| paragnathous | <ornithology> Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| paragnathus | Origin: NL. See Para-, and Gnathic. <zoology> One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea. One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragnomen | An unexpected reaction. Origin: para-+ G. Gnomen, gnome, judgment (05 Mar 2000) |
| paragoge | 1. The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without. 2. <medicine> Coaptation. Origin: L, fr. Gr, from to lead beside, protract; beside + to lead. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragonimiasis | Infection with trematodes of the genus paragonimus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paragonimus | A genus of lung flukes of the family troglotrematidae. This genus consists of several species one of which is p. Westermani, a common lung fluke in man. Members of this and other species also occur in other mammals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Paragonimus ringeri | The bronchial or lung fluke; a species that causes paragonimiasis, found chiefly in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, the Philippines, and Thailand; eggs are coughed up in sputum or swallowed and passed in the faeces; miracidia invade Melania snails, and produce large numbers of stumpy-tailed cercariae that leave the snail and crawl into muscles and viscera of crayfish or crabs and encyst; in humans the excysted worms invade the wall of the gut and migrate through the diaphragm into the lungs; the developing parasites cause an intense inflammatory reaction and eventually induce fibrous-walled nodules that usually contain a pair of adult worms, along with exudate, eggs, and remains of red blood cells; the fibroparasitic nodules may become contiguous and form multiloculated cystlike structures; in some instances, the flukes involve the brain, liver, peritoneum, intestine, or skin. Synonym: Paragonimus ringeri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Paragonimus westermani | The bronchial or lung fluke; a species that causes paragonimiasis, found chiefly in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, the Philippines, and Thailand; eggs are coughed up in sputum or swallowed and passed in the faeces; miracidia invade Melania snails, and produce large numbers of stumpy-tailed cercariae that leave the snail and crawl into muscles and viscera of crayfish or crabs and encyst; in humans the excysted worms invade the wall of the gut and migrate through the diaphragm into the lungs; the developing parasites cause an intense inflammatory reaction and eventually induce fibrous-walled nodules that usually contain a pair of adult worms, along with exudate, eggs, and remains of red blood cells; the fibroparasitic nodules may become contiguous and form multiloculated cystlike structures; in some instances, the flukes involve the brain, liver, peritoneum, intestine, or skin. Synonym: Paragonimus ringeri. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paragonite | <chemical> A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing soda instead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist of the Alps. Origin: From Gr, p. Pr. Of to mislead. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragonorrhoeal | Indirectly related to or consequent to gonorrhoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paragram | A pun. "Puns, which he calls paragrams." (Addison) Origin: Gr. That which one writes beside. See Paragraph. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragrammatism | A form of aphasia in which a person has lost the ability to speak correctly, substituting one word for another, and jumbling words and sentences unintelligibly. Synonym: jargon, paragrammatism, paraphrasia, pseudoagrammatism. Origin: para-+ G. Phasis, speech Thematic paraphasia, incoherent speech that wanders from the theme or subject under discussion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paragraph | 1. Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. G, a change of subject; now, the character, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections. This character is merely a modification of a capital P (the initial of the word paragraph), the letter being reversed, and the black part made white and the white part black for the sake of distinctiveness. 2. A distinct part of a discourse or writing; any section or subdivision of a writing or chapter which relates to a particular point, whether consisting of one or many sentences. The division is sometimes noted by the mark, but usually, by beginning the first sentence of the paragraph on a new line and at more than the usual distance from the margin. 3. A brief composition complete in one typographical section or paragraph; an item, remark, or quotation comprised in a few lines forming one paragraph; as, a column of news paragraphs; an editorial paragraph. Origin: F. Paragraphe, LL. Paragraphus, fr. Gr. (sc) a line or stroke drawn in the margin, fr. To write beside; beside + to write. See Para-, and Graphic, and cf. Paraph. 1. To divide into paragraphs; to mark with the character <para/. 2. To express in the compass of a paragraph; as, to paragraph an article. 3. To mention in a paragraph or paragraphs Origin: Paragraphed; Paragraphing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragrapher | A writer of paragraphs; a paragraphist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragraphia | 1. Loss of the power of writing from dictation, although the words are heard and comprehended. 2. Writing one word when another is intended. Origin: para-+ G. Grapho, to write (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Deviation, Sex, Deviations, Sex, Paraphilia, Sex Deviation
Synonyms : Paraphimoses
Synonyms : Paralysis, Legs, Paralysis, Lower Limbs, Paraplegia, Ataxic, Paraplegia, Cerebral, Paraplegia, Flaccid, Paraplegia, Spinal, Ataxic Paraplegia, Ataxic Paraplegias, Cerebral Paraplegia, Cerebral Paraplegias, Flaccid Paraplegia, Flaccid Paraplegias, Paraplegias
Synonyms : Parapoxviruses
Synonyms : Monoclonal Gammapathies, Paraimmunoglobulinemia, Paraproteinemia
| paraplegic |
a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down) suffering complete paralysis of the lower half of the body usually resulting from damage to the spinal cord
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| paraprofessional |
a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional
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parity: (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children" 100 para equal 1 dinar in Yugoslavia paratrooper: a soldier in the paratroops an estuary in northern Brazil into which the Tocantins River flows Belem: port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
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| Paracelsus |
Swiss physician who introduced treatments of particular illnesses based on his observation and experience; he saw illness as having an external cause (rather than an imbalance of humors) and replaced traditional remedies with chemical remedies (1493-1541)
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| parapsychology |
psychic phenomena: phenomena that appear to contradict physical laws and suggest the possibility of causation by mental processes
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| para | the capital and largest city and major port of Surinam |
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| para | any member of the genus Paramecium |
| para | any member of the genus Paramecium |
| para | a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment |
| para | a person trained to assist medical professionals and to give emergency medical treatment |
| para | of or denoting a person who supplements physicians and nurses in their activities |
| para | a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves |
| para | a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data |
| para | any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance |
| para | of or relating to or in terms of a parameter |
| para | a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves |
| para | any statistic computed by procedures that assume the data were drawn from a particular distribution |