| punch | To perforate or stamp with an instrument by pressure, or a blow; as, to punch a hole; to punch ticket. Punching machine, or Punching press, a machine tool for punching holes in metal or other material; called also punch press. Origin: From Punch, a tool; cf. F. Poinconner. A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch made with spirit, milk, sugar, spice, etc. Punch bowl, a large bowl in which punch is made, or from which it is served. Roman punch, a punch frozen and served as an ice. Origin: Hind. Panch five, Skr. Pacan. So called because composed of five ingredients, viz, sugar, arrack, spice, water, and lemon juice. See Five. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| punch biopsy | A punch is an instrument for cutting and removing a disk of tissue. A punch biopsy of the skin may for example be done to make the diagnosis of a malignancy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| punch card | A card on which data are stored by means of holes made in specified positions so that data can be sorted, processed, and analyzed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| punch grafts | Small full-thickness graft's of the scalp, removed with a circular punch and transplanted to a bald area to grow hair. (05 Mar 2000) |
| punchdrunk | See: punchdrunk syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| punchdrunk syndrome | <syndrome> A condition seen in boxers, often years after their retirement, and presumably caused by repeated cerebral injury, characterised by weakness in the lower limbs, unsteadiness of gait, slowness of muscular movements, tremors of hands, dysarthria, and slow cerebration. (05 Mar 2000) |