| pedicure | Care and treatment of the feet. Origin: L. Pes (ped-), foot, + cura, treatment (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pedigerous | <zoology> Bearing or having feet or legs. Origin: Pedi-. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedigree | 1. A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors. "Alterations of surnames . . . Have obscured the truth of our pedigrees." (Camden) "His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree." (Milton) "I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees." (Sir P. Sidney) "The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes." (Atterbury) 2. A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse. Origin: Of unknown origin; possibly fr. F. Par degres by degrees, for a pedigree is properly a genealogical table which records the relationship of families by degrees; or, perh, fr. F. Pied de grue crane's foot, from the shape of the heraldic genealogical trees. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedigree analysis | The formal study of the pattern of a trait in a pedigree to determine such properties as its mode of inheritance, age of onset, and variability in phenotype. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pediluvium | A foot bath. Origin: L. Pes (ped-), foot, + luo, to wash (05 Mar 2000) |
| pedimana | <zoology> A division of marsupials, including the opossums. Origin: NL, fr. L. Pes, pedis, foot + manus hand. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedimane | <zoology> A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum. Origin: Cf. F. Pedimane. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedimanous | <zoology> Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys. See: Pedimana. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pediococcus | A genus of gram-positive, facultatively anaerobic bacteria whose growth is dependent on the presence of a fermentable carbohydrate. No endospores are produced. Its organisms are found in fermenting plant products and are nonpathogenic to plants and animals, including humans. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pedioneuralgia | pedionalgia |
| pediophobia | <psychology> Morbid fear aroused by the sight of a child or of a doll. Origin: G. Paidion, a little child, + phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| pedipalp | <zoology> One of the Pedipalpi. Origin: Cf. F. Pedipalpe. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedipalpi | <zoology> A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions. Origin: NL. See Pedipalpus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedipalpous | <zoology> Pertaining to, or resembling, the pedipalps. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedipalpus | Origin: NL. See Pes, and Palpus. <zoology> One of the second pair of mouth organs of arachnids. In some they are leglike, but in others, as the scorpion, they terminate in a claw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |