General Medical Terms

Parageusia is a persistent, unpleasant, or metallic taste sensation that occurs without a food source, a specific pattern of taste disturbance.

One of many small hollow spaces in the bones around the nose.

Paranoia describes a pervasive pattern of unwarranted suspicion and distrust of others, ranging from a personality trait to a symptom of psychiatric illness.

(Other name for: carboplatin)

(Other name for: carboplatin)

Because episodes occur during sleep or its transitions, the person experiencing a parasomnia often has no memory of it afterward.

Parenchyma is the functional tissue of an organ that carries out its main job, distinct from the tissue that supports it.

A synthetic noncalcemic, nonphosphatemic vitamin D analogue.

The outer layer of the pericardium, which is a thin sac of tissue that surrounds the heart.

PARP inhibitors block an enzyme that helps repair DNA damage, a strategy especially effective against cancers already missing a separate repair pathway.

A decrease in the size of a tumor, or in the extent of cancer in the body, in response to treatment.

A decrease in the size of a tumor, or in the extent of cancer in the body, in response to treatment.

A type of radiation therapy given only to the part of the breast that has cancer in it.

Having to do with the father, coming from the father, or related through the father.

Having to do with a sign or symptom that is specific to a certain disease.

The stage of cancer (extent of cancer in the body) that is based on how the cells in samples of tissue look under a microscope.

A method used to determine the stage of cancer (extent of cancer in the body).

A person who helps a patient work with others who have an effect on the patient's health, including doctors, insurance companies, employers, case managers, and lawyers.

(Other name for: papaverine)

(Other name for: papaverine)