Category: P

To prepare (a patient) for a medical or surgical procedure.  

The administration of high-flow oxygen to a patient before endotracheal intubation or suctioning of the upper airway.  

The anterior portion of the hypothalamus. It is above the optic chiasma and on the sides of the third ventricle.  

The term used by the World Health Organization for “overweight.”  

Intrauterine surgical procedures. These techniques have been used to repair heart defects and anatomical defects of other organs.  

The cell that is the immediate precursor of a myelocyte.  

A precursor of the mature myeloblast.  

Prior to the development of disease.  

An embryonic cell transitional in development prior to a monocyte.  

Giving a warning, as an early symptom.