Subject: Voting on Mesenchyme

From: "Judith E. Schrier" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:54:05 EDT

Two points for your favorite; one point for the
runner-up.  Please get your responses in by the
4th of July.  THANKS!
judith
[email-masked]
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mesenchyme -n- digestive fluid found in the second
stomach of ruminants.
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MESNECHYME - n. - A double-headed hand tool with axe
and mattock heads; often has a pick end at the base
of the handle
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mesenchyme - n. - a ghostly apparition in the form
of a large, strong person or a powerful animal such
as a lion or bear.
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mesenchyme, n.  An intermediate product of digestion,
found in the upper intestines shortly before the
remaining nutrients are removed.
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mesenchyme: (n) loosely organized undifferentiated
mostly mesodermal cells that give rise to such
structures as connective tissues, blood,lymphatics,
bone, and cartilage.
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mesenchyme:  n. The middle layer of cells in a
developing embryo.
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MESENCHYME, n. from the Old Austrian mes (mouse) +
chimm (trap). A mouse trap consisting of a ladder
leading up to a rotating platform above a bucket
of sweet-smelling poison.  Mice are attracted by
the poison and induced to climb the ladder up to the
platform, which drops them into the poison.  The
platform then resets itself.
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mesenchyme (n.) - A natural rock formation which
appears to have human attributes, e.g. "The Man in
the Moon".
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mesenchyme -- (n.)  An ombudsman charged with hearing
the complaints of sacrificial victims.  Prov. "Go tell
the mesenchyme!" (UK, WWI) was a response to a trivial
gripe in the face of urgent danger.
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mesenchyme (n) - a poetic device in which the beloved is
praised through animal imagery, as in the Song of Songs
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mesenchyme - n.- a sweet-smelling grass found in the
wetlands of the Great Salt Lake, and used as forage.