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Pseudointellectual Pseudointellectual is a pejorative term used to describe someone who engages in false intellectualism or is intellectually dishonest. Such may suggest that the practitioner assumes that intellectuals themselves form a privileged elite worthy of any attachment irrespective of its falsehood.
Pseudoinverse In mathematics, and in particular linear algebra, the pseudoinverse A^+ of an m times n matrix A is a generalization of the inverse matrix. More precisely, this article talks about the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse, which was independently described by E.
Pseudoknot A pseudoknot is an RNA secondary structure containing two stem-loop structures in which the first stem's loop forms part of the second stem. The pseudoknot was first recognized in the turnip yellow mosaic virus in 1982.
Pseudolarix Pseudolarix is a monotypic genus in the family Pinaceae. The sole species, Pseudolarix amabilis is commonly known as Golden Larch, though it is not a true larch (Larix), being more closely related to Keteleeria, Abies and Cedrus.
Pseudolite Pseudolite is a contraction of the term "pseudo-satellite," used to refer to something that is not a satellite, a function commonly in the domain of satellites. Pseudolites are most often small transceivers that are used to create a local, ground-based GPS alternative.
Pseudolocalization Pseudolocalization is a software testing method that is used to test internationalization aspects of software. Specifically, it brings to light potential difficulties with localization by replacing localizable text (particularly in a graphical user interface) with text that imitates the most problematic characteristics of text from a wide variety of languages, and by forcing the application to deal with similar input text.
Pseudoltinomys Pseudoltinomys is a prehistoric rodent that lived 30 million years ago, during the Oligocene epoch. It outwardly resembles a gerbil, but may have been related to kangaroo rats or may represent an early offshoot of rodents with no modern relatives.
Pseudomathematics Pseudomathematics is a form of mathematics-like activity that does not work within the framework, definitions, rules, or rigor of formal mathematical models. While any given pseudomathematical approach may work within some of these boundaries, for instance, by accepting or invoking most known mathematical definitions that apply, pseudomathematics inevitably disregards or explicitly discards a well-established or proven mechanism, falling back upon any number of demonstrably non-mathematical principles.
Pseudomeningocele A pseudomeningocele is an abnormal collection of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that communicates with the CSF space around the brain or spinal cord. In contrast to a meningocele, in which the fluid is surrounded and confined by dura mater, in a pseudomeningocele, the fluid has no surrounding membrane but is contained in a cavity within the soft tissues.
Pseudometric space In mathematics, a pseudometric space is a generalization of a metric space, where the requirement of indistinguishability is removed. A pseudometric space is a special case of a hemimetric space, on which the requirement of symmetry is imposed.
Pseudomorph In geology, a pseudomorph is a mineral compound resulting from a substitution process in which the appearance and dimensions remain constant, but the mineral which makes up the chief component of the compound is replaced by another. The name literally means False Form.
Pseudomyopia Pseudomyopia refers to an intermittent and temporary shift in refraction of the eye towards myopia. It differs from true myopia in that the focusing of light in front of the retina is due to a transient spasm of the ciliary muscle causing an increase in the refractive power of the eye.
Pseudomyrmex spinicola Pseudomyrmex spinicola is a species of red myrmecophyte-inhabitating neotropical ants which are found only in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. They live in the thorns of a tropical tree, Acacia collinsii, feeding on nectaries along with the protein and lipid-rich belsian bodies.
Pseudomys Pseudomys is a genus of rodent that contains a wide variety of mice native to Australia and New Guinea. They are among the few terrestrial placental mammals that colonised Australia without human intervention.
Pseudonaja Pseudonaja is a genus of venomous elapid snakes native to Australia. Members are known commonly as brown snakes and are considered to be one of the most dangerous snakes in the country, even juveniles are capable of delivering a fatal envenomation to a human.
Pseudonormal space In mathematics, in the field of topology, a topological space is said to be pseudonormal if given two disjoint closed sets in it, one of which is countable, there are disjoint open sets containing them. Note the following:
Pseudonymity Pseudonymity is a word derived from pseudonym, meaning 'false name', and describes a state of disguised identity resulting from the use of a pseudonym (also called nym). The pseudonym identifies a holder, that is, one or more human beings who possess but do not disclose their true names (that is, legal identities).
