dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/tay_MW.json
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{
"tay-sachs disease":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism typically affecting individuals of eastern European Jewish ancestry that is marked by the accumulation of lipids especially in nerve cells of the brain due to a deficiency of hexosaminidase and that is characterized by weakness, exaggerated startle response to sudden noise, diminished muscle tone, red retinal spots, macrocephaly, gradual loss of hearing and vision, deterioration of cognitive abilities and motor skills, seizures, paralysis, and death in early childhood":[
"\u2026 if they both had the recessive gene and ever had a baby, there was a one in four chance the baby would have Tay-Sachs disease .",
"\u2014 Barbara Mahany",
"In peoples around the world Tay-Sachs appears once in every 400,000 births. But it appears a hundred times more frequently\u2014about once in 3,600 births\u2014among descendants of Eastern European Jews, people known as Ashkenazim.",
"\u2014 Jared Diamond"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0101-\u02c8saks-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Warren Tay \u20201927 British physician & Bernard P. Sachs \u20201944 American neurologist":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1906, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-082625"
},
"tayra":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a long-tailed mustelid mammal ( Galera barbara ) of South and Central America that resembles the North American fisher in size but has short fur and is black with a grayish head":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Portuguese taira & Spanish taira, tayra , from Tupi":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-085104"
},
"Tay-Sachs disease":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a hereditary disorder of lipid metabolism typically affecting individuals of eastern European Jewish ancestry that is marked by the accumulation of lipids especially in nerve cells of the brain due to a deficiency of hexosaminidase and that is characterized by weakness, exaggerated startle response to sudden noise, diminished muscle tone, red retinal spots, macrocephaly, gradual loss of hearing and vision, deterioration of cognitive abilities and motor skills, seizures, paralysis, and death in early childhood":[
"\u2026 if they both had the recessive gene and ever had a baby, there was a one in four chance the baby would have Tay-Sachs disease .",
"\u2014 Barbara Mahany",
"In peoples around the world Tay-Sachs appears once in every 400,000 births. But it appears a hundred times more frequently\u2014about once in 3,600 births\u2014among descendants of Eastern European Jews, people known as Ashkenazim.",
"\u2014 Jared Diamond"
]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0101-\u02c8saks-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Warren Tay \u20201927 British physician & Bernard P. Sachs \u20201944 American neurologist":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1906, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-130757"
},
"Taylor series":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a power series that gives the expansion of a function f ( x ) in the neighborhood of a point a provided that in the neighborhood the function is continuous, all its derivatives exist, and the series converges to the function in which case it has the form {latex}f(x) = f(a) + \\frac{f'(a)}{1!}(x - a) + \\frac{f''(a)}{2!}(x - a)^{2} + \\dots + \\frac{f^{[n]}(a)}{n!}(x - a)^{n}{/latex} where f[ n ] ( a ) is the derivative of nth order of f ( x ) evaluated at a":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8t\u0101-l\u0259r-"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Brook Taylor \u20201731 English mathematician":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1842, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-011358"
}
}