Category: P
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Para-medical personnel
Those health manpower who are not doctors. It includes medical technicians, health aides, record keepers, family health workers, nutritionists, dental hygienists, physician assistants, and health associates, but there seems to be no agreed upon list of included occupations.
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Package insert
The labeling approved by the Food and Drug Administration for a prescription drug product, which accompanies the product when shipped by the manufacturer to the pharmacist, but usually does not accompany the dispensed prescription. The package insert is directed at the prescribing professional, principally the physician, and states the appropriate uses of a drug, the…
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Prezygapophysis
Bony projection from each side of a vertebra that meets with an opposing similar projection from vertebra above.
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Preventriculus
The upper opening into the stomach.
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Pretympanic
In front of the eardrum. Located in front of the tympanic membrane.
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Pretibial
In front of the shin bone.
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Prethyroideal
In front of the thyroid gland.
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Presystole
Interval before heart contraction. The period before systole in the cycle of heartbeats. The period in the cardiac cycle just preceding systole. The interval preceding systole.
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Presternum
The head of the breastbone.
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Presphygmic
Before the pulse beat.