planula
— Noun
– English
~ the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates
pes planus
— Noun
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~ a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out
plaque
— Noun
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~ (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body
plaque
— Noun
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~ a memorial made of brass
Plaquenil
— Noun
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~ anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Plaquenil) used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and malaria and lupus erythematosus
plash
— Noun
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~ the sound like water splashing
plash
— Verb
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~ dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
plash
— Verb
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~ interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge"
plasm
— Noun
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~ the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes
plasm
— Noun
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~ the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
plasma
— Noun
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~ the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
plasma cell
— Noun
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~ a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood
plasma
— Noun
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~ a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone
plasma
— Noun
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~ (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons; "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma"
plasma membrane
— Noun
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~ a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like sodium or potassium or calcium) in and out of the cell; "all cells have a cell membrane"
plasma physics
— Noun
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~ the branch of physics concerned with matter in its plasma phase
plasmablast
— Noun
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~ the precursor of a plasma cell
plasmacyte
— Noun
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~ a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood
plasmacytoma
— Noun
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~ neoplasm of plasma cells (usually in bone marrow)
plasmapheresis
— Noun
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~ plasma is separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor