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Parallels
Parallels (Para//èles) is a 2022 French Disney+ original sci-fi mystery series created by Quoc Dang Tran: six episodes in which four teenage friends are scattered into parallel dimensions by a collider-related event.
Paralympic athletics records
Paralympic athletics records are the official best track and field performances by athletes with impairments, maintained per sport class by World Para Athletics of the IPC.
Paralympic committees of the Pacific Islands
The Paralympic committees of the Pacific Islands are the National Paralympic Committees of seven Oceania island states, including Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu, recognized by the International Paralympic Committee.
Paralympic cross-country skiing
Paralympic cross-country skiing, part of Para Nordic skiing, is a Winter Paralympic endurance sport since 1976 for standing, sitting (sit-ski), and visually impaired athletes, run by FIS over 2.5–20 km in classic and free technique.
Paralympic cycling records and progressions
Paralympic cycling records are the best performances set at the Paralympic Games in track and road para cycling, ratified across 15 sport classes under UCI rules.
Paralympic Games
Paralympic Games, elite international sport competitions for athletes with impairments, held every four years after the Olympics; founded from the 1948 Stoke Mandeville Games, first Paralympics Rome 1960, governed by the IPC.
Paralympic medalists by event
Paralympic medalists by event lists, for each athletics and swimming event and classification, the medalists at every Summer Paralympic Games from Rome 1960 to Paris 2024.
Paralympic powerlifting
Paralympic powerlifting, or Para powerlifting, is a Paralympic bench press sport for athletes with lower-limb or hip impairments, run by World Para Powerlifting under the IPC, with one sport class, gender and weight categories, and 20 medal events at LA28.
Paralympic powerlifting classification
Paralympic powerlifting classification is World Para Powerlifting's eligibility system for bench press athletes with lower limb or hip impairments: eight eligible impairment types, one sport class, and competition divided by gender and ten weight categories per gender.
Paralympic precision and target sport classification
Paralympic classification in precision and target sports (shooting, archery, para table tennis): IPC Code framework, seven eligible impairments, table tennis classes 1-11, archery W1/Open at 70 m, shooting SH classes, evidence-based vision impairment research.
Paralympic records in swimming
Paralympic records in swimming: fastest ratified times per event and sport class at the Paralympic Games, alongside World Para Swimming World and Regional records, governed by WPS ratification rules, classification classes S1-S14, and long/short course formats.
Paralympic records in track cycling
A Paralympic record (PR) in track cycling is the fastest time achieved in a specific event and classification during a Paralympic Games and is tracked separately from world records.
Paralympic sports
Paralympic sports: the 29 IPC-sanctioned sports (23 summer, 6 winter) of the Paralympic Games, from archery and boccia to Para snowboard, defined by sport-specific classification of athletes by eligible impairment and activity limitation.
Paralympic symbols
Paralympic symbols: the Agitos, three red, blue and green curves encircling a point, symbol of the International Paralympic Committee, plus the flag, motto, anthem, flame, mascots and emblems, and their history from Seoul 1988 to the 2019 redesign.
Paralympic table tennis
Paralympic table tennis, also known as Para table tennis, is the table tennis discipline at the Summer Paralympic Games, held since 1960 across 11 sport classes for athletes with physical or intellectual impairment.
Paralympics Australia
Paralympics Australia, formerly the Australian Paralympic Federation (founded 25 January 1990), is Australia's National Paralympic Committee, preparing Paralympic teams and governing Para-sport; it placed ninth at Paris 2024 and runs the UPLIFT strategic plan toward Brisbane 2032.
Paralympics New Zealand
Paralympics New Zealand (PNZ) is the National Paralympic Committee for New Zealand, recognized by the International Paralympic Committee as the sole governing body of Para sport in the country.
Paralysis
Paralysis: loss of voluntary muscle movement from disrupted nerve signals, also called palsy when tremors occur. Causes include stroke, spinal cord injury, Bell's palsy, and multiple sclerosis; types range from monoplegia to quadriplegia.
Paralytic gait
Paralytic gait (麻痺性歩行), ICD-11 MB44.1 and ICD-10-CM R26.1, is a symptom code for walking disturbed by weakness, paralysis, or spasticity, typically from upper motor neuron lesions such as stroke, cerebral palsy, or myelopathy.
Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt: 1921 paralysis at Campobello diagnosed as polio, leading to Warm Springs, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the March of Dimes, and a lasting polio-versus-GBS diagnostic debate.
Paralytic lagophthalmos
Paralytic lagophthalmos is incomplete eyelid closure from facial nerve (CN VII) paralysis, mainly Bell's palsy, also leprosy, trauma, or tumors; it risks exposure keratopathy and is treated with lubricants, tarsorrhaphy, or eyelid weight implants.
Paralytic shellfish poisoning
Paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) is a foodborne neurotoxic illness from saxitoxins made by Alexandrium, Gymnodinium, and Pyrodinium dinoflagellates and concentrated in clams, mussels, and other bivalves; onset within 30–60 minutes, no antidote, cooking does not destroy the toxin.
PARAM (परम)
PARAM (परम) is a series of supercomputers developed by India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), beginning with the PARAM 8000 in 1990-91 and continuing under the National Supercomputing Mission.
Param Capital (investment firm)
Param Capital is a privately owned investment firm based in Mumbai, India, founded by investor Mukul Agrawal and focused on long-term investments in listed and private companies.
Param Sundari (film)
Param Sundari (परम सुंदरी) is a 2025 Hindi romantic comedy by Maddock Films, directed by Tushar Jalota, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Janhvi Kapoor; released 29 August 2025, set in Kerala, titled after A.R. Rahman's Mimi song.
Param Vir Chakra (परम वीर चक्र)
Param Vir Chakra (परम वीर चक्र), India's highest wartime gallantry medal, instituted 26 January 1950 retroactively from 15 August 1947; bronze, Savitri Khanolkar design; 21 recipients, 14 posthumous, first Somnath Sharma, 1947.
Paramagnetic relaxation enhancement
Paramagnetic relaxation enhancement is an NMR technique in which a paramagnetic center attached to a biomolecule increases nuclear relaxation rates, reporting distances up to roughly 35 Å and detecting sparsely populated conformational states.
Paramagnetism
Paramagnetism is a weak form of magnetism in which atoms or ions with unpaired electrons align with an applied field; its small positive susceptibility follows Curie's law.
Paramahansa Yogananda (পরমহংস যোগানন্দ)
Paramahansa Yogananda (পরমহংস যোগানন্দ; 1893–1952) was an Indian yogi and guru who taught Kriya Yoga in the West for 32 years and wrote Autobiography of a Yogi.
Paramanand Das
Paramanand Das (1493–1584) was a Brajbhasha devotional poet of the Pushtimarg, one of the eight Ashtachhap poets, known for vatsalya poetry about the child Krishna.