Category: P

  • Partialism

    A type of fetish involving specific parts of the body, such as the breasts or feet, fetishism.

  • Partial ejaculatory incompetence

    During ejaculation only seepage of semen occurs and orgasm is void of the pleasurable sensations.  

  • Partial androgen insensitivity

    A genetic disorder of males in which their bodies have only a partial ability to use androgen. At birth, their genitalia are ambiguous, androgen insensitivity syndrome.  

  • Parthenogenesis

    Reproduction by the development of an egg without it being fertilized by a sperm. Type of reproduction in which an unfertilized ovum develops into a complete organism; it occurs in certain insects and other invertebrate animals. Reproduction in which an organism develops from an unfertilized ovum. It is common in plants and occurs in some…

  • Parous

    Referring to a woman who has given birth to one or more children. Having given birth to at least one viable child. Parturient; fruitful; having borne at least one child.  

  • Parorexia

    An appetite or craving for peculiar or inappropriate foods. An abnormal craving for unusual foods.  

  • Parole-evidence rule

    The principle that oral evidence related to matters not contained in a written contract or other instrument is not admissible.  

  • Parochial school

    A school operated and controlled by a particular religious denomination. A church-related private school, generally a school affiliated with the Roman Catholic church but also sometimes referring to schools of other religious denominations, such as Baptist, Quaker, Methodist, or Jewish schools.  

  • Parkinsonian symptoms

    The side effects of the phenothiazines that mimic Parkinson’s disease, e.g., reduced fine motor control, muscles tremors, blurred vision, and dry mouth.  

  • Parietal pleura

    That portion of the pleura lining the inside of the walls of the thoracic cavity. A membrane attached to the diaphragm and coyering the chest cavity. One of the two pleural membranes lining the thoracic cavity.