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Glossary You can always search for entries (regexp permitted). Begins with Contains Exactly matches All All There are 408 entries in the glossary. Pages: «1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 » Term Definition Panic Attack an episode of acute anxiety that occurs unpredictably with feelings of intense apprehension or terror, accompanied by dyspnea, dizziness, sweating, trembling, and chest pain or palpitations. The attack may last several minutes and may occur again in certain conditions.   Paresthesia Paresthesia is an odd sensation of burning, prickling, tingling, 'pins and needles' or creeping on the skin.   Pathologist A doctor who identifies diseases by studying cells and tissues under a microscope.   Pediatric Having to do with children.   Pediculosis Infestation with lice -- called also lousiness   Percutaneous coronary intervention Commonly known as coronary angioplasty or simply angioplasty, is a therapeutic procedure to treat the stenotic (narrowed) coronary arteries of the heart found in coronary heart disease.   Pericardium The pericardium is the thin, double- layered lining that surrounds the heart.   Peripheral blood Blood circulating throughout the body.   Peripheral stem cell transplantation A method of replacing blood-forming cells destroyed by cancer treatment. Immature blood cells (stem cells) in the circulating blood that are similar to those in the bone marrow are given to the patient after treatment. This helps the bone marrow recover and continue producing healthy blood cells. Transplantation may be autologous (an individual's own blood cells saved earlier), allogeneic (blood cells donated by someone else), or syngeneic (blood cells donated by an identical twin). Also called peripheral stem cell support.   Peritoneum The peritoneum is the lining on the inside of the abdomen. It also covers and holds the digestive organs in place.   Pertussis AKA Whooping Cough An infectious disease especially of children caused by a bacterium of the genus Bordetella (B. pertussis) and marked by a convulsive spasmodic cough sometimes followed by a crowing intake of breath   Phagocytosis A process in which material is taken into the cell and digested.   Physiotherapy Physiotherapy is a treatment that uses physical movements, massage and exercise to relieve illness or injury.   Pituitary gland The pituitary gland is a pea-sized gland in the centre of the head, which hangs below the brain and produces hormones.   Placebo A placebo is a treatment that has no physical effect on a person and is usually used in clinical trials to test the effects of new medicines and drugs.   Plasma Plasma is the liquid part of blood, which holds other blood cells together.   Platelet Platelets are cells in the blood that control bleeding by plugging the broken blood vessel and helping the blood to clot.   Pneumonia A disease of the lungs that is characterized especially by inflammation and consolidation of lung tissue followed by resolution, is accompanied by fever, chills, cough, and difficulty in breathing, and is caused chiefly by infection   Polio An acute infectious virus disease caused by the poliovirus, characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles often with permanent disability and deformity, and marked by inflammation of nerve cells in the ventral horns of the spinal cord -- called also infantile paralysis, poliomyelitis   Poliomyelitis An acute infectious virus disease caused by the poliovirus, characterized by fever, motor paralysis, and atrophy of skeletal muscles often with permanent disability and deformity, and marked by inflammation of nerve cells in the ventral horns of the spinal cord -- called also infantile paralysis, polio   All Glossary V2.0