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  • Plan

    A specific action proposed to facilitate an organization in achieving its objectives. Arrangement of how something should be done. The conscious design of desired future states and of the goals, objectives, and activities required.  

  • Planintiff

    The person or persons who bring a legal action by filing a complaint.  

  • Plague

    An acute infectious disease characterized by severe prostration, delirium, and diarrhea caused by Pasteurella pestis. An infectious disease which occurs in epidemics where many people are killed. The organism causing epidemic plague—formerly in the Pasteurella genus—is now named Yersinia pestis. Infectious disease caused by the bite of rat fleas infected with Yersinia pestis. This infection…

  • Placidity explosiveness

    A central orientation characterized by readiness to react to different situations and whether the reactions tend to be belligerent or calm, emotional expressiveness reserve.  

  • Place theory

    According to Helmholtz’s theory, the physiological condition for pitch perception is in the place on the basilar membrane stimulated by a particular sound, frequency theory.  

  • Placenta previa

    Low implantation of the blastocyst in the uterus that often results in miscarriage because of premature detachment of the placenta. A disorder in which the placenta that provides nourishment to a fetus is placed abnormally low, over the cervix. Condition of pregnancy in which the placenta is implanted abnormally in the lower, rather than the…

  • Place learning

    Learning the general location of the goal in any situation.  

  • Placebo pills

    Pills that contain no active ingredients. Inert pills that control for expectancy effects because participants believe these pills may contain active medicinal ingredients.  

  • Pit viper

    A venomous snake that has a hollow, heat- sensitive pit between eye and nostril.  

  • Pituitary gonadotropins

    Hormones produced by the pituitary gland that stimulate the gonads. The hormone from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland specifically influences the activity of the sex organs.  

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