| pudding | 1. A species of food of a soft or moderately hard consistence, variously made, but often a compound of flour or meal, with milk and eggs, etc. "And solid pudding against empty praise." (Pope) 2. Anything resembling, or of the softness and consistency of, pudding. 3. An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. 4. Any food or victuals. "Eat your pudding, slave, and hold your tongue." (Prior) 5. Same as Puddening. <botany> Pudding grass See Conglomerate. Pudding time. The time of dinner, pudding being formerly the dish first eaten. The nick of time; critical time. "Mars, that still protects the stout, In pudding time came to his aid." (Hudibras) Origin: Cf. F. Boudin black pudding, sausage, L. Botulus, botellus, a sausage, G. & Sw. Pudding pudding, Dan. Podding, pudding, LG. Puddig thick, stumpy, W. Poten, potten, also E. Pod, pout, v. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pudding opium | Opium so diluted after importation as barely to meet the official requirements. Synonym: pudding opium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| puddle sign | <clinical sign> A sign of free abdominal fluid: the patient assumes a position on all fours; one flank is percussed by repeated light flicking of constant intensity while a Bowles-type stethoscope is placed over the most dependent portion of the abdomen and gradually moved toward the flank opposite the percussion; a sharp increase in the intensity of the sound picked up by the stethoscope indicates the level of fluid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| puddling | 1. <physics> The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc, with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material. Puddle. See: Puddle. 2. <chemistry> The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast iron is converted into wrought iron or into steel by puddling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pudenda | <anatomy> The external organs of generation. Origin: L, from pudendus that of which one ought to be ashamed, fr. Pudere to be ashamed. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pudendal | <anatomy> Of or pertaining to the pudenda, or pudendum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pudendal anaesthesia | Local anaesthesia produced by blocking the pudendal nerves near the spinal processes of the ischium; used in obstetrics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pudendal canal | The space within the obturator internis fascia lining the lateral wall of the ischiorectal fossa that transmits the pudendal vessels and nerves. Synonym: canalis pudendalis, Alcock's canal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pudendal cleavage | The cleft between the labia majora. Synonym: rima pudendi, fissura pudendi, pudendal cleavage, pudendal slit, rima vulvae, urogenital cleft, vulvar slit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pudendal cleft | The cleft between the labia majora. Synonym: rima pudendi, fissura pudendi, pudendal cleavage, pudendal slit, rima vulvae, urogenital cleft, vulvar slit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pudendal haematocele | Effusion of blood into the labium majus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pudendal hernia | A hernia protruding through the pelvic diaphragm. Synonym: levator hernia, pudendal hernia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pudendal nerve | <anatomy, nerve> Formed by fibres from the ventral primary rami of the second, third, and fourth sacral spinal nerves; it exits the pelvis via the greater sciatic foramen, passes posterior to the sacrospinous ligament, and accompanies the internal pudendal artery, into the perineum via the lesser sciatic foramen; it gives off inferior rectal nerves, then courses through the pudendal canal in the lateral wall of the ischiorectal fossa, terminating as the dorsal nerve of the penis or of the clitoris. Synonym: nervus pudendus, plexus pudendus nervosus, pudic nerve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pudendal sac | A pear-shaped encapsulated collection of connective tissue and fat in each labium majus. Synonym: Broca's pouch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pudendal slit | The cleft between the labia majora. Synonym: rima pudendi, fissura pudendi, pudendal cleavage, pudendal slit, rima vulvae, urogenital cleft, vulvar slit. (05 Mar 2000) |