| homaloid | <geometry> Flat; even; a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true. Origin: Gr. Even. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| homaloidal | <geometry> Flat; even; a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true. Origin: Gr. Even. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Homalomyia | A genus of flies the larvae of which sometimes infect human or animal intestines. Origin: G. Homalos, even, + myia, a fly (05 Mar 2000) |
| homaluria | Rarely used term for normal urine flow. Origin: G. Homalos, level, + ouron, urine (05 Mar 2000) |
| Homans | John, U.S. Surgeon, 1877-1954. See: Homans' sign. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Homans' sign | <clinical sign> Slight pain at the back of the knee or calf when the ankle is slowly and gently dorsiflexed (with the knee bent), indicative of incipient or established thrombosis in the veins of the leg. (05 Mar 2000) |
| homarus | <zoology> A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. Hom"aroid. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Well adjusted. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| homatropine | <medicine> An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose. Origin: Homo- + atropine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| homaxial | Having all the axes alike, as a sphere. Origin: G. Homos, the same, + axis (05 Mar 2000) |
| homaxonial | <biology> Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See Promorphology. Origin: Homo- + Gr. An axle, axis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| home | 1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; especially, the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace. "The disciples went away again to their own home." (John xx. 10) "Home is the sacred refuge of our life." (Dryden) "Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home." (Payne) 2. One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. "Our old home [England]" 3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections. "He entered in his house his home no more, For without hearts there is no home." (Byron) 4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine. "Her eyes are homes of silent prayer." (Tennyson) "Flandria, by plenty made the home of war." (Prior) 5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, especially, the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul. "Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets." (Eccl. Xii. 5) 6. The home base; he started for home. at home. At one's own house, or lodgings. In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. Prepared to receive callers. Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it. To feel at home, to be at one's ease. To make one's self at home, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home. Synonym: Tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile. Origin: OE. Hom, ham, AS. Ham; akin to OS. Hem, D. & G. Heim, Sw. Hem, Dan. Hiem, Icel. Heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. Haims village, Lith. Kemas, and perh. To Gr. Village, or to E. Hind a peasant; cf. Skr.kshma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. 2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. Home base, that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post. Home thrust, a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack. 1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home. 2. Close; closely. "How home the charge reaches us, has been made out." (South) "They come home to men's business and bosoms." (Bacon) 3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home. "Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home." (Shak) Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc. To bring home. See Bring. To come home. To touch or affect personally. See Come. To haul the clews close to the sheave hole. <zoology> See Homelyn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| home care agencies | Public or private organizations that provide, either directly or through arrangements with other organizations, home health services in the patient's home. (hospital administration terminology, 2d ed) (12 Dec 1998) |
| home care services | Community health and nursing services providing coordinated multiple service home care to the patient in his home. It includes services provided by a visiting nurse, home health agencies, hospitals, or other organised community groups. It differs from home nursing in that it is given by professionals while home nursing is provided by non-professionals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| home care services, hospital-based | Hospital-sponsored provision of health services, such as nursing, therapy, and health-related homemaker or social services, in the patient's home. (hospital administration terminology, 2d ed) (12 Dec 1998) |
| home childbirth | Childbirth taking place in the home. (12 Dec 1998) |