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(pel i/tus). i. Relating to or consisting of pectin or pectose. a. Noting a firm coagulated condition sometimes a umed by a gel, which is permanent in that the substance cannot be made to rea ume the gel form. the chest especially the anterior wall, the breast. p. carina'tum [L. carina, keel], pigeon-breast, chicken-breast; flattening of the chest on either side with forward projection of the sternum, like the keel of a boat, naming longitudinally along the walls of the aqu^educt us cerebri. called pes. p. bone, the os ped is, or coffin bone of the horse, p. system, a system of cerebral ganglia and white fibers, including the caudatum, a portion of the lenticular a ociation fibers of the cortex, and the pyramidal tract. child, + arthron, joint, + kakos, bad.] Joint disease in children. atrophia, atrophy.] Marasmus; tabes mesenteric a; written also pwdatrophia. boy, + erao, I long for.] Coitus per anum practised on boys, ian* movements. iatrikos, relating to medicine.] Relating to the study and treatment of disease in children. iatreia, medical science which treats of children in their hygienic and pathological relations; the specialty of the diseases of children. who specializes in the diseases of children. peduncle. 2. In botany, the stalk of each flower in an inflorescence. pedicel or peduncle.