Webster's New World Medical Dictionary

pubic symphysis
The joint between the pubic
bones at the front of the pelvis.
pubis
The front center portion of the pelvis.
public health 1
Medicine that is concerned with
the health of the community as a whole. Community
health.
2
In common usage, a facility or a govern-
ment agency that provides low-income or free
health care.
Public Health Service, United States
See
United States Public Health Service.
PUBS
Percutaneous umbilical blood sampling.
pueperal fever
See 
childbed fever.
pueperium
The time immediately after the deliv-
ery of a baby.
pulmonary
Having to do with the lungs.
pulmonary artery
One of the two vessels which
are formed as terminal branches of the pulmonary
trunk and convey un-aerated blood to the lungs. The
two pulmonary arteries differ in length and
anatomy. The right pulmonary artery is the longer of
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the two. It passes transversely across the midline in
the upper chest and passes below the aortic arch to
enter the hilum of the right lung as part of its root.
The left pulmonary artery is the shorter of the two
terminal branches of the pulmonary trunk. It
pierces the pericardium (the sac around the heart)
and enters the hilum of the left lung.
pulmonary edema
Fluid in the lungs.
pulmonary embolism
Sudden closure of a pul-
monary artery or one of its branches, caused by a
blood-borne clot or foreign material that plugs the
vessel.
pulmonary embolus
A blood clot or foreign
material that has been carried through the blood
into the pulmonary artery or one of its branches,
plugging the vessel.