| actual | 1. Involving or comprising action; active. "Her walking and other actual performances." (Shak) "Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . By a special prayer or action, . . . Given to God." (Jer. Taylor) 2. Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion. 3. In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country. Actual cautery. See Cautery. Actual sin, that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin." Synonym: Real, genuine, positive, certain. See Real. Origin: OE. Actuel, F. Actuel, L. Actualis, fr. Agere to do, act. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| actual cautery | A cautery, such as electrocautery, acting directly through heat and not by chemical means. Synonym: technocausis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paris | <botany> A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris; truelove. It has been used as a narcotic. It much resembles the American genus Trillium, but has usually four leaves and a tetramerous flower. Origin: From Paris, the son of Priam. The chief city of France. Paris green. <chemistry> See Green, Paris white, purified chalk used as a pigment; whiting; Spanish white. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Paris green | Cupric acetoarsenite, used as an insecticide and as a pigment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Paris line | A unit of microscopic measurement as used in Kolliker's Mikroskopische Anatomie; it was equal to 0.0888138 of an inch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Paris yellow | A fine yellow powder used in paints and dyes. Synonym: lead chromate, Leipzig yellow, lemon yellow, Paris yellow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plaster of Paris disease | Atrophy of bone in a limb which has been encased for some time in a plaster of Paris splint. (05 Mar 2000) |