| Bill, Arthur | <person> U.S. Obstetrician, 1877-1961. See: Bill's manoeuvre. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Bill's manoeuvre | Forceps rotation of the foetal head at mid-pelvis before extraction of the head. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brown bill | A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. "Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill." (Shak) The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head. Origin: Brown + bill cutting tool. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| parrot's-bill | <botany> The glory pea. See Glory. Origin: So called from the resemblance of its curved superior petal to a parrot's bill. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| speckled-bill | <zoology> The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| duck's-bill | <zoology> Having the form of a duck's bill. Duck's-bill limpet, a limpet of the genus Parmaphorus; so named from its shape. (04 Mar 1998) |
| ivory-bill | <zoology> A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp, ivory-coloured beak. Its general colour is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| adolescent health services | Organised services to provide health care to adolescents, ages ranging from 13 through 18 years. (12 Dec 1998) |
| allied health occupations | Occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians, and are qualified by special training and, frequently, by licensure to work in supporting roles in the health care field. These occupations include, but are not limited to, medical technology, physical therapy, physician assistant, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| allied health personnel | Health care workers specially trained and licensed to assist and support the work of health professionals. Often used synonymously with paramedical personnel, the term generally refers to all health care workers who perform tasks which must otherwise be performed by a physician or other health professional. (12 Dec 1998) |
| allied health professional | An individual trained to perform services in the care of patients other than a physician or registered nurse; includes a variety of therapy technicians (e.g., pulmonary), radiology technicians, physical therapists, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| area health education centres | Education centres authorised by the comprehensive health manpower training act, 1971, for the training of health personnel in areas where health needs are the greatest. May be used for centres other than those established by the united states act. (12 Dec 1998) |
| attitude of health personnel | Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| attitude to health | Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| behavioural health | An interdisciplinary field dedicated to promoting a philosophy of health that stresses individual responsibility in the application of behavioural and biomedical science knowledge and techniques to the maintenance of health and prevention of illness and dysfunction by a variety of self-initiated individual and shared activities. (05 Mar 2000) |