Category: P

A feeling of an impending event. A warning given in advance of an occurrence; an uneasy knowing about an event before it takes place. Premonition does not involve a pictorial vision but rather an overwhelming feeling that something is going to happen a foreboding that comes from deep inside. The feeling is seldom a happy…

Prepared in standard concentrations or percentages before use. Insulins, e.g., may be pure (composed of either short or long-acting varieties but not both), or they may be combined to take advantage of the differing times of onset and peak effect of two different agents. Premixed insulins are usually labeled with two numbers, separated by a…

A form of health insurance coverage in which a third party, such as an employer or the federal government, provides a fixed contribution to an employee’s health insurance costs. The employee chooses the extent of coverage (e.g., basic, catastrophic, dented, extensive) and how much he or she is willing to pay to be insured.  

A separate bone, derived from the median nasal process embryologically, that fuses with the maxilla in humans; formerly called the incisive bone.  

In pregnancy, rupture of the amniotic membrane prior to the time labor was expected. This occurs in about 10% of patients. PROM is the single most common diagnosis leading to admission of the newborn to intensive care nursing.  

Before a court rules. In malpractice litigation it refers to what occurred at the time of an injury or at the date of filing a claim.  

Osteoporosis caused by trauma and affecting the scaphoid bone of the wrist.  

Referring to a stage of development of a malignancy in which the neoplastic cells have not metastasized.  

Before one thing is secured within another, e.g., before embedding of the blastocyst in the uterine wall.  

Immunization produced artificially in very young infants.