noun 2; bear-baiting Hist. setting dogs to attack a captive bear, for sport; bearberry (the fruit of) an evergreen shrub or small tree of the chiefly N. American genus Arctostaphylos, of the heath family, with white or pinkish flowers, esp. A. uva-ursi (more fully red bearberry), a trailing moorland plant with bright red astringent berries; bear-cat (a) the red panda; (b) the binturong; (c) N. Amer. colloq. an aggressive or forceful person; a person of great energy or ability; bear-covering Stock Exchange the action of a bear in buying stock which he has previously contracted to sell; beargarden (a) a place set apart for bear-baiting or similar Sports; (b) fig. a scene of tumult; bear-grass N. Amer. any of various plants with long, coarse, grasslike leaves, esp. yucca or a related plant; bearherd Hist. the keeper of a bear; one who leads a bear for show; bear-hug a powerful embrace; bearleader fig. a rich young man's travelling tutor; bear market Stock Exchange: in which prices are falling; bear-pit a sunken enclosure in which bears are kept; bear's breech = ACANTHUS 1; bear's ear = AURICULA 1; bear's foot stinking hellebore, Helleborus foetidus; bear's garlic ramsons, Allium ursinum; bear's grease arch. pomade; bearskin (a) a wrap etc. made of bear's skin; (b) a tall furry cap worn by Guards in the British army; bearskinned adjective wearing a bearskin; Bear State US Arkansas; bearward = bear-herd above.
bearlike adverb & adjective (a) adverb in the manner of a bear, roughly; (b) adjective resembling (that of) a bear: E17.

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