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post-treatment [post-treatment 词源字典]: "Treatment carried out after some earlier action or process has been completed", 1920s; earliest use found in The Times. From post- + treatment.[post-treatment etymology, post-treatment origin, 英语词源]
pragmaticalness: "The quality of being pragmatical; especially the officiousness, meddlesomeness; opinionatedness, dogmatism. Formerly also: †activity, assiduity ( obsolete )", Early 17th cent.; earliest use found in Robert Bolton (1572–1631), Church of England clergyman. From pragmatical + -ness.
phocomelia: "A rare congenital deformity in which the hands or feet are attached close to the trunk, the limbs being grossly underdeveloped or absent. This condition was a side effect of the drug thalidomide taken during early pregnancy", Late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek phōkē 'seal' + melos 'limb'.
para-church: "A church independent of traditional denominations; a house church", 1970s; earliest use found in The Guardian.
polysaprobic: "Of, designating, or inhabiting an aquatic environment that is poor in dissolved oxygen and contains much chemically reducing decayed organic matter", 1920s. From poly- + saprobic, after German polysaprob; compare mesosaprobic, oligosaprobic.
pteridomania: "An extravagant enthusiasm for ferns", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist.
psellism: "A defect of speech; especially stammering", Mid 19th cent. From post-classical Latin psellismus from Hellenistic Greek ψελλισμός action or fact of stammering from ancient Greek ψελλίζειν to stammer (from ψελλός (adjective) stammering (of imitative origin, with expressive gemination and a suffix -λό- frequently used to designate infirmities) + -ίζειν) + -ισμός.
proto-historic: "Of or relating to proto-history; relating to the earliest period of a society or culture for which historical records are available", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Samuel Birch (1813–1885), Egyptologist.
peristylar: "= peristyle", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal. From peristyle + -ar.
physaliphorous: "Containing numerous vacuoles; specifically designating or relating to cells of notochordal origin", 1920s; earliest use found in The Lancet. From physaliphore + -ous; compare -phorous.
primiparity: "The condition of being primiparous", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in James Matthew Duncan (1826–1890), obstetric physician. From either primipar- or classical Latin prīmipara + -ity, probably after French primiparité.
phocomelic: "Exhibiting or characteristic of phocomelia. Also as noun: a person with phocomelia", Early 20th cent.; earliest use found in The Lancet. From phocomelia + -ic.
pinguefying: "Adjective Fattening, greasy. Now rare", Late 17th cent.; earliest use found in Robert Wild (d. 1679), nonconformist minister and satirical poet. From pinguefy + -ing.
proteranthous: "Of a plant: having flowers appearing before the leaves. Of leaves: appearing before the flowers", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in John Lindley (1799–1865), botanist and horticulturist. From protero- + ancient Greek ἄνθος flower + -ous.
pentahedron: "A solid figure with five plane faces", Late 18th century: from penta- 'five' + -hedron, on the pattern of words such as polyhedron.
pilosebaceous: "Designating or relating to sebaceous glands that open into hair follicles, or the anatomical unit formed by these structures", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in The Lancet. After French pilosébacé (L. Moynac Élém. de Pathol. et de Clinique Chirurgicales (ed. 2, 1878) II. 647).
palaeoichthyology: "The branch of palaeontology that deals with extinct and fossil fishes", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Theodore Gill (1837–1914). From palaeo- + ichthyology.
pharyngectomy: "Surgical excision of part or all of the pharynx; an instance of this", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in The Century Dictionary. From pharyngo- + -ectomy.
polycrystal: "= polycrystalline", 1920s; earliest use found in The Physical Review. From poly- + crystal.
pinguescence: "The process of becoming fat: fatness, obesity; (in extended use) oiliness, unctuousness", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in Samuel Cooper (1780–1848), surgeon and writer. From pinguescent: see -ence.