All articles starting with P

Perfume (パフューム) (Japanese band)

Perfume (パフューム, Pafyūmu) is a Japanese technopop trio from Hiroshima: A-chan, Kashiyuka, and Nocchi, produced by Yasutaka Nakata since 2003. Broke through with "Polyrhythm" (2007); announced a "cold sleep" hiatus from the end of 2025.

Perfume Genius

Perfume Genius, the moniker of American singer-songwriter Mike Hadreas (Michael Alden Hadreas, born 1981), spans piano ballads to glam rock across seven Matador albums from Learning (2010) to Glory (2025).

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (film)

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Das Parfum) is Tom Tykwer's 2006 German-French-Spanish film adaptation of Patrick Süskind's 1985 novel, starring Ben Whishaw as scent-obsessed murderer Grenouille, with Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman; €50m budget, $135M gross, Metascore 56.

Perfumeo

Perfumeo is a venture-backed startup led by founder and CEO Enzo Didi that makes an AI-powered smart home fragrance diffuser which adapts scents to the user's mood.

Perfusion

Perfusion is blood flow through tissue vessels, delivering oxygen and removing carbon dioxide, quantified as ml/min/g. Covers its history (Harvey, Malpighi), autoregulation, bedside and laboratory assessment in shock, and optical, fluorescence, and imaging measurement techniques.

Perfusion computed tomography

Perfusion computed tomography (CT perfusion, CTP) is a CT technique that maps blood flow in tissue, used mainly to select acute stroke patients for reperfusion therapy.

Perfusion imaging

Perfusion imaging is a family of medical imaging techniques that measure capillary-level blood delivery using MRI, CT, or radionuclide tracers, guiding stroke, cardiac, and cancer care.

Perfusion Index

Perfusion index (PI, PPI): pulse-oximetry-derived ratio of pulsatile to non-pulsatile blood flow at the sensor site; values under 0.3% signal very low perfusion, 2–5% good perfusion; predicts fluid responsiveness and anesthetic hypotension.

Oct 20, 2026

Perfusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Perfusion MRI measures capillary-level blood delivery (ml/100 g/min) using four techniques: DSC and DCE with gadolinium contrast, and non-contrast ASL and IVIM; used for stroke, brain tumors, and dementia.

Perfusion mapping

Perfusion mapping is a family of imaging methods that measure blood flow through tissue, using MRI techniques like DSC, DCE, and ASL, plus CT perfusion.

Perfusionist

Perfusionist: allied health professional who operates the heart-lung machine (cardiopulmonary bypass) during cardiac surgery and runs ECMO and mechanical support; credentialed as CCP by the ABCP (est. 1975), with state licensure in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Texas.

Oct 22, 2026

Pergalė

Pergalė ("Victory") was the Lithuanian Writers' Union's monthly literary, art, and criticism journal, the main venue for Soviet Lithuanian literature, published from 1942 until 1990, then succeeded by Metai in 1991.

Pergamon

Pergamon (Pergamum, Turkish Bergama) was the Attalid capital in Mysia, Asia Minor, famed for its Great Altar, library rivaling Alexandria, parchment, and Galen; bequeathed to Rome in 133 BC, now a UNESCO site.

Pergamon Altar

Pergamon Altar (Great Altar of Zeus), monumental 2nd-century BC Attalid marble altar from Pergamon, Bergama, Turkey, with 113 m Gigantomachy frieze; excavated by Carl Humann, displayed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum, closed since 2023, reopening 2027.

Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape

Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape, UNESCO World Heritage Site 1457 (2014, criteria i-vi), Turkey: Attalid Hellenistic capital on Kale Hill, Roman provincial capital, Byzantine and Ottoman layers, nine components near Bergama.

Pergamon Museum

The Pergamon Museum, located on Berlin's Museumsinsel, is an archaeological museum built between 1912 and 1930. It houses the Antikensammlung and the Museum of Islamic Art.

Perge

Perge (Perga; possibly Hittite Parha), ancient Pamphylian city 18 km east of Antalya, Türkiye; settled from 5000 BC, famed for Artemis Pergaia, Plancia Magna's buildings, theatre, stadium, and Aphrodisias-marble sarcophagi.

Pergola

A pergola is an open garden structure of vertical posts and cross-beams that casts dappled shade, typically freestanding or attached to a building and often planted with climbing vines.

Oct 15, 2026

Pergolide

Pergolide is an ergot-derived dopamine receptor agonist developed for Parkinson's disease, withdrawn from human markets over cardiac valve damage and now used mainly in veterinary medicine to treat equine Cushing's disease.

Pergusa

Autodromo di Pergusa (Enna-Pergusa), Sicilian motor racing circuit opened 1951 around Lake Pergusa; 4.950 km, 16 corners, FIA Grade 3; hosted non-championship F1 Mediterranean GP, F2/F3000, sports cars and touring cars.

Oct 3, 2026

Perhaps Love (장르만 로맨스) (2021 film)

Perhaps Love (장르만 로맨스) is a 2021 South Korean romantic comedy-drama, Cho Eun-ji's directorial debut, starring Ryu Seung-ryong as a blocked novelist; released November 17, 2021, it topped the Korean box office and drew about 518,000 admissions.

Oct 3, 2026

Perhaps Love (如果·爱) (2005 film)

Perhaps Love (如果·爱) is Peter Chan's 2005 Hong Kong musical romance, 108 minutes, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhou Xun, Jacky Cheung, and Ji Jin-hee in a film-within-a-film love triangle; Venice closing film, Hong Kong's 78th Academy Awards entry, 80 million RMB budget.

Perhexiline

Perhexiline (Pexsig), a prophylactic antianginal maleate drug acting on fatty acid metabolism via CPT-1/2, requires CYP2D6-based drug monitoring; used for refractory angina in Australia and repurposed for heart failure and cancer.

Oct 22, 2026

Perhimpunan Indonesia

Perhimpunan Indonesia (PI) was an association of Indonesian students in the Netherlands, founded in 1908 as the Indische Vereeniging and turned into a revolutionary group demanding independence.

Peri Gilpin

Peri Gilpin (Peri Kay Oldham, born 1961, Waco, Texas) is an American actress who played Roz Doyle on Frasier (1993–2004, 263 episodes), replaced Lisa Kudrow in the role, and returned in the 2023–2024 revival.

Sep 19, 2026

PERI GmbH

PERI GmbH is a family-owned German manufacturer and renter of engineered formwork and scaffolding systems, founded in 1969 in Weißenhorn and among the world's largest.

Peri-peri

Peri-peri (piri-piri, pili-pili) is the African bird's eye chili, Capsicum frutescens, and the sauce, marinade, and seasoning made from it; 50,000–225,000 SHU, spread by Portuguese trade, central to Mozambican, Angolan, Portuguese, and South African cuisine.