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a. (alternative form of pyriform English)
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Piriform is a privately owned software house based in London, UK.
It develops cleaning and optimisation software for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, plus Android mobiles. Piriform's projects include CCleaner, Recuva, Speccy, CCleaner Cloud and Defraggler, a disk defragmentation tool. On 22 September 2015, Piriform launched CCleaner Cloud, which uses the CCleaner technology to maintain PCs remotely.
Piriform means " pear-shaped". The OED lists "to go pear-shaped" as British slang for when a situation doesn't go the way you expect.
Piriform, sometimes spelled pyriform, means pear-shaped (from Latin pirum "pear" and forma "shape") or flame-shaped (from Greek πῦρ "fire").
Piriform may refer to:
- Piriform (company), a software company
- Piriform, in hydrostatic equilibrium
In anatomy:
- Piriform aperture, more commonly known as anterior nasal aperture
- Piriform cortex, a region in the brain
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Piriformis muscle, a gluteal muscle
- Piriformis syndrome, a neuromuscular disorder in which piriformis muscle compresses the sciatic nerve
- Piriform sinus, piriform recess or piriform fossa, synonyms referring to one of the four sites of the hypopharynx
Usage examples of "piriform".
They had been under so much pressure, rushing against time to do all the obvious jobs: measure the chambers, remove the ossuaries from the loculi, gather up the pieces of lamps and piriform pots that littered the floor.
He extirpated the spongioblastoma in his own private hospital or at least the hospital Tissue Committee examined what he said he had removed from Don Lavin's skull, and this indisputably was spongioblastoma multiforma, consisting of round, elongated, and piriform cells, characteristically recalling the varied cytological picture in osteogenic sarcoma of bone.
He extirpated the spongioblastoma in his own private hospital- or at least the hospital Tissue Committee examined what he said he had removed from Don Lavin's skull, and this indisputably was spongioblastoma multiforma, consisting of round, elongated, and piriform cells, characteristically recalling the varied cytological picture in osteogenic sarcoma of bone.