| PS | pacemaker syndrome; paired stimulation; paradoxical sleep; paraspinal; parasympathetic; Parkinson sy... |
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| PSS | painful shoulder syndrome; physiologic saline solution; porcine stress syndrome; primary Sjogren syn... |
| RPA | radial photon apsorptiometry; replication protein A; resultant physiologic acceleration; reverse pas... |
| WOBP | physiologic work of breathing |
| AFP | Alpha(α) Feto-Protein [HP 1826, 1858, 1859, 2265] ; Oncofetal Antigens &nbs... |
| foetal monitoring | Physiologic or biochemical monitoring of the foetus. It is usually done during labour and may be performed in conjunction with the monitoring of uterine activity. It may also be performed prenatally as when the mother is undergoing surgery. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| calcification, physiologic | Process by which organic tissue becomes hardened by the physiologic deposit of calcium salts. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physiologic | Normal, not pathologic, characteristic of or conforming to the normal functioning or state of the body or a tissue or organ, physiological. (18 Nov 1997) |
| physiologic age | Age estimated in terms of function. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic albuminuria | Presence of slight traces of protein in otherwise normal urine. Synonym: functional albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic amenorrhoea | Amenorrhoea of pregnancy or the menopause, not associated with an organic disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic anaemia | An obsolete term for apparent anaemia caused by increased fluid volume of the blood (overhydration). (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic anisocoria | A common (20% of normals) benign inequality of the pupils that may change from one hour to the next. Synonym: essential anisocoria, physiologic anisocoria, simple-central anisocoria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic antidote | An agent that produces systemic effects contrary to those of a given poison. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic congestion | Hyperaemia occurring during functional activity of an organ. Synonym: physiologic congestion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic cup | The normally occurring depression or pit in the centre of the optic disc. Synonym: excavatio disci, depression of optic disk, excavatio papillae, physiologic cup, physiologic excavation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic dead space | The sum of anatomic and alveolar dead space; the dead space calculated when the carbon dioxide pressure in systemic arterial blood is used instead of that of alveolar gas in Bohr's equation; it is a virtual or apparent volume that takes into account the impairment of gas exchange because of uneven distributions of lung ventilation and perfusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic dwarfism | Dwarfism characterised by normal development that is at a strikingly lesser rate than that for members of the same family, race, or other races. Synonym: primordial dwarfism, true dwarfism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic elasticity of muscle | The biologic quality, unique for muscle, of being able to change and resume size under neuromuscular control. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physiologic equilibrium | nutritive equilibrium |