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  • metaphase plate — a plane in the equatorial region of the spindle in dividing cells, along which the chromosomes become arranged during the metaphase.
  • montes riphaeus — a mountain range in the third quadrant of the visible face of the moon.
  • multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
  • napier-hastings — a seaport on E North Island, in New Zealand.
  • natal horoscope — the horoscope based on an individual's birth.
  • nephrolithiasis — (pathology) presence of calculi in kidneys.
  • neuropsychiatry — the branch of medicine dealing with diseases involving the mind and nervous system.
  • new hampshirite — of New Hampshire
  • non-a hepatitis — a form of viral hepatitis, not caused by the agents responsible for hepatitis A and hepatitis B, that is commonly transmitted by infected blood transfusions. The causative virus has been isolated
  • nonhospitalized — not hospitalized
  • nonpsychoactive — Not psychoactive.
  • ophthalmoscopes — Plural form of ophthalmoscope.
  • organophosphate — Biochemistry. any of a variety of organic compounds that contain phosphorus and often have intense neurotoxic activity: originally developed as nerve gases, now widely used as insecticides and fire retardants.
  • pachymeningitis — inflammation of the dura mater of the brain and spinal cord
  • packet-switched — packet switching
  • panhandle state — West Virginia (used as a nickname).
  • parasympathetic — pertaining to that part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves and ganglia that arise from the cranial and sacral regions and function in opposition to the sympathetic system, as in inhibiting heartbeat or contracting the pupil of the eye.
  • parish register — the register of the christenings, marriages, and burials in a parish.
  • parthenogenesis — development of an egg without fertilization.
  • pass-the-parcel — a children's game in which a parcel with lots of wrappings is passed round while music plays; each time the music stops the person holding the parcel takes a layer of wrapping off
  • passport holder — a person who has a passport
  • penshurst place — a 14th-century mansion near Tunbridge Wells in Kent: birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney; gardens laid out from 1560
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
  • pheasant coucal — a brown and black, red-eyed Australian bird, Centropus phasianinus, with a pheasantlike tail.
  • phenakistoscope — an early form of a zoetrope in which figures are depicted in different poses around the edge of a disc. When the disc is spun, and the figures observed through the apertures around the edge of the disc, they appear to be moving
  • phenomenalistic — the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
  • phosphate group — the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.
  • phosphocreatine — a compound, C 4 H 1 0 O 5 N 3 P, found chiefly in muscle, formed by the enzymatic interaction of an organic phosphate and creatine, the breakdown of which provides energy for muscle contraction.
  • phosphorylative — of or relating to phosphorylation
  • photodissociate — to split or break up molecules as a result of the absorption of photons
  • photoelasticity — the phenomenon of double refraction of polarized light by a transparent substance under elastic stress, used to measure strain in elastic, transparent materials.
  • physiotherapist — physical therapy.
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pistachio green — a light or medium shade of yellow green.
  • pitch blackness — extreme darkness; lack of light
  • pithecanthropus — a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
  • plainclothesman — a police officer, especially a detective, who wears ordinary civilian clothes while on duty.
  • planter's punch — a punch made with rum, lime juice, sugar, and water or soda.
  • platyhelminthes — a phylum of worms having bilateral symmetry and a soft, usually flattened body, comprising the flatworms.
  • plethysmography — the tracking of changes measured in bodily volume
  • pontine marshes — an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 bc had failed
  • posthemorrhagic — occurring after a haemorrhage
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • pre-established — to establish beforehand.
  • probationership — the position of a probationer
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • pseudoarthrosis — a joint formed by fibrous tissue bridging the gap between the two fragments of bone of an old fracture that have not united
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