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Pentaspast
- - A purchase with five pulleys.
Pentastich
- - A composition consisting of five verses.
Pentastyle
- - Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. -- n. A portico having five columns.
Percesoces
- - An order of fishes including the gray mullets (Mugil), the barracudas, the silversides, and other related fishes. So called from their relation both to perches and to pikes.
Percussing
- verb - strike or tap firmly; "the doctor percussed his chest and back"
Percussion
- noun - tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes
- the act of exploding a percussion cap
- the act of playing a percussion instrument
- the section of a band or orchestra that plays percussion instruments
Percussive
- adjective - involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments; "percussive music"
Percussors
- noun - (medicine) a small hammer with a rubber head used in percussive examinations of the chest and in testing reflexes
Perfusions
- noun - pumping a liquid into an organ or tissue (especially by way of blood vessels)
Periastral
- - Among or around the stars.