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Pervez Musharraf (پرویز مشرف)
Pervez Musharraf (پرویز مشرف), Pakistani general and 10th president; seized power in the bloodless October 12, 1999 coup against Nawaz Sharif, ruled 1999–2008, allied Pakistan with the US war on terror after 9/11, resigned in 2008, and died in Dubai exile in 2023.
PERVI-I trial
PERVI-I is a randomized pilot clinical trial led by Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli testing whether daily Pervistop supplementation maintains HPV-DNA negativity in HPV-positive men seeking fertility care.
PERVI-M trial
PERVI-M (NCT07320183), also called the Pervistop male HPV trial, is a Gemelli IRCCS randomized pilot of EGCG, folic acid, vitamin B12, and hyaluronic acid for HPV-DNA clearance in HPV-positive men seeking pregnancy.
Pervigilium Veneris
Pervigilium Veneris ("The Vigil of Venus") is an anonymous Latin poem of late antiquity celebrating Venus in spring, ending in the poet's lament for his lost muse.
Pervinquieria
Pervinquieria is a genus of Upper Albian (Early Cretaceous) ammonites in the family Brancoceratidae, named by J. Böhm in 1910 for the French geologist Léon Pervinquière; its type species is Ammonites inflatus.
Pervious concrete
Pervious concrete is concrete made with little or no fine aggregate, leaving connected voids that let water drain through, used mainly in low-traffic areas like parking lots.
Pervis Estupiñán
Pervis Estupiñán (Pervis Josué Estupiñán Tenorio), Ecuadorian left-back born 1998 in Esmeraldas; LDU Quito product, Europa League winner with Villarreal, Brighton 2022-2025, AC Milan from July 2025, 48 Ecuador caps.
Pervomaiskyi Raion
Pervomaiskyi Raion (Первомайський район), a May Day-derived district name shared by raions in Kharkiv Oblast (1923–62, 1965–2020, center Pervomaiskyi/Zlatopil), Mykolaiv Oblast (center Pervomaisk), and Crimea.
Pervomayskiy rayon
Pervomayskiy rayon (Первомайский район) is the name of several raions: a timber district in Tomsk Oblast, a former Crimea raion abolished by Ukraine's 2020 reform, and city districts in Bishkek and Minsk.
Pervouralsk
Pervouralsk (Первоуральск), industrial city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, 41 km west of Yekaterinburg on the Chusovaya River near the Europe-Asia boundary; founded 1732 as the Vasilyevo-Shaitansky ironworks, city since 1933, population about 111,000, centered on the PNTZ seamless pipe plant.
Perylene
Perylene, also known as peri-dinaphthalene, is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, C20H12, with five fused rings, used as a fluorescent probe and the basis of perylene diimide pigments and organic electronic materials.
Perynya Tholus
Perynya Tholus is a 110-km-wide volcanic dome (tholus) on Venus at 0.7S, 353.2E, in quadrangle V-43, named in 2000 for the Slavic goddess, wife of thunderstorm god Perun.
Pes cavus
Pes cavus (high arch feet) is a multiplanar foot deformity with an abnormally raised medial longitudinal arch, usually neuromuscular (often Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease), causing pain and ankle instability; treated with custom foot orthoses or surgery.
PES University
PES University (PESU), Bengaluru, is a state private university formed in 2013 from PES Institute of Technology, founded by M.R. Doreswamy's People's Education Society; offers B.Tech, MBBS, MBA and other programs across Ring Road, Electronic City, and HN campuses.
Pes-10
Pes-10 (Patterned expression site protein 10, WBGene00003983) is a C. elegans chromosome II protein-coding gene and the namesake Pfam PF07149/InterPro IPR009819 family, a conserved nematode protein of unknown function with no close structural template.
Pesa
Pesa is a Polish manufacturer of rail vehicles headquartered in Bydgoszcz, the largest in Poland, tracing its origins to railway repair workshops opened there in 1851.
PESA study
PESA (Progression of Early Subclinical Atherosclerosis) CNIC-Santander: Spanish prospective cohort of 4,184 Banco Santander employees aged 40-54 in Madrid, imaged since 2010 with ultrasound and CT; found subclinical atherosclerosis in 63%.
Pesado (group)
Pesado, also known as Grupo Pesado, is a norteño group from Monterrey, Mexico, founded in 1993 by Beto Zapata and Pepe Elizondo, known for romantic norteño with Latin rhythms.
Pesäpallo
Pesäpallo (pesis, Swedish boboll) is Finland's national bat-and-ball game, a 1920s Finnish adaptation of baseball by Lauri "Tahko" Pihkala, marked by a vertical pitch, zig-zag base paths, jokers, and the Superpesis league.
Pesaro
Pesaro (Pisaurum) is an Adriatic city in the Marche, Italy, co-capital of the province of Pesaro and Urbino, birthplace of Rossini, UNESCO Creative City of Music 2017, and Italian Capital of Culture 2024.
Pescadillo
Pescadillo, also known as PES1 or NOP7, is a nucleolar protein essential for ribosome biogenesis, first identified in zebrafish embryos and overexpressed in many cancers.
Pescadores Campaign
The Pescadores Campaign (澎湖之役) was a Japanese amphibious operation of the First Sino-Japanese War that seized the Penghu Islands from the Qing Empire in three days in March 1895.
Pescara
Pescara, Adriatic coastal city and provincial capital in Abruzzo, Italy; created 2 January 1927 by merging Pescara and Castellammare Adriatico; nearly 80% destroyed in 1943 bombings; new comune with Montesilvano and Spoltore from 2027.
Pescatoria
Pescatoria (also spelled Pescatorea) is a genus of 21 accepted neotropical orchid species in Zygopetalinae, Orchidaceae, native from Costa Rica to Ecuador; it absorbed Bollea and is a parent of the hybrid genus × Zygosepescalum.
Pescetarianism
Pescetarianism, also spelled pescatarianism or pesco-vegetarianism, is a diet excluding land-animal meat while including fish, seafood, dairy, and eggs; noted for omega-3 intake, high Healthy Eating Index scores, and moderate carbon footprint.
Peschiera necropolis
Peschiera necropolis (Necropoli della Peschiera) is an Etruscan rock-cut necropolis at Tuscania in Lazio, central Italy, in use from the 8th to the 1st century BC.
Peseshet
Peseshet was an ancient Egyptian woman of the Old Kingdom, about 2500 BC, known from a false door in her son's Giza tomb that titles her overseer of female physicians.
Peshaura Singh
Peshaura Singh (ਪੇਸ਼ੌਰਾ ਸਿੰਘ), also spelt Pashaura Singh, was a son of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire, killed in 1845 after revolting over the succession.
Peshawar (پشاور)
Peshawar (پشاور), capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, near the Khyber Pass. Ancient Gandhara city, 2023 district population 4.76 million, home of the TransPeshawar BRT and the Rs2.23 billion Safe City Project.
Peshawar District
Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: district around Peshawar City, provincial capital. 1,518 sq km, 4,758,762 people (Census 2023), density 3,134.89/sq km, 40.05% urban, six tehsils, established 1901.