| descriptive | Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. Descriptive geometry, that branch of geometry. Which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. Descrip"tively, Descrip"tiveness. Origin: L. Descriptivus: cf. F. Descriptif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| descriptive anatomy | A description of, especially a treatise describing, physical structure, more particularly that of man. Synonym: systematic anatomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| descriptive myology | The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology. Origin: Cf. F. Myographie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| descriptive psychiatry | That aspect of the practice of psychiatry that deals with the diagnosis of mental disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| descriptive statistics | Numerical values such as mean, median, and mode which describe the chief features of a group of scores, without regard to a larger population. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bibliography, descriptive | The area of bibliography which makes known precisely the material conditions of books, i.e., the full name of the author, the exact title of the work, the date and place of publication, the publisher's and printer's names, the format, the pagination, typographical particulars, illustrations, and the price, and for old books, other characteristics such as the kind of paper, binding, etc. It is also called analytical bibliography and physical bibliography. (12 Dec 1998) |
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