| pedologist | A specialist in pedology. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pedology | A rarely used term for the branch of biology and of sociology concerned with the child in his physical, mental, and social development. Synonym: paidology. Origin: G. Pais (paid-), child, + logos, study (05 Mar 2000) |
| pedomancy | Divination by examining the soles of the feet. Origin: Pedi- + -mancy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pedometer | <apparatus> An instrument for including the number of steps in walking, and so ascertaining the distance passed over. It is usually in the form of a watch; an oscillating weight by the motion of the body causes the index to advance a certain distance at each step. Origin: Pedi-, pedo-: cf. F. Pedometre. (24 Mar 1998) |
| pedomorphism | Description of adult behaviour in terms appropriate to child behaviour. Origin: G. Pais (paid), child, + morphe, form (05 Mar 2000) |
| pedophilia | Sexual fondness and activity of adults with children.pedophilia is a form of paraphilia (deviant sexual behaviour). (12 Dec 1998) |
| pedophilic | Relating to or exhibiting pedophilia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peduncle | <botany> The stalk of an inflorescence, in ferns, the stalk of a sporocarp. (09 Oct 1997) |
| peduncle of corpus callosum | A slender vertical whitish band immediately anterior to the lamina terminalis and anterior commissure; contrary to its name, it is not a cortical convolution but is the ventral continuation of the transparent septum. Synonym: area subcallosa, gyrus paraterminalis, gyrus subcallosus, pedunculus corporis callosi, corpus paraterminale, paraterminal body, paraterminal gyrus, peduncle of corpus callosum, precommissural septal area, subcallosal area, Zuckerkandl's convolution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peduncle of flocculus | The bundle of afferent and efferent nerve fibres connecting the flocculus and the nodule of the cerebellum; part of its course is in the inferior medullary velum. Synonym: pedunculus flocculi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peduncle of mamillary body | A fascicle of nerve fibres passing to the mamillary body along the ventral surface of the midbrain; it consists of fibres that originate from the dorsal and ventral tegmental nuclei. Synonym: pedunculus corporis mamillaris, fasciculus pedunculomamillaris, pedunculomamillary fasciculus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peduncular | Relating to a pedicle or peduncle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peduncular ansa | A complex fibre bundle curving around the medial edge of the internal capsule and connecting the anterior part of the temporal lobe (temporal cortex), amygdala, and olfactory cortex with the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus; it enters the thalamus as a component of the inferior thalamic peduncle which also contains a major part of the fibres connecting the mediodorsal nucleus to the orbitofrontal cortex. Synonym: peduncular ansa, peduncular loop, Reil's ansa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peduncular loop | A complex fibre bundle curving around the medial edge of the internal capsule and connecting the anterior part of the temporal lobe (temporal cortex), amygdala, and olfactory cortex with the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus; it enters the thalamus as a component of the inferior thalamic peduncle which also contains a major part of the fibres connecting the mediodorsal nucleus to the orbitofrontal cortex. Synonym: peduncular ansa, peduncular loop, Reil's ansa. (05 Mar 2000) |
| peduncular veins | Small tributaries of the basal vein from the cerebral peduncle. Synonym: peduncular veins. (05 Mar 2000) |