title: PDS
text: # PDS
  
  PDS can refer to:
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * Partially Deceased Syndrome, a fictional condition in BBC show In the Flesh
  * Panzer Dragoon Saga, a 1998 video game
  
  ## Computing
  
  * Partitioned data sets, IBM
  * Passive data structure, another term for record
  * Processor Direct Slot, in some old Macintosh computers
  * Personal data service, services to let individuals manage their own personal data by themselves
  * Protective distribution system, a safeguarded telecommunication system
  * Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS), a superset of QuickBASIC
  * Paradox Development Studios, a game developer subsidiary of Paradox Interactive
  
  ## Medical
  
  * Paroxysmal depolarizing shift, a pre-seizure interictal neuronal EEG spike in epilepsy.
  * Pigment dispersion syndrome, an affliction of the eye
  * Polydioxanone, a type of absorbable suture
  * Pleomorphic dermal sarcoma, a form of histiocytoma
  
  ## Political parties
  
  * Party of Democratic Socialism (Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus), a defunct political party of Germany
  * Social Democracy Party of Albania
  * Party of Democratic Socialism (India)
  * Party of the Sicilians
  * Progressive Democrats, a defunct political party of Ireland
  * Democratic Party of the Left (Partito Democratico della Sinistra), a defunct political party of Italy
  * Senegalese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Sénégalais), a political party of Senegal
  * Sudanese Democratic Party (Parti Démocratique Soudanais), a defunct political party of Sudan
  * Democratic Social Party (Partido Democrático Social), a defunct political party of Brazil
  * Prosperous Peace Party (Partai Damai Sejahtera), a political party of Indonesia
  * Parti de la Democratie Socialiste, a defunct provincial political party of Quebec, Canada
  
  ## Schools
  
  * Princeton Day School, New Jersey, US
  * Peabody Demonstration School, former school in Nashville, Tennessee, US
  * Presbyterian Day School, Memphis, Tennessee, US
  * Providence Day School, Charlotte, North Carolina, US
  * Patumwan Demonstration School, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand
  
  ## Scientific
  
  * Photothermal deflection spectroscopy
  * Planetary Data System, a NASA data archive system
  * Polydioxanone, a synthetic polymer
  * 15-Cis-phytoene desaturase, an enzyme
  * Poincaré dodecahedral space
  
  ## Other
  
  * Particularly dangerous situation, special emphasis phrase in weather bulletins from the National Weather Service
  * Piedras Negras International Airport, IATA code PDS
  * Precision Drill Squad, a skilled military performance of Singapore
  * Product design specification
  * Public distribution system, Indian food distribution system
  * The Philip DeFranco Show, on YouTube
  * Permanent Duty Station, in the United States military forces (see temporary duty assignment)
  