| plantar venous network | A fine superficial venous network in the sole of the foot. Synonym: rete venosum plantare. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| plantar wart | A wart on the sole, often painful; usually caused by human papilloma virus type 1. Synonym: verruca plantaris. Pointed wart, obsolete term for condyloma acuminatum. Postmortem wart, a tuberculous warty growth (tuberculosis cutis verrucosa) on the hand of one who performs postmortem examinations. Synonym: anatomical tubercle, anatomical wart, dissection tubercle, necrogenic wart, postmortem tubercle, prosector's tubercle, prosector's wart, verruca necrogenica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plantaris | <anatomy, muscle> Origin, lateral supracondylar ridge; insertion, medial margin of tendo achillis and deep fascia of ankle; action, traditionally described as plantar flexion of foot; many investigators now believe the plantaris muscle to be primarily a proprioceptive organ; nerve supply, tibial nerve. Synonym: musculus plantaris, musculus tibialis gracilis, plantar muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plantation | 1. The act or practice of planting, or setting in the earth for growth. 2. The place planted; land brought under cultivation; a piece of ground planted with trees or useful plants; especially, in the United States and West Indies, a large estate appropriated to the production of the more important crops, and cultivated by laborers who live on the estate; as, a cotton plantation; a coffee plantation. 3. An original settlement in a new country; a colony. "While these plantations were forming in Connecticut." (B. Trumbull) Origin: L. Plantatio: cf. F. Plantation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planted | Fixed in place, as a projecting member wrought on a separate piece of stuff; as, a planted molding. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planter | 1. One who, or that which, plants or sows; as, a planterof corn; a machine planter. 2. One who owns or cultivates a plantation; as, a sugar planter; a coffee planter. 3. A colonist in a new or uncultivated territory; as, the first planters in Virginia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantership | The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planticle | A young plant, or plant in embryo. Origin: Dim. Of Plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantigrada | <zoology> A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantigrade | <zoology> Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. Origin: L. Planta sole of the foot + gradi to walk: cf. F. Plantigrade. <zoology> A plantigrade animal, or one that walks or steps on the sole of the foot, as man, and the bears. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planting | 1. The act or operation of setting in the ground for propagation, as seeds, trees, shrubs, etc.; the forming of plantations, as of trees; the carrying on of plantations, as of sugar, coffee, etc. 2. That which is planted; a plantation. "Trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord." (Isa. Lxi. 3) 3. The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantless | Without plants; barren of vegetation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantlet | A little plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plantocracy | Government by planters; planters, collectively. Origin: Planter + -cracy, as in democracy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plants | Multicellular, eukaryotic life forms of the kingdom plantae. They are characterised by a mainly photosynthetic mode of nutrition; essentially unlimited growth at localised regions of cell divisions (meristems); cellulose within cells providing rigidity; the absence of organs of locomotion; absense of nervous and sensory systems; and an alteration of haploid and diploid generations. (12 Dec 1998) |