Category: P

Phosphorylated cAMP (adenosine 3’5’ cyclic monophosphate)-response element binding protein.  

Polychromatic erythrocyte/normochromatic erythrocyte ratio use as a measure of cytotoxic effects.  

The act or process of giving birth to a child. The birth process. Beginning with the softening and dilation, or opening, of the cervix, the process includes the contractions of labor and ends with delivery of the baby. Women who have given birth are called post-parturients.  

Relating to an abnormal event of the body with an abrupt onset and an equally sudden return to normal.  

Inflammation of salivary glands. Alternate name for mumps, usually prefaced by the term epidemic or infectious. Inflammation of one or both parotid glands, as in mumps. Inflammation of the parotid gland caused by infection or by many autoimmune disorders. Epidemic parotitis is another name for mumps. Parotid gland inflammation commonly arises as a result of…

Is a route of administration via the veins that involves piercing the skin or mucous membrane. Not through the alimentary canal but rather by injection through some other route, as subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraorbital, intracapsular, intraspinal, intrasternal, intravenous, etc. Route of drug or nutrition administration other than by way of the intestines (i.e., oral or rectal).…

A condition characterized by partial loss of movement, or impaired movement. Muscle weakness; incomplete paralysis; term often used instead of general paralysis. Weakness of organic origin; incomplete paralysis. An organic mental disease resulting from the invasion of the brain and spinal cord by syphilis. Alternate term for a type of paralysis in which the muscles…

Having an action resembling that caused by stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous system. A drug which stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system by making smooth muscle more tense, widening the blood vessels, slowing the heart rate, increasing the amount of sweat and saliva produced and contracting the pupil of the eye. Having an effect (as from…

Subsystem of the nervous systems that slows the heart rate and increases intestinal and gland activity and relaxes the sphincter muscles. Part of the autonomic nervous system; regulates the body’s “rest and digest” responses. The part of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that controls the life-sustaining organs of the body under normal, danger-free conditions. The…

Person affected with paralysis, pertaining to paralysis. Referring to paralysis. Referring to a person who is paralysed. Relating to paralysis; an individual afflicted by paralysis.