Category: P

  • Performance indicators

    Statistical information needed for analysis of how effectively health organisations are meeting their objectives, produced by health authorities and sent to the government.  

  • Perform

    To do an operation. To work.  

  • Perforated ulcer

    An ulcer which has made a hole in the wall of the intestine.  

  • Perforated eardrum

    An eardrum with a hole in it. Puncture in the tympanic membrane (eardrum), resulting from trauma or other causes; it can interfere with normal hearing and cause other ear problems. A hole, rupture, or tear in the tympanic membrane, commonly called the eardrum, which separates the ear canal and the middle ear. A decreased ability…

  • Percutaneous epididymal sperm aspiration

    The removal of sperm from the epididymis by withdrawing it through the skin, usually as part of fertility treatment.  

  • Percutaneous angioplasty

    The repair of a narrowed artery by passing a balloon into the artery through a catheter and then inflating it.  

  • Percutaneous absorption

    The process of absorbing a substance through the skin.  

  • Percutaneous

    To go through the skin; used in reference to application of topical medication by friction or by insertion of a needle through the skin. Through the skin: often applied to the route of administration of drugs in ointments, etc., which are absorbed through the skin. Any method of administering remedies by passing them through the…

  • Percentage

    The proportion rate in every hundred or for every hundred.  

  • Peptonuria

    A condition in which peptones are present in the urine. The presence in the urine of peptones, intermediate compounds formed during the digestion of proteins. Excretion of peptones in the urine.