"PFO" meaning in English

See PFO in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: PFOs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} PFO (plural PFOs)
  1. (medicine) Initialism of patent foramen ovale. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: patent foramen ovale Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-PFO-en-noun-RhyDippG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, sciences

Phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} PFO
  1. (medicine, slang) Initialism of pissed, fell over, describing an inebriated person who presents to the emergency department. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang Alternative form of: pissed, fell over, describing an inebriated person who presents to the emergency department Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-PFO-en-phrase-hqGsWpj6 Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for PFO meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "PFOs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "PFO (plural PFOs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "patent foramen ovale"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of patent foramen ovale."
      ],
      "id": "en-PFO-en-noun-RhyDippG",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "patent foramen ovale",
          "patent foramen ovale#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) Initialism of patent foramen ovale."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "PFO"
}

{
  "categories": [],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "PFO",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pissed"
        },
        {
          "word": "fell over"
        },
        {
          "word": "describing an inebriated person who presents to the emergency department"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of pissed, fell over, describing an inebriated person who presents to the emergency department."
      ],
      "id": "en-PFO-en-phrase-hqGsWpj6",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "pissed",
          "pissed#English"
        ],
        [
          "fell over",
          "fell over#English"
        ],
        [
          "inebriated",
          "inebriated#English"
        ],
        [
          "present",
          "present#English"
        ],
        [
          "emergency department",
          "emergency department#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine, slang) Initialism of pissed, fell over, describing an inebriated person who presents to the emergency department."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "PFO"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrases"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "PFOs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "PFO (plural PFOs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "patent foramen ovale"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of patent foramen ovale."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "patent foramen ovale",
          "patent foramen ovale#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) Initialism of patent foramen ovale."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "PFO"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English phrases"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "PFO",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pissed"
        },
        {
          "word": "fell over"
        },
        {
          "word": "describing an inebriated person who presents to the emergency department"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English initialisms",
        "English slang",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of pissed, fell over, describing an inebriated person who presents to the emergency department."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "pissed",
          "pissed#English"
        ],
        [
          "fell over",
          "fell over#English"
        ],
        [
          "inebriated",
          "inebriated#English"
        ],
        [
          "present",
          "present#English"
        ],
        [
          "emergency department",
          "emergency department#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine, slang) Initialism of pissed, fell over, describing an inebriated person who presents to the emergency department."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "PFO"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.