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Pachyonychia congenita
Pachyonychia congenita (PC), also called Jadassohn-Lewandowsky or Jackson-Lawler syndrome, is a rare autosomal dominant keratin disorder from KRT6A/B/C, KRT16, or KRT17 mutations, causing thick nails, painful plantar calluses, cysts, and oral leukokeratosis, with no cure.
Pachyptila
Pachyptila is a genus of small seabirds called prions in the petrel family Procellariidae, abundant around the Southern Ocean and known for variation in bill width between filter-feeding and pursuit-feeding species.
Pachyrhizus
Pachyrhizus is a genus of five Neotropical legume species known as yam beans, three cultivated for their edible tuberous roots, including the Mexican species jicama.
Pachyrhizus erosus
Pachyrhizus erosus, jicama or yam bean (Mexican turnip, bang kuang), is a Mexican-Central American climbing legume grown for its edible starchy storage root; its rotenone-rich seeds are toxic but used as insecticide.
Pacific Airport Group
Pacific Airport Group (Spanish: Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico, GAP) is a Mexican airport operator holding a 50-year government concession over 12 airports in Pacific and central Mexico.
Pacific Alliance
The Pacific Alliance (Alianza del Pacífico) is a trade bloc of Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, created in 2011 for free circulation of goods, services, capital, and people.
Pacific Aluminium
Pacific Aluminium was a Rio Tinto business unit created in October 2011 to hold six Australian and New Zealand aluminum assets pending divestment, and reintegrated in 2013.
Pacific Asia bridge championships
The Pacific Asia bridge championships are the WBF Zone 6 team championships, held since 1957 to decide Asia-Pacific qualifiers for the Bermuda Bowl and Venice Cup.
Pacific Basin Shipping
Pacific Basin Shipping (太平洋航运集团有限公司) is a Hong Kong-founded owner and operator of Handysize and Supramax dry bulk vessels, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under stock code 2343.
Pacific Beach, San Diego
Pacific Beach (PB), San Diego: primarily residential coastal community between the Pacific Ocean, Mission Bay, and La Jolla. Gridded Pueblo Lands, built out after 1930; home to the 1927 Crystal Pier and a contested 240-foot tower proposal.
Pacific Bell
Pacific Bell, legally Pacific Bell Telephone Company, is the Bell operating company providing local telephone service in most of California, doing business as AT&T California since the early 2000s.
Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences, also known as PacBio, is a Menlo Park, California genomics company founded in 2003 that makes SMRT long-read DNA sequencing systems, including the Revio and Vega instruments.
Pacific black duck
Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa), also called grey duck, a brown dabbling duck of Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and Pacific islands, threatened mainly by hybridization with the introduced mallard.
Pacific Cable Station, Southport
The Pacific Cable Station at Southport, Queensland, was the Australian terminal of the 1902 British Pacific cable linking Australia and New Zealand to Canada; it operated until 1964.
Pacific Coast Highway
The Pacific Coast Highway is the popular name for California State Route 1, a 656-mile coastal highway from Dana Point to Mendocino County, completed in 1937.
Pacific Coast League
Pacific Coast League (PCL), Triple-A minor baseball league founded 1903; played as Triple-A West in 2021, name restored 2022; 10 teams, two divisions; once called the third major league.
Pacific Coast Ranges
The Pacific Coast Ranges, also called the Coast Ranges, are a system of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America, from Alaska into Mexico.
Pacific Coliseum
Pacific Coliseum, "the Rink on Renfrew," is a 1968 indoor arena at Hastings Park, Vancouver; first home of the NHL Canucks (1970–1995), 2010 Olympics skating venue, and current home of the PWHL Vancouver Goldeneyes.
Pacific Community
The Pacific Community (SPC), founded in Australia in 1947 as the South Pacific Commission, is an intergovernmental scientific and technical organization owned and governed by its Pacific Island member countries and territories.
Pacific Construction Group
Pacific Construction Group (太平洋建设集团) is a private Chinese infrastructure contractor founded in 1995 and headquartered in Urumqi, Xinjiang, known for pioneering the BT build–transfer model and for 12 consecutive years on the Fortune Global 500.
Pacific Crest Trail
The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) is a 2,650-mile US National Scenic Trail from Mexico to Canada through California, Oregon, and Washington, designated in 1968 and completed in 1993.
Pacific Daydream
Pacific Daydream, Weezer's 11th studio album (October 27, 2017, Atlantic/Crush), a 10-song, 34-minute pop-leaning record produced mainly by Butch Walker, assembled from songs written alongside the planned Black Album.
Pacific DC Intertie
The Pacific DC Intertie, also known as the Pacific Direct Current Intertie, is a high-voltage direct current power line linking Oregon to Los Angeles, completed in 1970.
Pacific decadal oscillation
Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), related to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), is a decadal-scale pattern of North Pacific sea surface temperature and pressure variability, defined by Mantua et al. 1997, with warm and cool phases affecting North American climate and fisheries.
Pacific Electric
Pacific Electric, also known as the Pacific Electric Railway, was a Southern California interurban railroad whose Red Cars linked Los Angeles with suburbs from 1901 to 1961.
Pacific Fleet (Тихоокеанский флот) (Russia)
The Russian Pacific Fleet (Тихоокеанский флот, RUSPAC), based at Vladivostok and Kamchatka, is Russia's second largest fleet, centered on a 25-boat submarine force with Sea of Okhotsk nuclear deterrence, sea denial, and Indo-Pacific presence missions.
Pacific Fusion
Pacific Fusion is an American fusion energy startup founded in 2023 and based in Fremont, California, that is developing pulser-driven inertial fusion and targeting net energy gain by 2030.
Pacific Games
Pacific Games, formerly South Pacific Games, quadrennial multi-sport event for Pacific island nations run by the Pacific Games Council; first held Suva 1963, 2023 in Solomon Islands, next Tahiti 2027.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, known as PG&E, is a California utility, incorporated in 1905 and headquartered in Oakland, serving about 16 million people across northern and central California.
Pacific giant salamander
Pacific giant salamander, genus Dicamptodon (Dicamptodontidae), large semi-aquatic salamanders of the Pacific coast from British Columbia to California and northern Idaho; four species, Threatened in Canada, forest-stream habitat.