Science and Technology
- Pancreatic acinar metaplasia, in gastroenterology
- Partitioning Around Medoids, a data clustering algorithm
- Payload Assist Module, a small rocket engine, also referred to as a PAM-D
- Peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase, a human gene
- Perpetual art machine
- Photoacoustic Microscopy, a type of Photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine
- Pneumatic artificial muscles
- Point accepted mutation, a type of similarity matrix in Computational Biology
- Positive allosteric modulator, in pharmacology
- Posterior auricular muscle
- Potassium-aggravated myotonia, a genetic disorder
- Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
- Pulse-amplitude modulation, a characteristic of pulsed signals
- pralidoxime, or Pyridine aldoximine methiodide; an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
- Polyacrylamide
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