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Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 8
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy type 8 (EPM8, OMIM 616230) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive epilepsy caused by CERS1 mutations at 19p13.11, with childhood-onset action myoclonus, tonic-clonic seizures, cognitive decline, and cerebellar atrophy.
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy with dystonia
Progressive myoclonic epilepsy with dystonia (PMED, OMIM 615338) is a rare autosomal recessive TBC1D24-related epilepsy syndrome with neonatal or early infantile onset of treatment-refractory myoclonic seizures and persistent dystonia; prevalence under 1 in 1,000,000.
Progressive neural networks
Progressive neural networks, or progressive networks, are a continual learning architecture introduced by Rusu and colleagues at Google DeepMind in 2016 that adds a frozen column per task.
Progressive nodular histiocytosis
Progressive nodular histiocytosis (PNH) is an extremely rare, normolipemic non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the xanthogranuloma family, with progressive yellow-brown papules and nodules up to 5 cm on face, trunk, and extremities, no spontaneous remission, and about 20 reported cases.
Progressive non-fluent aphasia
Progressive non-fluent aphasia (PNFA, nfvPPA, PPA-G), a frontotemporal dementia variant with agrammatism, effortful speech, and apraxia of speech, usually tau pathology, adult onset, no approved drug treatment.
Progressive non-infectious anterior vertebral fusion
Progressive non-infectious anterior vertebral fusion, also called Copenhagen syndrome or Copenhagen disease, is a rare childhood spinal disorder of unknown cause causing progressive anterior vertebral ankylosis and kyphosis, distinguished from congenital block vertebra by its postnatal progression.
Progressive osseous heteroplasia
Progressive osseous heteroplasia (POH, OMIM 166350) is an ultrarare autosomal dominant disorder of heterotopic ossification caused by inactivating GNAS mutations, beginning in the dermis in infancy and progressing into muscle and deep connective tissue, distinguished from FOP by cutaneous ossification and absent toe malformations.
Progressive outer retinal necrosis
Progressive outer retinal necrosis (PORN), also called rapidly progressive herpetic retinal necrosis, is a VZV-caused viral retinitis of severely immunocompromised patients, mainly advanced AIDS, marked by minimal inflammation, rapid bilateral "cracked mud" retinal lesions, and poor vision outcomes.
Progressive overload
Progressive overload: the exercise principle of gradually increasing training stress (load, volume, frequency) as the body adapts, from Milo of Croton and DeLorme's 1948 Progressive Resistance Exercise to ACSM's 2–10% load-increase rules.
Progressive People's Party (Germany)
Progressive People's Party (Fortschrittliche Volkspartei, FVP), German left-liberal party 1910–1918, formed from three Freisinn mergers; led by Naumann, Payer, Quidde; merged into the DDP in 1918.
Progressive pop
Progressive pop, also known as prog pop, is pop music that breaks with the standard pop formula, pioneered by the Beach Boys and the Beatles in the mid-1960s.
Progressive pseudobulbar palsy
Progressive pseudobulbar palsy (ICD-11 8B60.2) is a motor neuron disease from bilateral corticobulbar tract degeneration, causing spastic dysarthria, dysphagia, and pseudobulbar affect without tongue wasting, distinct from progressive bulbar palsy.
Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia
Progressive pseudorheumatoid dysplasia (PPRD, also called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda with progressive arthropathy) is a rare autosomal recessive CCN6-related skeletal dysplasia causing non-inflammatory cartilage degeneration, joint stiffness, platyspondyly, and short stature, often misdiagnosed as juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Progressive rendering
Progressive rendering is the web development practice of displaying a page's content in pieces as it arrives from the server, first shipped in Netscape Navigator in 1994.
Progressive rock
Progressive rock, often shortened to prog rock, is a rock style that arose in Britain in the late 1960s, blending rock with classical, jazz, and folk influences.
Progressive Socialist Organizations of the Mediterranean
Progressive Socialist Organizations of the Mediterranean (PSOM), Arabic مؤتمر الاحزاب الاشتراكية للبحر الأبيض المتوسط, Mediterranean Socialist Conference: a 1976–1980s bloc of socialist parties from Mediterranean states, launched in Barcelona 1976 as a rival to the Socialist International and largely funded by Gaddafi's Libya.
Progressive Socialist Party
The Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) is a Lebanese political party founded in Beirut in 1949 by Kamal Jumblatt; social democratic and Arab nationalist in program, Druze-led, led by Taymour Jumblatt, with 8 seats after the 2022 election.
Progressive supranuclear palsy
Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), or Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, is a rare 4-repeat tau neurodegenerative disease causing vertical gaze palsy, backward falls, and dementia, beginning around age 65 with severe disability within 3 to 5 years.
Progressive symmetric erythrokeratodermia
Progressive symmetric erythrokeratodermia (PSEK, Darier-Gottron disease, ORPHA:316) is a rare autosomal dominant cornification disorder with fixed symmetric erythematous hyperkeratotic plaques, palmoplantar keratoderma in about half of cases, and genes including GJB3, GJB4, KDSR, KRT83, and TRPM4.
Progressive tax
A progressive tax, also called a graduated tax, is a tax whose average rate rises with income, so higher earners pay a larger fraction than lower earners.
Progressive trance
Progressive trance is a slower, deeper strand of electronic dance music blending progressive house and trance, shaped in the 1990s by DJs Sasha and John Digweed.
Progressive Union (Brazil)
The Progressive Union (União Progressista) is a Brazilian party federation of União Brasil and the Progressistas, formalized in 2025 and approved by the electoral court in 2026.
Progressive Victory
Progressive Victory (PV) is a left-of-center American political organization and hybrid PAC founded in 2022 by Sam Drzymala that recruits online-streamer audiences as canvassers and phone bankers, endorses candidates via the PV Pledge, and operates the 501(c)(4) Progressive Victory Action.
Progressive web app
A progressive web app (PWA), also called a progressive web application, is a website installable on a device, with app-like qualities such as offline operation and push notifications.
Progressive Writers' Movement
The Progressive Writers' Movement (Urdu: ترقی پسند تحریک, Taraqqi Pasand Tehreek) was a literary movement in British India calling on Urdu writers to engage with poverty and colonial rule.
Progressivism
Progressivism: American reform movement of the 1890s-1920s (Progressive Era) curbing political machines and corporate power; produced the 16th-19th Amendments, Federal Reserve, FTC, conservation policy, and also eugenics-era immigration restriction.
Progressivism in the United States
Progressivism in the United States was a reform movement of the 1890s to 1920s that addressed problems of industrialization through reforms under Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Progresul
Progresul București, later FC Național, Romanian football club founded 10 May 1944 by National Bank employees; won the 1960 Cupa României, played 32 first-division seasons, went bankrupt in 2009.
Proguanil
Proguanil (chloroguanide) is a biguanide antimalarial drug used mainly to prevent malaria, most often combined with atovaquone as Malarone and discovered at Imperial Chemical Industries in 1945.
Progymnasmata
Progymnasmata (Greek προγυμνάσματα, Latin prae-exercitamina) are the graded preliminary exercises in prose composition forming the elementary stage of ancient rhetoric, taught from the Hellenistic period to early modern times.