percutaneous transluminal angioplasty |
An operation for enlarging a narrowed vascular lumen by inflating and withdrawing through the stenotic region a balloon on the tip of an angiographic catheter; may include positioning of an intravascular stent. (05 Mar 2000) |
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percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty |
Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of coronary artery or arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |
percutaneous umbilical blood sampling |
See: PUBS. (12 Dec 1998) |
perdicine |
<zoology> Of or pertaining to the family Perdicidae, or partridges. See: Perdix. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
perdifoil |
<botany> A deciduous plant; opposed to evergreen. Origin: L. Perdere to lose + folium leaf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
perdix |
<ornithology> A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera. Origin: L, a partridge, Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
peregrine |
Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic. [Spelt also pelegrine] "Peregrine and preternatural heat. <zoology> " Peregrine falcon, a courageous and swift falcon (Falco peregrinus), remarkable for its wide distribution over all the continents. The adult plumage is dark bluish ash on the back, nearly black on the head and cheeks, white beneath, barred with black below the throat. Synonym: peregrine hawk, duck hawk, game hawk, and great-footed hawk. Origin: L. Peregrinus. See Pilgrim. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
peremptory |
1. Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal; positive; absolute; decisive; conclusive; final. "Think of heaven with hearty purposes and peremptory designs to get thither." (Jer. Taylor) 2. Positive in opinion or judgment; decided; dictatorial; dogmatical. "Be not too positive and peremptory." (Bacon) "Briefly, then, for we are peremptory." (Shak) 3. Firmly determined; unawed. Peremptory challenge See Challenge. Peremptory mandamus, a final and absolute mandamus. Peremptory plea, a plea by a defendant tending to impeach the plaintiff's right of action; a plea in bar. Synonym: Decisive, positive, absolute, authoritative, express, arbitrary, dogmatical. Origin: L. Peremptorius destructive, deadly, decisive, final: cf. F. Peremptorie. See Perempt. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
perencephaly |
A condition marked by one or more cerebral cysts. Origin: G. Pera, a purse, a wallet, + enkephalos, brain (05 Mar 2000) |
perennate |
To maintain a dormant, vegetative state throughout non-growing seasons. (09 Oct 1997) |
perennation |
Survival of a plant for a number of years. To live over from season to season. (09 Oct 1997) |
perennial |
<botany> Lasting through the year of for several years. Origin: L. Perennis, from per = through, annus = year (13 Nov 1997) |
perennibranchiata |
<zoology> Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as the menobranchus. Origin: NL. See Perennial, and Branchia. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
perennibranchiate |
1. <anatomy> Having branchae, or gills, through life; said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate. 2. <zoology> Belonging to the Perennibranchiata. See: Perennial, and Branchiate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
Perez reflex |
Running a finger down the spine of an infant held supported in a prone position will normally cause the whole body to become extended. (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Chylopericardiums, Effusion, Pericardial, Effusions, Pericardial, Pericardial Effusions
Synonyms : Pericardial Window Technics, Pericardial Window Technic, Pericardial Window Technique, Pericardiostomies, Technic, Pericardial Window, Technics, Pericardial Window, Technique, Pericardial Window, Techniques, Pericardial Window, Window Technic, Pericardial
Synonyms : Pericardectomy, Pericardotomy, Pericardectomies, Pericardiectomies, Pericardiotomies, Pericardotomies
Synonyms : Pericardiocenteses
Synonyms : Pericarditides
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period
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time period: an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" one of three periods of play in hockey games a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period" the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon menstruation: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
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percussor
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plexor: (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes
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permeate
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spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks" percolate: pass through; "Water permeates sand easily" interpenetrate: penetrate mutually or be interlocked; "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot"
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permeative
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permeant: spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"
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personal equation
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variability attributable to individual differences
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