PCI

In information processing, PCI stands for:

• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), security standard for processing credit card transactions.
• Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI bus), a bus standard for connecting peripheral devices to the chipset of a processor.
• Periodical Contents Index , a commercial bibliographic database.
• Program Comparison and Identification , system for station display (before RDS ) for car radios from Blaupunkt.
• Protocol Control Information , protocol control information for a data unit (Protocol Data Unit) in the OSI model.

PCI also stands for:

• Partito Comunista Italiano , the Italian name of the Communist Party of Italy until it was renamed and split in 1991
• percutaneous collagen induction
• Percutaneous coronary intervention ( German: Perkutane Koronarintervention ), the cardiac catheter-supported treatment of constricted or occluded coronary arteries, see Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty / PTCA
• Peritoneal Cancer Index, a measure of the spread of tumor tissue in the peritoneum in the presence of peritoneal cancer
• Positive chemical ionization , an ionization process used in mass spectrometry
• PCI Augsburg GmbH , a manufacturer of building materials and a company in the BASF Group

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.