| ACHPR | Agency for Health Care Policy and Research |
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| A + H | accident & health [policy] |
| AHCPR | Agency for Health Care Policy and Research |
| CPP | cancer proneness phenotype; canine pancreatic polypeptide; cerebral perfusion pressure; chest pain p... |
| CSTP | Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy |
| AHCPR | Agency for Health Care Policy and Research |
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| VABS | Vine-land Adaptive Behavior Scale |
| AUD | Alcohol Use Disorder |
| AUDIT | Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test |
| AUI | Alcohol Use Inventory |
| land use board of appeals | (LUBA) A seven-member board appointed to adjudicate land use disputes in Oregon. (05 Dec 1998) |
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| commercial forest land | Forested land which is capable of producing new growth at a minimum rate of 20 cubic feet per acre/per year, excluding lands withdrawn from timber production by statute or administrative regulation. (05 Dec 1998) |
| land | 1. To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark. "I 'll undertake top land them on our coast." (Shak) 2. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish. 3. To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes. Origin: Landed; Landing. 1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage. "They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land." (Dryden) 2. Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. "Go view the land, even Jericho." (Josh. Ii. 1) "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay." (Goldsmith) See also, Goldsmith: Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails. (THe captivity, an Oratorio. Act II line 91) In the expressions "to be, or dwell, upon land," "to go, or fare, on land," as used by Chaucer, land denotes the country as distinguished from the town. "A poor parson dwelling upon land [i.e, in the country]" (Chaucer) 3. Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land. 4. The inhabitants of a nation or people. "These answers, in the silent night received, The kind himself divulged, the land believed." (Dryden) 5. The mainland, in distinction from islands. 6. The ground or floor. "Herself upon the land she did prostrate." (Spenser) 7. <agriculture> The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing. 8. Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc, and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc, or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate. 9. The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing. 10. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. Land agent, a person employed to sell or let land, to collect rents, and to attend to other money matters connected with land. Land boat, a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails. Land blink, a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink. Land breeze. See Breeze. Land chain. See Gunter's chain. Land crab, to sight land. To set the land, to see by the compass how the land bears from the ship. To shut in the land, to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the view. Origin: AS. Land, lond; akin to D, G, Icel, Sw, Dan, and Goth. Land. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| land conservation and development commission | (LCDC) A commission appointed to determine land use policy in Oregon. (05 Dec 1998) |
| forested areas or land | Any land that is capable of producing or has produced forest growth or, if lacking forest growth, has evidence of a former forest and is not now in other use. (05 Dec 1998) |
| compassionate use | <pharmacology> Refers to situations where a drug is provided to a patient on humanitarian grounds prior to the drug's receiving regulatory approval. (05 Jan 1998) |
| conditional use permit | A permit, with conditions, allowing an approved use on a site outside the appropriate zoning class. (05 Dec 1998) |
| consumptive wildlife use | Activities that involve harvest of wildlife, such as hunting and fishing. (09 Oct 1997) |
| off-label use | In the United States, the regulations of the Food and drug administration (FDA) permit physicians to prescribe approved medications for other than their intended indications. This practice is known as off-label use. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tobacco use disorder | Tobacco used to the detriment of a person's health or social functioning. Tobacco dependence is included. (12 Dec 1998) |
| use | 1. The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use. "Books can never teach the use of books." (Bacon) "This Davy serves you for good uses." (Shak) "When he framed All things to man's delightful use." (Milton) 2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book. 3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility. "God made two great lights, great for their use To man." (Milton) "'T is use alone that sanctifies expense." (Pope) 4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit. "Let later age that noble use envy." (Spenser) "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world!" (Shak) 5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. "O Caesar! these things are beyond all use." (Shak) 6. The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. "From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use." (Pref. To Book of Common Prayer) 7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. "Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him." (Jer. Taylor) 8. [In this sense probably a corruption of OF. Oes, fr. L. Opus need, business, employment, work. Cf. Operate. The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B. 9. A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. Contingent, or Springing, use, the stat. 27 Henry VIII, cap. 10, which transfers uses into possession, or which unites the use and possession. To make use of, To put to use, to employ; to derive service from; to use. Origin: OE. Us use, usage, L. Usus, from uti, p. P. Usus, to use. See Use. 1. To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation. "Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs." (Shak) "Some other means I have which may be used." (Milton) 2. To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly. "I will use him well." "How wouldst thou use me now?" (Milton) "Cato has used me ill." (Addison) 3. To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business. "Use hospitality one to another." (1 Pet. Iv. 9) 4. To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger. "I am so used in the fire to blow." (Chaucer) "Thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels." (Milton) To use one's self, to behave. "Pray, forgive me, if I have used myself unmannerly." . To use up. To consume or exhaust by using; to leave nothing of; as, to use up the supplies. To exhaust; to tire out; to leave no capacity of force or use in; to overthrow; as, he was used up by fatigue. Synonym: Employ. Use, Employ. We use a thing, or make use of it, when we derive from it some enjoyment or service. We employ it when we turn that service into a particular channel. We use words to express our general meaning; we employ certain technical terms in reference to a given subject. To make use of, implies passivity in the thing; as, to make use of a pen; and hence there is often a material difference between the two words when applied to persons. To speak of "making use of another" generally implies a degrading idea, as if we had used him as a tool; while employ has no such sense. A confidential friend is employed to negotiate; an inferior agent is made use of on an intrigue. "I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the power Which thy discretion gives thee, to control And manage all." (Cowper) "To study nature will thy time employ: Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy." (Dryden) Origin: OE. Usen, F. User to use, use up, wear out, LL. Usare to use, from L. Uti, p. P. Usus, to use, OL. Oeti, oesus; of uncertain origin. Cf. Utility. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| policy | 1. A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds. 2. The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance. 3. A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy. Interest policy, a policy that shows by its form that the assured has a real, substantial interest in the matter insured. Open policy, one in which the value of the goods or property insured is not mentioned. Policy book, a book to contain a record of insurance policies. Policy holder, one to whom an insurance policy has been granted. Policy shop, a gambling place where one may bet on the numbers which will be drawn in lotteries. Valued policy, one in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified. Wager policy, a policy that shows on the face of it that the contract it embodies is a pretended insurance, founded on an ideal risk, where the insured has no interest in anything insured. Origin: F. Police; cf. Pr. Polissia, Sp. Polizia, It. Polizza; of uncertain origin; cf. L. Pollex thumb (as being used in pressing the seal), in LL. Also, seal; or cf. LL. Politicum, poleticum, polecticum, L. Polyptychum, account book, register, fr. Gr. Having many folds or leaves; many + fold, leaf, from to fold; or cf. LL. Apodixa a receipt. Origin: L. Politia, Gr.; cf. F. Police, Of. Police. See Police. 1. Civil polity. 2. The settled method by which the government and affairs of a nation are, or may be, administered; a system of public or official administration, as designed to promote the external or internal prosperity of a state. 3. The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course. 4. Management or administration based on temporal or material interest, rather than on principles of equity or honor; hence, worldly wisdom; dexterity of management; cunning; stratagem. 5. Prudence or wisdom in the management of public and private affairs; wisdom; sagacity; wit. "The very policy of a hostess, finding his purse so far above his clothes, did detect him." (Fuller) 6. Motive; object; inducement. "What policy have you to bestow a benefit where it is counted an injury?" (Sir P. Sidney) Synonym: See Polity. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| policy making | The decision process by which individuals, groups or institutions establish policies pertaining to plans, programs or procedures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health policy | Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| public policy | A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions. (12 Dec 1998) |
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