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skanless

skanless is the alternative form of scanless.

Meaning of scanless

Adjective (1)

scanless (comparative more scanless, superlative most scanless)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) Scandalous, shameful.
    • Both of us messed over my first wife a scanless. And she never told nobody. Plus, she didn't have nobody to tell.1982, Alice Walker, The Color Purple, San Diego, C.A. […]: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, →ISBN, page 229

Adjective (2)

scanless (comparative more scanless, superlative most scanless)

  1. Without being scanned.
    • For one who before cancer had lived his life with almost no thought of illness, I wondered more than once whether I wasn't overreacting by requesting too many CAT scans. Still, this would be the first in five months, the longest I had gone scanless since diagnosis.2003, Neil Ruzic, Racing to a Cure: A Cancer Victim Refuses Chemotherapy and Finds Tomorrow's Cures in Today's Scientific Laboratories, Urbana, I.L.; Chicago, I.L.: University of Illinois Press...
  2. Not involving or requiring scanning.
    • Here, we developed a technique based on patterned two-photon illumination to allow fast scanless imaging of GCaMP6 signals in the intact mouse brain at the same time as single-photon optogenetic inhibition with Archaerhodopsin. Using combined imaging and electrophysiological recording, we...2017 January 5, Serena Bovetti, Claudio Moretti, Stefano Zucca, Marco Dal Maschio, Paolo Bonifazi, Tommaso Fellin, “Simultaneous high-speed imaging and optogenetic inhibition in the intact mouse...

Forms of skanless

comparativemore skanless
superlativemost skanless

Questions about skanless

What is skanless the alternative form of?
Skanless is the alternative form of scanless.

Words near skanless in the dictionary

  1. skanking up
  2. skanks
  3. skanks up
  4. Skanksgiving
  5. skanky
  6. skanless
  7. skanoe
  8. skanoes
  9. Skanstull
  10. Skapin
  11. skapri

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