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reparametrizar
  7

Modify one or more parameters in an equation. See prefix re- , parameterize .

  
desgobernar
  11

1st. To make a bad government, direction or conduction; impair the task of a ruler. See prefix des- , govern . 2º_ Dislocating or disjointing a bone. It was a common practice to prevent the escape of slaves and prisoners, mutilating part of their feet. It's also making a movement that seems to dislocate a joint in the body. 3º_ By extension of the previous one, "to unshackle", "to break or ruin something".

  
herniar
  7

Causing or inducing a hernia, usually due to great physical exertion.

  
ensuciar
  6

Put dirty, stain, spoil (especially the picture). It is used figuratively as "to sully the honor and good name", and also for situations such as the one defined by our colleague Cayetano Peláez del Rosal, which are dirty by their very fact.

  
amuermar
  5

Putting glanders, boring, in some cases can be "drugging".

  
parchar
  6

Patching, patching, in the broadest sense is making a temporary repair. See Patch, Patcher.

  
lunear
  6

Go hunting on moonlit nights, also fishing or just for a walk.

  
porcionar
  9

It is a verb used in gastronomy, pastry, hospitality, to "divide or serve in portions". See portion, suffix -ar .

  
roentgen
  9

It is a unit for measuring radiation in ionizable air, which was used in safety calculations in exposure to X-rays (or roentgen) and gamma rays. Today, more efficient scales are used in rad or gray. The name is a tribute to the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays.

  
rankine
  5

Temperature scale in degrees Fahrenheit that starts from absolute zero and for this reason has no negative values. It is used in some countries for work in thermodynamics and its symbol is R. The name is a tribute to who proposed it in the mid-nineteenth century, the Scottish physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, although his name is best known for his contributions to the use and understanding of thermal energy. See kelvin .

  
cowper
  11

The Cowper's glands (bulbourethral) are the glands that produce pre-seminal fluid in the male reproductive system. They had already been described by French anatomist Jean Méry, but the detail was only published (or plagiarized?). in the late nineteenth century by his English colleague William Cowper, who gave them their name.

  
testut
  9

It is a generic name for anatomy books based on the most popular work of French professor and physician Jean Léo Testut Traité d'anatomie humaine ("Treatise on Human Anatomy", 1887).

  
mohs
  5

1º_ Micrographic surgical procedure, by which cancerous tissue is removed in thin layers that are analyzed with a microscope, and the surgery ends when the layer already contains only healthy cells. It was created by physician Frederic Edward Mohs in 1938. 2º_ Name of a practical scale of hardness of materials, based on the ancient method "which mineral can scratch another", which has the values from softest to hardest compared with 10 materials: 1- talc, 2- gypsum, 3- calcite, 4- fluorite, 5- apatite, 6- orthoclase, 7- quartz, 8- topaz, 9- corundum, 10- diamond. It was created by geologist Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs in the first half of the nineteenth century.

  
guarismo
  9

Relative to numbers, to Indo-Arabic numerals. The origin of the name has a very long history, it comes indirectly from the Persian region of Khorasmia or Khorasmia, where the mathematician known as al-Khwarizmi ("the khorasmio, the khorasmite") was born, which in medieval Latin ended up as eponymous for algorismus ("algorithm"), and at some point lost the article to become 'guarismo'.

  
julio
  9

1º_ Julio is a male name of Latin origin. Its feminine is Julia. 2nd_ Seventh month of the year. Named as a tribute to Emperor Julius Caesar. 3º_ In the International System of Measurements, the joule is a unit of energy, work and heat. Its symbol is J, and the name is a tribute to the English physicist James Prescott Joule for his contributions to thermodynamics.

  
quevedos
  6

1º_ Type of clip glasses that are fastened over the nose and do not have sideburns. They were used by the Spanish writer Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, and that is why they became popular with that name. 2º_ Quevedos is a city in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).

  
hediondillo
  11

Diminutive of stinky, for smelly but said with affection.

  
tufillo
  14

Diminutive of tufo ("smell, smell") , literally and figuratively.

  
taleguillo
  8

Diminutive of talego ( various meanings ) .

  
bacinillo
  7

Diminutive of bacin ("vessel, potty").

  






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