PAH
PAH or Pah may refer to :
Chemistry and biology
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, one of a class of chemical compounds, organic pollutants
- PAH world hypothesis, hypothesis that proposes that the use of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon was a means for the origin of life
- Phenylalanine hydroxylase, an enzyme involved in breaking down phenylalanine
- Para-aminohippurate, a substance used in the measurement of blood flow in the kidneys
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension, a condition of elevated blood pressure in the pulmonary artery
- Primary alveolar hypoventilation, a condition of inadequate air movement in the lungs
- Polyallylamine hydrochloride, Polyelectrolyte
- PAH clearance, para-aminohippuric acid clearance as a measurement of renal plasma flow
- Polyanhydrides, a class of biodegradable polymers
Places
- Pan-American Highway, Americas
- Pah, Gujarat, a town on Saurashtra peninsula, India
- Pah State, a former princely state with seat in the above village
- PAH, the IATA airport code for Barkley Regional Airport, as it is in Paducah, Kentucky, USA
- Pah Homestead, a historic home in the suburb of Hillsborough in Auckland, New Zealand
Other
- Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, a Spanish organization
- Pā (Māori) (alternate spelling), a fortified village or redoubt
- Persons
- Pah Wongso, born Victor Wijnhamer, Jr., (Chinese: 伯王梭; pinyin: Bó Wángsuō), an Indo social worker
- In fiction & mythology
- Pah, the lunar deity in Pawnee mythology
- Pah Wraith, evil Bajoran Prophets in the fictional Star Trek universe
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