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Pro Re Nata
- adverb - according to need (physicians use PRN in writing prescriptions); "add water as needed"
Pro Tempore
- adjective - for the time being; "he is the president pro tem"; "designated him to act as consul protempore"- H.H.Fiske
- for the time being; temporarily; "accepting pro tem that hypothesis consistent with the facts"- J.W.Krutch
Probabilism
- noun - (philosophy) the doctrine that (since certainty is unattainable) probability is a sufficient basis for belief and action
- a Roman Catholic system of casuistry that when expert opinions differ an actor can follow any solidly probable opinion that he wishes even though some different opinion might be more probable
Probability
- noun - a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible; "the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5"
- the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event; "for a while mutiny seemed a probability"; "going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost"
Probationer
- noun - a nurse in training who is undergoing a trial period
- someone released on probation or on parole
Probenecids
- noun - a uricosuric drug that reduces the level of uric acid in the blood; used to treat gout
Problematic
- adjective - difficult
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
- open to doubt or debate; "If you ever get married, which seems to be extremely problematic"
Proboscidea
- noun - an order of animals including elephants and mammoths
- in some classifications included in the genus Martynia and hence the two taxonomic names for some of the unicorn plants
Proboscides
- noun - a long flexible snout as of an elephant
- the human nose (especially when it is large)