Category: P

A mass of interlacing, coiled fibers, cells of Schwann, and fibrous tissue forming a mass at the end of an amputation stump. Also called amputation or traumatic neuroma, this is not a true neuroma.  

A false or phantom tumor; a temporary swelling, usually of an inflammatory nature, that simulates a tumor.  

A type of tumor that develops in the peritoneum from implantation metastases resulting from rupture of ovarian cystadenoma or cells escaping during surgical removal. Numerous papillomas develop, attached to the abdominal wall and intestine, and the peritoneal cavity becomes filled with mucus-like fluid. The extensive spread and attachment of growths that have metastasized from ovarian…

A condition in which defective vision causes persons to hold objects close in order to see them, even though myopia is not present.  

A gram-negative rod that can cause health care- related infections, especially in catheterized, immunosuppressed, or critically ill patients. It was formerly known as Flavimonas oryzihabitans.  

Withdrawal bleeding after birth, a scant vaginal discharge that reflects the physiological response of some female infants to an exposure to high levels of maternal hormones in utero. A memory disturbance in which the patient remembers that which never occurred.  

Bleeding from the uterus not accompanied by the usual changes in the endometrium.  

A condition resembling the symptoms of meningitis without the meningeal inflammation.  

Discoloration of the tissues after death. The post-mortem discoloration of body tissues caused by blood pigments.  

A psychosis in which patients falsely accuse themselves of crimes that they think they have committed.