What is peripheral vascular disease Peripheral vascular disease involves damage to or blockage in the blood vessels distant from your heart—the peripheral arteries and veins.
What is the pericardium The pericardium is a fibrous sac called serous membrane, that encloses the heart and great vessels within the pericardial cavity (pericardial sac).
What is the peripheral nervous system The peripheral nervous system consists of all nervous tissue outside the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Components
What is pelvic congestion syndrome Pelvic congestion syndrome is defined as chronic pelvic pain in women due to incompetent (dilated and refluxing) pelvic veins ((Jurga-Karwacka A,
What is paraneoplastic syndrome Paraneoplastic syndrome is a group of symptoms that may develop when substances released by some cancer cells disrupt the normal function
What is parasomnia Parasomnia refers to all the abnormal things or unusual behaviors that can happen to people while they sleep, apart from sleep apnea
What is parkinsonism Parkinsonism refers to a group of movement abnormalities — such as impaired speech or muscle stiffness, slow movement (bradykinesia), shuffling of the
What is parthenogenesis Parthenogenesis (parthenos = virgin, genesis = creation) can be defined as the production of an embryo from a female gamete (female egg)
What is pediculosis Pediculosis is the medical term for an infection or infestation with lice which are blood feeding parasites. Lice are ectoparasites that live
