PCT - Science and Technology

Science and Technology

  • Parrot Compiler Toolkit, an implementation of an Abstract syntax tree representation and compiler for Parrot virtual machine
  • Patient care technician
  • Percent, abbreviation
  • Perceptual control theory, a psychological theory of purposeful behavior
  • Placebo-controlled Trial (Placebo-controlled study)
  • Polychlorinated terphenyl, an industrial chemical and environmental contaminant.
  • Polycyclohexylenedimethylene terephthalate, a thermoplastic polyester
  • Porphyria cutanea tarda, a form of porphyria
  • Postcoital test, a test for infertility
  • Post-coital tristesse
  • Post cycle therapy, a method of stabilizing hormonal functions
  • Private Communications Technology, an obsolete Internet security protocol
  • Procalcitonin
  • Processor-Controlled Test, a test and debug solution for assembled boards (PCBAs)
  • Program control table, used by CICS
  • Programmable Communicating Thermostat
  • Proton Computed Tomography, tomographic imaging with protons
  • Proximal convoluted tubule, part of the nephron of the kidney

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