| work | <chemistry> Energy transferred by mechanical means, force acting over a distance. For chemical systems the sign for work is positive, if work is done on the system and negative, if work is done by the system. An example is the expansion of a gas against the external, atmospheric pressure. In this case work is negative, because it is done by the gas which represents the system. (09 Jan 1998) |
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| work capacity evaluation | Assessment of physiological capacities in relation to job requirements. It is usually done by measuring certain physiological (e.g., circulatory and respiratory) variables during a gradually increasing workload until specific limitations occur with respect to those variables. (12 Dec 1998) |
| work of breathing | Respiratory muscle contraction during inspiration. The work is accomplished in three phases: that required to expand the lungs against its elastic forces (lung compliance work), that required to overcome the viscosity of the lung and chest wall structures (tissue resistance work), and that required to overcome airway resistance during the movement of air into the lungs (airway resistance work). Work of breaking does not refer to expiration, which is entirely a passive process caused by elastic recoil of the lung and chest cage. (guyton, textbook of medical physiology, 8th ed, p406) (12 Dec 1998) |
| work schedule tolerance | Physiological or psychological effects of periods of work which may be fixed or flexible such as flexitime, work shifts, and rotating shifts. (12 Dec 1998) |
| work simplification | The construction or arrangement of a task so that it may be done with the greatest possible efficiency. (12 Dec 1998) |
| worker | 1. One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. "Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity." (Shak) 2. <zoology> One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| workers' compensation | Insurance coverage providing compensation and medical benefits to individuals because of work-connected injuries or disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| working bite | working contacts |
| working distance free | <microscopy> The distance between the front lens of the objective and the coverslip (or uncovered object) when the lens is focused on the specimen. (05 Aug 1998) |
| working occlusal surfaces | The surface's of teeth upon which mastication can occur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| working occlusion | working contacts |
| working out | In psychoanalysis, the state in the treatment process in which the patient's personal history and psychodynamics are uncovered. (05 Mar 2000) |
| working side | In dentistry, the lateral segment of a dentition toward which the mandible is moved during occlusal function. (05 Mar 2000) |
| working side condyle | In dentistry, the mandibular condyle on the side toward which the mandible moves in a lateral excursion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| working through | In psychoanalysis, the process of obtaining additional insight and personality changes in a patient through repeated and varied examination of a conflict or problem; the interactions between free association, resistance, interpretation, and working out constitute the fundamental facets of this process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| relief work | Assistance, such as money, food, or shelter, given to the needy, aged, or victims of disaster. It is usually granted on a temporary basis. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| rescue work | Activities devoted to freeing persons or animals from danger to life or well-being in accidents, fires, bombings, floods, earthquakes, other disasters and life-threatening conditions. While usually performed by team efforts, rescue work is not restricted to organised services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social work | The use of community resources, individual case work, or group work to promote the adaptive capacities of individuals in relation to their social and economic environments. It includes social service agencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social work department, hospital | Hospital department responsible for administering and providing social services to patients and their families. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social work, psychiatric | Use of all social work processes in the treatment of patients in a psychiatric or mental health setting. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stroke work index | A measure of the work done by the heart with each contraction, adjusted for body surface area; equal to the stroke volume of the heart multiplied by the arterial pressure and divided by body surface area; the normal stroke work index does not exceed 40 gram-meters per square meter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dream-work | In psychoanalysis, the process by which the change from latent to manifest content of a dream is effected. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tut-work | <chemical> Work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unit of work | See: unit of energy. (05 Mar 2000) |