Category: P
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Prescribed disease
An illness caused by the type of work a person does which is on an annually reviewed official list, entitling the person to claim benefit. Examples are deafness, pneumoconiosis and RSI. In the UK, a collection of industrial diseases which provide those with the disease legal entitlement to welfare benefits. Examples are deafness from excessive…
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Prescribe
To give instructions for a person to get a specific dosage of a drug or a specific form of therapeutic treatment. To indicate the medicine to be administered. This can be done orally but is usually done by writing a prescription or an order in the patient’s hospital chart.
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Presbyacusis
A condition in which an elderly person’s hearing fails gradually, through to degeneration of the internal ear. Deafness that comes on with increasing years. It is caused by increasing loss of elasticity in the hearing mechanism, combined with the slowing down of the mental processes that accompanies old age. It is characterized by particular difficulty…
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Prepubescent
Referring to a person at the stage of life just before puberty.
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Prepubertal
Referring to the period before puberty.
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Prepatellar bursitis
A condition in which the fluid sac at the knee becomes inflamed, caused by kneeling on hard surfaces. An inflammation of the bursa anterior to the patella, with accumulation of fluid. It may be seen in those who have to kneel frequently or continually while working. A lump on the top of the kneecap caused…
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Prepare
To get something or someone ready. To make something.
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Preovulatory
Referring to the 6 to 13 days in the menstrual cycle between menstruation and ovulation.
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Preoperative medication
A drug given before an operation, e.g. a sedative.
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Preoperatively
Before a surgical operation.