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Perineum vs Null - What's the difference?

perineum | null |

As nouns the difference between perineum and null

is that perineum is perineum while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

perineum

Alternative forms

* perinaeum *

Noun

(perinea)
  • (anatomy) The region between the anus and the vagina in women and between the scrotum and anus in men.
  • * 1827 , Guy's Hospital: Case of Fistula in Perineo, Successfully Treated'', ''The Lancet , Volume 12, page 61,
  • He was attacked with complete retention of urine, after a debauch, and six weeks afterwards an abscess formed in the perineum , which eventually burst, leaving a fistulous opening, through which the urine continued to be discharged to the period of his admission into the Hospital.
  • * 2005 , Brian J. Moran, 27: Using the perineal pressure applicator device'', Adam P. Dicker, Gregory S. Merrick, Frank M. Waterman, Richard K. Valicenti, Leonar G. Gomella (editors), ''Basic and Advanced Techniques in Prostate Brachytherapy , page 251,
  • The prostate is surrounded by venous plexi and the perineum has a rich blood supply.
  • * 2011 , Ian Lyons, Biomedical Science: Lecture Notes , page 371,
  • The perineum is diamond shaped and stretches from the pubic symphysis to the coccyx.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * perineal

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----