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PUN

Abbreviation for:
plasma urea nitrogen
patient unmet needs

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He is more readily remembered as a punner and prognosticator, a maven of Madison Avenue, a cameo in Annie Hall, or "A Part of Our [Canadian] Heritage," (1) than as a rigorous researcher.

Marshaling McLuhan for media theory

A Proustian and a punner, Godard clearly intends "Avant-hier" to semantically slip into its near homologue, "Avenir" (Future); one is left with the sense that it is not the past but the past-as-future Godard posits here, a kind of anteroom of the ensuant in which we glimpse a new Dark Age on its way.

Double exposure

An inveterate punner, his poems call to mind the nonsense poems of Edward Lear but with a 21st century spin.