pneumocolon
A colonic diagnostic procedure during which the colon is inflated with air.

pneumocolonography
radiography of the colon following introduction of air to aid contrast

pneumocolons
plural of pneumocolon

pneumocyte
A cell that is responsible for gas exchange in the alveoli in the lungs

pneumocytes
plural of pneumocyte

pneumoencephalographies
plural of pneumoencephalography

pneumoencephalography
A former medical procedure in which most of the cerebrospinal fluid was drained from around the brain and replaced with air, oxygen, or helium to allow the structure of the brain to show up more clearly on an X-ray image.

pneumoencephalopathy
The abnormal presence of air in the brain.

pneumography
scientific description of the lungs.

pneumologies
plural of pneumology

pneumology
The study of the respiratory system and organs.

pneumometry
The measurement of lung capacity.

pneumonectomies
plural of pneumonectomy

pneumonectomy
The surgical removal of all or part of a lung.

pneumonocyte
pneumocyte

pneumonocytes
plural of pneumonocyte

pneumonography
Alternative form of pneumography.

pneumonology
Alternative form of pneumology.

pneumonotomies
plural of pneumonotomy

pneumonotomy
The surgical procedure of making an incision in the lung.

pneumopexies
plural of pneumopexy

pneumopexy
fixation of layers of the lung tissue

pneumoresection
Resection of part of a lung.

pneumoresections
plural of pneumoresection

pneumosphere
A lung spheroid that contains progenitor cells

pneumospheres
plural of pneumosphere

pneumostimulation
stimulation of the lungs

pneumostome
A pore through which slugs and other gastropods breathe

pneumothoraces
plural of pneumothorax

pneumothorax
Presence of air inside the pleural cavity, usually caused by injury either to the lung or the chest wall.

pneumothoraxes
plural of pneumothorax

pneumotomies
plural of pneumotomy

pneumotomy
Synonym of pneumonectomy.

pneumotonometry
A noninvasive method of estimating the intraocular pressure of the eye by exposing the cornea to a sudden puff of air

pneumotype
Any of several distinct types of microorganism present in the lungs

pneumotypes
plural of pneumotype

pneumoventriculographies
plural of pneumoventriculography

pneumoventriculography
ventriculography of the ventricles of the larynx

pockmark
A mark or scar in the skin caused by a pock.
A crater in the seafloor caused by erupting gas or liquid.

pockmarks
plural of pockmark

pockpit
A pockmark.

pockpits
plural of pockpit

podex
The anus, rectum, or buttocks of a human.
The rear end of any animal.

podexes
plural of podex

podices
plural of podex

podismus
spasm of the muscles of the foot

podocyst
A cyst beneath the pedal discs of scyphozoan polyps

podocysts
plural of podocyst

podocyte
A cell of the visceral epithelium in the kidney

podocytes
plural of podocyte

podogynia
plural of podogynium

podogynium
A pedicel rising from the base of a flower with the ovary at the top.

podophilia
Synonym of foot fetishism.

podosome
The primary site of integrin-stimulated actin polymerization in some leukocytes

podosomes
plural of podosome

poecilogony
Diversity amongst germ cells of an organism.

poikilocyte
An irregularly-shaped red blood cell.

poikilocytes
plural of poikilocyte

poikilocytosis
Presence in the blood of red blood cells with abnormal shape or an entirely different shape

pollinide
A single antheridial corpuscle.

pollinides
plural of pollinide

pollinodia
plural of pollinodium

pollinodium
Synonym of antheridium.

polyagglutination
agglutination (of red blood cells) by many forms of blood serum

polychromatophil
Any polychromatophilic cell, typically an erythrocyte

polychromatophile
Alternative form of polychromatophil.

polychromatophiles
plural of polychromatophile

polychromatophils
plural of polychromatophil

polyclone
A discrete area of tissue composed of several different clones of cells

polyclones
plural of polyclone

polycoria
A pathological condition of the eye, characterized by more than one pupillary opening in the iris.

polydendrocyte
An oligodendrocyte progenitor cell.

polydendrocytes
plural of polydendrocyte

polykaryocyte
A cell that has many nuclei

polykaryocytes
plural of polykaryocyte

polykaryon
A multinuclear cell

polykaryons
plural of polykaryon

polymegethism
An abnormally large variation in size of the corneal endothelial cells.

polymorphocyte
A polymorphonuclear leukocyte

polymorphocytes
plural of polymorphocyte

polymorpholeukocyte
A polymorphonuclear leukocyte

polymorpholeukocytes
plural of polymorpholeukocyte

polymyalgia
pain in several muscles

polymyalgias
plural of polymyalgia

polyphore
A receptacle which bears many ovaries.

polyphores
plural of polyphore

polypite
A fossil polyp
An individual polyp of a colonial cnidarian

polyradiculopathies
plural of polyradiculopathy

polyradiculopathy
A radiculopathy affecting more than one spinal nerve root.

polysomnographies
plural of polysomnography

polysomnography
A multiparameter recording of brain waves used in the study of sleep

polyteny
The presence within a cell of polytene chromosomes (large chromosomes with multiple synapsed chromatids)

polytetrahedra
plural of polytetrahedron

polytetrahedron
A uniform convex polychoron made up of 600 tetrahedral cells; a hexacosichoron.
A connected set of regular tetrahedra, the 3-dimensional analogue of a polyiamond.

polywater
A supposed polymeric form of water reported to have been produced in fine capillaries; now known to be illusory.

pompoir
A sexual technique the woman uses her pubococcygeus (vagina) muscles to stimulate the man's penis while both partners remain still.

ponticuli
plural of ponticulus

ponticulus
a ridge of cartilage on the eminentia conchae of the ear

ponyskin
The skin of a pony.

ponyskins
plural of ponyskin

ponytailer
A hair tie.

ponytailers
plural of ponytailer

poontang
Female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
Sexual intercourse with a woman.
A woman, especially when discussed from a heavily sexualized, sexist, and misogynist perspective.

poontangs
plural of poontang

pootang
Alternative form of poontang.

poplitei
plural of popliteus

popliteus
A small muscle at the back of the knee that aids in bending the knee and in the rotation of the lower leg.

porelliportulae
plural of porelliportula

porion
The point on the human skull located at the upper margin of each ear canal, and underlying the tragus.

poroconidia
plural of poroconidium

poroconidium
A multicelled conidium that grows out of a pore in a hyphal cell.

porocyte
One of the tubular cells that make up the pores of a sponge.

porocytes
plural of porocyte

porometry
The measurement of pore sizes in membranes or the measurement of flow through pores

porophore
Any structure that supports a pore

porophores
plural of porophore

poroscopy
The study of microscopic skin pores in forensic science.

porosome
Any of many cup-shaped structures in the cell membranes of eukaryotic cells where vesicles dock in the process of vesicle fusion and secretion.

porosomes
plural of porosome

portatif
A portative organ.

portatifs
plural of portatif

portativ
A portative organ.

portativs
plural of portativ

portoenterostomies
plural of portoenterostomy

portoenterostomy
A form of anastomosis of the jejunum to the porta hepatis region

portovenography
portography of the portal vein

postcava
The inferior vena cava.

postchroming
Synonym of afterchroming.

postcingulum
A small ridge behind a cingulum on a tooth

postclavicle
A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.

postclavicles
plural of postclavicle

postcleithra
plural of postcleithrum

postcleithrum
A bone in the pectoral girdle of teleost fishes.

postcommissure
A transverse commissure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commissure.

postcommissures
plural of postcommissure

postcornu
The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.