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• pearl disease — n tuberculosis of serous membranes (as the pleura or peritoneum) that is characterized by small rounded grayish elevated lesions and occurs chiefly in cattle called also pearly disease * * * bovine tuberculosis of the peritoneum and mesentery in… …   Medical dictionary

• Pearl — Raymond, U.S. biologist, 1879–1940. See P. index. * * * pearl pərl n 1) PERLE 2) one of the rounded concentric masses of squamous epithelial cells characteristic of certain tumors 3) a miliary leproma of the iris 4) a rounded abnormal mass of… …   Medical dictionary

• pearl — 1. A concretion formed around a grain of sand or other foreign body within the shell of certain mollusks. 2. One of a number of small tough masses, such as mucus occurring in the sputum in asthma. 3. SYN: keratin p …   Medical dictionary

• pearl-worker's disease — recurrent inflammation of bone with hypertrophy, seen in persons who work in pearl dust …   Medical dictionary

• Pearl powder — (zh cp|c=珍珠粉|p=zhēnzhū fěn) is a preparation of crushed pearls used in China for skin care, and in traditional Chinese medicine as an anti inflammatory and detoxification agent.Pearl powder is a finely milled powder made from freshwater pearls,… …   Wikipedia

• pearl-white — pearlˈ white noun 1. Material made from fish scales, used in making artificial pearls 2. Basic nitrate of bismuth, used in medicine and as a cosmetic 3. Bismuth trichloride, used as a pigment 4. Lithopone 5. Calcium sulphate • • • Main Entry:… …   Useful english dictionary

• Medicine Under Canvas — is a book and a documentary film about the 77th Evacuation Hospital[1] during WWII. The very rare book is 200 pages long and is arguably the most detailed history of an evacuation hospital in the European and North African theatres of war. There… …   Wikipedia

• pearl-ash — SYN: potash …   Medical dictionary

• pearl cyst — a cyst or a solid mass of epithelial cells in the iris caused by implantation of an eyelash, cotton, or other foreign particle …   Medical dictionary

• pearl moss — salt rock moss 1. Chondrus crispus. 2. chondrus (def. 2) …   Medical dictionary

• pearl tumor — pearly tumor cholesteatoma …   Medical dictionary