Category: P

Thickening of the pleura, or of the pleural shadow, on an x-ray, which is an indication of pleural disease, pleural effusion, or infiltration by cancer.  

A condition occurring in pulmonary tuberculosis, asbestosis, and other lung diseases in which the pleura becomes thickened and the pleural space may be obliterated.  

Incision into the pleura through the chest wall.  

Palpatory percussion with the left middle finger pressed against the body and the right index finger percussing in contact with the left finger.  

An increase in the convexity of the lens of the eye.  

A gram-negative facultatively anaerobic rod-shaped bacterium. It is thought to be a cause of gastroenteritis/infectious diarrhea acquired from contaminated water.  

Premature and excessive ossification of bones.  

The state of having more than the normal number of organs or parts.  

Having many shapes or crystallizing into several forms.  

To the property of crystals and some other bodies that show different colors when seen from different axes.