| paradactylum | Origin: NL. See Para-, and Dactyl. <zoology> The side of a toe or finger. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| parade | 1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. 2. An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled. 3. Pompous show; formal display or exhibition. "Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade." (Swift) 4. That which is displayed; a show; a spectacle; an imposing procession; the movement of any body marshaled in military order; as, a parade of firemen. "In state returned the grand parade." (Swift) 5. Posture of defense; guard. "When they are not in parade, and upon their guard." (Locke) 6. A public walk; a promenade. Dress parade, Undress parade. See Dress, and Undress. Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Synonym: Ostentation, display, show. Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. "It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power." . "We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories." . Origin: F, fr. Sp. Parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. Parar to stop, to prepare. See Pare. 1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. "Parading all her sensibility." (Byron) 2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to manoeuvre or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops. Origin: Cf. F. Parader. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paradenitis | Inflammation of the tissues adjacent to a gland. Origin: para-+ G. Aden, gland, + -itis, inflammation (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradental | <dentistry> Pertaining to your gums. For example periodontal disease is gum disease. (08 Jan 1998) |
| paradentium | <anatomy> Fibrous connective tissue surrounding the root of a tooth that separates it from and attaches it to the alveolar bone. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paradidymal | 1. Relating to the paradidymis. 2. Alongside the testis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradidymis | A small body sometimes attached to the front of the lower part of the spermatic cord above the head of the epididymis; the remnants of tubules of the mesonephros. Its equivalent in the female is the paroophoron. Synonym: parepididymis. Origin: para-+ G. Didymos, twin, in pl. Didymoi, testes (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradipsia | A perverted appetite for fluids, ingested without relation to bodily need. Origin: para-+ G. Dipsa, thirst (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradise | To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. 1. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation. 2. The abode of sanctified souls after death. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." (Luke xxiii. 43) "It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise." (Longfellow) 3. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness. "The earth Shall be all paradise." (Milton) "Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision." (Beaconsfield) 4. An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc. 5. A churchyard or cemetery. Fool's paradise. See Fool, and Limbo. Grains of paradise. <botany> See Whidah. Origin: OE. & F. Paradis, L. Paradisus, fr. Gr. Paradeisos park, paradise, fr. Zend pairidaeza an inclosure; pairi around (akin to Gr) + diz to throw up, pile up; cf. Skr. Dih to smear, and E. Dough. Cf. Parvis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| paradox | That which is apparently, though not actually, inconsistent with or opposed to the known facts in any case. Origin: G. Paradoxos, incredible, beyond belief, fr. Doxa, belief Weber's paradox, if a muscle is loaded beyond its power to contract it may elongate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradoxical | Occurring at variance with the normal rule. (18 Nov 1997) |
| paradoxical contraction | A tonic contraction of the anterior tibial muscles when a sudden passive dorsal flexion of the foot is made. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradoxical diaphragm phenomenon | In pyopneumothorax, hydropneumothorax, and some cases of injury, the diaphragm on the affected side rises during inspiration and falls during expiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| paradoxical embolism | Passage of a clot (thrombus) from a vein to an artery. When clots in veins break off (embolise) , they travel first to the right side of the heart and, normally, then to the lungs where they lodge. The lungs act as a filter to prevent the clots from entering the arterial circulation. However, when there is a hole in the wall between the two upper chambers of the heart (an atrial septal defect), a clot can cross from the right to the left side of the heart, then pass into the arteries as a paradoxical embolism. Once in the arterial circulation, a clot can travel to the brain, block a vessel there, and cause a stroke (cerebrovascular accident). Because of the risk of stroke from paradoxical embolism, it is usually recommended that even small atrial septal defects be repaired. Also called crossed embolism. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paradoxical extensor reflex | <clinical sign> Extension of the great toe and abduction of the other toes instead of the normal flexion reflex to plantar stimulation, considered indicative of pyramidal tract involvement ("positive" Babinski). Synonym: Babinski reflex, Babinski's phenomenon, great-toe reflex, paradoxical extensor reflex, toe phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |