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- English Word Perineorrhaphy Definition The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.
- English Word Perinephritis Definition Inflammation of the cellular tissue around the kidney.
- English Word Perineum Definition The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.
- English Word Perineurial Definition Surrounding nerves or nerve fibers; of or pertaining to the perineurium.
- English Word Perineurium Definition The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.
- English Word Perinuclear Definition Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as, the perinuclear protoplasm.
- English Word Period Definition A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
- English Word Period Definition A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
- English Word Period Definition One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
- English Word Period Definition The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
- English Word Period Definition A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
- English Word Period Definition The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
- English Word Period Definition One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
- English Word Period Definition The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
- English Word Period Definition A complete musical sentence.
- English Word Period Definition To put an end to.
- English Word Period Definition To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
- English Word Periodate Definition A salt of periodic acid.
- English Word Periodic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.
- English Word Periodic Definition Alt. of Periodical
- English Word Periodical Definition Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
- English Word Periodical Definition Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun.
- English Word Periodical Definition Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics.
- English Word Periodical Definition Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence.
- English Word Periodical Definition A magazine or other publication which appears at stated or regular intervals.
- English Word Periodicalist Definition One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.
- English Word Periodically Definition In a periodical manner.
- English Word Periodicalness Definition Periodicity.
- English Word Periodicities Definition of Periodicity
- English Word Periodicity Definition The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants.