| paratrooper fracture |
fracture of the posterior articular margin of the tibia and/or of the internal or external malleolus.
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| paravaginal incision |
incision of the vagina and perineum in order to secure enlargement of the vulvovaginal outlet, and thereby permit easy access to the vagina in cancer operations and, rarely, to facilitate childbirth; called also Schuchardt's i. and vaginoperineotomy.
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| parabasal body |
a cytoplasmic body of varying appearance, structure, and function closely associated with the nucleus, kinetoplast, and basal body in certain parasitic flagellate protozoa; it is usually connected to the basal body by a fibril or thread, which together are known as the parabasal apparatus. More than one such structure may be present in each organism. Some authorities consider the parabasal body to be the Golgi complex of these cells.
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| paradoxical |
dorsiflexion of the great toe or of all the toes when the deep muscles of the calf are pressed upon, seen in cases of pyramidal tract disease; called also Gordon's r.
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| paradoxical |
A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that seems to lead to a contradiction or to a situation that defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction; or the puzzling result is not really a contradiction; or the premises themselves are not all really true (or, cannot all be true together). ...
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