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Positive Covenant (Of A Bond): A bond covenant that specifies certain actions the firm must take. Also called an affirmative covenant.

Pararhyme: Edmund blunden's term for double consonance, where different vowels appear within identical consonant pairs (a feature of wilfrid owens' verse).

Paraphrase: A brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of a literary or critical work, as opposed to quotation, in which one reproduces all or part of a literary or critical work word-for-wor . . . View Full Definition

Paraphotography: General term for non-silver-halide image forming processes.

Parasite: An organism living on or in, and negatively affecting, another organism

Parasites: Organisms that live in, with, or on another organism. The parasites benefit from the association without contributing to the host, usually they cause some harm to the host.

Parasympathetic System: The subdivision of the autonomic nervous system that reverses the effects of the sympathetic nervous system. Part of the autonomic nervous system that controls heartbeat, respiration and oth . . . View Full Definition

Parasympathetic Nervous System: Branch of the autonomic nervous system that slows the heart rate.

Parasomnia: Abnormal behavior or physiological events occurring during sleep or sleep-wake transitions.

Parasitism: A form of symbiosis in which the population of one species benefits at the expense of the population of another species; similar to predation, but differs in that parasites act more slowly t . . . View Full Definition