Category: P

A peripheral neuropathy. Any disease of a (peripheral) nerve plexus.  

A device for receiving the blow of the percussion hammer, consisting of a disk that is struck in mediate percussion while being held over the surface of the body.  

Typhoid fever with pleural involvement.  

A tetanic spasm in which the body is arched to one side. A muscle contraction that causes the body to bend to one side.  

Inspection of the pleural cavity with an endoscope inserted through an incision into the thorax.    

Effusion of fluid into the pleura.  

Pleuritis accompanied by pericarditis. Pleurisy that occurs in conjunction with pericarditis.  

Inflammation of the pleura and liver.  

Radiographical examination of the lungs and pleura.  

Injection and removal of fluid into the pleural cavity to wash it out.