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Psychanalysis

same as psychoanalysis; -- an older term now obsolete.

Psyche

A lovely maiden, daughter of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.

Psychian

Any small moth of the genus Psyche and allied genera (family Psychid/). The larv/ are called basket worms. See Basket worm, under Basket.

Psychical Psychic

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.

Psychism

The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.

Psycho-motor

Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.

psychoanalyse

To investigate or subject to treatment by psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis

A method or process of psychotherapeutic analysis and treatment pf psychoneuroses, based on the work of Dr. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) of Vienna. The method rests upon the theory that neurosis is characteristically due to repression of desires consciously rejected but subconsciously persistent; it consists in a close analysis of the patient's mental history, effort being made to bring unconsciuos and preconscious material to consciousness; the methods include analysis of transferance and resistance. In some variants, stress is laid upon the dream life, and of treatment by means of suggestion.

psychoanalyze

To investigate or subject to treatment by psychoanalysis.

Psychogenesis

Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection.

Psychology

The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul.

Psychometry

The art of measuring the duration of mental processes, or of determining the time relations of mental phenomena.

Psychopannychism

The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.

Psychophysical

Of or pertaining to psychophysics; involving the action or mutual relations of the psychical and physical in man.

Psychophysics

The science of the connection between nerve action and consciousness; the science which treats of the relations of the psychical and physical in their conjoint operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

Psychotherapeutics

The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

Psychozoic

Designating, or applied to the Era of man; as, the psychozoic era.

Psychrometer

An instrument for measuring the tension of the aqueous vapor in the atmosphere, being essentially a wet and dry bulb hygrometer.

Psylla

Any leaping plant louse of the genus Psylla, or family Psyllid/.

Ptarmigan

Any grouse of the genus Lagopus, of which numerous species are known. The feet are completely feathered. Most of the species are brown in summer, but turn white, or nearly white, in winter.

Ptenoglossa

A division of gastropod mollusks having the teeth of the radula arranged in long transverse rows, somewhat like the barbs of a feather.

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.

Pteranodontia

A group of pterodactyls destitute of teeth, as in the genus Pteranodon.

Pterichthys

A genus of Devonian fossil fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.

Pteridology

That department of botany which treats of ferns.

Pteridophyta

A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia.

Pterobranchia

An order of marine Bryozoa, having a bilobed lophophore and an axial cord. The genus Rhabdopleura is the type. Called also Podostomata. See Rhabdopleura.

Pteroceras

A genus of large marine gastropods having the outer border of the lip divided into lobes; -- called also scorpion shell.

Pterocletes

A division of birds including the sand grouse. They are in some respects intermediate between the pigeons and true grouse. Called also Pteroclomorph/.

Pterodactyl

An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

Pteroglossal

Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to have a featherlike appearance, as the toucans.

Pteron

The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.

Pterophore

Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plume moth. See Plume moth, under Plume.

Pteropoda

A class of Mollusca in which the anterior lobes of the foot are developed in the form of broad, thin, winglike organs, with which they swim at near the surface of the sea.

Pterosauria

An extinct order of flying reptiles of the Mesozoic age; the pterodactyls; -- called also Pterodactyli, and Ornithosauria.

Pterostigma

A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.

Pterotic

Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes. The pterotic bone.

Pterygium

A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.

Pterygoid

Like a bird's wing in form; as, a pterygoid bone. Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pterygoid bones, pterygoid processes, or the whole sphenoid bone. A pterygoid bone.

Pterygomaxillary

Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.

Pterygopalatine

Of or pertaining to the pterygoid processes and the palatine bones.

Pterygopodium

A specially modified part of the ventral fin in male elasmobranchs, which serves as a copulatory organ, or clasper.

Pterygoquadrate

Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.

Pteryla

One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.

Pterylography

The study or description of the arrangement of feathers, or of the pteryl/, of birds.

Pterylosis

The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.

Ptilopaedic

Having nearly the whole surface of the skin covered with down; dasyp/dic; -- said of the young of certain birds.

Ptilopteri

An order of birds including only the penguins.

Ptisan

A decoction of barley with other ingredients; a farinaceous drink.

Ptolemaic

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy, the geographer and astronomer.

Ptolemaist

One who accepts the astronomical system of Ptolemy.

Ptomaine

One of a class of animal bases or alkaloids formed in the putrefaction of various kinds of albuminous matter, and closely related to the vegetable alkaloids; a cadaveric poison. The ptomaines, as a class, have their origin in dead matter, by which they are to be distinguished from the leucomaines.

Ptosis

Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.

ptyalin

An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.

Ptyalism

Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.

Ptysmagogue

A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.

Ptyxis

The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.

pub

A retail business where alcoholic beverages are sold by the drink; a bar; a tavern.

pub-crawl

to go from one pub or tavern to the next and get progressively more drunk.

Pubble

Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat.

Puberal

Of or pertaining to puberty.

Puberty

The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

Pubes

The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty. Hence (as more commonly used), the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic region.

Pubescence

The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty.

Pubic

Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes. Of or pertaining to the pubis.

Pubis

The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.

Public

The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.

Public-spirited

Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men.

Publican

A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation.

Publication

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulgation; as, the publication of the law at Mount Sinai; the publication of the gospel; the publication of statutes or edicts.

Publicist

A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versed in the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.

Publicity

The quality or state of being public, or open to the knowledge of a community; notoriety; publicness.

Publicly

With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.

Publicness

The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale.

Publish

To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.

Publishable

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

Publisher

One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.

Publishment

The act or process of making publicly known; publication.

Puccoon

Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum (Lithospermum hirtum, and Lithospermum canescens); also, the pigment itself.

Puce

Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

Pucherite

Vanadate of bismuth, occurring in minute reddish brown crystals.

Puck

A disk of vulcanized rubber used in the game of hockey, as the object to be driven through the goals.

Pucka

Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar.

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