PID

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See also: pid and píď

English

Noun

PID (plural PIDs)

  1. (medicine) Initialism of pelvic inflammatory disease.
    • 2023 December 11, Elizaveta Skarga, Heljä-Marja Surcel, Rudolf Kaaks, Tim Waterboer, Renée T Fortner, “Sexually Transmitted Infections and Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Results From the Finnish Maternity Cohort”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 228, number 11, →DOI, pages 1621–1629:
      Although both acute PID and STIs may remain asymptomatic, some of their shared long-term sequelae are tubal factor infertility (TFI), salpingitis, and adhesions and scarring of the fallopian tubes, ovaries, and surrounding peritoneal tissue. These sequelae have been further identified as factors potentially associated with EOC risk.
  2. Initialism of personal identification device.
  3. (algebra) Initialism of principal ideal domain.
  4. (computing) Initialism of process identifier.
  5. Initialism of proportional integral derivative.
  6. Initialism of piping and instrumentation diagram.
  7. Initialism of photoionization detector.

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