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Postmodern philosophy
Postmodern philosophy: a loose set of late 20th-century critical practices questioning objective truth, universal reason, and metanarratives, coined with Lyotard's 1979 Postmodern Condition, developed by Derrida, Foucault, and Baudrillard, and criticized by Habermas.
Postmodern Turkish novel
The postmodern Turkish novel is fiction from the 1970s onward using metafiction, intertextuality, and irony, beginning with Oğuz Atay's Tutunamayanlar and flourishing in the 1980s and 1990s.
Postmodernism
Postmodernism is a late twentieth-century intellectual and cultural movement that challenges objective truth, historical progress, and the rational subject, famously defined by Lyotard as incredulity toward metanarratives.
Postmodernity
Postmodernity is the societal and cultural condition said to follow modernity, associated with Lyotard's 1979 The Postmodern Condition, Baudrillard's hyperreality, Jameson's late capitalism, and rival late/reflexive modernity theories of Giddens and Beck.
Postmortem computed tomography
Postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) is the cross-sectional X-ray examination of a body after death, used in forensic death investigation to detect fractures, foreign bodies, gas, and fluid collections.
POSTN
POSTN (periostin, OSF-2) is a human gene at 13q13.3 encoding a 90 kDa secreted matricellular ECM protein with EMI and four FAS1 domains that binds integrins, driving wound healing, fibrosis, asthma type 2 inflammation, and cancer metastasis.
Postnatal Care
Postnatal care (postpartum care) is health care for mother and newborn in the first six weeks (42 days) after birth. WHO's 2022 guideline sets 63 recommendations; over 3 in 10 women and babies miss early postnatal care.
Postnuptial agreement
Postnuptial agreement (postnup): a contract spouses sign after marriage or a civil union, covering property division, debts, and spousal support on divorce or death; enforceability varies by state and country, unlike prenuptial agreements made before marriage.
Posto villa
Posto villa is a small Roman villa rustica at Francolise, Caserta, Campania, in the ancient Ager Falernus near the Via Appia. Begun around 100 BC, excavated 1962–1965, and published by M. Aylwin Cotton in 1979.
Postojna Cave
Located in southwestern Slovenia, Postojna Cave (Postojnska jama) is a 24-kilometer karst cave system formed by the sinking Pivka River and recognized as a hotspot of subterranean biodiversity.
Postoperative Period
Postoperative period: the phase following a surgical operation, from PACU recovery through 30- and 90-day outcomes. Covers surgical stress response, Aldrete/QoR recovery scoring, ERAS pathways, and ASA quality indicators.
Postorgasmic illness syndrome
Postorgasmic illness syndrome (POIS), also called post-orgasmic illness syndrome, is a rare urogenital syndrome of flu-like, allergic-type, and cognitive symptoms within hours after ejaculation, lasting 2 to 7 days; first described 2002, fewer than 100 reported cases, cause unknown.
Postpartum acute renal failure
Postpartum acute renal failure (postpartum acute kidney injury, PPAKI, ICD-10 O90.4) is sudden kidney function decline from delivery to six weeks postpartum, caused by preeclampsia, hemorrhage, sepsis, and HELLP, with 10.8% case fatality in low-income settings.
Postpartum bleeding
Postpartum bleeding (postpartum hemorrhage, PPH) is excessive bleeding after childbirth, the leading direct cause of maternal death; defined by ACOG as ≥1000 mL or hypovolemia within 24 hours, prevented with uterotonics and treated with the MOTIVE bundle and tranexamic acid.
Postpartum coagulation defects
Postpartum coagulation defects (ICD-11 JA43.3) are clotting disorders, chiefly hypofibrinogenemia and fibrinolysis, that cause or worsen bleeding after childbirth; managed with tranexamic acid, fibrinogen replacement, and viscoelastic-guided transfusion.
Postpartum depression
Postpartum depression, also called postnatal depression, is depression starting within 12 months of childbirth that affects about one in eight new mothers and needs treatment.
Postpartum depression screening
Postpartum depression screening uses brief validated questionnaires, most often the 10-item Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), to identify probable depression after childbirth and trigger further assessment.
Postpartum infections
Postpartum infections (puerperal fever, childbed fever) are bacterial genital tract infections from rupture of membranes to 42 days postpartum; endometritis is most common, cesarean the main risk factor, treated with clindamycin plus gentamicin.
Postpartum period
Postpartum period (puerperium, fourth trimester): the weeks after childbirth when the mother recovers physiologically. WHO defines six weeks; ACOG 12 weeks; includes postpartum depression, LAM contraception, and postpartum care visits.
Postpartum psychosis
Postpartum psychosis (puerperal psychosis): rare psychiatric emergency after childbirth, 1–2 per 1,000 deliveries, sudden onset within 2 weeks, hallucinations, delusions, mania; strongly linked to bipolar disorder; lithium first-line.
Postpartum telogen effluvium
Postpartum telogen effluvium (PPTE), also called telogen gravidarum, is diffuse hair shedding 2–4 months after childbirth from delayed anagen release as pregnancy-prolonged follicles enter telogen; usually self-limited within 6–12 months.
Postpartum thyroiditis
Postpartum thyroiditis, also called PPT, is a painless autoimmune thyroid inflammation arising within 12 months of delivery in previously euthyroid women, causing transient thyrotoxicosis, then often hypothyroidism, with permanent hypothyroidism in 10-20% of cases.
Postpay
Postpay is a buy now, pay later fintech founded in Dubai in 2019 by Tariq Sheikh and Dani Molina Carmona, offering interest-free installments in the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome
Postpoliomyelitis syndrome (PPS, post-polio syndrome): new weakness, fatigue, and pain appearing 15-30 years after recovery from paralytic polio, affecting 20-85% of survivors; a clinical diagnosis of exclusion with no specific drug treatment.
Postprandial glucose test
Postprandial glucose test: blood glucose measured after a meal, usually 2 h after the start of eating; used for postprandial hyperglycemia in diabetes and pregnancy, with ADA/IDF targets.
Postprandial hypotension
Postprandial hypotension is an abnormally large fall in blood pressure within two hours of a meal, defined as a systolic drop over 20 mmHg, common in older adults.
Postprandial somnolence
Postprandial somnolence, or food coma, is drowsiness after eating, peaking 1-2 hours post-meal; caused by gut signals, metabolites, and circadian dip, not blood flow shifts.
Postprocedural hypothyroidism
Postprocedural hypothyroidism (ICD-11 5D40) is hypothyroidism caused by a medical procedure, mainly total thyroidectomy, lobectomy, or radioactive iodine therapy; managed with lifelong levothyroxine and TSH monitoring.
Postprocedural ovarian failure
Postprocedural ovarian failure (ICD-11 5D44; ICD-10-CM E89.4) is iatrogenic loss of ovarian function after bilateral oophorectomy, pelvic surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, managed with hormone therapy until about age 50-51.
Postrema family
Postrema family: central-main-belt asteroid family named for asteroid (1484) Postrema, first reported in Nesvorny et al. (2015) via the Hierarchical Clustering Method and listed among the 122 notable families in NASA's PDS V3.0 catalog.