| minor surgery | any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
variola minor
variola minor virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about percent |
American woodcock
woodcock snipe Philohela minor | small long-billed woodcock, prized as a game bird |
| minor suit | ( bridge) a suit of inferior scoring value, either diamonds or clubs |
minor tranquilizer
minor tranquillizer
minor tranquilliser
antianxiety drug
anxiolytic
anxiolytic drug | a tranquilizer used to relieve anxiety and reduce tension and irritability |
blemish
defect
mar | a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body), a facial blemish |
| defect shortcoming | a failing or deficiency, that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information |
pectoralis minor
musculus pectoralis minor
smaller pectoral muscle | a skeletal muscle that draws down the scapula or raises the ribs |
rhomboid minor muscle
lesser rhomboid muscle
musculus rhomboideus minor | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the vertebral column and slightly upward |
teres minor
teres minor muscle
musculus teres minor | teres muscle that adducts the arm and rotates it laterally |
bit part
minor role | a small role |
| minor axis | the shorter or shortest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid |
minor premise
minor premiss
subsumption | the premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) |
| minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
minor scale
minor diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the nd and rd and th and th |
minor key
minor mode | a key based on the minor scale |
minor-league team
minor-league club | a team that plays in a minor league |
minor league
minors
bush league | a league of teams that do not belong to a major league (especially baseball) |
Asia Minor
Anatolia | a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey |
Canis Minor
Little Dog | a constellation to the east of Orion, contains Procyon |
Little Bear
Ursa Minor | a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
minor planet
planetoid | any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun |
c child
kid
youngster
minor
shaver
nipper
small fry tiddler
tike tyke fry
nestling | a young person of either sex, she writes books for children, they're just kids, `tiddler' is a British term for youngster |
minor leaguer
bush leaguer | a player on a minor-league baseball team |
mass defect
mass deficiency | the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus is less than the sum of the masses of its constituent particles |
| myrtle Vinca minor | widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers |
common duckweed
lesser duckweed
Lemna minor | of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia |
lesser wintergreen
Pyrola minor | the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers, Europe and North America |
hooded pitcher plant
Sarracenia minor | yellow-flowered pitcher plant of southeastern United States having trumpet-shaped leaves with the orifice covered with an arched hood |
California bluebell whitlavia
Phacelia minor
Phacelia whitlavia | desert plant of southern California with blue or violet tubular flowers in terminal racemes |
incidental expense
incidental
minor expense | (frequently plural) an expense not budgeted or not specified, he requested reimbursement of $ for incidental expenses |
petit mal
epilepsia minor | a seizure of short duration characterized by momentary unconsciousness and local muscle spasms or twitching, the girl was frightened by her first petit mal |
petit mal epilepsy
petit mal epilepsia minor | epilepsy characterized by paroxysmal attacks of brief clouding of consciousness (and possibly other abnormalities), she has been suffering from petit mal since childhood |
alastrim
variola minor
pseudosmallpox
pseudovariola
milk pox
white pox
West Indian smallpox
Cuban itch
Kaffir pox | a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus |
genetic disease
genetic disorder
genetic abnormality
genetic defect
congenital disease
inherited disease
inherited disorder
hereditary disease
hereditary condition | a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically |
autosomal recessive disease
autosomal recessive defect | a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome |
speech disorder
speech defect
defect of speech | a disorder of oral speech |
| defect | an imperfection in a bodily system, visual defects, this device permits detection of defects in the lungs |
defect
fault
flaw | an imperfection in an object or machine, a flaw caused the crystal to shatter, if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer |
birth defect
congenital anomaly
congenital defect
congenital disorder
congenital abnormality | a defect that is present at birth |
| congenital heart defect | a birth defect involving the heart |
| septal defect | a congenital abnormality in the septum between the left and right sides of the heart |
| atrial septal defect | an abnormal opening between the left and right atria of the heart |
| ventricular septal defect | a common congenital heart defect, an abnormal opening in the septum dividing the ventricles allows blood to pass directly from the left to the right ventricle, large openings may cause congestive heart failure |
visual impairment
visual defect
vision defect
visual disorder | impairment of the sense of sight |
| minor fast day | one of five minor fast days on the Jewish calendar |
defect
desert | desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army, If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot |
minor
modest
small
small-scale
pocket-size
pocket-sized | limited in size or scope, a small business, a newspaper with a modest circulation, small-scale plans, a pocket-size country |
| minor | inferior in number or size or amount, a minor share of the profits, Ursa Minor |
| minor | lesser in scope or effect, had minor differences, a minor disturbance |