(accounting) An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or entering an asset and its value; a reduction of an asset, written down or otherwise recorded as such.

To cause to become distended. / (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant. / To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell.

plural of staff surgeon

A native or inhabitant of Frankfurt, Germany.