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PostScript

PostScript, also called the PostScript language, is a stack-based programming language released by Adobe in 1984 that describes the appearance of text, shapes, and images on printed pages.

Postsurgical lordosis (postprocedural lordosis, ICD-11 FC01.4, ICD-10-AM M96.4) is surgically induced abnormal spinal lordotic curvature, typically loss of lumbar lordosis after fusion, causing flatback syndrome.

Postsynthetic exchange

Postsynthetic exchange is a chemistry strategy in which building blocks of an already-formed porous solid, usually a metal–organic framework, are swapped while the lattice is preserved.

Postsynthetic metal exchange in MOFs

Postsynthetic metal exchange is a MOF modification in which metal ions forming the framework's nodes are replaced after synthesis by soaking in another metal salt solution.

Postsynthetic modification

Postsynthetic modification (PSM) is the chemical alteration of a porous framework, such as a metal–organic framework, after it has been assembled, enabling gas sorption, catalysis, and drug delivery.

Posttransplant acute limbic encephalitis

Posttransplant acute limbic encephalitis (PALE) is a rare non-paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis after allogeneic HSCT, causing amnesia, confusion, and seizures 2-6 weeks post-transplant, usually linked to HHV-6.

Postum

Postum is a caffeine-free instant roasted-grain beverage of wheat, wheat bran, and molasses, invented by C.W. Post in Battle Creek in 1895, discontinued by Kraft in 2007, and revived in 2012 by Eliza's Quest Foods; its wheat base contains gluten and its Matcha flavor contains caffeine.

Postumia (crater on Vesta)

Postumia is a 195.89 km impact crater, a ruined ancient basin, on asteroid 4 Vesta at 33.84°N, 33.77°E, IAU-named in 2014 for a Roman vestal virgin (c. 420 B.C.), cut by Saturnalia Fossae and older than Veneneia.

Postumismo

Postumismo (Posthumism) was a Dominican avant-garde literary movement founded in 1921 by poet Domingo Moreno Jimenes, generally considered the first poetic and literary school of the Dominican Republic.

Postural Balance

Postural balance, also called postural equilibrium, is the stable state achieved when body mass is ideally distributed, keeping the body steady while sitting, standing, or walking.

Sep 29, 2026

Postural drainage

Postural drainage is a physical therapy technique that positions a patient so gravity moves mucus from lung segments toward the larger airways, used in cystic fibrosis, bronchiectasis, and COPD.

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), chronic orthostatic intolerance: standing raises heart rate ≥30 bpm (≥40 in ages 12–19) without orthostatic hypotension; mechanisms neuropathic, hypovolemic, hyperadrenergic; no FDA-approved drugs.

Sep 29, 2026

Posturography

Posturography is a clinical method measuring postural control while standing, recording sway on a force platform to evaluate balance disorders; forms include static and computerized dynamic posturography.

Postwar literature

Postwar literature (전후문학) is Korean writing that renders the devastation and psychological wounds of the Korean War (1950–1953) through the absurdity of human existence, dating from about 1955 to 1960.

Posusje

HŠK Posušje (Hrvatski športski klub Posušje), also NK Zidar, NK Boksit, is a Bosnian football club founded 1950 in Posušje; twice Herzeg-Bosnia champion, plays at Mokri Dolac (5,040 seats).

Posy Sterling

Posy Sterling (born 1992, Manchester) is a British stage, TV and film actor; winner of the BIFA Breakthrough Performance award for Lollipop (2024) and EE BAFTA Rising Star nominee 2026.

Sep 29, 2026

Pot experiment

A pot experiment is a laboratory method in which plants are grown in pots of soil, sand, or other substrate to test fertilizers, drought, salinity, and other treatments under defined conditions.

Pot Noodle

Pot Noodle is a British brand of instant hot snack: dried noodles in a pot, prepared with boiling water, launched in 1977 and now owned by Unilever.

Pot odds

Pot odds are the ratio of money in a poker pot to the amount a player must call, compared with equity to decide if a call is profitable.

Pot roast

Pot roast is an American beef dish, also called Yankee pot roast in its New England vegetable version: a tough cut such as chuck or brisket browned, then braised slowly in a covered pot with a little liquid until tender, an Americanism in print since 1881.

Pot still

A pot still, also known as an alembic, is a batch distillation apparatus in which fermented liquid is boiled at once and condensed into spirit for malt whisky, Cognac, and rum.

Pot-au-feu

Pot-au-feu, French "pot on the fire," is the traditional French boiled beef and vegetable stew, broth served first, meat second; national dish of France, attested from the 17th century.

POT1

POT1 (protection of telomeres 1), HGNC:17284, is a human shelterin gene binding telomeric TTAGGG single-stranded DNA. Germline pathogenic variants cause POT1 tumor predisposition syndrome: melanoma, angiosarcoma, CLL, glioma.

Potable water reuse

Potable water reuse is the use of highly treated municipal wastewater as a drinking water source, either directly or after an environmental buffer such as an aquifer.

Potala Palace

The Potala Palace (布达拉宫), also known as Budala Palace, is a hilltop palace-fortress in Lhasa, Tibet, built on Marpo Ri and the winter residence of the Dalai Lamas until 1959.

Oct 10, 2026

Poṭaliputta

Poṭaliputta (पोटलिपुत्त), also written Potaliputta, was a wanderer of the Buddha's time who questioned the monk Samiddhi at Veḷuvana, Rājagaha, prompting the Mahākammavibhaṅga Sutta on karma.

Potamidae

Potamidae (Ortmann, 1896) is a family of primary freshwater crabs with two subfamilies, Potaminae and Potamiscinae, across North Africa, southern Europe, and Asia; about 505 species, separated by the Indian plate collision around 22.8 Ma.

Potamides

Potamides, a genus of potamidid gastropods established by Brongniart in 1810, is known from European Cenozoic fossils and its living species were assigned to Cerithideopsilla.

Oct 15, 2026

Potamogeton

Potamogeton, the pondweeds, is a genus of aquatic flowering herbs named by Linnaeus in 1753, with 80 to 90 species in fresh and brackish waters worldwide.