Pseudonymization Pseudonymization is a procedure by which all person-related data within a data record is replaced by one artificial identifier (like a hash value) that maps cone-to-one to the person. The artificial pseudonym always allows tracking back of data to its origins which is the difference with anonymized data, where all person-related data that could allow backtracking has been purged.
Pseudonymous remailer A pseudonymous remailer or nym server, as opposed to an anonymous remailer, is an Internet software program designed to allow people to write anonymous messages on Usenet newsgroups and send anonymous email under a pseudonym. Unlike a purely anonymous remailers, it assigns its users a user name, and it keeps a database of instructions on how to return messages to the real user.
Pseudopanax Pseudopanax is a small genus of plant of which the majority are endemic to New Zealand. It contains some remarkable small trees with distinctly different juvenile and adult forms, such as Pseudopanax crassifolius and Pseudopanax ferox (commonly referred to as 'lancewood' and 'toothed lancewood', respectively).
Pseudopeptidoglycan Pseudopeptidoglycan (also known as pseudomurein) is a major cell wall component of some archaebacteria that chemically differs from but morphologically, functionally, and structurally resembles eubacterial peptidoglycan. The basic components are N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetyltalosaminuronacid (Peptidoglycan has N-acetylmuraninacid instead) which are linked by a β-1,3-glycosidic bond.
Pseudoperipteral In architecture, a pseudoperipteral building is one with free standing columns in the front (colonnaded portico), but the columns along the sides are engaged in the peripheral walls of the building. The ancient Romans favoured pseudoperipteral buildings, typically with a portico in front of engaged columns along the side and rear walls of the cella.
Pseudopetalichthyida The Pseudopetalichthyida was a group of extinct, skate-like fishes known only from rare fossils in Lower Devonian strata in HunsrĂĽck, Germany. Like Stensioella heintzi, and the Rhenanida, the Pseudopetalichthids had armor made up of a mosaic of tubercles.
Pseudophakia Pseudophakia is the condition of having an intraocular lens in the eye. Those with pseudophakia typically have had their own crystalline lens removed during cataract surgery or during certain types of refractive surgery.
Pseudophakic photic phenomena Pseudophakic photic phenomena, also known as pseudophakic dysphotopsia, is the set of aberrant optical phenomena which can afflict people who have pseudophakia - that is, an artificial intraocular lens which has been implanted after the surgical removal of a cataract.
Pseudophilosophy The orthodox understanding of pseudophilosophy is any idea or system that masquerades itself as philosophy while significantly failing to meet some suitable intellectual standards. The term is frequently used pejoratively, and most applications of it are quite contentious.
Pseudophyllidea Pseudophyllid cestodes (order pseudophyllidea) are a kind of flatworm with multiple "segments" (proglottids) and two bothria or "sucking grooves" as adults. Proglottids are identifiably pseudophyllid as the genital pore and uterine pore are located on the mid-ventral surface, and the ovary is bilobed ("dumbbell-shaped").
Pseudophysics Pseudophysics is a body of pseudoscientific knowledge or practice using the language of physics or discussing issues related to or pertinent to physics. Pseudophysics possess many, if not all, of the traits of pseudoscience, including the lack of falsifiable predictions, lack of peer review, or the blatant contradiction of well-established theory and experimental results.
Pseudopimelodidae Pseudopimelodidae is a small family of catfishes with 27 described species in five genera. These wide-mouthed catfishes, often with bold markings, are commonly known as bumblebee catfishes or dwarf marbled catfishes and are restricted to South America.
Pseudopolis Pseudopolis is one of the fictional cities of Sto Plains on Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. It is the nearest major city to Ankh-Morpork, (approximately a half day's journey by horse) and is first mentioned in the first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic.
Pseudorandom encoder A pseudorandom encoder is an electro-mechanical device used for measuring distance and finding position. It is different from the conventional absolute and incremental encoder in its disk pattern, which gives it aspects of the other two designs.
Pseudorandom function In cryptography, a pseudorandom function family, abbreviated PRF, is a collection of efficiently-computable functions which emulate a random oracle in the following way: No efficient algorithm can distinguish (with significant advantage) between a function chosen randomly from the PRF family and a random oracle (a function whose outputs are fixed completely at random). Pseudorandom functions are vital tools in the construction of cryptographic primitives, especially secure encryption schemes.
