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Look up: flaccid

  1. flaccid
    (Green plants as organisms) lacking turgor; lacking in stiffness or strength
    Found on http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesiz

  2. flaccid
    [adj] - lacking in strength or firmness or resilience
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Flaccid
    Limp, floppy, lacking firmness. Often used to describe muscles that have lost their firmness (muscle tone) due to lack of activity.
    Found on http://www.spinalnet.co.uk/EEndCom/GBCON

  4. Flaccid
    Relaxed, flabby, or soft; or lacking muscle tone
    Found on http://www.dwp.gov.uk/medical/med_condit

  5. Flaccid
    Flac'cid adjective [ Latin flaccidus , from flaccus flabby: confer Old French flaccide .] Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. « Religious profession . . . has become flacced I. Taylor. -- Flac'cid*ly ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/36

  6. flaccid
    Weak, lax and soft. ... Origin: L. Flaccidus ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. flaccid
    lax adjective lacking in strength or firmness or resilience; `flaccid muscles`; `took his lax hand in hers`; `gave a limp handshake`; `a limp gesture as if waving away all desire to know` G.K.Chesterton; `a slack grip`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. flaccid
    adjective drooping without elasticity; wanting in stiffness; `a flaccid penis`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. Flaccid
    `Flaccid` is a term used in medicine to refer to an object that is soft, or not tense. In the context of of muscles, it is a near synonym for hypotonia. It can also be used to describe certain types of paralysis (such as flaccid paralysis), as a contrast to spastic paralysis. It can also be used to describe other tissues, such as the labia. The medical meaning of the term is sometimes used in other contexts, to describe objects or actions whic...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaccid

  10. flaccid
    (flak´sid) (flas´id) weak, lax, or soft; applied especially to muscles. atonic.
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  11. Flaccid
    • (a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. flaccid
    (L. flaccidus) weak, lax and soft.
    Found on http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/

  13. flaccid
    Relaxed, flabby, or without tone. [L. flaccidus]
    Found on

  14. flaccid
    limp, flabby.
    Found on http://www.anbg.gov.au/glossary/webpubl/


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21 November 2009

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On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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