| economics, dental | Economic aspects of the dental profession and dental care. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| economics, hospital | Economic aspects related to the management and operation of a hospital. (12 Dec 1998) |
| economics, medical | Economic aspects of the field of medicine, the medical profession, and health care. It includes the economic and financial impact of disease in general on the patient, the physician, society, or government. (12 Dec 1998) |
| economics, nursing | Economic aspects of the nursing profession. (12 Dec 1998) |
| economics, pharmaceutical | Economic aspects of the fields of pharmacy and pharmacology as they apply to the development and study of medical economics in rational drug therapy and the impact of pharmaceuticals on the cost of medical care. Pharmaceutical economics also includes the economic considerations of the pharmaceutical care delivery system and in drug prescribing, particularly of cost-benefit values. (12 Dec 1998) |
| economy | 1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. "Himself busy in charge of the household economies." (Froude) 2. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; especially, such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy. 3. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy. "The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language." (Earle) "In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . Of poems better observed than in Terence." (B. Jonson) "The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep." (Paley) 4. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See Political. Synonym: Economy, Frugality, Parsimony. Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage, frugality cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion. Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners, parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice. "I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease." (Swift) "The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness]" (Golding) Origin: F. Economie, L. Oeconomia household management, fr. Gr, fr. One managing a household; house (akin to L. Vicus village, E. Vicinity) + usage, law, rule, fr. To distribute, mange. See Vicinity, Nomad. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ecophene | <genetics> The variety of phenotypes (visible physical characteristics or behaviours), from a single genotype (a specific combinations of alleles in a gene), that can be observed in a population within a particular habitat. (13 Nov 1997) |
| ecophenotype | <biology> A phenotype (visible physical characteristics or behaviours) that is a result of environmental or ecological conditions rather than genetic expression (nurture instead of nature). (09 Oct 1997) |
| ecophobia | <psychology> An obsolete term for a morbid fear of one's home surroundings. See: nostophobia. Origin: eco-+ G. Phobos, fear (05 Mar 2000) |
| ecori methylase | <enzyme, molecular biology> An enzyme that will methylate (attach a methyl group (-CH3 group) to the nitrogenous base adenine on DNA molecules) the cutting site (the sequence GAATTC) of the EcoRI restriction enzyme (an enzyme which will cleave DNA at specific nucleotide sequences). (09 Oct 1997) |
| ecori restriction enzyme | <enzyme, molecular biology> A commonly-used restriction enzyme (enzyme which will cleave the phosphodiester bonds of DNA at specific nucleotide sequences) that came from the bacteria Escherichia coli and recognises the sequence GAATTC. The enzyme will make a staggered cut of the double-stranded DNA molecule by cutting between the G and A on both strands. (09 Oct 1997) |
| ecospecies | <ecology> A species consisting of different subspecies, or breeds, of an organism which despite being adapted to slightly different environments and/or having distinctly different appearances and behaviours, can still successfully interbreed. (11 Oct 1998) |
| ecosphere | 1. <astronomy> The region of space around a star that is considered able to support life. 2. <ecology> The Earth, all of the organisms living on it, and all of the environmental factors which act on the organisms. (10 Nov 1998) |
| ecostate | <botany> Having no ribs or nerves; said of a leaf. Origin: Pref. E- + costate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| ecosystem | <ecology> An ecosystem is the dynamic and interrelating complex of plant and animal communities and their associated non-living environment. The physical and climactic features and all the living and dead organisms in an area that are interrelated in the transfer of energy and material. An interacting complex of a community and its environment functioning as an ecological unit in nature. Differs from system in being a more rigorous definition that encompasses and requires assumptions of energetics, ecological interactions, species adaptations and so forth. (13 Nov 1997) |