PU´BIC, _a._ Pertaining to the pubis.
PU´BIS, _n._ The most anterior bone of the pelvis. In birds the _ossa
pubis_ or _pubes_ are separate, there being no pubic symphysis, and
directed more or less backward.
PUL´LUS, _n._ A chick; young bird, before its first complete plumage.
PUL´MONARY, _a._ Pertaining to the lungs; relating to respiration.
PUL´SUS, PULSE, _n._ Beating of the arteries.
PUNC´TATE, _a._ Dotted; pitted; studded with points.
PUNC´TUM SA´LIENS, _n._ First trace of the embryonic heart.
PUPIL´LA, _n._ Central black disc circumscribed by the iris; the pupil
(a _hole_, not a substance).
PUPIL´LARY, _a._ Pertaining to the pupil.
PYGOP´ODES, _n. pl._ A group of birds distinguished by the far backward
position, and deep burial, in common integument, of the legs.
PYGOP´ODOUS, _a._ Belonging to _Pygopodes_, or having the character of
that group.
PY´GOSTYLE, _n._ Last coccygeal vertebra, of peculiar size and shape in
recent birds; also called the _vomer_.
PYLOR´IC, _a._ Pertaining to the pylorus.
PYLO´RUS, _n._ Opening from gizzard into duodenum; _especially_, valve
guarding this orifice.
PYR´IFORM, _a._ Pear-shaped.