Category: P

Paracervical anesthetic. Type of regional anesthesia in which a local anesthetic agent is injected on each side of the cervix to achieve anesthesia during labor and childbirth.  

Paracervical block.  

An inversion that is entirely within one arm of a chromosome.  

Drainage of fluid from the peritoneal cavity by means of a large needle inserted through the abdominal wall. The procedure of draining fluid from a cavity inside the body using a hollow needle, either for diagnostic purposes or because the fluid is harmful. Procedure in which fluid is with-drawn from a body cavity, most often…

Also Ebers Papyrus. Dates to 1550 B.C.; an Egyptian document containing descriptions of over 700 different drugs that were used at that time. Most of the descriptions were of drugs from botanical sources, but many were also of animal and mineral sources.  

Developed by George Papanicolaou and consists of obtaining cells from the cervix of the uterus and examining them under the microscope for any abnormal conditions that could indicate the presence of a malignancy pap smear. A procedure in which cells are removed from the cervix and examined for signs of cancer. Short for Papanicolaou’s test,…

A group of viruses that cause genital and other warts and are strongly linked to cervical cancer.  

Pertaining to the pupil. Small, nipple-like, raised tissue. Related to the nipple of the breast. Having papillae or resembling a papilla.  

The botanical name for the opium poppy, from which raw opium is derived, opium.  

An infection of all the sinuses.