Medicine
- Action potential, a "spike" of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell
- Advanced paramedic, a clinical level of pre-hospital care in the Republic of Ireland
- Alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme
- Anteroposterior, used to describe direction in anatomy
- Area postrema, a part of the brain
- Arterial pressure, the pressure in the arteries (most prominently the Aorta)
- "Autistic psychopathy", a diagnosis listed as an alternative title for Asperger syndrome, see the History of Asperger syndrome
- Autophagosome, intracytoplasmic vacuole/membrane bound body that is involved in cytoplasmic degradation
- Colporrhaphy (also called A&P repair), surgical repair of the anterior and/or posterior vaginal walls
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