| pedantical | Of or pertaining to a pedant; characteristic of, or resembling, a pedant; ostentatious of learning; as, a pedantic writer; a pedantic description; a pedantical affectation. "Figures pedantical." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pedantry | The act, character, or manners of a pedant; vain ostentation of learning. "This pedantry of quotation." "'T is a practice that savors much of pedantry." (Sir T. Browne) Origin: Cf. F. Pedanterie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedata | <zoology> An order of holothurians, including those that have ambulacral suckers, or feet, and an internal gill. Origin: NL. See Pedate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedate | Of a palmate or palmately-lobed leaf, having the lateral segments divided again. (09 Oct 1997) |
| pedatifid | Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; said of a leaf. Origin: Pedate + root of L. Findere to split. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedatrophia | Synonym: marasmus. Origin: G. Pais (paid-), child, + atrophy (05 Mar 2000) |
| pederast | One who practices pederasty. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pederasty | Homosexual anal intercourse, especially when practiced on boys. Origin: G. Paiderastia; fr. Pais (paid-), boy, + erao, to long for (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pedersen's speculum | A narrow flat speculum used in vaginas with a narrow introitus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pedesis | Synonym: brownian movement. Origin: G. Pedesis, a leaping (05 Mar 2000) |
| pedestal | 1. The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp, or the like; the part on which an upright work stands. It consists of three parts, the base, the die or dado, and the cornice or surbase molding. 2. An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier. Pedestal coil, a group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator. Origin: Sp. Pedestal; cf. F. Piedestal, It. Piedestallo; fr. L. Es, pedis, foot + OHG. Stal standing place, station, place, akin to E. Stall. See Foot, and Stall, and Footstall. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pediatrician | <specialist> A medical doctor who treats children and infants. (10 Jan 1998) |
| pediatrics | Paediatrics is concerned with the health of infants, children and adolescents, their growth and development, and their opportunity to achieve full potential as adults. (r.e. Behrman in nelson's textbook of paediatrics) (12 Dec 1998) |
| pedicel | <botany> The stalk of a flower. (14 Oct 1997) |
| pedicellaria | Origin: NL. See Pedicel. <zoology> A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |