Word Meanings - PLEURO- - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif., connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as, pleuroperitoneum.

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• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PLEUROPERITONEUM
  The pleural and peritoneal membranes, or the membrane lining the body cavity and covering the surface of the inclosed viscera; the peritoneum; -- used especially in the case of those animals in which the body cavity is not divided. Note: Peritoneum
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• DENOTE
  1. To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour. The better to denote her to the doctor. Shak. 2. To be the sign of; to betoken;
• SPECIFY
  To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to specify articles purchased. He has there given us an exact geography of Greece, where the countries and
• SPECIFIABLE
  Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
• PLEURAPOPHYSIS
  One of the ventral processes of a vertebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.
• DENOTATION
  The marking off or separation of anything. Hammond.
• SPECIFICALNESS
  The quality of being specific.
• DENOTATE
  To mark off; to denote. These terms denotate a longer time. Burton. What things should be denotated and signified by the color. Urquhart.
• DENOTATIVE
  Having power to denote; designating or marking off. Proper names are preëminently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. Latham.
• COMBINED
  United closely; confederated; chemically united.
• DENOTABLE
  Capable of being denoted or marked. Sir T. Browne.
• SPECIFICATION
  1. The act of specifying or determining by a mark or limit; notation of limits. This specification or limitation of the question hinders the disputers from wandering away from the precise point of inquiry. I. Watts. 2. The designation
• SPECIFICATE
  To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify. ir M. Hale.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• EPIPLEURAL
  Arising from the pleurapophysis of a vertebra. Owen.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• ADENOTOMIC
  Pertaining to adenotomy.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• CONSPECIFIC
  Of the same species.
• SUBPLEURAL
  Situated under the pleural membrane.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• INCOMBINE
  To be incapable of combining; to disagree; to differ. Milton.
• ADENOTOMY
  Dissection of, or incision into, a gland or glands.
• ARTHROPLEURA
  The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.