pseudo-, pseud-
(Greek: false, deception, lying, untrue, counterfeit; used as a prefix)
1. An alarm; such as, a fire alarm which is set off when it is not necessary: "The false alarm at the school resulted in firefighters going there for nothing."
2. Something that causes people to wrongly believe that a bad or dangerous thing is going to happen: "The report in the news that indicated the business was closing down was just another one of those false alarms."
2. Something that causes people to wrongly believe that a bad or dangerous thing is going to happen: "The report in the news that indicated the business was closing down was just another one of those false alarms."
intermittent claudication of the cauda equina, pseudoclaudication syndrome
Pain and paresthesia (abnormal skin sensations), often succeeded by sensory loss, motor weakness, and loss of the reflexes, arising in the motor and sensory distribution of lumbar or sacral roots after the patient has walked some distance.
The neurologic signs, which are sometimes minimal but are accentuated by walking, are those of a cauda equina syndrome or a dull pain in the lower back and upper buttock region, analgesia in the buttocks, genitalia (or thigh), accompanied by a disturbance of bowel and bladder function.
nom de plume, pen name, pseudonym
nom de plume (nahm" duh PLOOM)
A name under which authors write which is not their real name: "Mark Twain is the nom de plume for the author Samuel Clement who wrote stories about boys living on the Mississippi River."
pen name (PEN naym")
The name an author assumes which is not the author's real name: "Some women authors in the 1800's used a masculine pen name instead of their own."
pseudonym (SOOD n im")
A false or fictitious name: "The famous highwayman used a pseudonym so he would not be recognized when he was talking with people at the inn."
The elegant and noble chevalier wrote critical essays under his nom de plume. He thought it was safer to write under a foreign sounding pen name than to attempt to write under a readily recognizable pseudonym.
polypseudonymous
Using many pseudonyms.
precocious pseudopuberty
The appearance of some secondary sex characters before the normal age of puberty but without maturation of the gonads.
pseudacousis, pseudacousma
1. A disorder of hearing in which the subject hears his own voice altered in timber and tonality.
2. The erroneous localization of a laterally situated source of sound; mistaken or false hearing.
2. The erroneous localization of a laterally situated source of sound; mistaken or false hearing.
pseudacusis
Hearing sounds that don’t exist; false hearing.
pseudagraphia, pseudographia
1. Partial agraphia in which one can do no original writing, but can copy correctly.
2. The writing of meaningless symbols or signs.
2. The writing of meaningless symbols or signs.
pseudalbuminuria, pseudoalbuminuria
Proteinuria which is not associated with kidney disturbance.
pseudamnesia
1. Amnesia that is either feigned or stemming from dissociative hysteria.
2. Transitory or reversible amnesia, from any cause.
2. Transitory or reversible amnesia, from any cause.
pseudandrous, pseudandry
Use of a masculine name by a woman as a pseudonym.
pseudannual
pseudarthrosis
pseudautochiria
A murder that is disguised as a suicide.
pseudencephalus
A new-born infant with an extreme degree of cranioschisis that has permitted intrauterine abrasion and erosion of most recognizable brain tissue, leaving mainly a mass of blood vessels and meninges. The cerebral lesion often is continuous with rachischisis of the cervical spine.
