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Prosalirus Prosalirus bitis is the name given to a fossil proto-frog found in Arizona in 1995, which has primitive features, but has mostly lost the salamander-like traits of its ancestors. It has a skeleton designed to absorb the force of jumping with its hind legs and tail.
Prosauropoda Prosauropoda or prosauropods were a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Triassic and early Jurassic periods. They were frequently the predominant herbivore in their environment, and quickly reached large size (6 to 10 meters long).
Proscenium A Proscenium theater is a theater space whose primary feature is a large archway (the proscenium arch) at or near the front of the stage, through which the audience views the play. The audience directly faces the stage, which is typically raised several feet above front row audience level.
Proscription Proscription (Latin: proscriptio) is the public identification and official condemnation of enemies of the state. It is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a "decree of condemnation to death or banishment" and is a heavily politically-charged word frequently used to refer to state-approved murder or persecution.
Prose & Poetry Prose & Poetry, or Prose-Poetry is a competitive speech event practiced by state high-school forensics or debating associations such as the Ohio High School Speech League, but not by the National Forensic League (NFL). The NFL does have consolation events in Prose Interpretation and Poetry Interpretation at the National Tournament, but these are only open to competitors who qualified in other events and were eliminated before the late elimination rounds.
Prose Edda The Prose Edda, known also as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda is an Icelandic manual of poetics which contains many stories from Norse mythology. Its purpose was to enable Icelandic poets and readers to understand the subtleties of alliterative verse, and to grasp the meaning behind the many kennings that were used in skaldic poetry.
Prose interpretation Prose interpretation (also known as prose reading) is a non-memorized event in which competitors choose a published piece of work that is not poetry or drama. The piece should be cut to no more than 10 minutes (with an additional 30 second grace period, the use of which incurs no penalty).
Prose of the Ottoman Empire The prose of the Ottoman Empire can, roughly, be divided along the lines of two broad periods: early Ottoman prose, written prior to the 19th century CE and exclusively nonfictional in nature; and later Ottoman prose, which extended from the mid-19th century Tanzimat period of reform to the final fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922, and in which prose fiction was first introduced.
Prose Tristan The Prose Tristan is an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance, and the first to tie the subject entirely into the arc of the Arthurian legend. It was also the first major Arthurian prose cycle commenced after the widely popular Lancelot-Grail (Vulgate Cycle), which influenced especially the later portions of the Prose Tristan.
Prose Works other than Science and Health The Prose Works, or Prose Works Other than Science and Health, is a single-volume compendium of the key works of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, outside of its denominational textbook. While the fact is not generally known among Christian Scientists, the books were never published together as a single volume during her lifetime but were assembled as a convenience subsequent to her death in 1910 (its copyright notice suggests in 1925).
Prosecretin Prosecretin is a precursor to the chemical secretin, which is present in digestion. Secretin is stored in this unusable form, and is activated by gastric acid in the lower intestine to neutralize the pH and ensure no damage is done to the small intestine by the aforementioned acid.
Prosector A prosector is a person with the special task of preparing a dissection for demonstration, usually in medical schools or hospitals. Many important anatomists began their careers as prosectors working for lecturers and demonstrators in anatomy and pathology.
Prosector's wart Prosector's wart or tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (TVC), is a rash of small, red papular nodules in the skin that may appear 2-4 weeks after inoculation by Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a previously infected and immunocompetent individual.
Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu The Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu is one of only two countywide elected positions in the City & County of Honolulu in the State of Hawai'i. He or she is responsible for the prosecution of people for offenses to the laws and regulations established by the municipal government.
Prosecution disclaimer Prosecution disclaimer is a legal doctrine that provides that the statements made by an applicant for a patent in the course of prosecution may act to limit the literal coverage of the patent claims. Prosecution disclaimer similarly operates to reduce the scope of the claims under the doctrine of equivalents.
Prosecution history estoppel Prosecution history estoppel, also known as file-wrapper estoppel, is a term used in United States patent law to indicate that a person who has filed a patent application, and then makes amendments to the application to accommodate the patent law, has no cause of action for infringement to the pre-amendment patent claims that were amended.
