| CWS | cell wall skeleton; chest wall stimulation; child welfare service; cold water-soluble; cotton wool s... |
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| misc | miscarriage; miscellaneous |
| PN | 1) Pyelo-Nephritis 2) Practical Nurse; Áذ£È£»ç(ñÞÊ×ûÞÞÔ) |
| PNE | Practical Nurse's Education; Áذ£È£»ç±³À°(ñÞÊ×ûÞÞÔÎçëÀ) |
| GPN | graduate practical nurse |
| LPN | Licensed Practical Nurse |
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| CBE | cotton bract |
| practical | 1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." . "For all practical purposes." . 3. Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind. 4. Derived from practice; as, practical skill. Practical joke, a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said; especially, a trick played upon a person. Origin: L. Practicus active, Gr. Fit for doing or performing, practical, active, fr. To do, work, effect: cf. F. Pratique, formerly also practique. Cf. Pragmatic, Practice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| practical anatomy | Anatomy studied by means of dissection. See: gross anatomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| practical nurse | A graduate of a specific educational program that prepares the individual for a career in nursing with less responsibility than a graduate or registered nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| practical units | Unit's of magnitudes convenient for use in the practical applications of electricity; as originally defined they were absolute unit's (multiples of CGS electromagnetic unit's); they include the ampere, coulomb, farad, henry, joule, ohm, volt, and watt. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nursing, practical | The practice of nursing by licensed, non-registered persons qualified to provide routine care to the sick. (12 Dec 1998) |
| licensed practical nurse | A nurse who has graduated from an accredited school of practical (vocational) nursing, passed the state examination for licensure and been licensed to practice by a state authority. Program is generally one year in length. Synonym: licensed vocational nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| absorbent cotton | Cotton from which all fatty matter has been extracted, so that it readily takes up fluids. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cotton | <botany> Any of the cultivated varieties of gossypium, herbs or shrubs of the malvaceae family that yield fibre for textiles and absorbent dressings, oil from seeds, and various chemicals. The fibres cause byssinosis if inhaled over a period. Gossypol is a male anti-fertility agent from cottonseed oil. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cotton-dust asthma | <chest medicine> Exposures to cotton dust during the production of yarns, linen and rope can produce chronic obstructive lung disease (after 10 years). Early symptoms include chest tightness. Treatment includes bronchodilators and removal from work environment. (21 Mar 1998) |
| Cotton effect | The positive and negative displacement from zero of the rotation of plane polarised monochromatic light and the change of monochromatic circularly polarised light into elliptically polarised light in the immediate vicinity of the absorption band of the substance through which the light passes. See: optical rotatory dispersion, circular dichroism. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cotton-fibre embolism | Embolism by cotton fibres from sterile gauze used in intravenous medication or transfusion; may form as foreign body granulomas in small pulmonary arteries. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cotton, Frank | <person> U.S. Chemist, *1930. See: Cotton effect. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cotton-mill fever | <chest medicine> Exposures to cotton dust during the production of yarns, linen and rope can produce chronic obstructive lung disease (after 10 years). Early symptoms include chest tightness. Treatment includes bronchodilators and removal from work environment. (21 Mar 1998) |
| cotton-root bark | Dried root bark of Gossypium herbaceum and other species of Gossypium (family Malvaceae). Has been used as an abortifacient and oxytocic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cotton-wool patches | <clinical sign, ophthalmology> White, fuzzy areas on the surface of the retina (accumulations of cellular organelles) caused by damage (usually infarction) of the retinal fibre layer. Synonym: cotton-wool spots. (05 Mar 2000) |
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