Pseudorandom generator theorem In computational complexity a distribution is considered pseudorandom if no efficient computation can distinguish it from the true uniform distribution by a non-negligible advantage. Formally, a family of distributions Dn is pseudorandom if for any polynomial size circuit C, and any ε inversely polynomial in n
Pseudorandom number generator A pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) is an algorithm that generates a sequence of numbers which are not truly random. The outputs of pseudorandom number generators only approximate some of the properties of random numbers.
Pseudorandom permutation In cryptography, a pseudorandom permutation, abbreviated PRP, is an idealized block cipher. It means the cipher that cannot be distinguished from a random permutation (that is, a permutation selected at random with uniform probability, from the family of all permutations on blocks of that size) with less computational effort than specified by the cipher's security parameters (this usually means the effort required should be about the same as a brute force search through the cipher's key space).
Pseudoreligion Pseudoreligion (or pseudotheology) is a generally pejorative term applied to a non-mainstream belief system or philosophy which is functionally similar to religious practices, typically having a founder, principal text, liturgy and faith-based beliefs.
Pseudoroid In the fictional game Mega Man ZX, made by Capcom, the Pseudoroids are eight Irregular Reploids designed with the purpose of being artifical bodies who can use the power of the Biometal models of the Four Guardians of X from the Mega Man Zero series.
Pseudorotation The IUPAC defines pseudorotation as "a conformational change resulting in a structure that appears to have been produced by rotation of the entire initial molecule and is superimposable on the initial one, unless different positions are distinguished by substitution or isotopic labeling. No angular momentum is generated by this motion; this is the reason for the term.
Pseudoscalar In mathematics and physics, a pseudoscalar is a quantity that behaves more or less like a scalar, except that it transforms oddly under the action of a discrete group. Typically, the discrete group is the parity operation on three-dimensional space, and pseudoscalars change sign under a parity inversion.
Pseudoscience Pseudoscience is any body of knowledge, methodology, belief, or practice that claims to be scientific but does not follow the scientific method."Pseudoscientific - pretending to be scientific, falsely represented as being scientific", from the Oxford American Dictionary, published by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Pseudoscientific language comparison Pseudoscientific language comparison is a form of pseudoscience that seeks to establish historical connections between languages by pointing out similarities between them. While comparative linguistics also studies the historical relationships of languages, linguistic comparisons are considered pseudoscientific by linguists when they are not based on the established practices of comparative linguistics as well as the more general priniciples of the scientific method.
Pseudoserver In Computer Security, a pseudoserver is a server similar in function to a honeypot except that a honeypot has the function to attract an attacker through a deliberate vulnerability in order to elicit unauthorised access attempts from them so that monitoring may take place. This leaves honeypots open to problem of entrapment, if used by a Law Enforcement Agency.
Pseudoskepticism The terms pseudoskepticism (sometimes pseudo-skepticism) and pathological skepticism are used to denote the phenomena when certain forms of skepticism deviate from objectivity. The term has been in limited use in philosophy for more than a century, but has only recently been the object of more systematic attempts at defining the concept.
Pseudospeciation Pseudospeciation begins with the fact that cultural differences cause humans to separate into different social groups, with different language, dress, customs, etc. These cultural differences are analogous to the formation of different biological species (speciation).
Pseudospectrum In mathematics, the pseudospectrum of an operator is a set containing the spectrum of the operator and the numbers that are "almost" eigenvalues. Knowledge of the pseudospectrum can be particularly useful for understanding non-normal operators and their eigenfunctions.
Pseudosphere In geometry, a pseudosphere, or tractricoid in the traditional usage, is the result of revolving a tractrix about its asymptote. It has constant negative Gauss curvature, except at the cusp, and therefore is locally isometric to a hyperbolic plane (everywhere except for the cusp).
Pseudostratified epithelium A pseudostratified epithelium is a type of epithelium that, though comprising only a single layer of cells, has its cell nuclei positioned in a manner suggestive of stratified epithelia. As it rarely occurs as squamous or cuboidal epithelia, it is usually considered synonymous with the term pseudostratified columnar epithelium.
Pseudosuchia Pseudosuchia ("false crocodiles") is the name originally given to a group of prehistoric reptiles from the Triassic period. The name has been variously interpreted, and it is still sometimes, if infrequently, used in scientific literature today.
Pseudotachylite Pseudotachylite is a fault rock that has the appearance of the basaltic glass, tachylyte. It is generally found either along fault surfaces, often as the matrix to a breccia, or as veins injected into the walls of the fault.