Prosecutor The prosecutor is the chief legal representative of the prosecution in countries adopting the common law adversarial system or the civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the case against an individual suspected of breaking the law in a criminal trial.
Prosecutor General of Russia The Prosecutor General of Russia (also Attorney General of Russia, ) heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General of Russian Federation (Генеральная прокуратура Российской Федерации).
Prosecutor General of the USSR Prosecutor General of the USSR (Генеральный прокурор СССР in Russian, or Generalnyi prokuror SSSR), was the highest functionary of the Office of Public Prosecutor of the USSR, responsible for the whole system of offices of public prosecutors and supervision of their activities on the territory of the Soviet Union.
Prosecutor General of Ukraine The Prosecutor General of Ukraine (also Attorney General of Ukraine, ) heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine (Генеральна прокуратура України).
Prosecutor's Management Information System The Prosecutor's Management Information System, or PROMIS, is a database system developed by American IT company Inslaw. Inslaw developed the earliest versions of PROMIS during the 1970s under contracts and grants from the United States Department of Justice that granted the government licenses to use those particular versions but not to modify them to create derivative works or to distribute them outside the federal government.
Prosecutorial misconduct In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct is a procedural defense; via which, a defendant may argue that they should not be held criminally liable for actions which may have broken the law, because the prosecution acted in an "inappropriate" or "unfair" manner. Such arguments may involve allegations that the prosecution withheld evidence or knowingly permitted false testimony.
Proselytism Proselytism is the practice of attempting to convert people to another opinion, usually another religion. The word proselytism is derived ultimately from the Greek language prefix 'pros' (towards) and the verb 'erchomai' (to come).
Proschema Proschema (plural proschemata) is the Greek term for "pretext" or "alleged reason," often applied specifically to a government's publicly stated reasons for waging a war. These stated reasons may or may not be the actual reason for waging the war (prophases).
Prosigns for Morse Code Prosigns or procedural signals are dot/dash sequences that have a special meaning in Morse Code transmissions. They can often be viewed as if they were composed of one, two or three Morse code alphabetic characters.
Prosimian Prosimians are the most primitive extant primates; they represent forms that were ancestral to monkeys, apes and humans. Prosimians are the only primates native to Madagascar, and are also found in Southeast Asia.
Prosiopesis Prosiopesis (from Classical Greek, προσιωπησις, "becoming silent") is a term coined by Otto Jespersen for pronouncing a word or phrase without vocalizing its initial sounds. One example Jespersen gave is for "Good morning" to be shortened to "Morning".
Proskauer Rose Founded in 1875, Proskauer Rose is one of the United States' largest law firms, providing a wide variety of legal services to clients throughout the United States and around the world from offices in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.
Proskynesis Proskynesis, (Greek ) formed from the Ancient Greek words pros and kuneo literally means "kissing towards", and refers to the traditional Persian act of prostrating oneself before a person of higher social rank.
Proskynetarion A proskynetarion (Greek προσκυνησις meaning "oratory" or "place of worship", plural proskynetaria) is a monumental icon usually of Christ, the Virgin, or the patron saint of a church. It was normally placed on the piers separating the parts of a templon in a Byzantine church.
Prosleptic syllogism A prosleptic syllogism is a class of syllogisms that use a prosleptic proposition as one of the premises. The term originated with Theophrastus of Eresus, although Aristotle did briefly mention such syllogisms by a different name in his Prior Analytics.
Proslogion The Proslogion, (also spelled Proslogium; English translation of title - Discourse on the Existence of God), written in 1077-1078, was an attempt by the medieval cleric Anselm to prove beyond contention the existence of God.
Proso millet Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum) is also known as common millet, broom corn, hog millet or white millet. Both the wild ancestor and the location of domestication of proso millet are unknown, but it first appears as a crop in both Transcaucasia and China about 7000 years ago, suggesting that it may have been domesticated independently in each area.
Prosody (linguistics) In linguistics, prosody describes all the acoustic properties of speech that cannot be predicted from a local window on the orthographic (or similar) transcription. So, prosody is relative to a default pronunciation of a phoneme/feature bundle/segment/syllable; it does not include coarticulation because coarticulation is predictable from the immediate phonological or orthographic neighborhood.
