Glossary

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  • Body plethysmography

    A body box used to measure lung volume and pressure. A highly delicate examination administered to evaluate potential lung impairments that may elude detection through standard pulmonary function tests. During this procedure, the patient assumes a seated position within a hermetically sealed chamber, wherein a diverse array of apparatuses gauge both the air pressure within…

  • Plessesthesia

    Palpatory percussion with the left middle finger pressed against the body and the right index finger percussing in contact with the left finger.  

  • Plesiopia

    An increase in the convexity of the lens of the eye.  

  • Plesiomonas shigelloides

    A gram-negative facultatively anaerobic rod-shaped bacterium. It is thought to be a cause of gastroenteritis/infectious diarrhea acquired from contaminated water.  

  • Pleonosteosis

    Premature and excessive ossification of bones.  

  • Pleonasm

    The state of having more than the normal number of organs or parts.  

  • Pleomorphous

    Having many shapes or crystallizing into several forms.  

  • Pleochromatic

    To the property of crystals and some other bodies that show different colors when seen from different axes.  

  • Pleochroism

    The property of a crystal that produces different colors when light passes through it at different angles.  

  • Pleistophora

    A genus of microsporidia that usually parasitizes fish.