Category: P

Positioned behind or coming into effect after the liver. Originating after bile leaves the liver, as in posthepatic jaundice, in which obstruction of bile ducts causes the jaundice.  

A payment made to GPs to reward continued education.  

A group of symptoms which can occur after eating in people who have had stomach operations. It is caused by a lot of food passing into the small intestine too fast and can cause dizziness, nausea, sweating and weakness.  

A neurone which starts in a ganglion and ends in a gland or unstriated muscle. A neuron of the autonomic nervous system whose cell body lies in an autonomic ganglion and whose axon terminates in a visceral effector (smooth or cardiac muscle or glands).  

An axon of a nerve cell which starts in a ganglion and extends beyond the ganglion.  

A treatment given to a person who has been exposed to a harmful agent, in an effort to prevent or reduce injury or infection. Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) involves the administration of a series of antiretroviral medications shortly after being exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with the aim of preventing subsequent infection.  

Lying from the back to the front. Literal meaning is “from back to front”; radiological use of term indicates passage of x-rays from back to front. Indicating the flow or movement from back to front.  

A condition of the eye in which the iris sticks to the anterior surface of the lens. An adhesion of the iris to the capsule of the lens.  

In or from a position behind.  

A cartilage at the back of the head where the parietal bones join the occipital. The triangular fontanel at the junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures; ossified by the end of the first year.