| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| one or more recordings issued together; originally released on 12-inch phonograph records (usually with attractive record covers) and later on cassette audio tape and compact disc |
album
,
record album
|
| sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the Pharaoh Akhenaten |
Aten
,
Aton
|
| any starfish-like animal of the genera Euryale or Astrophyton or Gorgonocephalus having slender complexly branched interlacing arms radiating from a central disc |
basket fish
,
basket star
|
| low-growing Eurasian plant with yellow central disc flowers and pinkish-white outer ray flowers |
Bellis perennis
,
common daisy
,
English daisy
|
| animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc |
brittle-star
,
brittle star
,
serpent star
|
| valve in a carburetor that consists of a disc that turns and acts as a throttle |
butterfly valve
|
| drive that reads a compact disc and that is connected to an audio system |
CD drive
|
| recording media on laser-read disc |
CD
,
compact disc
|
| compact disc on which you can write only once and thereafter is read-only memory |
CD-R
,
CD-WO
,
compact disc recordable
,
compact disc write-once
|
| very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. |
clingfish
|
| metal piece (usually a disc) used as money |
coin
|
| distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc |
cut
,
track
|
| disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called |
dial
,
telephone dial
|
| mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus |
erythrocyte
,
RBC
,
red blood cell
|
| genus of mushrooms with a depressed disc in the cap |
genus Omphalotus
,
Omphalotus
|
| increased pressure in the eyeball due to obstruction of the outflow of aqueous humor; damages the optic disc and impairs vision (sometimes progressing to blindness) |
glaucoma
|
| painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region |
herniated disc
,
ruptured intervertebral disc
,
slipped disc
|
| fibrocartilaginous disc serving as a cushion between all of the vertebrae of the spinal column (except between the first two) |
intervertebral disc
,
intervertebral disk
|
| (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet |
limb
|
| backache affecting the lumbar region or lower back; can be caused by muscle strain or arthritis or vascular insufficiency or a ruptured intervertebral disc |
lumbago
,
lumbar pain
|
