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tag (tg)
n.
1. A strip of leather, paper, metal, or plastic attached to something or hung from a wearer's neck to identify, classify, or label.
2. A small outgrowth or polyp.
v.
1. To label, identify, or recognize with or as if with a tag.
2. To incorporate into a compound a readily detected substance making the compound detectable so that its metabolic or chemical history may be followed.

tag,
a small piece of epidermal and dermal fibrovascular tissue attached by one margin or a pedicle to a main structure.

TAG,
abbreviation for 3,4,6-tri-o-acetyl-d-glucal.

tag
1. a small appendage, flap or polyp.
2. label. See ear tag, tail tag.

cutaneous tag
fibrovascular papilloma.
radioactive tag
a radioisotope that has been incorporated in a chemical compound.

tag
Dermatology A redundancy of mucocutaneous or other tissue. See Anal tag, Ear tag, Pleural tag, Skin tag Vox populi A label. See Blue tag, Pink tag, Yellow tag.


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