| provisional prosthesis | An interim dental prosthesis worn for varying periods of time. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| provisionally | By way of provision for the time being; temporarily. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| provisionary | Of the nature of a provision; serving as a provision for the time being; used of partial or temporary arrangements; as, a provisional government; a provisional treaty. Origin: Cf. F. Provisionnel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| provisor | 1. One who provides; a purveyor. "The chief provisor of our horse." 2. The purveyor, steward, or treasurer of a religious house. One who is regularly inducted into a benefice. See Provision. 3. One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision. Origin: L, fr. Providere: cf. F. Proviseur. See Provide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| provisory | 1. Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause. 2. Making temporary provision; provisional. Origin: Cf. F. Provisoire. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| provitamin | A chemical that becomes a vitaminvia a natural reaction within anorganism, such as when 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin becomes vitamin Dwhen its exposed to sunlight. (09 Oct 1997) |
| provitamin A | Trivial name for carotenoids exhibiting qualitatively the biological activity of beta-carotene, i.e., vitamin A precursors (alpha-, beta-, and gamma-carotene and cryptoxanthin); contained in fish liver oils, spinach, carrots, egg yolk, milk products, and other green leaf or yellow vegetables and fruits. (05 Mar 2000) |
| provitamin D2 | Any substance that can give rise to ergocalciferol (vitamin D2); e.g., ergosterol. (05 Mar 2000) |
| provitamin D3 | Cholesta-5,7-dien-3b-ol;a zoosterol in skin and other animal tissues that upon activation by ultraviolet light becomes antirachitic and is then referred to as cholecalciferol (vitamin D3). Synonym: provitamin D3. (05 Mar 2000) |
| provocation | 1. The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger. 2. That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation. 3. Incitement; stimulus; as, provocation to mirth. 4. Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress. 5. An appeal to a court. Origin: A Latinism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| provocation typhoid | An accelerated onset of typhoid fever, sometimes of unusual severity, resulting from typhoid-paratyphoid A and B (T.A.B.) vaccination late in the incubation period. Walking typhoid, typhoid fever without much prostration, the patient being up and around and sometimes working. Synonym: ambulatory typhoid, latent typhoid. (05 Mar 2000) |
| provocative test | Any procedure in which a suspected pathophysiological abnormality is deliberately induced by manipulating conditions known to provoke the abnormality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| provocative Wassermann test | An obsolete test of historical interest only; the use of the Wassermann test from one or two days to one or two weeks after the administration of arsphenamine or neoarsphenamine; the result may then be positive when before the giving of arsphenamine it was negative. (05 Mar 2000) |
| provost | 1. A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other cities; the provost of a college, answering to president; the provost or head of certain collegiate churches. 2. The keeper of a prison. In France, formerly, a provost was an inferior judge who had cognizance of civil causes. The grand provost of France, or of the household, had jurisdiction in the king's house, and over its officers. Provost marshal . <astronomy> An officer who has charge of prisoners on trial by court-martial, serves notices to witnesses, etc. Origin: OF. Provost (L. Prae and pro being confused), F. Prevot, fr. L. Praepositus placed before, a chief, fr. Praeponere to place before: cf. AS. Prafost, profast. See Preposition, and cf. Propound. (01 Mar 1998) |