| paediatry | A rarely used term for paediatrics (05 Mar 2000) |
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| paedobaptism | The baptism of infants or of small children. Alternative forms: paedobaptism. Origin: Gr, a child + E. Baptism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paedogenesis | <zoology> Reproduction by young or larval animals. Origin: Gr, child + E. Genesis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paedogenetic | <zoology> Producing young while in the immature or larval state; said of certain insects, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paeon | A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable. Alternative forms:, less correctly, paean. Origin: L. Paeon, Gr. A solemn song, also, a paeon, equiv. To . See Paean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paeonine | <chemistry> An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, Synonym: red coralline. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paeony | <botany> See Peony. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| PaeR7I invertase | <enzyme> A DNA-invertase-like enzyme from pseudomonas; has 45-49% amino acid sequence similarity to various DNA invertases; mw 21.5 kD; amino acid sequence given in first source Registry number: EC 2.7.7.- Synonym: paer7in gene product, paer7in (26 Jun 1999) |
| PAF | <abbreviation> Platelet-aggregating factor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| page | 1. One side of a leaf of a book or manuscript. "Such was the book from whose pages she sang." (Longfellow) 2. A record; a writing; as, the page of history. 3. The type set up for printing a page. Origin: F, fr. L. Pagina; prob. Akin to pagere, pangere, to fasten, fix, make, the pages or leaves being fastened together. Cf. Pact, Pageant, Pagination. 1. A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislative body. "He had two pages of honor on either hand one." (Bacon) 2. A boy child. 3. A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground. 4. A track along which pallets carrying newly molded bricks are conveyed to the hack. 5. <zoology> Any one of several species of beautiful South American moths of the genus Urania. Origin: F, fr. It. Paggio, LL. Pagius, fr. Gr, dim. Of, a boy, servant; perh. Akin to L. Puer. Cf. Pedagogue, Puerile. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| page kidney | <radiology> Renal compression most likely to be hypertension, mediated by renin-angiotensin system, aetiology: haematoma (posttraumatic) -- most common, cyst, tumour, on angio: stretching and splaying of intrarenal vessels (12 Dec 1998) |
| pageant | 1. A theatrical exhibition; a spectacle. "A pageant truly played." "To see sad pageants of men's miseries." (Spenser) 2. An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display. "The gaze of fools, and pageant of a day !" (Pope) "We love the man, the paltry pageant you." (Cowper) Origin: OE. Pagent, pagen, originally, a movable scaffold or stage, hence, what was exhibited on it, fr. LL. Pagina, akin to pangere to fasten; cf. L. Pagina page, leaf, slab, compaginare to join together, compages a joining together, structure. See Pact, Page of a book. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Pagenstecher's circle | In the case of a freely movable abdominal tumour, the mass is moved throughout its entire range, its position at intervals being marked on the abdominal wall; when these points are joined, a circle is formed, the centre of which marks the point of attachment of the tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pagenstecher, Alexander | <person> German ophthalmologist, 1828-1879. See: Pagenstecher's circle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paget disease | <radiology> Disease of unknown aetiology involving destruction and reparation, age greater than 40y; M:F 2:1, skull, osteoporosis circumscripta (outer table destroyed only), cotton wool appearance, increased hat size!, spine, monostotic vertebral involvment usually, pelvis, affected in 2/3 cases, consists of cortical thickening, enlargement of pubis/ischium, coarse trabecular pattern, extremities, blade of grass appearance, elevation of alk phos (up to 20X), normal calcium, normal phosphorus, complications: path fractures in 8% cases (usually femur = shepard's crook), malignant degeneration (usually osteosarcoma-50%, fibrosarcoma-25%) (12 Dec 1998) |