| panda | <zoology> A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pandanus | <botany> A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine. Origin: NL, fr. Malay pandan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pandect | 1. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science. "[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book." (Donne) 2. The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. Origin: L. Pandecta, pandectes, Gr. All-receiving, all-containing, all + to receive: cf. F. Pandectes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pandemic | An epidemic that affects awide geographic area. (09 Oct 1997) |
| pandemicity | The state or condition of being pandemic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pander | 1. A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer. "Thou art the pander to her dishonor." (Shak) 2. Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another. "Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition." (Burke) Origin: From Pandarus, a leader in the Trojan army, who is represented by Chaucer and Shakespeare as having procured for Troilus the possession of Cressida Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pandermite | <chemical> A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite. Origin: From Panderma, a port on the Black Sea from which it is exported. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pandiculation | One of the more wondrous medical words, pandiculation is the act of stretching and yawning. (if in a public place, you might consider demonstating the versatility of your vocabulary by saying, sorry, but i feel the need to pandiculate. ) (12 Dec 1998) |
| pandora | 1. A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it. 2. <zoology> A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. Origin: L, fr. Gr. Pandwra; pa^s, pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pandora's pneumonitis | <radiology> Type of extrinsic allergic alveolitis, from forced air equipment (heating, humidifying, air conditioning systems), organism: thermophilic actinomycetes (12 Dec 1998) |
| pandurate | <botany> Shaped somewhat like a violin, as some leaves. (09 Oct 1997) |
| panduriform | Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform colour markings of an animal. Origin: L. Pandura a pandore: cf. F. Panduriforme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Pandy | Kalman, Hungarian neurologist, *1868. See: Pandy's test, Pandy's reaction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pandy's reaction | A test to determine the presence of proteins (chiefly globulins) in the spinal fluid, by adding one drop of spinal fluid to 1 ml of solution (e.g., carbolic acid crystals in distilled water, cresol, or pyrogallic acid); the reaction varies from a faint turbidity to a dense "milky" precipitate according to the degree of protein content. Synonym: Pandy's test. (05 Mar 2000) |