Pseudotaxus Pseudotaxus chienii, the White-berry Yew, is a species of yew, the sole species in the genus Pseudotaxus, but closely related to the other yews in the genus Taxus. It is endemic to southern China, occurring in northern Guangdong, northern Guangxi, Hunan, southwest Jiangxi and southern Zhejiang.
Pseudothecosomata In the suborder Pseudothecosomata of sea butterflies some groups possess a shell, some are without, and others have developed a relatively tough gelatinous, cartilaginous internal structure so-called 'pseudo-conchs'. The lateral and posterior foot lobes are joined as a ciliated proboscis that leads to the mouth, and the wings are united ventrally to form a single plate.
Pseudotropheus Pseudotropheus is a genus of rock dwelling (Mbuna) cichlids found in Lake Malawi. Like some other large cichlid genera, such as Cichlasoma, a number of related fishes have been recently re-assigned to different genera such as Tropheops and Maylandia.
Pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias Pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias (PPSH) refers to a configuration of the external genitalia of an infant. In a sense, this configuration is roughly midway between normal male genitalia and normal female genitalia in structure and appearance.
Pseudovector In physics and mathematics, a pseudovector (or axial vector) is a quantity that transforms like a vector under a proper rotation, but gains an additional sign flip under an improper rotation (a transformation that can be expressed as an inversion followed by a proper rotation). The conceptual opposite of a pseudovector is a (true) vector or a polar vector.
Pseudovirion Pseudovirion are synthetic viruses used to inject genetic material, including DNA and RNA, with specific and desired traits into bacterial and eukaryotic cells. Pseudoviruses are closely related to viruses in structure and behavior but lack many characterists exhibited by true viruses, including the capability to replicate.
Pseudoword A pseudoword is a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language (at least superficially), while in fact it is not part of the lexicon. Within linguistics, a pseudoword is defined specifically as respecting the phonotactic restrictions of a language.
Pseustes sulphureus Pseustes sulphureus, the Yellow-bellied Puffing Snake, is a large (up to 3 m) snake found in northern South America and Trinidad and Tobago. Adults feed on small mammals and birds, while juveniles feed on lizards, mice and rats.
Pshavi Pshavi () is a small historic-geographic area in Georgia, included in today’s Mtskheta-Mtianeti region and laying chiefly on the southern foothills of the Greater Caucasus mountains along Aragvi River and the lower Iori River. The Pshavs, who are locally called the Pshaveli, speak a Georgian dialect and are Georgian Orthodox.
Pschent The Pschent (sh-yen)' was the name of the Double Crown in Ancient Egypt, combining the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and the White Crown of Upper Egypt. Wearing the Pschent in Ancient Egypt represented the Pharaohs power over all of Egypt.
Psi (letter) Psi (upper case Ψ, lower case Ď) is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 700. In both Classical and Modern Greek, the letter indicates the combination /ps/ (like in English "lapse").
Psi Corps In the fictional universe of Babylon 5, the Psi Corps is an agency of the Earth Alliance responsible for telepathic individuals. Telepaths, once discovered, are given a choice of joining the Corps, being sent to an internment camp, or being forcibly drugged for the rest of their lives to suppress their telepathic abilities.
Psi Division Psi Division (Psionics Division) is a fictional organisation in the Judge Dredd and Anderson, Psi Division comic strips in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. It is the branch of Mega-City One's Justice Department that deals in supernatural phenomenon, using Judges with psychic abilities.
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal was a Canadian sci-fi/drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes from 1996 to 2000. The realistic presentation of the series led many viewers to take it as a documentary, but it was in fact fiction.
Psi Chi Psi Chi (ΨΧ) is a national honor society in Psychology, founded in 1929 for the purposes of encouraging, stimulating, and maintaining excellence in scholarship, and advancing the science of psychology. It is one of the largest honor societies in the world, with over 1,000 chapters and 400,000 members.
Psi Lords The PSI-Lords are a fictional team of superbeings from the Valiant Comics universe. Originally appearing in Rai and the Future Force 21 (after a cameo in Magnus 36), the organization was featured in a fairly short lived self-titled series that lasted 10 issues (1994-1995).
