| pliability | The quality or state of being able to be bent or creased repeatedly. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| pliable | 1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be persuaded; sometimes in a bad sense; as, a pliable youth. "Pliable she promised to be." Pli"ableness, Pli"ably. Origin: F, fr. Plier to bend, to fold. See Ply. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pliant | 1. Capable of plying or bending; readily yielding to force or pressure without breaking; flexible; pliable; lithe; limber; plastic; as, a pliant thread; pliant wax. Also used figuratively: Easily influenced for good or evil; tractable; as, a pliant heart. "The will was then ductile and pliant to right reason." (South) 2. Favorable to pliancy. "A pliant hour." Pli"antly, Pli"antness. Origin: F. Pliant, p. Pr. Of plier to bend. See Ply. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plica | 1. <medicine> A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait. 2. <botany> A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches. 3. <zoology> The bend of the wing of a bird. Origin: LL, a fold, fr. L. Plicare to fold. See Ply. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plica aryepiglottica | A prominent fold of mucous membrane stretching between the lateral margin of the epiglottis and the arytenoid cartilage on either side; it encloses the aryepiglottic muscle. Synonym: plica aryepiglottica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica axillaris | One of the folds of skin and muscular tissue bounding the axilla anteriorly and posteriorly. Synonym: plica axillaris. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica caecalis vascularis | <anatomy> A peritoneal fold that arches over a branch of the ileocolic artery and bounds in front a narrow recess, the superior ileocaecal (or ileocolic) recess. Synonym: plica caecalis vascularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica chordae tympani | The fold of mucosa that surrounds the chorda tympani nerve in its course through the tympanic cavity. Synonym: plica chordae tympani. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica choroidea | In the embryo, an infolding of the chorion from which the choroid plexus develops. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica duodenalis inferior | A fold of peritoneum bounding the inferior duodenal recess. Synonym: plica duodenalis inferior, plica duodenomesocolica, duodenomesocolic fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica duodenalis superior | A fold of peritoneum bounding the superior duodenal recess. Synonym: plica duodenalis superior, plica duodenojejunalis, duodenojejunal fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica duodenojejunalis | An alternate term for superior duodenal fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica duodenomesocolica | An alternate term for inferior duodenal fold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica epigastrica | The ridge on the peritoneal surface of the anterior abdominal wall formed by the inferior epigastric vessels. Synonym: plica umbilicalis lateralis, epigastric fold, plica epigastrica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plica fimbriata | One of several folds running outward from the frenulum on the undersurface of the tongue. Synonym: fimbriated fold. (05 Mar 2000) |