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shadow

n 1 a  :  partial darkness or obscurity within a part of space from which rays from a source of light are cut off by an interposed opaque body  b  :  a dark outline or image on an X-ray photograph where the X rays have been blocked by a radiopaque mass (as a tumor)  2  :  a colorless or scantily pigmented or stained body (as a degenerate cell or empty membrane) only faintly visible under the microscope
vt :  to perform shadow-casting on <freeze-dried and ed myosin molecules>  .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  CHD  shed  sheet  shoot 

 
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