| pulaski | <equipment> A heavy digging tool consisting of a handle attached to a metal head with two projecting blunt blades, one an axe, the other a hoe. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| pulchritude | 1. That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness. "Piercing our heartes with thy pulchritude." (Court of Love) 2. Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty. "By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies." (Ray) Origin: L. Pulchritudo, fr. Pulcher beautiful. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pulex | <zoology> A genus of parasitic insects including the fleas. See: Flea. Origin: L, a flea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Pulex cheopis | Former name for Xenopsylla cheopis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pulex fasciatus | Former name for Nosopsyllus fasciatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pulex irritans | The human flea, a common flea that infests humans, many domestic animals (especially swine), and wild mammals and birds; a poor vector of plague. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pulex penetrans | Incorrect name for Tunga penetrans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pulex serraticeps | Former name for Ctenocephalides canis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pulicide | A chemical agent destructive to fleas. Origin: L. Pulex (pulic-), flea, + caedo, to kill (05 Mar 2000) |
| pull | 1. To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. "Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows." (Shak) "He put forth his hand . . . And pulled her in." (Gen. Viii. 9) 2. To draw apart; to tear; to rend. "He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate." (Lam. Iii. 11) 3. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch. 4. To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar. 5. To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled. 6. To take or make, as a proof or impression; hand presses being worked by pulling a lever. 7. To strike the ball in a particular manner. "Never pull a straight fast ball to leg." (R. H. Lyttelton) To pull and haul, to draw hither and thither. " Both are equally pulled and hauled to do that which they are unable to do. " . To pull down, to demolish; to destroy; to degrade; as, to pull down a house. " In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to pull down than build up." . " To raise the wretched, and pull down the proud." . To pull a finch. To pull off, take or draw off. Origin: AS. Pullian; cf. LG. Pulen, and Gael. Peall, piol, spiol. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pullet | A young hen, or female of the domestic fowl. Pullet sperm, the treadle of an egg. Origin: OE. Polete, OF. Polete, F. Poulette, dim. Of poule a hen, fr. L. Pullus a young animal, a young fowl. See: Foal, and cf. Poult, Poultry, Pool stake. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pulley of humerus | The grooved surface at the lower end of the humerus articulating with the trochlear notch of the ulna. Synonym: trochlea humeri, pulley of humerus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pulley of talus | The rounded articular surface of the talus articulating with the distal ends of the tibia and fibula. Synonym: trochlea tali, pulley of talus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pullorum disease | An infectious disease of chicks and other young birds caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum, which is carried in the ovaries of adult hens and appears in the eggs; in incubator-hatched birds, the disease usually involves the lungs and air sacs, but often spreads in flocks of young birds as an alimentary tract infection manifested by severe diarrhoea followed by septicaemia and death. Synonym: diarrhoea alba, white diarrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pullulanase | <enzyme> Minor descriptor (73-85); on-line and index medicus search glycoside hydrolases (73-85) Registry number: EC 3.2.1.41 Synonym: limit dextrinase, amylopectin glucanohydrolase, pullulan 6-glucanohydrolase, amyb gene product, puli gene product, pula protein, pula gene product (26 Jun 1999) |