Category: P

An ear lobe that has been pierced with a needle so that a permanent channel will remain, permitting the wearing of an earring attached to the ear by a connector that passes through the channel.  

Sudden attacks of shortness of breath that usually occur when patients are asleep in bed. The affected patient awakens gasping for air and tries to sit up (often near a window) to relieve the symptom. PND is one of the classic symptoms of left ventricular failure, although it may also occasionally be caused by sleep…

Fibrous dysplasia affecting multiple bones, including in some children, long bones as well as facial or cranial bones. McCune-Albright syndrome is a disease in which polyostotic fibrous dysplasia is found in association with precocious puberty and diseases of skin pigmentation.  

Aspiration of food into the trachea during the act of swallowing.  

An autosomal-recessive syndrome in which faulty ciliary motion in the airways produces chronic lung infections and bronchiectasis.  

A person normally developed except for unusually short stature.  

A dwarf with abnormally short diaphyses of either pair of extremities or of all four.  

One of about 20 ducts that discharge prostatic secretion into the urethra.  

Any of the large ducts formed by the uniting of the collecting tubules of the kidney; it empties into the renal pelvis.  

A drug used to improve the principal symptoms (e.g., anxiety, depression, and psychosis) in the mentally disturbed.