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  • 111partial epilepsy — n FOCAL EPILEPSY * * * focal e …

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  • 112partial mastectomy — n a mastectomy in which only a tumor and a wedge of surrounding healthy tissue are removed * * * removal of only enough breast tissue to ensure that the margins of the resected surgical specimen are free of tumor; called also segmental m …

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  • 113partial pressure — n the pressure exerted by a (specified) component in a mixture of gases * * * the pressure exerted by each of the components of a gas mixture, such as of gases in the blood …

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  • 114partial androgen resistance — partial androgen insensitivity syndrome …

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  • 115partial insanity — par·tial insanity n: diminished capacity Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

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  • 116partial tone — n. Acoustics Music any of the pure, or harmonic, tones forming a complex tone; harmonic …

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  • 117partial-birth abortion — [pär′shəl bʉrth΄] n. an abortion performed relatively late in pregnancy, in which the fetus is extracted in stages through the birth canal: a nontechnical term …

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  • 118Partial differential equation — A visualisation of a solution to the heat equation on a two dimensional plane In mathematics, partial differential equations (PDE) are a type of differential equation, i.e., a relation involving an unknown function (or functions) of several… …

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  • 119Partial derivative — In mathematics, a partial derivative of a function of several variables is its derivative with respect to one of those variables with the others held constant (as opposed to the total derivative, in which all variables are allowed to vary).… …

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  • 120Partial pressure — In a mixture of ideal gases, each gas has a partial pressure which is the pressure which the gas would have if it alone occupied the volume.[1] The total pressure of a gas mixture is the sum of the partial pressures of each individual gas in the… …

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