PPP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does PPP mean? 

• PPP (noun)
  The noun PPP has 1 sense:

1. surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)

  Familiarity information: PPP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PPP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

palatopharyngoplasty; PPP; UPPP; uvulopalatopharyngoplasty

Hypernyms ("PPP" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

 Context examples 

In addition this agent inhibits the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) thereby dilating blood vessels pre-contracted by partial depolarization.

(Epiandrosterone, NCI Thesaurus)

Composed of widely expressed or tissue-restricted 55-60-kDa calmodulin-binding catalytic subunit (PPP Phosphatase/PP-2B Family) and conserved 19-kD Ca(2+)-sensitive regulatory subunit, Calcineurin appears to regulate glycolytic metabolism, nuclear translocation of NFATC1 transcription factor, sperm motility, and dopaminergic signal transduction and NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity.

(Calcineurin, NCI Thesaurus)