| pinpatch | <zoology> The common English periwinkle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Pins | Emil, Austrian physician, 1845-1913. See: Pins' sign, Pins' syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pins' sign | <clinical sign> In large pericardial effusions, an area of dullness with bronchial breathing and bronchophony below the angle of the left scapula. Synonym: Pins' sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pins' syndrome | <syndrome> Dullness, diminution of vocal fremitus and of the vesicular murmur, and a slight distant blowing sound, heard in the posteroinferior region of the chest on the left side, in cases of pericardial effusion; there is sometimes also a fine rale in this region, but all the adventitious auscultatory signs disappear when the patient assumes the genupectoral position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pint | <zoology> The laughing gull. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pinta | An infectious disease of the skin caused by treponema carateum that occurs only in the western hemisphere. Age of onset is between 10 and 20 years of age. This condition is characterised by marked changes in the skin colour and is believed to be transmitted by direct person-to-person contact. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pinta fever | A term used in Mexico for Rocky Mountain spotted fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pintado | Origin: Sp, painted, fr. Pintar to paint. <zoology> Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pintail | 1. <zoology> A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon. 2. <zoology> The sharp-tailed grouse of the great plains and Rocky Mountains (Pediocaetes phasianellus); called also pintailed grouse, pintailed chicken, springtail, and sharptail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pintids | Eruptions of plaque-like lesions in the secondary phase of pinta; the lesions, which vary in colour (hypochromic, hyperchromic, and erythematosquamous), result in depigmentation. Origin: pinta + -id(1) (05 Mar 2000) |
| pintle | 1. A little pin. 2. <mechanics> An upright pivot pin; as: The pivot pin of a hinge. A hook or pin on which a rudder hangs and turns. A pivot about which the chassis swings, in some kinds of gun carriages. A kingbolt of a wagon. Origin: A diminutive of Pin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pintoid | Resembling pinta. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pintos | Sing. Pinto . [Sp, painted, mottled] A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Synonym: speckled Indians. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pinule | <astronomy> One of the sights of an astrolabe. Origin: Cf. Pinnule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pinus | <botany> A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine. Origin: L, a pine tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pineal gland |
A tiny organ in the cerebrum that produces melatonin. Also called pineal body or pineal organ.
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| pineoblastoma |
A fast growing type of brain tumor that occurs in or around the pineal gland, a tiny organ near the center of the brain.
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| pineocytoma |
A slow growing type of brain tumor that occurs in or around the pineal gland, a tiny organ near the center of the brain.
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| pinkeye |
A condition in which the conjunctiva (membranes lining the eyelids and covering the white part of the eye) become inflamed or infected. Also called conjunctivitis.
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| pinene |
Structural isomers, formula C 10 H 16 ; - and -pinene are members of the monoterpene family. Stored in the needles of many conifer trees and emitted under stress, they are responsible for the characteristic odor of pine forests. The pinenes are very reactive hydrocarbons.
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| pin | lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief |
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| pin | a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River |
| pin | a family of Pinaceae |
| pin | fern of Florida and West Indies and Central America with rhizome densely clad in grown hairs |
| pin | small finch of North American coniferous forests |
| pin | large grosbeak of coniferous forests of Old and New Worlds |
| pin | erect clematis of Florida having pink to purple flowers |
| pin | a joint of pine wood used for fuel |
| pin | a variety of adelgid |
| pin | lily of southeastern United States having cup-shaped flowers with deep yellow to scarlet recurved petals |
| pin | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
| pin | dark brown marten of northern Eurasian coniferous forests |