Prosoniq Short for "Prosoniq Products Software", developer and license provider for tools in the audio and music industry, mostly known for their the OrangeVocoder, TimeFactory and the Hartmann Neuron synthesizer products.
Prosopis Prosopis is a genus of about 45 species of leguminous spiny trees and shrubs found in subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, Africa and southwest Asia. They often thrive in arid soil and are resistant to droughts, on occasion developing extremely deep root systems.
Prosopis alba Prosopis alba is a South American tree species that inhabits the center part of Argentina, the Gran Chaco ecoregion and part of the Argentine Mesopotamia. It is known as algarrobo blanco in Spanish, which means "white carob tree" (the Spanish settlers gave it that name because of its similarity to the European carob tree).
Prosopis cineraria Prosopis cineraria is a small to medium size tree, found mainly in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan in India. Common names include: Ghaf (United Arab Emirates), khejri, jand, sangri (Rajasthan), jand (Punjabi), kandi (Sind), sami, sumri (Gujarat).
Prosopis nigra Prosopis nigra (synonym Prosopis algarrobilla) is a South American leguminous tree species that inhabits the Gran Chaco ecoregion (in particular, the transition zone between the Wet Chaco and the Southern Chaco), in Argentina and Paraguay. It is known as algarrobo negro in Spanish, which means "black carob tree" (the Spanish settlers gave it that name, as they did with many other species of genus Prosopis, because of its similarity to the European carob tree).
Prosopis pubescens Prosopis pubescens (Screwbean Mesquite), is a small tree or shrub found in the southwestern United States from Texas to California. It has a light brown bark with clustered leaves, and has nutritious pods that can be eaten.
Prosopography Prosopography is an increasingly important approach within historical research. Prosopographical research has the aim of learning about patterns of relationships and activities through the study of collective biography.
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is an on-line database presenting details (called factoids) of the lives of every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with, Anglo-Saxon England from 597 to 1042. It provides specific citations to (and often quotations from) each primary source describing those factoids.
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a research project based at King's College London in the Department of History and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, and at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge. From 2000 it has been funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council with the intention of recording everything that is known about anyone who lived in Anglo-Saxon England.
Prosopography of the Byzantine World The Prosopography of the Byzantine World is a project to create a prosopographical database of individuals named in textual sources in the Byzantine Empire and surrounding areas in the period from 642 to 1265. The project is a collaboration between the British Academy and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy.
Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (usually abbreviated as PLRE) is a set of three volumes collectively describing every person attested or claimed to have lived in the Roman world from AD 260 to 641. Sources cited include histories, literary texts, inscriptions, and miscellaneous written sources.
Prosopopoeia A prosopopoeia (Greek: προσωποποιία) is a rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer communicates to the audience by speaking as another person or object. The term literally derives from the Greek roots meaning "a face, a person, to make".
Prosorrhyncha The name Prosorrhyncha is a name (proposed by Sorensen et al. 1995) for a suborder of Hemiptera, comprising a grouping of the traditional taxon "Heteroptera" plus its sister taxon, the family Peloridiidae (often classified as a suborder itself).
Prosotsani The municipality of Prosotsani (Προσοτσάνη) is located in the western part of the Prefecture of Drama. A local attraction is the cave at the source of the Angitis River, located at the village of Angitis in the municipal district of Kokkinogeia.
Prospect (trade union) Prospect is a United Kingdom trade union which represents engineers, managers, specialists and scientists in both the public and private sectors. It was formed on 1 November 2001 by the merger of the trade unions the Institute of Professionals Managers and Specialists (IPMS) and the Engineering Managers Assocaition (EMA).
Prospect Avenue (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) Prospect Avenue is a subway station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Prospect Avenue and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, it is served by the at all times except late nights, by the during rush hours, and by the and during late nights only.
Prospect Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line) Prospect Avenue is an elevated station on the IRT White Plains Road Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Prospect and Westchester Avenues in the Bronx, it is served by the train (all times), and by the train (all times except late nights and rush hours in the peak direction).
Prospect Bay, Nova Scotia Prospect Bay is a rural fishing community on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean on the Prospect Bay Road off of (Nova Scotia Route 333 ), 22.9 kilometers from Halifax, Canada.
