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platter(dictionary)
platter(dictionary)
Lucky Platter(tourism)
Creep on a Platter(recipes)
Tex-Mex Guacamole Platter(recipes)
Platter - Horse Racing(gambling)
Chocolate Platter Cookies(recipes)
Platter of Cold Meats and Cheese(recipes)
Nocturnal(medicine)

nocturnal dyspnea (medicine) and platter (iou)


nocturnal dyspnea (medicine)


nocturnal dyspnea
Dyspnea occurring at night, several hours after assuming recumbent position. Occurs in heart failure and results from reabsorption of water from dependent areas after removal of effect of gravity, causing hypervolaemia, aggravating left-ventricular failure.


platter (iou)



platter noun. ME.
[Anglo-Norman plater, from plat dish, use as noun of Old & mod. French plat: see PLAT adjective, -ER2.]
A large flat dish or plate, esp. for Food; the Food placed on a platter, a platterful; N. Amer. a main course of a meal, served on a platter. ME.
on a platter, on a silver platter fig. = on a plate s.v. PLATE noun 25.
A gramophone record. slang. M20.
The metal disc of a turntable unit, on which the record is placed for playing. L20.
Computing. A rigid metal disk coated, usually on both sides, with magnetic material on which information is stored inside a disk file. L20.
Comb.: platter-face arch. a broad, round, flat face; platter-faced adjective (arch.) having a broad, round, flat face.
platterful noun as much or as many as will fill a platter E17.