PCA - Medicine, Biology, and Psychotherapy

Medicine, Biology, and Psychotherapy

  • Patient-controlled analgesia, any method of allowing a person in pain to administer his own pain relief
  • Personal Care Assistant/Attendant or Patient Care Assistant, a caregiver who assists a person with day-to-day tasks
  • Plate count agar (microbiology), a microbiological growth medium
  • Polymerase cycling assembly, a method for the assembly of large DNA oligonucleotides from shorter fragments
  • Posterior cerebral artery (neuroscience), a blood vessel to the posterior aspect of the brain (occipital lobe)
  • Posterior cortical atrophy, the visual variant of Alzheimer’s disease
  • Prostate cancer antigen
  • Protein-fragment Complementation Assay, a method for the identification of protein–protein interactions in biological systems

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