English Words: P
46,516 words · Page 457 of 931
Capable of being withdrawn by a backward movement of the parts from which it protrudes so that it becomes engulfed.
A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.
Of or pertaining to the pleura, the smooth serous membrane which closely covers the lungs and the adjacent surfaces of the thorax.
Any of the gills of certain crustaceans, such as some shrimp, that are attached to the side of the thorax
Side-fruited; said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or capsules are from lateral archegonia.
One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebrae in some fish and fossil batrachians.
One of a set of hollow depressions on the lateral portions of the vertebrae in dinosaurs, which served to decrease the weight of these bones without sacrificing strength.
The production of adhesions in the pleural cavity, typically by the use of sclerosing agents or surgical abrasion, used especially in the treatment of recurrent pneumothorax, pleural effusion and chylothorax.
A lateral sclerite of a thoracic segment of an arthropod between the tergum and the sternum.
The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the enclosed viscera; the peritoneum; used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided.
inflammation of the pleura and lungs; a combination of pleurisy and pneumonia, especially a kind of contagious and fatal lung disease of cattle and pigs, caused by infection by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
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The English alphabetical index for the letter P contains 46,516 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 931 pages, and you are currently viewing page 457. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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