Category: P

A date printed on some food packages that is an estimate of how long the product is usable.  

The first stage of an illness, during which the person may be contagious.  

A period of adjustment for parents and their newborn infant that begins with delivery and lasts about six weeks.  

The state of having one’s physical abilities at their maximum levels.  

Punishment that leaves a mark that can be seen the next day.  

A person who focuses on the negative side of things and expects an unfavorable outcome. People who generally have global expectations for negative outcomes.  

A person who has extremely high standards and accepts nothing less than excellence of himself or herself.  

A smoker who involuntarily breathes side-stream smoke.  

A temporary aggravation of disease symptoms, resulting from an elevation in body temperature or other stressor (e.g., an infection, severe fatigue, constipation), that disappears once the stressor is removed. A pseudo-exacerbation involves symptom flare-up rather than new disease activity or progression.  

A clinical course of MS that shows disease progression from the beginning, but with clear, acute relapses, with or without full recovery from those relapses along the way.