PPage 140
- English Word Periodide Definition An iodide containing a higher proportion of iodine than any other iodide of the same substance or series.
- English Word Periodontal Definition Surrounding the teeth.
- English Word Periodoscope Definition A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women.
- English Word Perioeci Definition Alt. of Perioecians
- English Word Perioecians Definition Those who live on the same parallel of latitude but on opposite meridians, so that it is noon in one place when it is midnight in the other. Compare Antoeci.
- English Word Periople Definition The external smooth horny layer of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
- English Word Perioplic Definition Of or pertaining to the periople; connected with the periople.
- English Word Periosteal Definition Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
- English Word Periosteum Definition The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.
- English Word Periostitis Definition Inflammation of the periosteum.
- English Word Periostraca Definition of Periostracum
- English Word Periostracum Definition A chitinous membrane covering the exterior of many shells; -- called also epidermis.
- English Word Periotic Definition Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule.
- English Word Periotic Definition A periotic bone.
- English Word Peripatecian Definition A peripatetic.
- English Word Peripatetic Definition Walking about; itinerant.
- English Word Peripatetic Definition Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.
- English Word Peripatetic Definition One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
- English Word Peripatetic Definition A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.
- English Word Peripatetical Definition Peripatetic.
- English Word Peripateticism Definition The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2.
- English Word Peripatus Definition A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa, Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.
- English Word Peripetalous Definition Surrounding, or situated about, the petals.
- English Word Peripheral Definition Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.
- English Word Peripheral Definition External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system.
- English Word Peripheric Definition Alt. of Peripherical
- English Word Peripherical Definition See Peripheral.
- English Word Peripheries Definition of Periphery
- English Word Periphery Definition The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.
- English Word Periphery Definition The circumference of a circle, ellipse, or other figure.