Prospect Creek (New South Wales) Prospect Creek is a small creek in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It flows from the Prospect reservoir (near Prospect) for about 17 km until joining the Georges RiverGeographical Names Board of New South Wales at Georges Hall into the Dhurawal bay, in the Chipping Norton Lake system.
Prospect energy Prospect Energy Corporation (Prospect) is an energy finance company focused on investing mezzanine debt and equity into energy-related companies, primarily privately held or thinly-traded public companies. Prospect is a public company, with shares traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol PSEC.
Prospect Expressway The Prospect Expressway is a short sunken highway in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, that runs through Park Slope and Windsor Terrace between the Gowanus Expressway and the beginning of Ocean Parkway. The Prospect Expressway comprises one leg of New York State Route 27.
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway to the south, and, traditionally, Washington Avenue to the east,Encyclopedia of the City of New York. 1995.
Prospect High School (California) Prospect High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school of the Campbell Union High School District, located at the intersection of Lawrence Expressway and Prospect Road in the northeastern corner of Saratoga, California, on its border with San Jose. It serves northern Saratoga, the eastern portion of West San Jose, and western Campbell.
Prospect Hill Academy Prospect Hill Academy is a Charter school in Somerville, Massachusetts and Cambridge, Massachusetts, teaching children in grades K to 12. It was founded by a group of parents in 1996 as the Somerville Charter School.
Prospect Hill, Tacoma, Washington Prospect Hill is a neighborhood of the north end neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington. Although Prospect Hill is considered the official planning name for the area, it has gone by many others, including North West East South (after the cardinal direction roads within, even though there is no South Road).
Prospect New Town Prospect New Town is a New Urbanist housing development located on the southern edge of the city of Longmont in Boulder County, Colorado in the United States. The first full-scale new urbanist new development in Colorado, it was developed starting in the mid 1990s by Kiki Wallace and designed by the firm of Duany Plater Zyberk & Company, who also designed the new urbanist communities of Seaside, Florida and Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Prospect Park (Troy, New York) Prospect Park in Troy, New York is an 80 acre (32 hectare) city park that was designed in 1903 by Garnet Baltimore, the first African-American graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It is not the same as Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York.
Prospect Park South, Brooklyn Prospect Park South is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the community of Flatbush. It is bordered by Caton Avenue to the north, the BMT Brighton Line of the New York Subway to the east, Beverley Road (sometimes spelled Beverly) to the south, and between Stratford Road and Coney Island Avenue to the west.
Prospect Park, Minneapolis Prospect Park is a historic neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota near the University of Minnesota, bounded by the Mississippi River to the south, the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota to the east, railroad tracks to the north of University Avenue, and the University of Minnesota's commercial Stadium Village area to the west. The neighborhood is mostly middle and upper middle class, but it contains the Glendale housing projects for low-income residents as well as being home to many University of Minnesota students.
Prospect reservoir Prospect reservoir is a water storage reservoir located at the headwaters of Prospect Creek in the Greater Western Sydney suburb of Prospect, in New South Wales, Australia. The dam wall is known as Prospect Dam
Prospect Svobody (Dnipropetrovsk Metro) Prospect Svobody (, ) is a station on Dnipropetrovsk Metro's Tsentralno-Zavodska Line. The station has been lain deep underground, accessable only by an escalator and was opened on December 29, 1995 along with the rest of the system's first stations.
Prospect theory Prospect theory was developed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979 as a psychologically realistic alternative to expected utility theory. Starting from empirical evidence, it describes how individuals evaluate losses and gains.
Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn Prospect-Lefferts Gardens is the name given to a neighborhood in Flatbush in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area is bounded by Empire Boulevard (formerly Malbone Street) to the north, Clarkson Avenue to the south, New York Avenue to the east, and Ocean Avenue/Prospect Park to the west.
Prospect, Nova Scotia Prospect Village is a rural fishing community on the Chebucto Peninsula in the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean on the Prospect Bay Road off of (Nova Scotia Route 333 ), 22.9 kilometers from Halifax, Canada.
