Pleomorphism
* concept that today sounds very strange.
* natural phenomenon
* refers to the amount of variability, or atypia, of tumor cell nuclei.

Patriotism
* assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate.
* can be a cloak for self-interest
  - lead men to do very evil things
* consists in building up a strong revolt against foreign governments.
* describes our relationship with our country.
* does act as restraint on some forms of plunder.
* gives a people identity and personality.
* is colorless and creedless
  - different from nationalism
  - essential for man's welfare
  - for the poor
  - human emotion
  - in political life what faith is in religion
  - like germ warfare
  - love of country
  - loyalty
* is the action, practice or process of loving, supporting and defending one's country
  - respectful allegiance to one's country
  - virtue of the vicious
  - willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons
  - worship of male-dominated states
  - virtually unheard of among the general population
* lively sense of collective responsibility.
* loyalty to a certain place or idea.
* means equipped forces and a prepared citizenry
  - to stand by the country
* necessary ingredient if a nation is to flourish in the new global economy.
* pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
* poor second to love of family.
* requires temporary deferment of personal aspirations and ideologies.
* subset of justice.
* usually works well in gathering people's support at any time.
  * is different from nationalism. Nationalist thinks that every ethnic group should have its own nation, so nations are to serve the people. In other words in nationalism the nation is just a tool to have freedom for an ethnic group, while in patriotism the nation itself is the highest value.
* word which represents a noble idea.

Pulmonary angiography
* is costly and invasive
  - diagnostic gold standard
* is the gold standard in making the diagnosis
  - third method of discerning IPVDs

Politeness
* good manners
* is actions
  - activated by tender feeling toward the sensibilities of others
  - courtesy
  - good nature regulated by good sense
  - related to the interpersonal dimensions of power and distance
* is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts
  - selecting among one's real thoughts
  - beign mask which conceals thoughts and judgments about the candidate
  - oil of civilized interaction
* means giving the other person a choice, recognizing their individual preferences.
* very important aspect of social interaction.

Parity
* Indicates whether parity is odd or even.
* also applies to serious emotional disturbances of children
  - becomes an issue with transmitting data from one computer to another via a modem
* binary calculation used as a checksum to verify a single byte of information.
* comes with a connotation of everybody being average.
* fairness issue.
* fundamental condition of achieving integration into the healthcare system.
* is about more money for the medical parts of mental health care
  - an important public health issue
  - another error detection method often used with automatic data reading
  - conservation
  - equivalence
  - pregnancy
* is the information stored to provide error correction in case of drive problems or failure
  - word bandied about by supporters of the salary cap
  - used to check a unit of data for errors during transmission over all types of media
* method used to check the integrity of data stored in memory.
* property important in the quantum-mechanical description of a physical system.
* redundancy code capable of correcting any single, self-identifying failure.
* simple and nearly useless form of error checking
  - mechanism to detect characters corrupted by line noise
* technique used to check for errors in transmission.