PNS may refer to:

Medicine

Peripheral nervous system The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is one of two components that make up the nervous system of Bilateria, bilateral animals, with the other part being the central nervous system (CNS). The PNS consists of nerves and ganglia, which lie outside t ...

Parasympathetic nervous system The parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) is one of the three divisions of the autonomic nervous system, the others being the sympathetic nervous system and the enteric nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is responsible for regulat ...

, rarely used, usually abbreviated as "PSNS" to avoid confusion with peripheral nervous system *

Peripheral nerve stimulation of the occipital nerves Occipital nerve stimulation (ONS), also called peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) of the occipital nerves, is used to treat chronic migraine patients who have failed to respond to pharmaceutical treatments. The treatment involves the use of mild el ...

Paraneoplastic syndrome A paraneoplastic syndrome is a syndrome (a set of signs and symptoms) that is the consequence of a tumor in the body (usually a cancerous one). It is specifically due to the production of chemical signaling molecules (such as hormones or cytokin ...

Pilonidal sinus Pilonidal disease is a type of skin infection that typically occurs as a cyst between the cheeks of the buttocks and often at the upper end. Symptoms may include pain, swelling, and redness. There may also be drainage of fluid, but rarely a feve ...

Posterior nasal spine The posterior nasal spine is part of the horizontal plate of the palatine bone of the skull. It is found at the medial end of its posterior border. It is paired with the corresponding palatine bone to form a solid spine. It is the attachment of t ...

, a cephalometric landmark

Military

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNS), often called the Portsmouth Navy Yard, is a United States Navy shipyard on Seavey's Island in Kittery, Maine, bordering Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The naval yard lies along the southern boundary of Maine on ...

, United States *

Pakistan Navy Ship The Pakistan Navy (PN) (; Roman Urdu, ''romanized'': Pākistān Bahrí'a; ) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The Chief of the Naval Staff (Pakistan), Chief of the Naval Staff, a four-star Admiral (Pakistan), admiral, c ...

Science & technology

Post-normal science Post-normal science (PNS) was developed in the 1990s by Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome R. Ravetz.Funtowicz, S. O. and Ravetz, J. R., 1991. "A New Scientific Methodology for Global Environmental Issues", in Costanza, R. (ed.), Ecological Economic ...

, approach to making policy with uncertain information *

Process network synthesis Process network synthesis (PNS) is a method to represent a process structure in a 'directed bipartite graph'. Process network synthesis uses the P-graph method to create a process structure. The scientific aim of this method is to find optimum stru ...

, a process engineering tool

Transport

Pensacola International Airport Pensacola International Airport , formerly Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport and Pensacola Regional Airport (Hagler Field), and temporarily branded Pensacola Intergalactic Airport each February in recognition of the local Pensacon convent ...

, IATA airport code *

Pensacola station (Amtrak) Pensacola station is a former train station in Pensacola, Florida. It was served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The station served as a replacement for the former Louisville and Nashville Passenger Station and Express Buildi ...

, Amtrak station code

Other

Pakistan Nuclear Society The Pakistan Nuclear Society (PNS) is an academic not-for-profit educational and scientific learned society devoted to the promotion of peaceful use of nuclear energy and the lobbying for commercial nuclear power development in the country. The PN ...

* Pickleball Nova Scotia, a Canadian provincial sport authority * Program on Nonviolent Sanctions, at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts *

Public News Service Public News Service (usually shortened to PNS) was launched in 1996 by journalist Lark Corbeil in Idaho. Today, PNS has 40 state-based news services that provide multi-platform content for free to news outlets as a way to advocate journalism in ...

, an American news media company *

Projected National Share Projected National Share (PNS) is a statistic used in British politics. It refers to the translation of Local elections in the UK, local election results to reflect national party support in a future General elections in the uk, general election. ...

, British political term * Perfect North Slopes, a ski resort in Lawrenceburg, Indiana {{disambiguation