| plummer's disease | Toxic multinodular goiter. Also called parry's disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Plummer, Henry | <person> U.S. Physician, 1874-1937. See: Plummer's dilator, Plummer's disease, Plummer-Vinson syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plummer-vinson syndrome | <radiology> Iron-deficiency anaemia, oesophageal webs (symptomatic), glossitis, spoon nails, middle-aged females, increased incidence of oesophageal carcinoma, see also: oesophageal webs and rings aka: Patterson-Kelly syndrome (12 Dec 1998) |
| plumming | <chemical> The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines. See: Plumb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plumose | Like a feather, with fine hairs branching from a central main stem. (09 Oct 1997) |
| plumosite | <chemical> Same as Jamesonite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plumous | 1. Having feathers or plumes. 2. Having hairs, or other parts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles. Origin: L. Plumosus, fr. Pluma feather: cf. F. Plumeux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plumula | Origin: L. See Plumule. 1. <botany> A plumule. 2. <zoology> A down feather. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plumulaceous | <zoology> Downy; bearing down. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plumular | <botany> Relating to a plumule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plumularia | <zoology> Any hydroid belonging to Plumularia and other genera of the family Plumularidae. They generally grow in plumelike forms. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plumularian | <zoology> Any Plumularia. Also used adjectively. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plumule | The portion of an embryo that gives rise to the shoot system (as distinct from the root system) of a plant. Compare: radicle. (09 Oct 1997) |
| plumy | Covered or adorned with plumes, or as with plumes; feathery. "His plumy crest." . "The plumy trees." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |