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Prosaicism
- - The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style.
Protagoras
- unknown - Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, named as one of the sophists by Plato
Protamines
- noun - a simple protein found in fish sperm; rich in arginine; simpler in composition than globulin or albumin; counteracts the anticoagulant effect of heparin
Protandric
- - Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life.
Protanopia
- noun - dichromacy characterized by lowered sensitivity to long wavelengths of light resulting in an inability to distinguish red and purplish blue
Protanopic
- adjective - inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green
Pteranodon
- - A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.
Pugnacious
- adjective - Given to fighting
- ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men"
- tough and callous by virtue of experience
Pulsatilla
- noun - includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers
Pulsations
- noun - (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star"
- a periodically recurring phenomenon that alternately increases and decreases some quantity
- the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"