Category: P

A chronic granulomatous disease of the skin caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis.  

The species that causes South American blastomycosis.  

A disease resembling cholera but caused by vibriones other than true Vibrio cholerae.  

A parasitic placental twin with a small rudimentary head.  

An insoluble protein formed when rennin or pepsin acts on the casein in milk; this reaction, which results in the curdling of milk, occurs only in the presence of calcium ions.  

A tumor involving the prickle-cell layer of the epidermis. A growth that originates from the skin’s prickle-cell layer.  

Abnormality of vision (e.g., visual hallucinations).  

One of the small masses of chromaffin tissue along the abdominal aorta that secrete epinephrine.  

A derivative of aminobenzoic acid. The salt, paraaminohippurate, is used to test the excretory capacity of the renal tubules.  

A woman who has produced a viable infant (weighing at least 500 g or of more than 20 weeks gestation) regardless of whether the infant is alive at birth. A multiple birth is considered to be a single parous experience.