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Pallavi Sharda
Pallavi Sharda is an Indian-Australian actress and classical dancer who moved to Mumbai in 2010, led the Bollywood film Besharam (2013), and appeared in Lion and Netflix's Wedding Season.
Pallavi Subhash (पल्लवी सुभाष शिर्के)
Pallavi Subhash Shirke (पल्लवी सुभाष शिर्के), born 1984 in Mumbai, is an Indian model-turned-actress in Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu film and TV, known as Rukmini in Mahabharat and Dharma in Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat; distinct from actress Sai Pallavi.
Pallbearer
Pallbearer: a person who carries or escorts a coffin or casket at a funeral, also called coffin bearer. From pall, the cloth over a coffin; first recorded 1707. Usually six bearers, often family or friends, with honorary pallbearers recognized without lifting.
Palle R. Rao
Palle R. Rao, also known as Palle Rama Rao, is an Indian metallurgist who won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1979 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2011.
Pallene (moon)
Pallene, designated Saturn XXXIII, is a small moon of Saturn about 4 kilometers across, discovered by the Cassini imaging team in 2004 and orbited by a faint dusty ring.
Palleon Pharmaceuticals
Palleon Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, clinical-stage biotechnology company in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in 2015 by Jim Broderick and Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi to develop glycan-editing drugs.
Pallet
A pallet, also called a shipping or cargo pallet, is a flat platform for stacking and moving goods as one load, typically lifted by forklifts.
Palletizing
Palletizing is the process of stacking packaged products such as cases and bags onto pallets in defined layer patterns, commonly automated with palletizer machines or robot arms.
Palli Samaj
Palli Samaj (পল্লীসমাজ, "Village Society") is a 1916 Bengali novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, set in a caste-ridden village of colonial Bengal, whose educated protagonist Ramesh fails to reform it.
Palliative care
Palliative care: WHO-defined approach relieving physical, psychosocial, and spiritual suffering in life-threatening illness; founded via Cicely Saunders's 1967 St Christopher's Hospice; only 14% of the 56.8 million in need receive it.
Palliative Care Outcome Scale
The Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS) is a ten-item questionnaire measuring symptoms and concerns in palliative care patients, developed in 1999 and used in over 20 countries.
Palliative sedation
Palliative sedation, also called terminal or continuous deep sedation, is monitored sedative medication that reduces awareness to relieve refractory suffering at the end of life; midazolam is standard, survival studies show no shortening, and it is ethically distinguished from euthanasia by intent and proportionality.
Pallichattambi
Pallichattambi (പള്ളിച്ചട്ടമ്പി) is a 2026 Malayalam period action drama directed by Dijo Jose Antony, starring Tovino Thomas and Kayadu Lohar, set in 1950s Kerala during the Vimochana Samaram; released 15 April 2026, streaming on Sony LIV.
Pallidotomy
Pallidotomy is a stereotactic neurosurgical operation that destroys a small target in the globus pallidus internus to relieve Parkinson's motor symptoms, especially levodopa-induced dyskinesia, rigidity, and tremor.
Pallidus (company)
Pallidus was an American manufacturer of silicon carbide wafers for power semiconductors, founded in 2015 and based in Albany, New York, which entered liquidation in 2026.
Pallishri
Pallishri (ପଲ୍ଲୀଶ୍ରୀ), rendered in English as The Village Graces, is a 1941 collection of Odia poetry by Sachidananda Routray portraying rural village life in Odisha.
Pallister-Hall syndrome
Pallister-Hall syndrome (PHS, MIM 146510), an autosomal dominant GLI3-related disorder with hypothalamic hamartoma, polydactyly, bifid epiglottis, and imperforate anus; caused by truncating GLI3 variants in the gene's middle third, allelic to Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome.
Pallister-Killian syndrome
Pallister-Killian syndrome (PKS, isochromosome 12p syndrome, mosaic tetrasomy 12p) is a rare sporadic disorder from tissue-limited mosaicism for an extra i(12p), causing hypotonia, intellectual disability, diaphragmatic hernia, and pigmentary skin changes.
Pallium
Pallium: Latin for a wool mantle; classically a square woolen cloak like the Greek himation, and in the Catholic Church a white wool band with six black crosses worn by the pope and metropolitan archbishops as a badge of office, first recorded under Pope Marcus (d. 336).
Pallokerho 35
Pallokerho 35 (PK-35) is a Finnish football club, originally founded in Viipuri in 1935. The PK-35 Vantaa entity joined the top league and won seven championships.
Pallonji Mistry
Pallonji Mistry (1929–2022) was an Indian-born construction magnate who chaired the Shapoorji Pallonji Group and, through his family's 18.37% stake, was the largest individual shareholder in Tata Sons.
Pallor conjunctiva
Pallor conjunctiva (conjunctival pallor), ICD-11 MC16, is paleness of the inner eyelid lining used as a bedside sign of anemia; likelihood ratio about 4.5 when present, high specificity but low screening sensitivity.
Pallor mortis
Pallor mortis is the paleness of skin appearing 15-30 minutes after death, the earliest of the four classical postmortem signs with algor, rigor, and livor mortis; distinct from contact pallor, the pressure-induced absence of lividity.
Palm (company)
Palm, Inc., founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, created the PalmPilot handheld organizer and the Treo smartphone, and was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2010.
PaLM (model family)
PaLM, or Pathways Language Model, was a family of large language models developed by Google, announced in 2022, that powered Bard and over 25 Google products.
Palm (PDA)
The Palm, first sold as the Pilot and then the PalmPilot, is a line of pocket-sized PDAs made by Palm, Inc. from 1996 until HP wound it down.
Palm and Vine
Palm and Vine is an Akkadian disputation poem in which the date palm, king of trees, and the vine debate their superiority; only 54 middle lines survive, with no verdict.
Palm Bay, Florida
Palm Bay, Florida: largest city in Brevard County on the Indian River Lagoon, founded as Tillman in 1887, incorporated 1960; defense and engineering economy led by L3Harris; 2020 census population 119,760.
Palm Beach County, Florida
Palm Beach County, Florida: county established July 1, 1909 as Florida's 47th county, seat West Palm Beach; seven-member commission, 1.58 million residents (2025 est.), Florida's largest agricultural county.
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: a Palm Beach County city founded by insurance magnate John D. MacArthur in 1959 as a garden city; about 64,000 residents, former PGA of America headquarters, PGA National Resort, and the Avenir development.