| painful point | See: Valleix's points. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| painful | 1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing 2. Requiring labour or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march. 3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. "A very painful person, and a great clerk." (Jer. Taylor) "Nor must the painful husbandman be tired." (Dryden) Synonym: Disquieting, troublesome, afflictive, distressing, grievous, laborious, toilsome, difficult, arduous. Pain"fully, Pain"fulness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| painful anaesthesia | Severe spontaneous pain occurring in an anaesthetic area. Synonym: painful anaesthesia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful-bruising syndrome | <syndrome> An intense inflammatory reaction to slight extravasation of blood, due to an allergic sensitivity to red blood cells; more commonly seen in adult women. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful haematuria | Haematuria associated with dysuria, usually indicating the coexistence of infection, trauma, calculi, or foreign bodies within the lower urinary tract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful paraplegia | Paralysis of the lower extremities in which the affected parts, in spite of loss of motion and sensation, are the seat of excruciating pain; occurs in certain cases of cancer of the spinal cord. Synonym: painful paraplegia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| painful toe | A condition, usually associated with flatfoot, in which walking causes severe pain in the metatarsophalangeal joint of the great toe. Synonym: painful toe. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alveolar point | The most anterior point on the maxillary alveolar process in the midline. Synonym: alveolar point, prostheon. Origin: G. Ntr. Of prosthios, foremost (05 Mar 2000) |
| anterior focal point | The point where parallel rays from the retina are focused. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apophysial point | The centre of the root of the anterior nasal spine. Synonym: apophysary point, apophysial point, spinal point. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arrow point tracing | A tracing of mandibular movements made by means of a device attached to the opposing arches; its shape resembles that of an arrowhead or a Gothic arch, and when the instrument's marking point is at the apex of the arch, the jaws are considered to be in centric relation. Synonym: arrow point tracing, Gothic arch tracing, Gothic arch, stylus tracing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| auricular point | A craniometric point at the centre of the opening of the external acoustic meatus; or, in certain cases, the middle of the upper edge of this opening. Synonym: auricular point. Origin: L. Auricularis, pertaining to the ear (05 Mar 2000) |
| axial point | One of two point's in a compound optical system so related that a ray directed toward the first point will appear to have passed through the second point parallel to its original direction. Synonym: axial point. (05 Mar 2000) |
| boiling point | This is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of a given liquid reaches atmospheric pressure (and thus starts to boil). (09 Oct 1997) |
| boiling point elevation | This is the phenomenon of increasing the temperature at which a liquid boils by dissolving another substance in the liquid (for example: you can raise the temperature at which water boils by adding salt to it). (09 Oct 1997) |
| Cannon's point | The location in the mid-transverse colon at which innervation by superior and inferior mesenteric plexuses overlap at the junction of the primitive midgut and hindgut, frequently resulting in narrowing evident on barium enema. See: Cannon's ring. Synonym: Cannon's ring. (05 Mar 2000) |