Category: P

A number corresponding to a score or measure, that is the percentage of the same measure that the score equals or exceeds. One of 100 divisions into which a group of scores is ranked, such as children’s scores from a standardized test; the particular division into which the child’s score falls is often the reported…

A theory of identification.  

The degree to which another person’s attitudes are thought to be like one’s own.  

Precipitation or digestion of casein. The action by which proteolytic enzymes break proteins into peptones.  

A substance secreted by the stomach from which pepsin is derived. High levels of the blood appear to be associated with a predisposition to peptic ulcer. A secretion from the gastric gland which is the inactive form of pepsin. The inactive precursor form of pepsin. Precursor of the digestive enzyme pepsin; it is stored in…

A short-acting barbiturate.  

Having five digits or fingers. Having five digits on each hand and foot.  

The amount of money paid at regular intervals to a retired employee.  

A cigarette drain composed of rubber tubing containing a length of absorbent tubing.  

The scar-like line on the underside of the penis, running from the anus to the glans penis. The formed in male prenatal development from the fusion of the urinogenital sinus that closes to form the tubular urethra within the penis.