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Puberty
Puberty is the transition from childhood to adulthood, marked by a growth spurt, secondary sexual characteristics, and fertility, typically beginning between ages 8 and 14.
Puberty blocker
Puberty blockers (GnRH agonists) suppress pituitary gonadotropin release to halt puberty; used for precocious puberty since the 1980s and for gender dysphoria since 2000, now restricted in the UK after the Cass Review.
Puberty suppression
Puberty suppression is a medical treatment that delays the physical changes of puberty with GnRH agonists, given to adolescents with gender dysphoria or precocious puberty.
Pubic hair
Pubic hair is terminal hair on the genital skin that appears at puberty under androgen influence (pubarche/adrenarche). It protects and ventilates the genital region; removal is widespread but carries infection and injury risks.
Pubic symphysis
Pubic symphysis (symphysis pubica): the midline secondary cartilaginous joint uniting the left and right pubic bones, with a fibrocartilage disc, four ligaments, 3-6 mm adult width, small physiological motion, and pregnancy-related widening.
Pubis (bone)
Pubis (os pubis, pubic bone): smallest of the three hip-bone bones, forming the anteroinferior pelvis with body, superior and inferior rami, pubic symphysis, and one fifth of the acetabulum.
Public health
Public health: the science of protecting and improving the health of whole populations through prevention, surveillance, and health promotion, distinct from individual clinical care; frameworks include the IOM core functions, CDC's 10 Essential Services, and WHO's 12 essential public health functions.
Public Health Administration
Public Health Administration is the management of public health organizations and agencies (MeSH D011635), covering assessment, policy development, and assurance functions, agency governance, performance measurement, and the history of governmental public health infrastructure.
Public Health Agency of Canada
Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC, Agence de la santé publique du Canada), the federal public health agency created September 2004 after the SARS outbreak, led by a President and the Chief Public Health Officer, handling disease control, health promotion, and emergency response.
Public Health Department
Public Health Department: Tamil Nadu's Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, India's first separate public health directorate (1922), and Greater Chennai Corporation's municipal Public Health Department, covering primary care, disease control, and surveillance.
Public health emergency of international concern
A public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) is a formal determination by the WHO Director-General that a disease event requires a coordinated international response.
Public Health Infrastructure
Public health infrastructure: the workforce, information systems, and organizational resources enabling public health agencies to perform core functions; includes the 10 Essential Public Health Services and WHO building blocks frameworks.
Public Health Institute
Public Health Institute (PHI), founded 1964 in Oakland, CA, is a large 501(c)(3) public health nonprofit and fiscal sponsor with 40+ programs, $258.3M FY2024 revenue, 1,164 employees, and programs like CA Bridge and the Children's Oncology Group Coordinating Center.
Public Health Laboratory
The Public Health Laboratory (公共卫生化验所; LSP) is the government laboratory of Macao, China, founded in 1985, which tests for infectious diseases, food safety, and water quality.
Public health nursing
Public health nursing, often used interchangeably with community health nursing, is a specialty combining nursing, social, and public health science to improve population health through prevention, coined by Lillian Wald in the 1890s.
Public health nutrition
Public health nutrition is the field that applies nutrition science to populations rather than individual patients, designing and evaluating programs and policies to improve nutritional quality and food security.
Public Health Practice
Public health practice: organized community-level activities of public health services, defined in MeSH (D015980, 1998). Covers core functions (assessment, policy development, assurance), the 10 Essential Public Health Services, surveillance, and evidence-based implementation.
Public health research
Public health research: systematic study of population health and interventions to improve it, using epidemiological, qualitative, and mixed methods; also the NIHR open-access journal Public Health Research (ISSN 2050-439X), launched 2013, Southampton.
Public health surveillance
Public health surveillance, also called epidemiological or syndromic surveillance, is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of health data, described as "information for action" against disease.
Public hospital
Public hospital: government-owned or government-accountable hospital financed by taxation or social insurance. Covers NHS nationalisation of 1948, European semi-autonomy reforms, and mixed evidence versus private hospitals.
Pucotenlimab
Pucotenlimab (HX008, PUYOUHENG) is a humanized IgG4 anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody by Lepu Biopharma, conditionally approved in China in 2022 for second-line melanoma and MSI-H/dMMR solid tumors, with ORR 20.17% in melanoma and 49% in dMMR/MSI-H tumors.
Pudendal nerve
Pudendal nerve (Alcock's canal nerve), paired S2–S4 sacral plexus nerve supplying perineum, genital sensation, and anal and urethral sphincters; compression causes pudendal neuralgia, diagnosed by Nantes criteria and treated with blocks, stimulation, or decompression.
Pudendal nerve entrapment syndrome
Pudendal nerve entrapment syndrome is a rare chronic neuropathic pain condition caused by compression or irritation of the pudendal nerve, most often in Alcock's canal, with pain typically worsened by sitting.
Pudinarka
Pudinarka (Pūdīnārka, Pudina Arka, अर्क पुदीना) is an Ayurvedic and Unani aqueous mint distillate, usually from Mentha spicata, dosed 10–25 ml for vomiting, dyspepsia, and abdominal pain; official in India's AFI and NFUM formularies.
Pudinarka Yavanyarka
Pudinarka and Yavanyarka (Pūdinārka and Yavānyarka) are the two official arka formulations in the Ayurvedic Formulary of India, distilled liquid medicines made from mint and ajwain and used for indigestion.
Puerperal osteomalacia
Puerperal osteomalacia (ICD-10 M83.0, ICD-11 JB44.6), also called postpartum or lactation-related osteomalacia, is postpartum bone softening from defective mineralization due to calcium and vitamin D depletion, with bone pain, Looser zones, and recovery after weaning.
Puerperal sepsis
Puerperal sepsis, also called childbed fever or puerperal fever, is an infection of the genital tract after childbirth and a leading cause of maternal death worldwide.
Pugakhanda (puga khanda)
Pugakhanda (Pūga Khaṇḍa, Supari Paka), an areca-nut-based granular Ayurvedic avaleha from Bhaishajya Ratnavali, listed in the API/AFI for infertility, Pradara, and debility, dose 6-12 g with milk.
Puji Fang
Puji Fang (普济方), "Prescriptions for Universal Relief", a 426-juan Ming formulary compiled under Zhu Su, Prince of Zhou, c. 1390, with 61,739 prescriptions; the largest surviving Chinese formulary, preserving many lost Song and Yuan medical works.
Pukeolucel (pCAR-19B, Pulidekai)
Pulidekai (普基奥仑赛注射液, puzolcabtagene autoleucel, pCAR-19B) is a humanized CD19 autologous CAR-T therapy by Chongqing Precision Biotech, conditionally NMPA-approved November 2025 for ages 3-21 with relapsed/refractory B-ALL; first domestic pediatric CAR-T, second globally.