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Pan

(pan),

Genus of anthropoid apes that includes the gorilla and chimpanzee. Pan panisus and Pan troglodytes are chimpanzee species used in biologic experiments.

[G. myth. god of forest]

PAN

polyarteritis nodosa.

Pan,

Greek mythological god of the forest.

panic - extreme and unreasoning anxiety and fear.

polyarteritis nodosa

; PAN rare form of necrotizing vasculitis affecting medium-sized arteries (male:female ratio of 2:1) during the fourth to fifth decade of life, especially in hepatitis B-positive individuals, causing multisystem inflammation; presents as a vague systemic illness with muscle pains, mononeuritis multiplex (due to vasa nervorum involvement), abdominal pains, severe hypertension, chest pain, renal impairment, arthritis, claudication, cutaneous purpura, ulcers and gangrene; treated with immunosuppressive drugs and antiviral therapy

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His schtick is the naive, couthy and trembling ramblings of a character who probably counts a two-bar re and a pan loaf among his extravagances.

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Rab and Mary were in Amsterdam fighting the Juventus team, of course, but you could see homely touches that marked they had been there - a pan loaf had been left out.

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It's just Blue Peter for face-shavers, all workplace train sets, concrete moulds, bomb disposal chemistry sets and "manwiches" of fish fingers on a pan loaf, something even 12-yearolds probably consider themselves a bit too old for.

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How many times must you insure the washing machine and was that another half-eaten pan loaf chucked out?