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PAS
1. Physician-assisted suicide. 2. Personal alert system (an alarm system for an elderly or infirm person). 3. Periodic acid-Schiff (a stain used to detect carbohydrates in tissue).
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- Dermopathy, diabetic See: Diabetic dermopathy
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