Category: P

The flow from the vagina of semen deposited during coition.  

An excessive flow or discharge; a flux.  

A performance-based method of assessing the professional behaviors of individual practitioners. A typical profile may include data about a practioner’s patients, their known illnesses, their drug therapies, their immunization history, hospitalization rate, use of other services, and the cost of specific aspects of their care. The profile of an individual practitioner’s performance could provide information…

A formal assessment of the quality of work. Proficiency tests for health care personnel are commonly performed in the clinical laboratory to ensure that standard procedures are followed and that laboratory results are reliable.  

The inactive precursor of the proteolytic enzyme fibrinolysin.  

The period preceding estrus in females, characterized by development of ovarian follicles and uterine endometrium.  

A profile deformed fetus in which the brain protrudes through a fissure in the frontal area of the skull.  

The debt that manufacturers and sellers owe the public for any damages their products cause. In health care, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and applicable tort law regulate the responsibility for consumer product safety of medical devices, new technologies, prostheses and implants, telecommunications machinery, office equipment, supplies, and drugs.  

An infrequently used term for any inflammatory process in which there is marked cellular proliferation (e.g., in proliferative retinopathy).  

The perception that productivity is the primary goal of an institution rather than the provision of quality service. In health care institutions the pressure to move patients quickly from one status or setting to another, or to maximize bed occupancy, may sometimes take precedence over attention to detail and the provision of optimal care. To…