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MASSE
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Irregular inflected form: masses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
Synonyms:
masse; masse shot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("masse" is a kind of...):
shot; stroke ((sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand)
Holonyms ("masse" is a part of...):
billiards (any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls)
pocket billiards; pool (any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets)
Context examples:
It is usually manifested with bilateral multinodular ovarian masses.
(Leuteoma of Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)
The lateral of a pair of small oval masses that protrude slightly from the posteroinferior aspect of the thalamus; commonly considered a part of the metathalamus.
(External Geniculate Body, NCI Thesaurus)
This results in the development of tumor-like masses.
(Juvenile Hyaline Fibromatosis, NCI Thesaurus)
The medial one of a pair of small masses that protrude from the posteroinferior part of the thalamus; commonly considered a part of the metathalamus.
(Internal Geniculate Body, NCI Thesaurus)
H. kunzii is a nonvirulent member of the skin flora, but may become an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompromised patients and has been isolated from wounds and breast masses.
(Helcococcus kunzii, NCI Thesaurus)
The amounts can be expressed as moles, masses, volumes, or parts.
(Concentration, NCI Thesaurus)
Breast masses are not always malignant.
(Breast Lump, NCI Thesaurus)
Adnexal masses include ovarian cysts, ectopic (tubal) pregnancies, and benign (not cancer) or malignant (cancer) tumors.
(Adnexal mass, NCI Dictionary)
A small unit of mass used to express atomic and molecular masses.
(Atomic Mass Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
Clinically, these tumors present as asymptomatic masses.
(Benign Salivary Gland Myoepithelioma, NCI Thesaurus)
