Tet

Quick meaning: Tet is a noun meaning (informal, pharmacology) Clipping of tetracycline.

Meaning

(informal, pharmacology) Clipping of tetracycline.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, informal, medicine) The tetralogy of Fallot.
2. (countable, informal, medicine) A patient with tetralogy of Fallot.
3. (informal, horticulture) A tetraploid plant cultivar (iris, daylily etc.).
4. (geometry, engineering) A tetrahedron; a tetrahedral finite element.
5. (geometry, engineering) Tetrahedral.
6. (numismatic slang) Clipping of tetradrachm.
7. Alternative form of teth (“Semitic letter”).

Example Sentences

“It's a tet shot,” Roddy told him, relieved. A tetanus injection was the usual thing for a cut or puncture wound on a horse.

The Genital part is all nervy; the Tail ſmall; and the Hind hath Udders betwixt her Thighs, with four Speans or Tets, like a Cow.

I was on oral tet for months after I was first dx backn in '88. All I got from it was a very, very nasty and upset GI track. I had to stop it.

Tets are 44-chromosome conversions from 22-chromosome diploids, created by elaborate means involving colchicine, a chemical found naturally in crocuses. Only a tet can pollinate a tet, but some tets can pollinate themselves.

Word Forms

• tets

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ka, tfw, tec, hyper, tait, tate.

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