| PICC | Peripherally inserted central catheters |
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| PICP | type I collagen |
| PICSO | Pressure Controlled Intermittent Coronary Sinus Occlusion |
| PICU | Paediatric Intensive Care Unit |
| PICU | Pediatric ICU |
| pichurim bean | <botany> The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, sometimes used medicinally. Synonym: sassafras nut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| pici | <ornithology> A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wry necks. Origin: NL, fr. L. Picus a woodpecker. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| picibanil | <chemical> A lyophilised preparation of a low-virulence strain (su) of streptococcus pyogenes (s. Haemolyticus), inactivated by heating with penicillin G. It has been proposed as a noncytotoxic antineoplastic agent because of its immune system-stimulating activity. Pharmacological action: antineoplastic agent. Chemical name: Picibanil (12 Dec 1998) |
| piciform | <zoology> Of or pertaining to Piciformes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| piciformes | <ornithology> A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups. Origin: NL. See Picus, and -Form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| picine | <zoology> Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pick | 1. To throw; to pitch. "As high as I could pick my lance." (Shak) 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin. 3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. 4. To open (a lock) as by a wire. 5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc. 6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. "Did you pick Master Slender's purse?" (Shak) "He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet." (Cowper) 7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; often with out. "One man picked out of ten thousand." 8. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information. 9. To trim. To pick at, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. To pick a bone with. See Bone. To pick a thank, to curry favor. To pick off. To pluck; to remove by picking. To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. To pick out. To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colours. To select from a number or quantity. To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence, to analyze; especially, to criticize in detail. To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. To pick up. To take up, as with the fingers. To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news. Origin: OE. Picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to Icel. Pikka, Sw. Picka, Dan. Pikke, D. Pikken, G. Picken, F. Piquer, W. Pigo. Cf. Peck, Pike, Pitch to throw. 1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. 2. <chemical> A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones. 3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. "Take down my buckler . . . And grind the pick on 't." 4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick. "France and Russia have the pick of our stables." (Ld. Lytton) 5. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock. 6. A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. 7. That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. 8. The blow which drives the shuttle, the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. Pick dressing, in cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depressions. Pick hammer, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt, used by miners. Origin: F. Pic a pickax, a pick. See Pick, and cf. Pike. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pick bodies | A histologic finding in Niemann-Pick disease. Large rounded collections of material (sphingomyelin) are seen within mononuclear cells. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Pick cell | A relatively large, rounded or polygonal, mononuclear cell, with indistinctly or palely staining, foamlike cytoplasm that contains numerous droplets of a phosphatide, sphingomyelin; such cell's are widely distributed in the spleen and other tissues, especially those rich in reticuloendothelial components, in patients with Niemann-Pick disease. Synonym: Niemann-Pick cell. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pick's atrophy | Circumscribed atrophy of the cerebral cortex. Synonym: lobar sclerosis, progressive circumscribed cerebral atrophy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pick's bodies | Intracytoplasmic argentophilic inclusion body's seen in neurons in Pick's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pick's bundle | A bundle of nerve fibres recurving rostralward from the pyramidal tract in the medulla oblongata, and believed to consist of corticonuclear fibres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pick's disease | A form of dementia characterised by a slowly progressive deterioration of social skills and changes in personality leading to impairment of intellect, memory, and language. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Pick's syndrome | A form of dementia characterised by a slowly progressive deterioration of social skills and changes in personality leading to impairment of intellect, memory, and language. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Pick's tubular adenoma | A neoplasm of the ovary, arising from the ovarian stroma, mimicking to a greater or lesser extent derivatives of the sex cord mesenchyme of the testis, and sometimes causing defeminization and virilization. (12 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms : Brain Atrophy, Circumscribed Lobar, Pick Disease, Pick's Disease, Picks Disease of Brain, Atrophies, Lobar (Brain), Atrophy, Lobar (Brain), Disease, Pick, Disease, Pick's, Lobar Atrophies (Brain), Picks Disease
Synonyms : Chloramp
Synonyms : Picotrinavirus, Picobirnaviruses, Picotrinaviruses
Synonyms : Picoline
Synonyms : Acids, Picolinic
| pick |
select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully" look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" blame: harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother" choice: the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor" provoke; "pick a fight or a quarrel" picking: the quantity of a crop that is harvested; "he sent the first picking of berries to the market"; "it was the biggest peach pick in years" remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone" cream: the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War" clean: remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey" woof: the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving pilfer or rob; "pick pockets" foot: pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill" a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument pluck: pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin" a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material; "he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks" a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks" attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice" peck: hit lightly with a picking motion a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; "he was called for setting an illegal pick" nibble: eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles" choice: the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"
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| picometer |
a metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter
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| Pick's disease |
a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia
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| Pichinde virus |
a virus of the Tacaribe complex infecting rodents in Colombia, and isolated from human subclinical infections.
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| Pick bodies |
filamentous intracytoplasmic inclusions seen in neurons in Pick's disease (def. 1).
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| PIC | a region of northern France on the English Channel |
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| PIC | involving clever rogues or adventurers especially as in a type of fiction |
| PIC | term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes |
| PIC | prolific and influential Spanish artist who lived in France (1881-1973) |
| PIC | (informal terms) small and of little importance |
| PIC | relish of chopped pickled cucumbers and green peppers and onion |
| PIC | (offensive) a Black child |
| PIC | a small flute |
| PIC | a genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees (see spruce) |
| PIC | tall pyramidal spruce native to northern Europe having dark green foliage on spreading branches with pendulous branchlets and long pendulous cones |
| PIC | medium-sized spruce of California and Oregon having pendulous branches |
| PIC | tall spruce of Rocky Mountains and British Columbia with blue-green needles and acutely conic crown |