Psi missing Psi missing occurs when a subject of parapsychological research gives more wrong answers in a test designed to detect psychic abilities than would occur normally by chance. Because a person with no psychic abilities would be expected to guess the target of a psi test at a rate no more or less than chance, subjects cause themselves to miss the target by using psi.
Psi wheel A Psi wheel is pyramid-shaped top-like device consisting of a small piece of paper or foil balanced on the tip of a pointed object commonly used for demonstrating telekinesis. Skeptics advance various counter-explanations; most common are explanations involving air currents caused by the convection of heated air which move the psi wheel.
Psi-Man Psi-Man is a series of six novels writted by Peter David (originally writing under the pseudonym "David Peters"). The books were published starting in 1990 by Diamond Books, and the series was re-released by Ace Books in 2000 (under David's real name).
Psicose D-Psicose (D-ribo-2-hexulose, C6H12O6) is an ultralow-energy monosaccharide sugar. It is a C-3 epimer of D-fructose, and is present in small quantities in agricultural products and commercially-prepared carbohydrate complexes.
Psikhushka Psikhushka ("ĐżŃихŃŃка") is a Russian colloquialism for "psychiatric hospital". It has been occasionally used in English since the dissident movement in the Soviet Union became known in the West.
Psilocybe Psilocybe is a cosmopolitan genus of small agarics, best known for its species with hallucinogenic properties — the so-called "magic mushrooms" or teonanácatl (literally "god mushroom" - agglutinative form of teó(ti) (god) and nanácatl (mushroom) in Náhuatl). Though best known from Mexico and surrounding regions, these mushrooms are consumed worldwide.
Psilocybe australiana Psilocybe australiana is a species of psychoactive mushroom found in Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and New Zealand. Commonly found growing on Eucalyptus and pine mulch, as well as on soil with wood or leafy debris, on tracks and roadsides, in Pinus radiata plantations, or in temperate rain forests.
Psilocybe cubensis Psilocybe cubensis is a species of psychedelic mushroom whose principle active compounds are psilocybin and psilocin. Psilocybe cubensis belongs to the Strophariaceae family of fungi and was previously known as Stropharia cubensis.
Psilocybe quebecensis Psilocybe quebecensis is a hallucinogenic mushroom native to the province of Quebec in Canada. It is rumored to grow wild in the valley of the river Jacques Cartier, and to fruit at a temperature of 6°C to 15°C from summer to late October.
Psilocybe semilanceata Psilocybe semilanceata, the liberty cap, is a psychedelic mushroom that contains the psychoactive compound psilocybin. It grows on grassy meadows and similar; particularly in wet, south-facing fields and other habitats well fertilised by sheep and other cattle feces, although unlike Psilocybe cubensis it does not grow directly on the dung itself.
Psilocybe tampanensis Psilocybe tampanensis is a psychedelic mushroom whose only known natural specimen was collected in the wild by Stephen Pollock, near Tampa, Florida in 1977. All spores and cultivations of this species nowadays are originated from this only specimen.
Psilocybe weilii Psilocybe weilii is a psilocybin-containing mushroom found only in northern Georgia in the United States. It is named after Andrew WeilAndrew Weil biographic note mentioning the naming of Psilocybe weilii, at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine.
Psilocybin Psilocybin (also known as psilocybine), is a psychedelic alkaloid of the tryptamine family. It is present in many species of fungi, including those of the genus Psilocybe, such as Psilocybe cubensis and Psilocybe semilanceata, but also reportedly isolated from a dozen or so other genera.
Psilomelane Psilomelane, also known as black hematite, is a group name for hard black manganese oxides such as hollandite and romanechite. Psilomelane consists of hydrous manganese oxide with variable amounts of barium and potassium.
Psilophyta Psilophyta is a division of the Kingdom Plantae. The name was originally applied in 1927 to a group of fossil plants from the Upper Silurian and Devonian periods, including forms such as Psilophyton and Rhynia, which lack true roots and leaves, but have a vascular system within a branching cylindrical stem.
Psilotaceae Psilotaceae is a family of fern-like plants consisting of two genera, Psilotum and Tmesipteris. The two genera are very different and Tmesipteris has been proposed to belong in its own family, Tmesipteridaceae, but most classifications continue to treat it in Psilotaceae.
Psimon Psimon is a fictional comic book supervillain from DC Comics created by George Perez and Marv Wolfman. He first appeared in New Teen Titans#3 (January 1981) as one of the founding members of the Fearsome Five, which became a frequent enemy of the Teen Titans, Superman, and the Outsiders.
