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Palmer Basin
Palmer Basin, also called Palmer Deep (US ACUF), is an undersea inner-shelf basin southwest of Anvers Island, Antarctic Peninsula, up to 1400 m deep, with three sub-basins, ODP Sites 1098/1099, named for Nathaniel B. Palmer.
Palmer Drought Severity Index
The Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) is a standardized drought index developed by Wayne Palmer in 1965 that uses temperature and precipitation data to estimate relative dryness.
Palmer Land
Palmer Land: southern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, south of the Cape Jeremy to Cape Agassiz line, named for sealer Nathaniel B. Palmer; defined by the 1964 US-UK naming agreement, holds most of the peninsula's ice.
Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey is an American entrepreneur who founded Oculus VR, sold it to Facebook for $2 billion in 2014, and later founded defense company Anduril Industries.
Palmer Method
Palmer Method: American cursive handwriting system created by Austin Norman Palmer (1894 guide); pure arm or muscular movement, ovals and push-pull drills, simplified Spencerian; dominant US business and school penmanship of the early 20th century, distinct from Spencerian script.
Palmer raids
Palmer raids: 1919-1920 US Justice Department arrests and deportations of suspected anarchists and communists under Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover during the First Red Scare, triggered by the June 1919 anarchist bombings.
Palmer Rupes
Palmer Rupes is a 274-km lobate scarp (rupes) on Mercury at 26.07S, 106.28E, IAU-approved June 3, 2013 and named for the NSF Antarctic research icebreaker Palmer.
Palmer Station
Palmer Station is a U.S. year-round Antarctic research station on Anvers Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, operated by the National Science Foundation and commissioned in 1968.
Palmer W. Taylor
Palmer W. Taylor is an American pharmacologist at UC San Diego, founding dean of its pharmacy school, known for decades of work on acetylcholine signaling.
Palmeral of Elche
The Palmeral of Elche (Palmeral de Elche) is an artificial oasis of date palm orchards surrounding the city of Elche in Alicante, Spain, laid out in the tenth century.
Palmerston Island
Palmerston Island, Cook Islands atoll (Pukapuka group neighbor), 270 miles NW of Rarotonga, ~1,000 acres; settled 1862/1863 by William Marsters; 1954 Act vested land in his descendants; population 60 (2011).
Palmerston North
Palmerston North (Māori: Papaioea) is a city on New Zealand's North Island in the Manawatū region, 140 km north-east of Wellington, with an estimated population of 91,800.
Palmesus 2026
Palmesus 2026 was the 2026 edition of Palmesus, a beach music festival on Bystranda in Kristiansand, Norway, with about 35 artists including headliners Alesso, Macklemore, and Broiler.
Palmetto Clean Technology
Palmetto Clean Technology is a Charleston, South Carolina clean energy company founded in 2010 by CEO Chris Kemper, connecting homeowners with rooftop solar and storage providers.
Palmetto Health Richland
Palmetto Health Richland, now Prisma Health Richland Hospital, is a Columbia, South Carolina hospital tracing to 1892; a Level 1 trauma center, teaching hospital, and former Palmetto Health flagship renamed in 2019.
Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a 12-hectare botanical garden in the Canary Islands specializing in palms, built on a former rubbish dump.
Palmira, Valle del Cauca Department
Palmira, Valle del Cauca: Colombian municipality in the Cauca River valley, second city of the department, Agricultural Capital of Colombia, founded as Llanogrande (1680/1773), republican villa since 1824, sugarcane agroindustrial center.
Palmiry massacre
The Palmiry massacre was a series of mass executions by German SS and police near Warsaw from December 1939 to July 1941, killing over 1,700 Poles.
Palmistry
Palmistry, or chiromancy, is the divinatory practice of reading palm lines, shapes, and mounts to assess character or predict the future. Independent Indian, Chinese, and Greek traditions; systematized by d'Arpentigny, Desbarrolles, and Cheiro; classified as a pseudoscience.
Palmitic acid
Palmitic acid (hexadecanoic acid) is a long-chain saturated fatty acid, C16H32O2, the most common saturated fatty acid in the human body and the main one in palm oil.
Palmito Oil and Gas Field
Palmito (Campo Palmito) is an onshore natural gas field in the Burgos Basin of Nuevo León, Mexico, operated by Pemex and producing since 1965, peaking in 2012.
Palmitoleic acid concentrate
Palmitoleic acid concentrate: purified fish-oil fatty acid ethyl esters standardized to about 50% palmitoleic acid (omega-7, 16:1 n-7), GRAS under FDA GRN 494 (Tersus, 2014) and covered by TGA compositional guidelines for listed medicines.
Palmitoyl protein thioesterase
Palmitoyl protein thioesterase (PPT1, EC 3.1.2.22; homolog PPT2) is a lysosomal depalmitoylase that removes palmitate from S-palmitoylated proteins; PPT1 deficiency causes CLN1 Batten disease and PPT1 is a cancer drug target.
Palmitoyl-CoA
Palmitoyl-CoA (hexadecanoyl-CoA, palmitoyl coenzyme A) is the CoA thioester of palmitic acid, the activated 16-carbon fatty acid central to mitochondrial beta-oxidation, lipid synthesis, and protein palmitoylation.
Palmitoylated green tea catechins
Palmitoylated green tea catechins (Oil-Soluble Green Tea Extract, Green Tea Catechin Palmitate, GRN 772) are lipid-soluble esterified green tea polyphenols from Kemin, cleared by FDA in 2018 as a food antioxidant at 0.05 to 0.28%.
Palmitoylethanolamide
Palmitoylethanolamide (PEA, N-palmitoylethanolamine) is a fatty acid amide that occurs naturally in mammalian tissues and foods like egg yolk, and is studied for treating chronic pain.
Palmitoyltransferase, DHHC domain
DHHC domain (IPR001594) palmitoyltransferases, also called zDHHC or DHHC-PATs, are eukaryotic integral membrane enzymes that S-palmitoylate cysteine residues via a two-step autoacylation mechanism; 23 human members, linked to cancer and neurological disease.
Palmont Holding
Palmont Holding is a private family investment office founded in Prague in November 2025 by Petr Kellner mladší, son of PPF Group's founder, with about €1.8 billion from selling his inherited PPF stake.
Palmoplantar keratoderma-esophageal carcinoma syndrome
Palmoplantar keratoderma-esophageal carcinoma syndrome, also called tylosis with esophageal cancer, Howel-Evans syndrome, or TOC (OMIM 148500), is a rare autosomal dominant RHBDF2 disorder causing palmoplantar hyperkeratosis and a very high lifetime risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
Palmoplantar keratodermas
Palmoplantar keratodermas (PPK) are a heterogeneous group of inherited or acquired disorders causing persistent thickening of palm and sole skin, sometimes with nail, hair, tooth, hearing, or heart involvement.