| PGAP | pilot geriatric arthritis program |
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| PRAGMATIC | pregnancy, rheumatoid arthritis, acromegaly, glucose metabolism disorders, mechanical injury, amyloi... |
| PSA | parasternal short axis; pleomorphic salivary gland adenoma; polyethylene sulfonic acid; polysacchari... |
| RADAI | rheumatoid arthritis disease activity index |
| RAF | repetitive atrial firing; rheumatoid arthritis factor |
| psychogenic pain disorder | A disorder in which the principal complaint is pain that is out of proportion to objective findings and that is related to psychological factors. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| hunger pain | Cramp in the epigastrium associated with hunger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatoform pain | Somatoform pain; pain which is associated or correlated with a psychological, emotional, or behavioural stimulus. Synonym: psychalgia, somatoform pain. (05 Mar 2000) |
| soul pain | 1. Distress attending a mental effort, noted especially in melancholia. Synonym: algopsychalia, mind pain, phrenalgia, psychalgalia, soul pain. Synonym: psychogenic pain. Origin: psych-+ G. Algos, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| neck pain | A more or less localised sensation of discomfort, distress, or agony in the neck, resulting from the stimulation of specialised nerve endings. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nerve pain | An obsolete term for neuralgia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neuropathic pain | <symptom> Pain that results from a disturbance of function or pathologic change in a nerve, in one nerve mononeuropathy, in several nerves, mononeuropathy multiplex, if diffuse and bilateral, polyneuropathy. (16 Dec 1997) |
| night pain | Denoting especially the osteocopic pains of syphilis occurring at night. Synonym: night pain. Origin: nyct-+ G. Algos, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| deafferentation pain | <symptom> Pain due to loss of sensory input into the central nervous system, as occurs with avulsion of the brachial plexus or other types of lesions of peripheral nerves or because of pathology of the central nervous system. (16 Dec 1997) |
| dental pain | The most common cause of a toothache is a dental cavity. The second most common is gum disease. Toothache can be caused by a problem that does not originate from a tooth or the jaw. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dream pain | Pain occurring during sleep. Synonym: dream pain. Origin: hypno-+ G. Algos, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| incident pain | <symptom> A type of breakthrough pain that is related to specific activity, such as eating, defecation, socialising or walking. Also referred to as incident pain. (16 Dec 1997) |
| indifference to pain syndrome | <syndrome> Congenital insensitivity to pain, possibly due to an absence of organised nerve endings in the skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intermenstrual pain | Pelvic discomfort occurring approximately at the time of ovulation, usually at the midpoint of the menstrual cycle. Synonym: midpain. Synonym: mittelschmerz. (05 Mar 2000) |
| intractable pain | Pain resistant or refractory to ordinary analgesic agents. (05 Mar 2000) |