PC Common Medical Abbreviation

Also known as: PC., PC-, P.C.

PC has various meanings in the Common Medical category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of PC in Common Medical.

Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure

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The pressure obtained when a catheter is passed from the right side of the heart into the pulmonary artery as far as it will go and wedged into an end artery. PCWP is measured by letting pulmonary blood flow guide a balloon-flotation catheter into a small pulmonary end artery. The pressure distal to the wedged catheter is an approximation of left ventricular end diastolic pressure

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Packed Red Blood Cells
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Packed Cells
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Polymerase Chain Reaction

The polymerase chain reaction is a biomedical technology in molecular biology used to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.

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Posterior Chamber

The space in the eye behind the iris and in front of the lens. The posterior chamber is filled with a watery fluid known as the aqueous humor, or aqueous. Produced by a structure alongside the lens called the ciliary body, the aqueous passes into the posterior chamber and then flows forward through the pupil into the anterior chamber of the eye.

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After Meals
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Prostate Cancer

Amalignant tumour of the prostate gland found especially in men over 55 prostatectomy

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post cibum (after food)
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post cast
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