| pip | A contagious disease of fowls, characterised by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them. Origin: OE. Pippe, D. Pip, or F. Pepie; from LL. Pipita, fr. L. Pituita slime, phlegm, rheum, in fowls, the pip. Cf. Pituite. <botany> A seed, as of an apple or orange. Origin: Formerly pippin, pepin. Cf. Pippin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| PIP joints | The synovial joint's between the proximal and middle phalanges of the fingers and of the toes. Synonym: PIP joints. (05 Mar 2000) |
| PIP2 | <abbreviation> Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipa | <zoology> The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits. The male places the eggs on the back of the female, where they soon become inclosed in capsules formed by the thickening of the skin. The incubation of the eggs takes place in the capsules, and the young, when hatched, come forth with well developed legs. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pipal tree | Same as Peepul tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pipamazine | 1-[3-(2-Chlorophenothiazin-10-yl)propyl]isonipectoamide;a phenothiazine analogue with antiemetic and tranquillising properties. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipamperone | 1'-[3-(p-Fluorobenzoyl)propyl]-[1,4'-bipiperidine]-4'-carboxamide;an antipsychotic tranquilliser. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipazethate | 2-(2-Piperidinoethoxy)ethyl 10H-pyridol[3,2-b][1,4]benzothiazine-10-carboxylate;an antitussive agent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipe | 1. A wind instrument of music, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." "Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe." (Shak) 2. Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc. 3. A small bowl with a hollow steam, used in smoking tobacco, and, sometimes, other substances. 4. A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions. 5. The key or sound of the voice. 6. The peeping whistle, call, or note of a bird. "The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds." (Tennyson) 7. The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow. 8. <chemical> An elongated body or vein of ore. 9. A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; so called because put together like a pipe. 10. A boatswain's whistle, used to call the crew to their duties; also, the sound of it. 11. [Cf. F. Pipe, fr. Pipe a wind instrument, a tube, fr. L. Pipare to chirp. See Etymol. Above] A cask usually containing two hogsheads, or 126 wine gallons; also, the quantity which it contains. Pipe fitter, one who fits pipes together, or applies pipes, as to an engine or a building. Pipe fitting, a piece, as a coupling, an elbow, a valve, etc, used for connecting lengths of pipe or as accessory to a pipe. Pipe office, an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. <botany> Pipe tree, the lilac and the mock orange; so called because their were formerly used to make pipe stems; called also pipe privet. Pipe wrench, or Pipetongs, a jawed tool for gripping a pipe, in turning or holding it. To smoke the pipe of peace, to smoke from the same pipe in token of amity or preparatory to making a treaty of peace, a custom of the American Indians. Origin: AS. Pipe, probably fr. L. Pipare, pipire, to chirp; of imitative origin. Cf. Peep, Pibroch, Fife. 1. To play on a pipe, fife, flute, or other tubular wind instrument of music. "We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced." (Matt. Xi. 17) 2. To call, convey orders, etc, by means of signals on a pipe or whistle carried by a boatswain. 3. To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. "Oft in the piping shrouds." 4. <chemistry> To become hollow in the process of solodifying; said of an ingot, as of steel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pipe bone | One of the elongated bones of the extremities, consisting of a tubular shaft (diaphysis) and two extremities (epiphyses) usually wider than the shaft; the shaft is composed of compact bone surrounding a central medullary cavity. Compare: short bone. Synonym: os longum, pipe bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipe stem cirrhosis | Cirrhosis of the liver with finger-like fibrosis predominantly around portal tracts, seen in schistosomiasis. Leads to portal hypertension but rarely to functional failure of the liver. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipe-smoker's cancer | Squamous cell carcinoma of the lips occurring in pipe smokers. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipecolic acid | Dihydrobaikiaine; 2-piperidinecarboxylic acid; saturated picolinic acid;the l-isomers of the d1-and d6-dehydropipecolic acids are intermediates in the catabolism of l-lysine; pipecolic acid accumulates in disorders of the peroxisomes. Synonym: homoproline, pipecolinic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipecolinic acid | Dihydrobaikiaine; 2-piperidinecarboxylic acid; saturated picolinic acid;the l-isomers of the d1-and d6-dehydropipecolic acids are intermediates in the catabolism of l-lysine; pipecolic acid accumulates in disorders of the peroxisomes. Synonym: homoproline, pipecolinic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipecuronium | <chemical> 4,4'-((2 beta,3 alpha,5 alpha,16 beta,17 beta)-(3,17-bis(acetyloxy)androstane-2,16-diyl)bis(1,1-dimethylpiperazinium). A non-depolarising neuromuscular blocking agent used during halothane anaesthesia and obstetric and gynecologic surgery. Pharmacological action: neuromuscular nondepolarising agents, nicotinic antagonists. Chemical name: Piperazinium, 4,4'-((2beta,3alpha,5alpha,16beta,17beta)-3,17-bis(acetyloxy)androstane-2,16-diyl)bis(1,1-dimethyl- (12 Dec 1998) |