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Prayagraj (district)
Prayagraj district (जिला प्रयागराज), formerly Allahabad, is a district of Uttar Pradesh, India, at the Triveni Sangam of Ganga and Yamuna. Area 5,482 sq km; 2011 population 5,954,391; 8 tehsils; host of the Kumbh and Mahakumbh melas.
Prayagraj (प्रयागराज)
Prayagraj (प्रयागराज), formerly Allahabad, is a city in southern Uttar Pradesh, India, at the Triveni Sangam confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna, and Saraswati, host of the Kumbh and 2025 Maha Kumbh.
Prayank Swaroop
Prayank Swaroop is an Indian venture capital investor and Partner at Accel India who joined in 2011, investing in cybersecurity, SaaS, and startups such as Zetwerk and Bizongo.
Prayat Pongdam
Prayat Pongdam (ประหยัด พงษ์ดำ, 1934–2014) was a Thai printmaker and painter, named a National Artist in 1998, known for gold-accented woodcut prints of rural Thai life.
Prayer
Prayer is communication addressed to a god or gods, taking fixed and free forms across religions and practiced daily by large shares of adults in many countries.
Prayer beads
Prayer beads are strands of beads or knots used to count repeated prayers or mantras, including the Hindu and Buddhist mala, the Catholic rosary, and the Muslim tasbih.
Prayer flag
A prayer flag, or Tibetan prayer flag, is a printed cloth or paper image given to the wind to carry blessings outward in Tibetan Buddhist and Bon practice.
Prayer for the dead
Prayer for the dead is the practice of offering prayers, rites, or alms on behalf of the deceased, practiced by Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Jews but rejected by most Protestants.
Prayer hall
A prayer hall is the main interior space of a mosque where Muslims gather for congregational prayer, oriented toward the qibla, the direction of Mecca.
Prayer of Nabonidus
The Prayer of Nabonidus (4Q242) is an Aramaic Dead Sea Scroll from Qumran Cave 4 in which the Babylonian king Nabonidus is healed of a seven-year disease by a Jewish exorcist.
Prayer of Saint Francis
The Prayer of Saint Francis, also called the Peace Prayer, is a Christian prayer beginning "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace" that is widely attributed to Francis of Assisi.
Prayer rope
The prayer rope, known in Greek as the komboskini and in Russian as the chotki, is a knotted loop Orthodox Christians use to count the Jesus Prayer.
Prayer to Saint Michael
The Prayer to Saint Michael is a Catholic prayer to the archangel Michael, composed under Pope Leo XIII and added to the Leonine Prayers in 1886.
Prayer wheel
A prayer wheel, also called a mani wheel, is a Tibetan Buddhist devotional cylinder holding a scroll of mantras, most often Om Mani Padme Hum, whose turning counts as reciting them.
Praying (song)
"Praying" is a 2017 gospel-tinged piano ballad by Kesha, written with Ryan Lewis, Ben Abraham, and Andrew Joslyn; the first Rainbow single, it peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned Kesha her first Grammy nomination.
Prayogvad
Prayogvad (प्रयोगवाद, experimentalism) was the Hindi poetic movement of the 1940s, launched by Agyeya's 1943 anthology Tar Saptak and succeeded by Nayi Kavita after 1953.
Prayudh Mahagitsiri
Prayudh Mahagitsiri (ประยุทธ มหากิจศิริ) is a Thai businessman and chairman of PM Group, called the coffee king of Thailand for his decades-long Nescafé partnership with Nestlé.
Prayut Chan-o-cha (ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา)
Prayut Chan-o-cha (ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา), Thai army chief who led the 2014 coup, was prime minister 2014-2023, survived an 8-year term-limit ruling, lost the 2023 election, and joined the Privy Council.
Prazepam
Prazepam (Centrax) is a benzodiazepine prodrug anxiolytic converted to N-desmethyldiazepam (half-life about 70 h); discontinued in the US, still authorized in Europe, DEA Schedule IV.
Praziquantel
Praziquantel (PZQ, Biltricide) is a 600 mg oral anthelmintic active against trematodes and cestodes, jointly discovered by Bayer and Merck in the 1970s. It is the WHO-recommended 40 mg/kg single-dose treatment and sole recommended drug for human schistosomiasis, used in mass drug administration.
Prazo
A prazo was a hereditary lease of Portuguese crown land in the Zambezi valley of Mozambique, granted from the late sixteenth century in exchange for rent and military service.
Prazos
Prazos were hereditary Portuguese crown land grants in the Zambezi valley of Mozambique, granted for three lifetimes with rent and military service, until their official end in 1930.
Prazosin
Prazosin (Minipress) is a quinazoline alpha-1 adrenergic antagonist approved for hypertension and used off label for PTSD nightmares; evidence is mixed, with the 2023 VA/DoD guideline weakly favoring it for nightmares only.
PRC1
PRC1 (protein regulator of cytokinesis 1, ASE1/MAP65), human gene at 15q26.1 encoding a microtubule cross-linking CDK substrate essential for spindle midzone formation and cytokinesis; overexpressed in many cancers. Distinct from PRRC1 and Polycomb PRC1.
PRDM16
PRDM16 (PR/SET domain 16), gene at 1p36.32, is a zinc-finger transcription factor controlling brown and beige adipocyte identity, the Myf5-lineage brown fat versus myoblast fate switch, and a therapeutic target in obesity.
PRDX1
PRDX1, or peroxiredoxin 1, is a human protein-coding gene on chromosome 1p34.1 encoding an antioxidant enzyme that reduces hydrogen peroxide, senses oxidative stress, and is linked to cancer progression.
PRDX2
PRDX2 (peroxiredoxin 2, NKEFB, PRP) is a human gene at 19p13.13 encoding a 198-aa typical 2-Cys peroxiredoxin antioxidant enzyme, third most abundant erythrocyte protein, protecting against hemolytic anemia and implicated in cancer and neurodegeneration.
PRDX3
PRDX3 (peroxiredoxin 3, AOP1, SP22; HGNC:9354) is the exclusively mitochondrial human 2-Cys peroxiredoxin, the dominant matrix H2O2 scavenger via the Trx2/TrxR2 axis, upregulated in many cancers and linked to spinocerebellar ataxia 32.
PRDX4
PRDX4 (peroxiredoxin 4, Gene ID 10549, Xp22.11) encodes the only ER-localized peroxiredoxin, an H2O2-scavenging peroxidase that couples peroxide detoxification to oxidative protein folding via PDI, parallel to ERO1, with roles in inflammation, cancer, and biomarkers.
PRDX5
PRDX5, also called peroxiredoxin 5 or PrxV, is an antioxidant enzyme that reduces hydrogen peroxide and peroxynitrite using thioredoxin, and the only atypical 2-Cys peroxiredoxin in mammals.