Category: P

  • Paranoid personality

    A personality or character disorder characterized by an abortive paranoid reaction manifested by projection, suspiciousness, jealously, and stubbornness.  

  • Paranoid disorder

    A disorder in which a person has persistent delusions but has no thought disorder and does not hallucinate. A mental disorder which causes someone experiencing it to believe strongly that something is not right with them, with someone else or with the world generally and to maintain the belief even when given evidence against it.…

  • Paranoiac

    A person suffering from paranoia.  

  • Paranasal sinus

    An air-filled hollow in the facial or cranial bones, communicating with the nasal cavity. One of the four pairs of sinuses in the skull near the nose, which open into the nasal cavity and are lined with sticky mucus. Any of several air cavities in bones around the nose. More commonly referred to as nasal…

  • Parametric statistics

    In epidemiology, statistical techniques that can be used on quantitative data. The class of statistics based on the assumption that the samples measured are from normally distributed populations.  

  • Parameters of classification

    The basis used for classification.  

  • Paramesonephric

    The duct system within the female embryo that gives rise to several internal reproductive structures.  

  • Paramedical practitioner

    A person who assists a physician in providing health services.  

  • Paralytic polio

    A form of polio in which large numbers of motor nerves are destroyed by the polio virus. A severe form of poliomyelitis.  

  • Paralytic ileuc

    The obstruction of the intestines due to paralysis.