Vocabulary
noyau
stone (of a fruit), pit (of a fruit); group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.); core; nucleus; kernel; nucleus of a syllable
Noun
barreau
metal bar (of a jail cell, cage etc.); rung (of ladder); spindle (of chair); bar (place where the participants in a trial stand); bar (profession of lawyers)
Noun
guichet
(small) door, gate (in wall, fort etc.); wicket; hatch, grill (in cell etc.); ticket office, box office, ticket booth; counter (at post office, bank etc.)
Noun
chimère
chimera (mythical monster); chimera (creature of the imagination); chimera (organism with cells from two zygotes); chimaera (fish)
Noun
anémie
anemia (medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue)
Noun
bâtonnet
small stick; batonnet (piece of vegetable cut into the shape of a small stick); rod cell (any of the cylindrical photoreceptor cells in the retina that function in dim light levels)
Noun
itinérance
act of traveling without a particular goal or destination; pedestrian traveling done for pleasure; hiking; backpacking; the ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone; roaming; homelessness
Noun
hémoglobine
hemoglobin (the iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body); blood; gore
Noun
méiose
meiosis (cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes)
Noun
achromatopsie
achromatopsia (Total color blindness; the total inability to distinguish colors due to the absence of cone cells in the eyes)
Noun
synizésis
synizesis (the fusion of two syllables into one without the formation of a recognized diphthong, especially to fit a certain poetic meter); synizesis (a dense clumping of chromosomes on one side of the nucleus of a cell, sometimes occurring prior to cell division); synizesis (occlusion of the pupil of the eye, resulting in loss of vision)
Noun
clodoaldien
Of or from Saint-Cloud; Of or from Saint-Cloud-en-Dunois; Of or from La Celle-Saint-Cloud
Adjective
huis clos
closed door; an enclosed space such as a room or cell; a work of fiction (film, novel, etc.) in which the action is set in an enclosed space; a genre in fiction where dramatic tension is derived from the action being set in an enclosed space; a period of proceeding in camera
Noun