Prospective parliamentary candidate A prospective parliamentary candidate (often abbreviated as PPC) was a role in politics in the United Kingdom. Parliamentary candidates were selected by political parties to fight each individual constituencies in advance of each general election.
Prospective search Prospective search, or persistent search, is a method of searching on the Internet where the query is given first and the information for the results are then acquired. This differers from traditional, or "retrospective", search such as Search Engines, where the information for the results is acquired and then queried.
Prospector (passenger train) The Prospector was a passenger train operated by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad between Denver, Colorado and Salt Lake City, Utah. Two incarnations of the train existed: a streamlined, diesel multiple unit train that operated briefly from 1941 to 1942; and a locomotive-hauled train of conventional passenger equipment that operated from 1945 until 1967.
Prospectus (finance) A prospectus is a legal document that institutions and businesses use to describe the securities they are offering for participants and buyers. A prospectus commonly provides investors with material information about mutual funds, stocks, bonds and other investments, such as a description of the company's business, financial statements, biographies of officers and directors, detailed information about their compensation, any litigation that is taking place, a list of material properties and any other material information.
Prospectus (university) A university or school prospectus is a document sent to potential (prospective) students to attract them to apply for admissions. It usually contains information about the institution and the available courses, including advice on how to apply and the benefits of accepting a place.
Prospekt Gagarina (Kharkiv Metro) The Prospekt Gagarina or Prospekt Haharina (; ) is a station on Kharkiv Metro's Kholodnogorsko-Zavodskaya Line. Opened on August 23, 1975, it is located in the southern part of the city's center, at the beginning of the Prospekt Haharina street, for which the station is named, and near the Kharkiv-Levada Railway Station and the nearby autostation, which accounts for the station's fairly large passenger traffic.
Prospekt Lenina, Yekaterinburg Prospekt Lenina , (Проспект Ленина in russian), is a main street of Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation. The street starts at the Moskovskaya Street to the west, and ends at Kirov Square to the east.
Prospekt Metalurhiv (Kryvyi Rih Metrotram) Prospekt Metalurhiv (; ) is a station on the Kryvyi Rih Metrotram. Opened on May 2, 1989 as part of the second segment of the second stage, it, like its neighbour Budynok Rad, are the only two stations that are built to the full Metro standard.
Prospekt Vernadskogo Prospekt Vernadskogo () is the name of a Moscow Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line located at the intersection of Prospekt Vernadskogo and Udaltsova Street. Built in 1963, it conforms to the standard pillar-trispan design which was used for virtually all Metro stations in the 1960s.
Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf (May 30 1700 — February 9 1756) was an Austrian nobleman and courtier, Counsellor and Chamberlain at the Imperial Court in Vienna, married to Marie Philippine Gräfin (Countess) von Althann.
Prosper Fernando Prosper Fernando was an announcer of longstanding with Radio Ceylon - the oldest radio station in South Asia. Prosper Fernando presented some of the most popular radio programs over the airwaves of Radio Ceylon such as 'Housewives Choice' and 'Holiday Choice.
Prosper Lucas Prosper Lucas (1805-1885) was a French medical doctor, brother of Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas and specialist in the study of heredity. For which he wrote Traité philosophique et physiologique de l'hérédité naturelle (Philosophical and physiological treatise on natural heredity) - full title - Traité philosophique et physiologique de l'hérédité naturelle dans les états de santé et de maladie du système nerveux, avec l'application méthodique des lois de la procréation au traitement général des affections dont elle est le principe.
Prosper Ménière Prosper Ménière (June 18, 1799 – February 7, 1862) was a French physician who in 1861 described the symptoms now known as Ménière's disease, and the symptoms now concerned with vertigo. He was born in Angers, France, and died in Paris.
Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (September 28, 1803–September 23, 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of the opera Carmen.
Prosper Nicholas Trebeck Prosper Nicholas Trebeck (1823-1904) was born in Calcutta, West Bengal, India August 30 1823. He moved to Victoria, Australia circa 1841 and by 1842 along with Charles Beal, he had built the first Barwon Inn which is now attributed as the founding structure for the town of Winchelsea, Victoria.
