| PE | Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia; pancreatic extract; paper electrophoresis; partial epilepsy; pelvic examina... |
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| PRE | photoreacting enzyme; physician's report of examination; pigmented retinal epithelium; preplacement ... |
| TSE | testicular self-examination; tissue-specific extinguisher; total skin examination; trisodium edetate... |
| EUA | Examination Under Anesthesia |
| MSE | Mental Status Examination |
| postmortem hypostasis | A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| postmortem livedo | A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem lividity | A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem pustule | An obsolete term for an ulcer, usually on the knuckle, resulting from infection during a dissection or the performance of an autopsy. Spongiform pustule of Kogoj, an epidermal pustule formed by infiltration of neutrophils into necrotic epidermis in which the cell walls persist as a spongelike network; seen in pustular psoriasis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem rigidity | Muscular rigidity which develops in the cadaver usually from 4 to 10 hours after death and lasts 3 or 4 days. (12 Dec 1998) |
| postmortem suggillation | A purple colouration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two hours after death, as a result of gravitational movement of blood within the vessels. Synonym: postmortem hypostasis, postmortem lividity, postmortem suggillation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem thrombus | A clot formed within the heart or in a blood vessel after death. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem tubercle | postmortem wart |