| CHSS | cooperative health statistics system |
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| DHES | Division of Health Examination Statistics |
| MEDSTATS | Medical Statistics Expert System |
| MS | Maffuci syndrome; maladjustment score; mandibular series; Marfan syndrome; Marie-Strumpell [syndrome... |
| NCHS | National Center for Health Statistics |
| special hospital | A hospital for the medical and surgical care of patients with specific types of diseases, as of the ear, nose, and throat, eyes, or mental illness. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| special nurse | A nurse, who might be a registered nurse or a practical nurse, assigned to limited, specialised functions; usually synonymous with private duty nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special sensation | A sensation referred to a stimulus produced by an external body and acting on any of the sense organs. Subjective sensation, a sensation not readily referrable to a denotably verifiable stimulus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special sense | One of the five senses related respectively to the organs of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special somatic afferent column | A column of gray matter in the hindbrain of the embryo, represented in the adult by the nuclei of the auditory and vestibular nerves. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special visceral efferent column | A column of gray matter in the hindbrain of the embryo, represented in the adult by the trigeminal and facial nuclei and the nucleus ambiguus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special visceral efferent nuclei | Collective term for those motoneuronal nuclei of the brainstem (n. Ambiguus, facial motor nucleus, motor nucleus of the trigeminus) that develop from the branchiomotor column of the embryo and innervate striated muscle fibres (muscles of mastication, facial musculature, pharynx and vocal cord muscles) developed from the mesenchyme of the branchial arches. Synonym: special visceral efferent nuclei, special visceral motor nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special visceral motor nuclei | Collective term for those motoneuronal nuclei of the brainstem (n. Ambiguus, facial motor nucleus, motor nucleus of the trigeminus) that develop from the branchiomotor column of the embryo and innervate striated muscle fibres (muscles of mastication, facial musculature, pharynx and vocal cord muscles) developed from the mesenchyme of the branchial arches. Synonym: special visceral efferent nuclei, special visceral motor nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| education, special | Education of the individual who markedly deviates intellectually, physically, socially, or emotionally from those considered to be normal, thus requiring special instruction. (12 Dec 1998) |