Category: P

  • Progressively

    More and more.  

  • Progressive deafness

    A condition, common in people as they get older, in which a person gradually becomes more and more deaf.  

  • Progress

    Development and improvement. The way in which a person is becoming well. The ongoing sequence of events of an illness.  

  • Programme

    A series of medical treatments given in a set way at set times.  

  • Prognostic test

    A test to suggest how a disease will develop or how long a person will survive after an operation.  

  • Prognostic

    Referring to a prognosis.  

  • Prognathic jaw

    A jaw which protrudes further than the other.  

  • Progestogen

    Any substance which has the same effect as progesterone. One of a group of naturally occurring or synthetic steroid hormones, including progesterone, that maintain the normal course of pregnancy. Progestogens are used to treat threatened or habitual abortion, premenstrual tension, amenorrhea, and abnormal bleeding from the womb. Because they prevent ovulation, progestogens are a major…

  • Profundaplasty

    A surgical operation to widen a junction of the femoral artery, in order to relieve narrowing by atherosclerosis. An operation to repair an obstructing lesion in a deep blood vessel, for example, of the deep femoral artery.  

  • Profunda

    Referring to blood vessels which lie deep in tissues. Describing blood vessels that are deeply embedded in the tissues they supply. Deep seated; term applied to certain deeply located blood vessels.