Month: December 2020

  • Portability

    The mechanism by which an employee can take accumulated health benefits with him or her from one job to another. An attribute of a health care payment system in which the beneficiary can move from one employer to another without loss of benefits or having to go through a waiting period. Without portable coverage, individuals…

  • Pornography

    Sexually arousing music, art, literature, films, or video, hard-core pornography; soft-core pornography. Sexually explicit images, writings, or other forms of content created with the intention of inducing sexual arousal are commonly referred to as pornography.  

  • Pornae

    Early Greek women who were hired to provide sexual gratification for men.  

  • Population trends

    The predictions of population growth or decline.  

  • Population genetics

    The branch of genetics that deals with frequencies of alleles in groups of individuals.  

  • Population attributable risk percent (PARP)

    In epidemiology, a measure of the benefit derived by modifying a risk factor.  

  • Population at risk (PAR)

    In epidemiology, those persons capable of developing a specific health condition.  

  • Popliteal artery

    The contamination of the femoral artery in the popliteal space. An artery which branches from the femoral artery behind the knee and leads into the tibial arteries. Artery extending from the femoral artery and branching to supply the legs and foot. Relating to or derived from swine (pigs); medically, used in reference to porcine heart valves…

  • Popliteal

    The area behind the knee joint. Referring to the back of the knee. Associated with or located in the region behind the knee joint.  

  • Pondimin

    A commercial preparation of fenfluramine.