| paragraphic | Pertaining to, or consisting of, a paragraph or paragraphs. Paragraph"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| paragraphical | Pertaining to, or consisting of, a paragraph or paragraphs. Paragraph"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragraphist | A paragrapher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragraphistical | Of or relating to a paragraphist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paragrele | A lightning conductor erected, as in a vineyard, for drawing off the electricity in the atmosphere in order to prevent hailstorms. Origin: F, fr. Parer to guard + grele hail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paraguay tea | See Mate, the leaf of the Brazilian holly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| parahemophilia | An obsolete term for Owren's disease (05 Mar 2000) |
| parahepatic | Adjacent to the liver. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parahiatal hernia | A hernia through the diaphragm that occurs at a point separate from the oesophageal hiatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parahidrosis | Any derangement of perspiration. Synonym: parahidrosis. Origin: para-+ G. Hidrosis, sweating (05 Mar 2000) |
| parahippocampal gyrus | A long convolution on the medial surface of the temporal lobe, forming the lower part of the fornicate gyrus, extending from behind the splenium corporis callosi forward along the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus from which it is demarcated by the hippocampal fissure. The anterior extreme of the gyrus curves back upon itself, forming the uncus, the major location of the olfactory cortex. See: entorhinal area. Synonym: gyrus parahippocampalis, hippocampal convolution, hippocampal gyrus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parahormone | A substance, product of ordinary metabolism, not produced for a specific purpose, that acts like a hormone in modifying the activity of some distant organ; e.g., the action of carbon dioxide on the control of breathing. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parahypnosis | Disordered sleep, such as caused by nightmare or somnambulism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parahypophysis | A small mass of pituitary tissue, or tissue resembling in structure the anterior lobe of the hypophysis, occasionally found in the dura mater lining of the sella turcica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| parainfluenza virus | <virology> Species of the Paramyxoviridae, there are four types. Type 1 is also called Sendai virus or Haemagglutinating virus of Japan (HVJ) and the inactivated form is used to bring about cell fusion. Types 2-4 cause mild respiratory infections in humans. (18 Nov 1997) |