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Pneumococcus
- noun - bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans
Pneumography
- - A description of the lungs.
Pneumothorax
- noun - abnormal presence of air in the pleural cavity resulting in the collapse of the lung; may be spontaneous (due to injury to the chest) or induced (as a treatment for tuberculosis)
Polemicising
- verb - engage in a controversy; "The two historians polemicized for years"
Polemicizing
- verb - engage in a controversy; "The two historians polemicized for years"
Polemoniales
- noun - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales
Polymerising
- verb - cause (a compound) to polymerize
- undergo polymerization
Polymerizing
- verb - cause (a compound) to polymerize
- undergo polymerization
Polymorphism
- noun - (biology) the existence of two or more forms of individuals within the same animal species (independent of sex differences)
- (chemistry) the existence of different kinds of crystal of the same chemical compound
- (genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on
Polymorphous
- adjective - having or occurring in several distinct forms; "man is both polymorphic and polytypic"; "a polymorphous god"
- relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms; "polymorphous crystallization"
- relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population; "a polymorphic species"