projective test
— Noun
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～ any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations
PKU test
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～ a test of newborn infants for phenylketonuria
preclinical test
— Noun
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～ a laboratory test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on animal subjects; conducted to gather evidence justifying a clinical trial
pregnancy test
— Noun
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～ a physiological test to determine whether a woman is pregnant
personality test
— Noun
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～ any test that is intended to assess personality
patch test
— Noun
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～ a test to determine allergic sensitivity by applying small pads soaked with allergen to the unbroken skin
paternity test
— Noun
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～ a test based on blood groups to determine whether a particular man could be the biological father of a particular child; negative results prove he was not the father but positive results show only that he could be
Papanicolaou test
— Noun
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～ a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer
Pap test
— Noun
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～ a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer
Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
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～ a tuberous twining annual vine bearing clusters of purplish flowers and pods with four jagged wings; Old World tropics
Panicum Texanum
— Noun
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～ annual weedy grass used for hay
Pisces the Fishes
— Noun
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～ the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20
Pittsburgh of the South
— Noun
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～ the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama
Pitt the Elder
— Noun
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～ English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War to an end (1708-1778)
pit of the stomach
— Noun
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～ a slight depression in the midline just below the sternum (where a blow can affect the solar plexus)
privilege of the floor
— Noun
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～ the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session
pleading in the alternative
— Noun
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～ a pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine which facts the person intends to rely on
Pliny the Elder
— Noun
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～ Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)
precession of the equinoxes
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～ a slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
— Noun
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～ a Marxist-Leninist group that believes Palestinian goals can only be achieved by revolutionary change; "in 1974 the DFLP took over a schoolhouse and massacred Israeli schoolchildren"