| PIPES | <abbreviation> Piperazine diethanesulfonic acid. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pipestem arteries | Artery's hardened by calcification as seen in Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis; descriptive of the characteristic feeling to the finger of an examiner. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pipestem fibrosis | A characteristic pipe-shaped fibrosis formed around hepatic portal veins in some cases of long-continued heavy infection with Schistosoma mansoni; thought to be induced by the presence of large numbers of schistosome eggs in the hepatic tissues. Synonym: Symmers' clay pipestem fibrosis, Symmers' fibrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |