English words starting with pse - page 6

Meanings of Pseudopore:

noun

(in some bryozoans) a spot in the calcified frontal wall in which calcification has not occurred but which does not constitute an opening to the interior, being filled with tissue.

Meanings of Pseudopregnancy:

noun

Another term for phantom pregnancy.

Meanings of Pseudoproboscis:

noun

A structure resembling or functioning as a proboscis.

Meanings of Pseudoprostyle:

adjective

Designating or relating to a portico having a projection less than the space between its columns. occasionally as noun: a portico in this style.

Meanings of Pseudopupa:

noun

In oil and blister beetles: a larval instar which resembles a pupa in being immobile and coarctate but is followed by another (apodous) larval stage. in certain other insects (e.g. thrips, whiteflies, mealy bugs) and mites: a quiescent, non-feeding larval stage preceding the emergence of the adult. also: an abnormal or mutant form resembling a pupa but incapable of further development.

Meanings of Pseudopupal:

adjective

Relating to or involving a pseudopupa.

Meanings of Pseudorabies:

noun

An infectious herpesvirus disease of the central nervous system in domestic animals that causes convulsions and intense itching and is usually fatal.

Usage examples:

One livestock disease detected in several nebraska swineherds is pseudorabies.

Meanings of Pseudoracemic:

adjective

Consisting of mixed or intergrown crystals of different optical isomers.

Meanings of Pseudoramose:

adjective

(especially of a fossil bryozoan) exhibiting false branching.

Meanings of Pseudorandom:

adjective

(of a number, a sequence of numbers, or any digital data) satisfying one or more statistical tests for randomness but produced by a definite mathematical procedure.

Usage examples:

Most computers have built-in functions which will generate sequences of pseudorandom numbers

Meanings of Pseudoreduction:

noun

The apparent halving of the chromosome number as a result of the pairing of homologous chromosomes at synapsis.

Meanings of Pseudorganic:

adjective

Inorganic but closely resembling or simulating an organism or organic structure.

Meanings of Pseudorhombohedral:

adjective

Of, relating to, or designating a crystal in which the crystal structure simulates the symmetry of the trigonal (rhombohedral) system but actually has lower symmetry.

Meanings of Pseudosalt:

noun

A compound which is normally covalent but which under certain conditions exists as, or in equilibrium with, an ionized, salt-like form.

Meanings of Pseudoscalar:

adjective

Relating to or of the nature of a variable quantity that transforms as a scalar under rotation but changes sign under reflection; described or represented mathematically by such a quantity.

noun

A pseudoscalar quantity. also: a subatomic particle whose wave function is such a quantity, the particle having zero spin and odd parity.

Meanings of Pseudoscience:

noun

A collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method.

Usage examples:

The new pseudoscience of ‘counselling’

Meanings of Pseudoscientific:

adjective

Falsely or mistakenly claimed or regarded as being based on scientific method.

Usage examples:

The pseudoscientific nonsense of their theories

Meanings of Pseudoscientist:

noun

A person who falsely or mistakenly claims to be a scientist.

Usage examples:

The circular logic often used by pseudoscientists

Meanings of Pseudosclerosis:

noun

Any of several neurological disorders thought to resemble multiple sclerosis clinically but not pathologically; specifically. wilson's disease and (more fully "spastic pseudosclerosis") creutzfeldt–jakob disease.

Meanings of Pseudoscope:

noun

A binocular optical instrument for producing a stereoscopic image in which the appearance of depth is reversed by transposing the images seen by the left and right eyes.

Meanings of Pseudoscopic:

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of a pseudoscope; involving or exhibiting reversal of the apparent depth of an image.

Meanings of Pseudoscopy:

noun

The use of a pseudoscope; the phenomenon of a pseudoscopic illusion.

Meanings of Pseudoscorpion:

noun

Another term for false scorpion.

Meanings of Pseudoseptate:

adjective

Having the appearance of being septate.

Meanings of Pseudosiphonic:

noun

A structure resembling the siphon of a mollusc; especially (in some bivalves) a projection of the mantle bearing a groove rather than forming a tube; (in brachiopods) a channel formed by setae extending from the edge of the mantle; (in some fossil cephalopods) a linear trace in the rock which fills the opening of the shell, continuous with the fossilized siphuncle but not part of it.