| PPA | palpation, percussion, auscultation; pepsin A; phenylpropanolamine; phenylpyruvic acid; Pittsburgh p... |
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| PPCM | postpartum cardiomyopathy |
| PPD | packs per day; paraphenylenediamine; percussion and postural drainage; permanent partial disability;... |
| PPH | past pertinent history; persistent pulmonary hypertension; phosphopyruvate hydratase; postpartum hem... |
| PPRF | paramedian pontine reticular formation; postpartum renal failure |
| exogenous depression | Similar signs and symptoms as endogenous depression but the precipitating factors are social or environmental and outside the individual. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| lingual salivary gland depression | An indentation on the lingual surface of the mandible within which a portion of the submandibular gland lies; it appears radiographically as a sharply circumscribed ovoid radiolucency between the mandibular canal and the inferior border of the posterior mandible. Synonym: Stafne bone cyst, static bone cyst. (05 Mar 2000) |