| primary deviation | The ocular deviation seen in paralysis of an ocular muscle when the nonparalysed eye is used for fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| primary digestion | Digestion in the alimentary tract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary disease | A disease that arises spontaneously and is not associated with or caused by a previous disease, injury, or event, but which may lead to a secondary disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary dried yeast | A source of dried yeast; obtained from suitable strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown in media other than those required for the production of beer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary drives | Those drives such as hunger and thirst which stem from the biological needs of an organism. Synonym: primary drives. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary dysmenorrhoea | <gynaecology> Painful menses due to a functional disturbance and not due to organic factors such as growths, inflammation or anatomy. (06 Mar 1998) |
| primary egg membrane | See: egg membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary embryonic cell | In a very young embryo, a cell still capable of differentiation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary energy | <radiobiology> Energy before conversion. For instance, the United States uses about 30,000 megajoules of electricity per capita per year, but electricity is generally obtained by converting other forms of energy (primarily chemical/heat) at an efficiency of around 30%, so the U.S. Consumes 90,000 megajoules of primary energy per capita for electrical use. (Total U.S. Primary energy consumption is 300,000 megajoules per capita.) (09 Oct 1997) |
| primary erythroblastic anaemia | The dire disease also known as beta thalassaemia. The clinical picture of this form of anaemia was first described in 1925 by the paediatrician thomas benton cooley. Other names for the disease are cooley's anaemia and mediterranean anaemia. The term thalassaemia was coined by the nobel prise winning pathologist george whipple and the professor of paediatrics william bradford at u. Of rochester because thalassa in greek means the sea (like the mediterrranean sea) + -aemia means in the blood so thalassaemia means sea in the blood. Thalassaemia is not just one disease. It is a complex contingent of genetic (inherited) disorders all of which involve underproduction of haemoglobin, the indispensable molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen. The globin part of normal adult haemoglobin is made up of 2 alpha and 2 beta polypeptide chains. In beta thalassaemia, there is a mutation (change) in both beta globin chains leading to underproduction (or absence) of beta chains, underproduction of haemoglobin, and profound anaemia. The gene for beta thalassaemia is relatively frequent in people of mediterranean origin (for example, from italy and greece). Children with this disease inherit one gene for it from each parent (and so are said to be homozygous for beta thalassaemia). The parents are carriers (heterozygotes) with just one thalassaemia gene, are said to have thalassaemia minor, and are essentially normal. Their children affected with beta thalassaemia seem entirely normal at birth (because at birth we still have predominantly foetal haemoglobin which does not contain beta chains) but the anaemia emerges in the first few months of life and becomes progressively more severe leading to pallor and easy fatiguability, failure to thrive (grow), bouts of fever (due to infections) and diarrhoea. Treatment based on blood transfusions is helpful but not curative. Gene therapy will, it is hoped, be applicable to this disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| primary extrapulmonary coccidioidomycosis | A rare form of coccidioidomycosis presenting near the site of local trauma with painless firm nodules occurring at one to two weeks, accompanied by regional adenopathy, with spontaneous healing in a few weeks. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary fissure of cerebellum | The deepest fissure of the cerebellum; demarcates the division of anterior and posterior lobes of the cerebellum; second to appear embryologically. Synonym: fissura prima cerebelli. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary gain | Interpersonal, social, or financial advantages from the conversion of emotional stress directly into demonstrably organic illnesses (e.g., hysterical blindness or paralysis). Compare: secondary gain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary generalised epilepsy | Epilepsy without evidence of focal or multifocal central nervous system disease. Seizures are generalised from onset, both by EEG and clinical criteria. Often a pure genetic form of epilepsy. See: generalised tonic-clonic seizure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| primary gout | Acute episodes of crystal-induced synovitis due to abnormality of purine metabolism; lower than normal urinary excretion of urate leading to hyperuricaemia and acute episodes of joint inflammation. Synonym: primary gout. Interval gout, an asymptomatic phase between acute attacks of gout. Latent gout, hyperuricaemia without symptoms of gout. Often used synonymously with interval gout. Synonym: masked gout. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Primates |
an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
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premier(a): first in rank or degree; "an architect of premier rank"; "the prime minister" a number that has no factor but itself and 1 prime(a): used of the first or originating agent; "prime mover" flower: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing; "prime a cannon"; "prime a mine" choice: of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" cover with a primer; apply a primer to of or relating to or being an integer that cannot be factored into other integers; "prime number" the second canonical hour; about 6 a.m. fill with priming liquid; "prime a car engine" the time of maturity when power and vigor are greatest being at the best stage of development; "our manhood's prime vigor"- Robert Browning
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an introductory textbook fuse: any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant flat coat: the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface
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| primigravida |
(obstetrics) a woman who is pregnant for the first time
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| primipara |
(obstetrics) woman who has been delivered of a child for the first time
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| PRIM | a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen |
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| PRIM | one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing |
| PRIM | health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system |
| PRIM | one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing |
| PRIM | a school for young children |
| PRIM | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
| PRIM | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
| PRIM | a homogeneous solid that can exist over a range of component chemicals |
| PRIM | the first stage |
| PRIM | one of the first temporary teeth of a young mammal (one of 20 in children) |
| PRIM | coil forming the part of an electrical circuit such that changing current in it induces a current in a neighboring circuit |
| PRIM | any placental mammal of the order Primates |