pseudo-, pseud-
(Greek: false, deception, lying, untrue, counterfeit; used as a prefix)
faux pas (French, foh PAH)
1. A socially awkward or tactless act; a social blunder.
2. An embarrassing mistake that breaks a social convention.
3. A slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct.
4. Etymology: from French, "false step". The word faux by itself, with French pronunciation, was borrowed into English in the 1980s to mean "fake".
polypseudonymous
Using many pseudonyms.
precocious pseudopuberty
The appearance of some secondary sex characters before the normal age of puberty but without maturation of the gonads.
pseudacousis, pseudacousma
1. A disorder of hearing in which the subject hears his own voice altered in timber and tonality.
2. The erroneous localization of a laterally situated source of sound; mistaken or false hearing.
pseudacusis
Hearing sounds that don’t exist; false hearing.
pseudagraphia, pseudographia
1. Partial agraphia in which one can do no original writing, but can copy correctly.
2. The writing of meaningless symbols or signs.
pseudalbuminuria, pseudoalbuminuria
Proteinuria which is not associated with kidney disturbance.
pseudamnesia
1. Amnesia that is either feigned or stemming from dissociative hysteria.
2. Transitory or reversible amnesia, from any cause.
pseudandrous, pseudandry
Use of a masculine name by a woman as a pseudonym.
pseudannual
pseudarthrosis
pseudautochiria
A murder that is disguised as a suicide.
pseudencephalus
A new-born infant with an extreme degree of cranioschisis that has permitted intrauterine abrasion and erosion of most recognizable brain tissue, leaving mainly a mass of blood vessels and meninges. The cerebral lesion often is continuous with rachischisis of the cervical spine.
pseudepigrapha, pseudepigraphal
A collective term for books or writings bearing a false title, or ascribed to another than the true author; spurious writings; specifically applied to certain Jewish writings composed about the beginning of the Christian era, but ascribed to various patriarchs and prophets of the Old Testament.
pseudepigraphy
Giving false credit for a piece of writing to an author who did not do the written work.