pseudo-, pseud-

In psychiatry, masturbation with phantasies of corpses as the sexual object.

1. A false or fictitious name, especially one that is assumed by an author.
2. Written under an assumed or fictitious name; bearing the name of some one other than the real author.
3. A name erroneously applied to some other species than that to which it properly belongs.

A descriptive reference to a false or fictitious name; especially, one which is assumed by an author.

A word derived from pseudonym, meaning a "false name", and which describes a condition of disguised identity resulting from the use of a pseudonym.

1. Using, or identified by, an assumed, false, or fictitious (often pen) name.
2. Writing, or written, under a fictitious name.

1. A descriptive term for anyone using, or identified by, an assumed, false, or fictitious writing name.
2. A reference to writing, or that which is written, under a fictitious name.

1. An object or organism that resembles or is mistaken for a parasite.
2. A false parasite; which may be either a commensal or a temporary parasite (the latter being an organism accidentally ingested and surviving briefly in the intestine).

An archegonium-investing envelope of certain liveworts.

Appearing to originate from the pericardium.

A neurotic symptom complex resembling peritonitis.

An intraocular lens of inert plastic placed in the anterior chamber of the eye, behind the iris, or clipped to the iris after cataract extraction.

An eye in which the natural lens is replaced with an intraocular lens.

A noninflammatory circumscribed redness of the skin.

Suicide disguised as murder.