Category: P

A way of trying to make sure that each community has a fair number of services for its particular health needs.  

The process of talking to people who need medical help on the telephone in order to make sure that ambulances are sent to the most urgent cases first.  

The first stage of development of an ovarian follicle. An ovarian follicle consisting of the ovum enclosed in a single layer of cells.  

In the very first stage of development. To an undeveloped or primitive state; first or original. Describing cells or tissues that are formed in the early stages of embryonic development.  

Of the greatest importance or the highest rank. Of the highest quality. The period of greatest health and strength.  

A site of the original malignant growth from which cancer spreads.  

A person’s first infection with tuberculosis. The initial tuberculosis infection typically leads to recovery with calcium deposits forming in the tissue. This appears as a “spot on the lung” in numerous adult chest x-rays, signifying that the individual was exposed to the bacterium (likely during childhood) and has effectively overcome the infection.  

The first infected spot where tuberculosis starts to infect a lung.  

Any one of the first twenty teeth which develop in children between about six months and two and-a-half years of age, and are replaced by the permanent teeth at around the age of six. The set of 20 teeth that push through the gums in an infant’s mouth in the first 25 to 33 months…