| pseudologia | Pathological lying in speech or writing. Origin: pseudo-+ G. Logos, word Pseudologia phantastica, an elaborate and often fantastic account of a patient's exploits, which are completely false but which the patient appears to believe. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pseudology | Falsehood of speech. Origin: Gr.; false + speech: cf. F. Pseudologie. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pseudolymphocyte | A small neutrophilic leukocyte with a single round nucleus, characteristic of the rare homozygous Pelger-Huet anomaly. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudolymphocytic choriomeningitis virus | A virus belonging to the family Poxviridae morphologically similar to vaccinia virus, which occurs as a latent infection in laboratory mice, but which may be activated by stresses such as irradiation and transport to cause disease; inoculation into the footpad results in oedema and necrosis. Synonym: ectromelia virus, mousepox virus, pseudolymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudolymphoma | A group of disorders having a benign course but exhibiting clinical and histological features suggestive of malignant lymphoma. Pseudolymphoma is characterised by a benign infiltration of lymphoid cells or histiocytes which microscopically resembles a malignant lymphoma. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pseudolysogenic | Pertaining to pseudolysogeny. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudolysogenic strain | A bacterial strain that is contaminated with a bacteriophage of low infectivity. Synonym: pseudolysogenic strain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudolysogeny | The condition in which a bacteriophage is maintained (carried) in a culture of a bacterial strain by infecting susceptible variants of the strain, in contradistinction to true lysogeny in which the bacteriophage genome multiplies as an integral part of the bacterial genome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudomalignancy | A benign tumour that appears, clinically or histologically, to be a malignant neoplasm. See: pseudotumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudomamma | A glandular structure resembling the mammary gland, occurring in dermoid cysts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudomania | 1. A factitious mental disorder. 2. <psychiatry> A mental disorder in which the patient alleges to have committed a crime, but of which he or she is innocent. 3. Generally, the morbid impulse to falsify or lie, as in pseudologia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudomasturbation | <psychiatry> Rarely used term for a nervous tic consisting of a constant pulling of the penis. Synonym: false masturbation, pseudomasturbation. Origin: G. Peos, penis, + tillo, to pull out (of hair), + mania, frenzy (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudomegacolon | Enlargement of the distal colon with sluggish muscular function without the neurologic abnormalities of congenital megacolon (Hirschsprung's disease). (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudomelanosis | A dark greenish or blackish postmortem discoloration of the surface of the abdominal viscera, resulting from the action of sulfureted hydrogen upon the iron of disintegrated haemoglobin. Origin: pseudo-+ G. Melas, black (05 Mar 2000) |
| pseudomembrane | <dermatology> A thick, tough fibrinous exudate on the surface of a mucous membrane or the skin, as seen in diphtheria. Synonym: croupous membrane, neomembrane, plica, pseudomembrane. (05 Mar 2000) |