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  • English Word Para- Definition A prefix denoting: (a) Likeness, similarity, or connection, or that the substance resembles, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene; paroxybenzoic acid. Cf. Ortho-, and Meta-. Also used adjectively.
  • English Word Parabanic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea.
  • English Word Parablast Definition A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels.
  • English Word Parablastic Definition Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.
  • English Word Parable Definition Procurable.
  • English Word Parable Definition A comparison; a similitude; specifically, a short fictitious narrative of something which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ.
  • English Word Parable Definition To represent by parable.
  • English Word Parabola Definition A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus.
  • English Word Parabola Definition One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.
  • English Word Parabolas Definition of Parabola
  • English Word Parabole Definition Similitude; comparison.
  • English Word Parabolic Definition Alt. of Parabolical
  • English Word Parabolical Definition Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.
  • English Word Parabolical Definition Having the form or nature of a parabola; pertaining to, or resembling, a parabola; as, a parabolic curve.
  • English Word Parabolical Definition Generated by the revolution of a parabola, or by a line that moves on a parabola as a directing curve; as, a parabolic conoid.
  • English Word Parabolically Definition By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.
  • English Word Parabolically Definition In the form of a parabola.
  • English Word Paraboliform Definition Resembling a parabola in form.
  • English Word Parabolism Definition The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term.
  • English Word Parabolist Definition A narrator of parables.
  • English Word Paraboloid Definition The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.
  • English Word Paraboloidal Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.
  • English Word Parabronchia Definition of Parabronchium
  • English Word Parabronchium Definition One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.
  • English Word Paracelsian Definition Of, pertaining to, or in conformity with, the practice of Paracelsus, a Swiss physician of the 15th century.
  • English Word Paracelsian Definition A follower of Paracelsus or his practice or teachings.
  • English Word Paracelsist Definition A Paracelsian.
  • English Word Paracentesis Definition The perforation of a cavity of the body with a trocar, aspirator, or other suitable instrument, for the evacuation of effused fluid, pus, or gas; tapping.
  • English Word Paracentric Definition Alt. of Paracentrical
  • English Word Paracentrical Definition Deviating from circularity; changing the distance from a center.