| planithorax | A diagram of the chest showing the front and back in plane projection, after the manner of Mercator's projection of the earth's surface. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| plank | 1. To cover or lay with planks; as, to plank a floor or a ship. "Planked with pine." 2. To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash; as, to plank money in a wager. 3. To harden, as hat bodies, by felting. 4. To splice together the ends of slivers of wool, for subsequent drawing. Planked shad, shad split open, fastened to a plank, and roasted before a wood fire. Origin: Planked; Planking. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planking | 1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plankter | Any type of plankton. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plankton | <marine biology> Small (often microscopic) plants and animals floating, drifting or weakly swimming in bodies of fresh or salt water. (31 Dec 1997) |
| planktonic | Relating to plankton;plankton-like. (05 Mar 2000) |
| planning | In cancer care, this consists of individualising the patients treatment plan by the study of published literature, consultation with specialist colleagues, calculation of dosages and schedules and designing the protocol. (16 Dec 1997) |
| planning techniques | Procedures, strategies, and theories of planning. (12 Dec 1998) |
| plano | <microscopy> In optics, an optical surface which has been made substantially flat, the degree of flatness depending upon the performance required. A plano-convex lens is a positive lens with one surface flat and the other convex. In the dictionary, plano is given only as a combining form, but in practical optics it is often used alone to denote any particularly flat surface-- that has been worked flat. See: optical flat. Origin: L. Planus. (04 Mar 1998) |
| planoblast | <zoology> Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa. Origin: Gr. To wander. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| planocellular | Relating to or composed of flat cells. Origin: L. Planus, flat, + cellular (05 Mar 2000) |
| planoconcave | <optics> Flat on one side and concave on the other, usually denoting a lens of that shape. Source: Websters Dictionary (21 Jun 2000) |
| planoconvex | <optics> Flat on one side and convex on the other, usually denoting a lens of that shape. (21 Jun 2000) |
| planography | <procedure, radiology> The recording of internal body images at a predetermined plane by means of the tomograph, also called body section roentgenography. Origin: Gr. Graphein = to write (18 Nov 1997) |
| planomania | <psychiatry> The morbid impulse to leave home and discard social restraints. Origin: G. Planos, wandering, + mania, frenzy (05 Mar 2000) |