Category: P

A lack of coordination in the muscles of the proximal area of an extremity, as the arm, forearm, thigh, or leg.  

Closely related with respect to space, time, or sequence; next to, or nearest.  

A diagnostic test in which drugs, chemicals, allergens, or physical forces are systematically administered to reproduce symptoms, in order to discover the source of a symptom or the tissue origin of a lesion. Provocation tests are used by specialists in several fields of health care, such as: allergists, to determine which of several agents may…

A protuberance, eminence, or projection.  

The branch of science dealing with the study of protozoa.  

A disease produced by parasitic protozoa. Examples are amebic dysentery, sleeping sickness, and malaria.  

Destructive to, or that which kills, protozoa.  

A spasm beginning in one area and extending to other parts.  

A primary proteose that, upon further digestion, is converted to deuteroproteose.  

The primary formation of tissue.