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Paige.AI

Paige.AI was a New York digital pathology startup founded in 2017 by Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers; its Prostate Detect was the first FDA-authorized AI application in pathology.

Päijänne

Päijänne, Finland's second largest and deepest lake (95 m), a 120 km oligotrophic watercourse in central Finland; source of Helsinki's drinking water via the 120 km Päijänne Tunnel, completed 1982, with Päijänne National Park on its southern basins.

Päijät-Häme

Päijät-Häme (Päijänne-Tavastland), region code 07, is a Finnish maakunta around Lahti with 204,522 inhabitants in 10 municipalities; created by 1870s railway logistics, governed by a regional council with a 2022–2025 strategy.

Paik system

The Paik system (পাইক প্ৰথা) was the labor and military institution of the Ahom kingdom, binding every able-bodied man to three months of state service each year.

Paik system reforms of Momai Tamuli Barbarua

The Paik system reforms of Momai Tamuli Barbarua (মোমাই তামুলী বৰবৰুৱাৰ সংস্কাৰ) were early 17th-century reorganizations of the Ahom kingdom's labor-service system, carried out under King Pratap Singha.

Paika Rebellion

The Paika Rebellion (ପାଇକ ବିଦ୍ରୋହ) was an armed rising against the East India Company that began in Khurda, Odisha, in March 1817, led by Bakshi Jagabandhu.

Paiks of Odisha

The Paiks of Odisha (ପାଇକ) were a hereditary landed militia serving Odishan chiefs in return for rent-free land, who rebelled against the East India Company in 1817.

Paikuli

Paikuli (Peykulî) is a ruined Sasanian square tower in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, built by King Narseh (r. 293–302/3) with a bilingual Middle Persian and Parthian inscription commemorating his victory over Bahram III.

Paillamachu

Paillamachu, also spelled Paillamacu, was a Mapuche toqui who led the 1598 uprising that destroyed Spanish rule south of the Bío Bío river in Chile.

Pailü

Pailü (排律), also called changlü, is a form of Chinese regulated verse extending the eight-line lüshi to ten lines or more, flourishing in the Tang dynasty.

Pailwaan (ಪೈಲ್ವಾನ್)

Pailwaan (ಪೈಲ್ವಾನ್), also spelled Pailwan, is a 2019 Kannada sports action drama directed by S. Krishna, starring Kichcha Sudeepa as wrestler Krishna, with Suniel Shetty and Aakanksha Singh; released in five languages on 12 September 2019.

Paimio Sanatorium

Paimio Sanatorium (Paimion parantola) is a former tuberculosis sanatorium in Paimio, Southwest Finland, designed by Alvar and Aino Aalto, completed in 1933, and regarded as a landmark of functionalist architecture.

Paimon

Paimon (Paymon, Paimonia), ninth spirit of the Ars Goetia in the Lesser Key of Solomon: a great king obedient to Lucifer commanding 200 legions, riding a dromedary, teaching all arts and sciences; distinct from the arXiv software framework and the Hereditary film character.

Paimon (Genshin Impact)

Paimon is the floating fairy companion, guide, narrator, and mascot of Genshin Impact, famous for the 'emergency food' joke; voiced in English by Corina Boettger until a 2025 Version 5.7 recast, and in Japanese by Aoi Koga.

Paimpol-Bréhat tidal energy test site

The Paimpol-Bréhat tidal energy test site, launched by EDF in 2008, is a grid-connected facility off Brittany, France, for testing full-scale tidal turbines like OpenHydro and OceanQuest.

Pain

Pain: unpleasant sensory and emotional experience (IASP); acute vs chronic (>3 months, ICD-11 disease). Covers nociceptive, neuropathic, nociplastic mechanisms, gate control theory, measurement scales, ~20-30% prevalence, $500-600 billion US cost, 2025 suzetrigine approval.

Pain & Gain

Pain & Gain is a 2013 Michael Bay action comedy for Paramount starring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as the real Sun Gym Gang, Miami bodybuilders whose 1994–95 kidnapping, extortion, and murder spree inspired the dark comedy.

Pain and Glory

Pain and Glory (Dolor y gloria) is Pedro Almodóvar's 2019 Spanish drama starring Antonio Banderas as ailing director Salvador Mallo; it won Cannes Best Actor and the Goyas for Best Film and Best Actor.

Pain and sentience in cephalopods

Cephalopods, including octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, are widely debated as capable of pain and sentience, and are legally recognized as sentient in the UK since 2022.

Pain au chocolat

Pain au chocolat (chocolatine in southwest France and Quebec) is a French viennoiserie of croissant-like laminated dough wrapped around two dark chocolate batons; 84% of French people use the name pain au chocolat.

Pain Clinics

Pain clinics, also called pain centers or acute pain services, are facilities providing multidisciplinary diagnostic, therapeutic, and palliative care for severe chronic pain; pioneered by John Bonica in the 1950s–1960s and standardized by IASP guidelines.

Pain disorders

Pain disorders are conditions in which pain is the central clinical problem, coded 8E43 in ICD-11's nervous system chapter and classified broadly under chronic pain (MG30) as primary or secondary pain lasting over three months.

Pain Hustlers

Pain Hustlers is a 2023 Netflix crime drama directed by David Yates, starring Emily Blunt and Chris Evans, adapted from Evan Hughes's book The Hard Sell about the Insys Therapeutics fentanyl spray scandal.

Pain in animals

Pain in animals: the subjective aversive experience of tissue damage, present in all vertebrates and some invertebrates. Covers pain physiology, acute versus chronic types, veterinary assessment with pain scales, and the fish pain debate.

Pain in crustaceans

Pain in crustaceans: whether decapods such as crabs, lobsters, and crayfish feel pain rather than mere nociception. Decapods meet 14 of 17 pain criteria; the UK's 2022 Sentience Act recognizes them as sentient, though skeptics dispute the evidence.

Pain in fish

Pain in fish: whether fishes feel conscious pain, not just nociception. Rainbow trout nociceptors (Sneddon 2002), analgesia-responsive behavior, Rose's cortical skepticism, and the current scientific consensus that fish are sentient.

Pain in limb

Pain in limb (ICD-11 FB56.4; ICD-10-CM M79.6) is a WHO symptom code for unpleasant sensory and emotional experience from actual or potential limb tissue damage, with exclusions for chronic primary and secondary musculoskeletal pain.

Pain in penis

Pain in penis (ICD-11 MF40.00), any penile pain or discomfort; causes include priapism, Peyronie's disease, urethritis, balanitis, trauma, penile fracture, and referred or neuropathic pain; priapism and fracture are emergencies.

Pain in throat or chest

Pain in throat or chest (ICD-11 MD30) is a WHO symptom code covering throat pain and chest pain, with child codes MD30.0 and MD30.1; chest pain drives over 6.5 million US emergency visits yearly.

Pain management

Pain management (pain medicine): health care field for assessing and reducing pain, defined by IASP as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience. Covers biopsychosocial care, multidisciplinary programs, CBT plus exercise, nonopioid and opioid treatments, and the CDC 2022 opioid guideline.