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  2. Your teen is calling you ‘NPC’: What it means - AOL

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    The slang word “NPC” explained. Are you an “NPC”? Check with your teen! The acronym stands for “non-player character,” which in video game culture, is a figure not controlled by a player.

  3. List of medical abbreviations: P - Wikipedia

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    patient (from Latin patiens, meaning "one who endures" or "one who suffers") PTA: percutaneous transluminal angioplasty post-traumatic amnesia prior to admission Peritonsillar abscess PTB: pulmonary tuberculosis: PTC: percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography: PTCA: percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: PTD: prior to discharge preterm ...

  4. Medical slang - Wikipedia

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    Medical slang is the use of acronyms and informal terminology to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts. Some terms are pejorative. In English, medical slang has entered popular culture via television hospital and forensic science dramas such as ER, House M.D., NCIS, Scrubs, and Grey's Anatomy, and through fiction, in books such as The House of God by Samuel Shem ...

  5. NPC (meme) - Wikipedia

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    The NPC (/ ɛ n. p i. s i /; also known as the NPC Wojak), derived from non-player character, is an Internet meme that represents people deemed to not think for themselves. It may refer to those who lack introspection or intrapersonal communication, or whose identity is deemed entirely determined by their surroundings and the information they consume, with no conscious processing or ...

  6. Percutaneous coronary intervention - Wikipedia

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    Coronary angioplasty, also known as percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), because it is done through the skin and through the lumen of the artery, was first developed in 1977 by Andreas Gruentzig. The first procedure took place Friday Sept 16, 1977, at Zurich, Switzerland. [45]

  7. NCP - Wikipedia

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    NCP Engineering, a company that produces software for secure data communication; NetWare Core Protocol, a network protocol used in Novell NetWare; Network Control Protocol (ARPANET), the original protocol suite of the ARPANET; Network Control Program (ARPANET), the software in the hosts which implemented that protocol suite

  8. PTCA - Wikipedia

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    1 language. 日本語; Edit links ... PTCA may refer to: Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a type of angioplasty; Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography

  9. Urban Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Urban Dictionary Screenshot Screenshot of Urban Dictionary front page (2018) Type of site Dictionary Available in English Owner Aaron Peckham Created by Aaron Peckham URL urbandictionary.com Launched December 9, 1999 ; 25 years ago (1999-12-09) Current status Active Urban Dictionary is a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in ...