| major surgery | any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
variola major
variola major virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to percent |
sergeant major
Abudefduf saxatilis | large blue-grey black-striped damselfish, nearly worldwide |
| major suit | (bridge) a suit of superior scoring value, either spades or hearts |
major tranquilizer
major tranquillizer
major tranquilliser
antipsychotic drug
antipsychotic agent
antipsychotic
neuroleptic drug
neuroleptic agent
neuroleptic | tranquilizer used to treat psychotic conditions when a calming effect is desired |
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 major
musculus pectoralis major
greater pectoral muscle | a skeletal muscle that adducts and rotates the arm |
rhomboideus major muscle
greater rhomboid muscle
musculus rhomboideus major | rhomboid muscle that draws the scapula toward the spinal column |
teres major
teres major muscle
musculus teres major | teres muscle that moves the arm and rotates it medially |
| major | the principal field of study of a student at a university, her major is linguistics |
| major axis | the longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid, passes through the two foci |
| major form class | any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar |
major premise
major premiss | the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion) |
| major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
major scale
major diatonic scale | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the rd and th and th and th |
major key
major mode | a key whose harmony is based on the major scale |
C major
C major scale
scale of C major | (music) the major scale having no sharps or flats |
| major lobe | the maximum lobe in the radiation pattern which is intended to be along the forward axis and which gives the effect of a beam |
act of God
force majeure
vis major
inevitable accident
unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
major-league team
major-league club | a team that plays in a major league |
world power
major power
great power
power
superpower | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |
major league
big league
majors | the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) |
Canis Major
Great Dog | a constellation to the southeast of Orion, contains Sirius |
Great Bear
Ursa Major | a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star |
planet
major planet | (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun, viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction |
| drum major | the leader of a marching band or drum corps |
| major | a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines, below lieutenant colonel and above captain |
| major | a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject, she is a linguistics major |
major-domo
seneschal | the chief steward or butler of a great household |
| major-general | a general officer ranking above a brigadier general and below a lieutenant general |
major leaguer
big leaguer | a member of a major-league baseball team |
| pipe major | the chief piper in a band of bagpipes |
sergeant major
command sergeant major | a noncommissioned officer serving as chief administrative officer of a headquarters unit of the Army |
Major John Major
John R. Major
John Roy Major | British statesman who was prime minister fromuntil (born in ) |
Scipio
Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus Major
Publius Cornelius Scipio
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major
Scipio the Elder | Roman general who commanded the invasion of Carthage in the second Punic War and defeated Hannibal at Zama (circa - BC) |
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 |
large periwinkle
Vinca major | plant having variegated foliage and used for window boxes |
pitch apple
strangler fig Clusia rosea
Clusia major | a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers |
broad-leaved plantain common plantain
white-man's foot
whiteman's foot
cart-track plant
Plantago major | common European perennial naturalized worldwide, a troublesome weed |
greater masterwort
Astrantia major | European herb with aromatic roots and leaves in a basal tuft and showy compound umbels of white to rosy flowers |
grand mal
generalized seizure
epilepsia major | a seizure during which the patient becomes unconscious and has convulsions over the entire body |
grand mal epilepsy
grand mal generalized epilepsy
epilepsia major | epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking |
smallpox
variola
variola major | a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars |
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 |
Cooley's anemia
Cooley's anaemia
thalassemia major
thalassaemia major | a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin, skeletal deformations, heart and spleen and liver enlarged |
affective disorder
major affective disorder
emotional disorder
emotional disturbance | any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant |
| major depressive episode | (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction |
speech disorder
speech defect
defect of speech | a disorder of oral speech |