| Pick, Arnold | <person> Czechoslovakian psychiatrist, 1851-1924. See: Pick's atrophy, Pick's bundle, Pick's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Pick, Friedel | <person> German physician, 1867-1926. See: Pick's bodies, Pick's disease, Pick's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pick, Ludwig | <person> German physician, 1868-1935. See: Pick cell, Pick's tubular adenoma, Niemann-Pick cell, Niemann-Pick disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pickaback | On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback. Alternative forms: pickapack, pickback, and pickpack] "A woman stooping to take a child pickaback." (R,Jefferies) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| picked | 1. Pointed; sharp. "Picked and polished." "Let the stake be made picked at the top." (Mortimer) 2. <zoology> Having a pike or spine on the back; said of certain fishes. 3. Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men. 4. Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty. Picked dogfish. <zoology> See Dogfish. Picked out, ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, colour; as, a carriage body dark green, picked out with red. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| picker's nodules | Lichenified skin nodules seen in prurigo nodularis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pickerel | 1. A young or small pike. "Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel." (Chaucer) 2. <zoology> Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, especially. The smaller species. The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye. The federation, or chain, pickerel (Esox reticulatus) and the brook pickerel (E. Americanus) are the most common American species. They are used for food, and are noted for their voracity. About the Great Lakes the pike is called pickerel. <botany> Pickerel weed, a blue-flowered aquatic plant (Pontederia cordata) having large arrow-shaped leaves. So called because common in slow-moving waters where pickerel are often found. Origin: Dim. Of Pike Alternative forms: pickerell. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pickering | <zoology> The sauger of the St.Lawrence River. Origin: Probably a corruption of Pickerel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| picket | 1. A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses. 2. A pointed pale, used in marking fences. 3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses. A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; called also outlying picket. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labour organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance. 5. A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake. 6. A game at cards. See Piquet. Inlying picket A position held and guarded by small bodies of men placed at intervals. A rope to which horses are secured when groomed. Picketpin, an iron pin for picketing horses. Origin: F. Piquet, properly dim. Of pique spear, pike. See Pike, and cf. Piquet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| picketee | <botany> See Picotee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| picking | 1. The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick. 2. The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering. 3. That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned. 4. Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered. 5. The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks. 6. <chemical> Rough sorting of ore. 7. Overburned bricks. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pickle | 1. A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc, may be preserved or corned; brine. Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc. 2. Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar. 3. A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc, to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc, from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their colour. 4. A troublesome child; as, a little pickle. To be in a pickle, to be in disagreeable position; to be in a condition of embarrassment, difficulty, or disorder. "How cam'st thou in this pickle?" . To put a rod in pickle, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application. Origin: Cf. D. Pekel. Probably a dim. Fr. Pick, alluding to the cleaning of the fish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pickling | In dentistry, the process of cleansing metallic surfaces of the products of oxidation and other impurities by immersion in acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pickmire | <zoology> The pewit, or black-headed gull. Origin: So called from its picking its food from the mire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pickwickian syndrome | <syndrome> The combination of obesity, somnolence, hypoventilation (underbreathing), and plethoric (red) face named after the fat and red-faced boy in a state of somnolency in charles dickens' novel the pickwick papers. (the same boy is thought by some to have had prader-willi syndrome). (12 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms : Picornaviruses
Synonyms : Infections, Picornaviridae, Infections, Picornavirus, Infection, Picornaviridae, Infection, Picornavirus, Picornaviridae Infection, Picornavirus Infection
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Synonyms : Picrorhiza kurrooa, Picrorrhiza
| picornavirus |
Picornaviruses are viruses that belong to the family Picornaviridae. The name picornavirus means small RNA virus. Picornaviruses are non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses with an icosahedral capsid. ...
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| picric acid |
Picric acid is the common term for the chemical compound 2,4,6-trinitrophenol, also known as TNP; the material is a yellow crystalline solid. Like other highly nitrated compounds (eg. trinitrotoluene), picric acid is an explosive. When picric acid is dry, it is extremely sensitive to shock and friction, so laboratories that use it store it in bottles under a layer of water, rendering it safe. ...
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| pica |
Pica is an appetite for non-foods (e.g. soil, chalk) or an abnormal appetite for some things that may be considered foods, food ingredients (e.g. flour, raw potato, starch). The condition's name comes from the Latin word for the magpie, a bird which is reputed to eat almost anything. Pica is seen in all ages, particularly in pregnant women and small children, especially among children who are developmentally disabled where it is the most common eating disorder. ...
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| Picornaviridae |
Picornaviruses are viruses that belong to the family Picornaviridae. The name picornavirus means small RNA virus. Picornaviruses are non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA viruses with an icosahedral capsid. ...
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| pictograph |
A written or painted symbol that more or less portrays the represented object. See also ideograph.
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| PIC | medium-sized spruce of northeastern North America having short blue-green leaves and slender cones |
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| PIC | small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage |
| PIC | tall spruce of northern Europe and Asia |
| PIC | evergreen tree of the Caucasus and Asia Minor used as an ornamental having pendulous branchlets |
| PIC | tall spruce with blue-green needles and dense conic crown |
| PIC | medium-sized spruce of eastern North America |
| PIC | Peruvian shrub with small pink to lavender tubular flowers |
| PIC | very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck |
| PIC | very small Argentine armadillo with pale silky hair and pink plates on head and neck |
| PIC | woodpeckers |
| PIC | any of numerous nonpasserine insectivorous climbing birds usually having strong bills for boring wood |
| PIC | woodpeckers |