| P/E | Physical Examination = PE |
|---|---|
| CPE | cardiac pulmonary edema; chronic pulmonary emphysema; clinical progress exercise; compensation, pens... |
| H&P | history and physical examination |
| HPE | hepatic portoenterostomy; high-permeability edema; history and physical examination; holoprosencepha... |
| PEx | physical examination |
| physical | Pertaining to the body, to material things or to physics. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| physical age | The age in terms of structure rather than of function or of passage of time. Synonym: physical age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physical allergy | Excessive response to factors in the environment such as heat or cold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physical anthropology | The study of the physical attributes of human beings. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physical conditioning, animal | Physical conditioning of domestic, laboratory, and zoo animals. Includes exercising of animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physical containment | <cell culture> Creation of physical barriers to keep genetically engineered organisms inside the laboratory. (31 Dec 1997) |
| physical dependence | <pharmacology> Physiologic adaptation of the body to the presence of opioid is required to maintain the same level of analgesia. (31 Dec 1997) |
| physical diagnosis | A diagnosis made by means of physical examination of the patient, or the process of a physical examination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physical education and training | Instructional programs in the care and development of the body, often in schools. The concept does not include prescribed exercises, which is exercise therapy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physical elasticity of muscle | <anatomy> The quality of muscle that enables it to yield to passive physical stretch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physical endurance | The time span between the beginning of physical activity by an individual and the termination because of exhaustion. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physical fitness | A state of well-being in which performance is optimal, often as a result of physical conditioning which may be prescribed for disease therapy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physical half-life | The time required for half the atoms of a radionuclide to undergo disintegration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| physical map | <molecular biology> A map of the locations of identifiable landmarks on DNA (for example, restriction enzyme cutting site, genes), regardless of inheritance. Distance is measured in base pairs. For the human genome, the lowest-resolution physical map is the banding patterns on the 24 different chromosomes, the highest-resolution map wouldbe the complete nucleotide sequence of the chromosomes. (09 Oct 1997) |
| physical medicine | A medical specialty concerned with the use of physical agents, mechanical apparatus, and manipulation in rehabilitating physically diseased or injured patients. (12 Dec 1998) |