| PD | Doctor of Pharmacy; Dublin Pharmacopoeia; interpupillary distance; Paget disease; pancreatic duct; p... |
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| PPD | packs per day; paraphenylenediamine; percussion and postural drainage; permanent partial disability;... |
| PR | by way of the rectum [Lat. per rectum]; far point [of accommodation] [Lat. punctum remotum]; palindr... |
| PRP | physiologic rest position; pityriasis rubra pilaris; platelet-rich plasma; polyribosyl ribitol phosp... |
| PVD | patient very disturbed; peripheral vascular disease; portal vein dilation; posterior vitreous detach... |
| IOH | Idiopathic orthostatic hypotension |
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| OH | Orthostatic hypotension |
| PPH | Postprandial hypotension |
| SIH | Spontaneous intracranial hypotension |
| postural position | The usual position of the mandible when the patient is resting comfortably in the upright position and the condyles are in a neutral unstrained position in the glenoid fossae. See: rest relation. Synonym: postural position, postural resting position, rest position. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| postural reflex | Responses that control the position of the trunk and extremities. See: righting reflexes. Synonym: static reflexes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postural set | An overall motor readiness to respond, as in a runner instructed to get set and on the mark. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postural syncope | Syncope upon assuming an upright position; caused by failure of normal vasoconstrictive mechanisms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postural tremor | Tremor present when the limbs or trunk are kept in certain positions and when they are moved actively, usually due to near-synchronous rhythmic bursts in opposing muscle groups. Synonym: static tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postural version | Nonmanual version obtained by changing the position of the mother. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postural vertigo | Light-headedness that appears particularly in elderly people with change of position usually from lying or sitting to standing; due to orthostatic hypotension. (05 Mar 2000) |
| drainage, postural | Therapeutic drainage in bronchopulmonary diseases in which there is copious mucus secretion, such as chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pulmonary abscess, or cystic fibrosis. The patient is placed with head downward, so that the trachea is inclined downward and below the affected area. It may be done in 15- to 20-minute sessions or by having the patient sleep in a head-down position. The therapy may be used in conjunction with forced expiration, bronchodilator agents, or expectorants. (12 Dec 1998) |
| postural hypotension |
sudden drop in blood pressure which produces a blackout or feeling of faintness, experienced by the newly injured and by tetraplegics on changing too quickly from a lying to an upright position.
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| postural hypotension |
Dizziness caused by poor regulation of blood pressure after suddenly standing up.
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