Long, linear, highly charged polysaccharide composed of a repeating pair of sugars, one of which is always an amino sugar. Mainly found covalently linked to a protein core in extracellular matrix proteoglycans. Examples include chondroitin sulfate, hyaluronic acid, and heparin.

An HIV gene that codes for p55. p55 is the precursor of HIV proteins p17, p24, p7 and p6 that form HIVs core, the inner protein shell surrounding the viral RNA.

Glycosaminoglycan (GAG) is the polysaccharide unit that makes up proteoglycans, a molecule made of saccharides and proteins. GAGs are extracellular matrix molecules that help give tissues like cartilage their rigid structure.

To cause to heave with nausea.

To heave with nausea; to retch.

A mouthful that makes one retch; a choking bit; as, a gag of mutton fat.

To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of speech to.

To introduce gags or interpolations. See Gag, n., 3.

Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.

make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner"

Gag is an album released in 1984 by British musician Fad Gadget. It is a combination of electronica and industrial styles, and features the German band Einstürzende Neubauten on the second track, Collapsing new people, which was also released as a single. ("Einstürzende Neubauten" translates as "Collapsing new buildings - specifically, tower blocks".)

Carnival procession drumming and dance from the Dominican Republic. Related to Haitian Rará.

To pry or hold open by means of a gag.

In the context of surgery or dental surgery, a gag is a device used to hold the patient's mouth open when working in the oral cavity, or to force the mouth open when it cannot open naturally because of forward dislocation of the jaw joint's intraarticular cartilage pad. Applications for medical gags include oral surgery and airway management. Gag designs, like other medical instrument designs, are often named after their invertors.

Wordplay or horseplay with the audience.

1. Metal block, used with in a vise, which is sized and shaped to give the needed contours to the piece of metal that is bending or shaping. 2. Clamp that is used to prevent the safety valve on a boiler from opening. This is used when the boiler is hydrostatically pressure tested.

A device attached to a safety or safety relief valve that prevents it from opening at the set pressure. ( 055)

A device that, when attached to a safety or safety relief valve, prohibits its opening at the set pressure.

GAG is a Graphical Boot Manager with a lot of features. It doesn't need a partition, it works with primary and extended partitions in every hard disk, it has a lot of icons, it allows you to put passwords for each operating system, it can swap hard disks and it can be tested from diskette. The SafeBoot feature allows you to boot your hard disk even if GAG is overwritten.

A remark or act that is created to make people laugh EXAMPLE: Putting shaving cream on someone's hand's and tickling their face with a feather ( so when they reach up to their face they get covered in shaving cream)

Galling Gallon

struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged"

Gags are sometimes used in consensual BDSM play. They are also a common prop in bondage erotica.

Green and Gone

Green Advocacy Group

make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

To be killed by flood suicide programming.

(also trick): a special effect.