| delivery rooms | Hospital units equipped for childbirth. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| recovery room | Hospital unit providing continuous monitoring of the patient following anaesthesia. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| room | 1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room. "Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room." (Luke xiv. 22) "There was no room for them in the inn." (Luke II. 7) 2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat. "If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse." (Overbury) "When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room." (Luke xiv. 8) 3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber. "I found the prince in the next room." (Shak) 4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated. "When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod." (Matt. Ii. 22) "Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven." (Tyndale) "Let Bianca take her sister's room." (Shak) 5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope. "There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance." (Addison) Room and space, the distance from one side of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and room the width of a rib. To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. "Make room, and let him stand before our face." (Shak) Synonym: Space, compass, scope, latitude. Origin: OE. Roum, rum, space, AS. Rum; akin to OS, OFries. & Icel. Rum, D. Ruim, G. Raum, OHG. Rum, Sw. & Dan. Rum, Goth. Rums, and to AS. Rum, adj, spacious, D. Ruim, Icel. Rumr, Goth. Rums; and prob. To L. Rus country (cf. Rural), Zend rava<ndot/h wide, free, open, ravan a plain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| room temperature | The ordinary temperature (65 |
| clean room | <cell culture> A room in which contamination is limited to a specific maximum level to facilitate the manufacture of sterile and high purity products, to protect personnel, equipment, and products from microbial contamination and to prevent the escape of hazardous particles into the environment. (14 Nov 1997) |
| operating room information systems | Information systems, usually computer-assisted, designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling administrative activities associated with the provision and utilization of operating room services and facilities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| operating room nursing | The functions of the professional nurse in the operating room. (12 Dec 1998) |
| operating room technicians | Specially trained personnel to assist in routine technical procedures in the operating room. (12 Dec 1998) |
| abdominal delivery | <obstetrics> A obstetric procedure that involves the delivery of the foetus through an abdominal incision. Cesarian sections account for about one fifth of all births in the us. Indications include: failure to progress, foetal distress, cephalopelvic disproportion (baby's too big for birth canal), placenta previa, placental abruption, placental insufficiency, breech baby, active genital herpes, multiple gestation, preeclampsia and excessive scarring from previous surgeries. The average hospital stay is about 4 days. The maternal death rate with cesarian section is three times higher than with natural delivery. (27 Sep 1997) |
| assisted cephalic delivery | Extraction of a foetus that presents by the head. (05 Mar 2000) |
| breech delivery | <obstetrics> The extraction or expulsion of the foetus which occurs buttocks or feet first. (27 Sep 1997) |
| perimortem delivery | Extraction of the foetus after the death of its mother. Synonym: perimortem delivery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| midforceps delivery | Delivery by forceps applied to the foetal head before the criteria of low forceps delivery have been met, but after engagement has taken place. (05 Mar 2000) |
| postmortem delivery | Extraction of the foetus after the death of its mother. Synonym: perimortem delivery. (05 Mar 2000) |
| premature delivery | Birth of a foetus before its proper time. See: premature birth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| high forceps delivery | Delivery by forceps applied to the foetal head before engagement has taken place. (05 Mar 2000) |