PCI

The three-letter abbreviation PCI may refer to:

Business and organizations

• Per capita income
• Payment card industry, a general term which collectively describes the debit, credit, pre-paid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards and associated businesses
  • PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, a standard from the PCI Security Standards Council, developed to ensure financial data security standards
• Project Concern International - a Humanitarian Organization
• Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI), a governance index that assesses and ranks all 64 Vietnamese provinces by their economic governance and investment environment for private firms.
• Per column inch (in newspaper publishing)
• Population Communications International, a New York based non-profit organization, dedicated to teaching through entertainment
• Public Communications Inc. (PCI), a Chicago based national public relations agency
• Professional Certified Investigator, a certified private detective

Computing

• PCI Local Bus (Peripheral Component Interconnect), an industry-standard bus for attaching peripherals to computers.

Education

• Pentecostal Collegiate Institute, an educational institution founded 1900 in Saratoga Springs, New York (since renamed and relocated).
• Porter and Chester Institute, an accredited technical school in Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Medicine

• Percutaneous coronary intervention, a set of procedures used to treat coronary heart disease
• Potato carboxypeptidase inhibitor, a natural peptide usable for thrombolytic and cancer therapy
• Prophylactic cranial irradiation, type of radiotherapy to the brain, used to reduce the risk of brain metastasis from lung cancer.
• Photochemical internalisation, a light-directed drug delivery system using photochemistry for cytosol delivery of drugs that are taken up by cells through endocytosis
• Protein C inhibitor: a serine protease inhibitor (serpin)

Politics and government

• Partito Comunista Italiano, a former Italian communist party
• Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, an Italian communist party
• Parti Communiste Internationaliste, a French political party
• Pharmacy Council of India, a statutory body governed by the provisions of the Pharmacy Act, 1948 passed by the Parliament of India

Religion

• Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Protestant denomination in Ireland

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