Psion Psion PLC is a consumer hardware company mostly known for developing the Psion Organiser as well as a whole range of more advanced, clamshell-design Personal Digital Assistants. Psion today comprises one remaining operating division, the Canadian Psion Teklogix, having closed or disposed of all its previous operations.
Psion 3 The Psion 3 range of personal digital assistants were made by Psion PLC. The four main variants are the Psion 3 (1991), the Psion 3a (1993), the Psion 3c (1996), and the Psion 3mx (1998), all sized 165 x 85 x 22 mm.
Psionic technology (StarCraft) This article references psionic technology in the fictional StarCraft universe. Psionic technology is predominantly employed by Protoss; however, Terran are known to harness Psionic technology in various researches.
Psionics Psionics is the practice of using a variety of psychic abilities. Although the evidence of psychic abilities in a controlled setting is not supported by science, believers in psychic phenomena have developed numerous hypotheses on its function.
Psions (Freedom City) The Psions are a group of supervillain characters from the Freedom City campaign setting of the role-playing game Mutants and Masterminds. Like most Freedom City characters, they have deliberate similarities to established comic book characters, being similar to the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from Marvel Comics' X-Men.
Psiphon PsiphonPsiphon Official Homepage is a software project designed by University of Toronto's Citizen Lab under the direction of Professor Ronald Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab. Psiphon is a circumvention technology that works through social networks of trust and is designed to help Internet users bypass content-filtering systems setup by governments, such as China, North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam and others.
Psittacine beak and feather disease Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease is a viral disease affecting all Old World and New World Parrots (Psittacini, Hookbills). The virus attacks the feather follicles and the beak and claws-growing cells of the bird, causing progressive feather malformation and necrosis.
Psittacosaurus Psittacosaurus (IPA pronunciation: or , from the Greek for 'parrot lizard') is a genus of psittacosaurid ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of what is now Asia, about 130 to 100 million years ago. It is notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus.
Psittacula Members of the parrot genus Psittacula are found from Africa to South-East Asia. It is a widespread group, with a clear concentration of species in south Asia, but also with representatives in Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean.
Pskov Pskov (, ancient spelling ПльŃковъ) is an ancient city, located in the north-west of Russia about 20 km east from the Estonian border, on the river Velikaya. The city of Pskov serves as the administrative center of Pskov Oblast.
Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery Pskovo-Pechorsky Monastery or The Holy Dormition Pskovo-Pechersky monastery (Russian: ĐźŃково-ПечерŃкий Свято-ĐŁŃпенŃкий ĐĽŃжŃкой монаŃтырь) is a male monastery, located on the Pechora River in Pechory, Pskov Oblast in Russia some 18 km from the Estonian border.
Psora-Homeopathic According to Hahnemann, Psora is the mother of all disease conditions. At the start of the Homeopathic practice, Hahnemann observed that patients who have been treated by the Homeopathic remedies are again suffered from the diseases repeatedly and is not getting cure by the dynamised potentized drugs.
Psoralea esculenta Psoralea esculenta is an herbaceous perennial plant native to prairies and dry woodlands of central North America, which bears a starchy tuberous root edible as a root vegetable. English names for the plant include tipsin, teepsenee, breadroot, breadroot scurf pea, pomme blanche, and prairie turnip.
Psoralen Psoralen (also called psoralene) is the parent compound in a family of natural products known as furocoumarins. It is structurally related to coumarin by the addition of a fused furan ring, and may be considered as a derivative of umbelliferone.
Psorosperm Psorosperm is a name formerly given to a number of parasitic protozoa which produce cystlike or sporelike structures in the tissue of hosts, but now essentially obsolete. Some which affect vertebrate hosts are now identified as coccidia.
Psou River Psou River (, ) is a river in the West Caucasus. It flows along the Southern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range and forms a part of the border between Abkhazia (the breakaway republic of Georgia) and Russia.
Psoy Korolenko Psoy Galaktionovich Korolenko (Russian: ĐźŃой Галактионович Короленко) is a pseudonym of a Russian Jewish song writer and performer by the name of Pavel Eduardovich Lion (Павел ĐĐ´Ńардович Лион). At the same time Pavel Lion is a slavist with a Ph.
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