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Each pentad consists of five, rarely six, days, and are mostly named after phenological (biological or botanical) phenomena corresponding to the pentad. Solar terms originated in China , then spread to Korea , Vietnam , and Japan , countries in the East Asian cultural sphere .
Pentad ('group of 5') or pentade may refer to: Pentad (chord), a five-note chord; Pentad (computing), or pentade, a 5-bit group; a division of the solar term; Dramatistic pentad, Kenneth Burke's method of analyzing motivation; Medical pentad, a group of five signs or symptoms which characterise a specific medical condition; a tuple of length 5
In Yushui each pentad includes : in China, first pentad / 獺祭魚 : 'otters make offerings of fish'. As fish begin to swim upstream, they are hunted by otters, which are believed to offer the fish to heaven ; second pentad / 鴻雁來 : 'the wild geese arrive'. Wild geese begin to make their northward migration, following the onset of spring ;
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Last pentad: 虹始見/虹始见, 'Rainbows begin to appear'. Japan. First pentad: 玄鳥至 (tsubame itaru), 'The swallow flies back from the south'. Second pentad: 鴻雁北 (kōgan kitae kaeru), 'The goose migrates to the north'. Last pentad: 虹始見 (niji hajimete arawaru), 'Rainbows begin to appear in the sky after shower'.
Reynolds' pentad is a collection of signs and symptoms consistent with obstructive ascending cholangitis, a serious infection of the biliary tract. It is a combination of Charcot's triad ( right upper quadrant pain, jaundice , and fever ) with shock ( low blood pressure , tachycardia ) and an altered mental status . [ 1 ]
Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam (Encyclopedia of Vietnam), a state-sponsored encyclopedia which was published in 2005. Vietnamese Wikipedia, a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Vietnam War encyclopedias. Encyclopedic works and encyclopedias focused on Vietnam War-related topics.
Vietnam, [e] [f] officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, [g] [h] is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about 331,000 square kilometres (128,000 sq mi) and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.