Prosper Utseya Prosper Utseya (born March 26, 1985 in Harare) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. Rising from the ranks of township cricket in Harare's Highfield suburb, he attended Churchill High School (the cradle of many black Zimbabwean players), thanks to Zimbabwe Cricket Union scholarship s, and now heads the National side.
Prospera Centre The Prospera Centre is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. It is the home of the Chilliwack Bruins Ice hockey team of the Western Hockey League and former home of the Chilliwack Chiefs of the BCHL.
Prosperity According to “Building Black Wealth In America” prosperity is that point where all reasonable wealth accumulation goals are exceeded for successive generations, it is the epitome of financial stability, reliability, and security.
Prosperity Bonus The Prosperity Bonus, also nicknamed Ralph bucks, announced in September 2005, is the name given to a program designed to pay money back to residents of the Canadian province of Alberta as a result of a massive oil-fuelled provincial budget surplus.
Prosperity certificate In 1936, the Alberta Social Credit Party-led government of the Province of Alberta, Canada, introduced prosperity certificates in an attempt to alleviate the effects of the Great Depression. Although not technically money, each certificate was intended to circulate with a value of one dollar.
Prosperity Consciousness Prosperity Consciousness is a term and teaching often referred to in New Age and New Thought communities, and it is a term sometimes used by financial professionals. It describes the belief that by opening one's mind to the financial opportunities in the world, and by living a life and having a perspective that welcomes financial resources, one will bring financial wealth into one's life.
Prosperity theology Prosperity theology or Prosperity doctrine is the doctrine that prosperity and success in business is external evidence of God's favor. This favor may be preordained, or granted in return for prayer or merit-making.
Prosperous Prosperous is the first album by Irish folk musician Christy Moore, released in 1972. The album featured musicians Andy Irvine (mandolin, mouth organ), Liam O'Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle), and Donal Lunny (guitar, bouzouki), who, after the recording of the album, formed Planxty, making the album something of a Planxty album in all but name.
Prost AP01 The Prost AP01 was the car with which the Prost Formula One team used to compete in the 1998 Formula One season. It was driven by Olivier Panis, who was in his fifth season with the team (including Ligier), and Jarno Trulli, who was in his first full season with the team after deputising for the injured Panis in 1997.
Prost AP02 The Prost AP02 was the car with which the Prost Formula One team used to compete in the 1999 Formula One season. It was driven by Olivier Panis, in his sixth season with the team (including Ligier), and Jarno Trulli, in his second full season with the team.
Prost JS45 The Prost JS45 was the car with which the Prost Formula One team used to compete in the 1997 Formula One season. It was initially driven by Olivier Panis, who continued from the team's previous incarnation as Ligier, and Japanese rookie Shinji Nakano, who was given the second seat largely due to pressure on new team owner Alain Prost from engine supplier Mugen Honda.
Prostaglandin A prostaglandin is any member of a group of lipid compounds that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body. Every prostaglandin contains 20 carbon atoms, including a 5-carbon ring.
Prostaglandin analogue Synthetic prostaglandin analogues, mainly misoprostol, are used in treatment of duodenal and gastric ulcers. They exert antisecretory and cytoprotective properties and are especially indicated for the elderly on continuous doses of NSAIDs.
Prostanoid Prostanoid is the term used to describe three classes of eicosanoids: the prostaglandins (mediators of inflammatory and anaphylactic reactions), the thromboxanes (mediators of vasoconstriction) and the prostacyclins (active in the resolution phase of inflammation.)
Prostanthera lasianthos Prostanthera lasianthos, the Victorian Christmas Bush, is a large shrub or small tree which is native to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania in Australia. It grows up to 10 m high but is usually much less and is found in wet sclerophyll forests, often beside creeks.
Prostate biopsy Prostate biopsy is a procedure in which small samples are removed from a man's prostate gland to be tested for the presence of cancer. It is typically performed when the scores from a PSA blood test rise to a level that is associated with the possible presence of prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer screening Prostate cancer screening is an attempt to identify individuals with prostate cancer in a broad segment of the population—those for whom there is no reason to suspect prostate cancer. There are currently two methods used: One is the digital rectal examination (DRE), in which the examiner inserts a gloved, lubricated finger into the rectum to examine the adjoining prostate.

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