| OHP | hydroxyprogesterone; hydroxyproline; occupational health plan; Oregon Health Plan; oxygen under high... |
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| OHR | occupational health research; Office of Health Research |
| NHC | National Health Council; neighborhood health center; neonatal hypocalcemia; nonhistone chromosomal [... |
| PHN | paroxysmal noctural hemoglobinuria; passive Heymann nephritis; postherpetic neuralgia; public health... |
| ANS | acanthion; American Nutrition Society; 8-anilino-1-naphthalene-sulfonic acid; anterior nasal spine; ... |
| occupational disease | A morbid condition resulting from exposure to an agent during the usual performance of one's occupation. Compare: industrial disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| occupational diseases | Diseases due to factors involved in one's employment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| occupational exposure | The exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| occupational groups | Members of the various professions (e.g., physicians) or occupations (e.g., police). (12 Dec 1998) |
| occupational lung disease | Fibrosis and scarring of the lungs secondary to the repeated inhalation of dust associated with some occupation. Examples include silica, asbestos and coal dust exposure. (27 Sep 1997) |
| occupational medicine | <study> A branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of patients with occupational and environmental illness and injury. (09 Oct 1997) |
| occupational neurosis | Professional neurosis, a disorder of a group of muscles used chiefly in one's occupation, marked by the occurrence of spasm, paresis, or incoordination on attempt to repeat the habitual movements; e.g., writer's cramp; probably a focal dystonia. Synonym: craft palsy, functional spasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occupational spasm | Professional spasm, obsolete term for occupational dystonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occupational therapist | <specialist> An individual trained to help people manage the daily activities of living, such as dressing, grooming or cooking, and regaining vocational skills. (05 Mar 2000) |
| occupational therapy | A form of therapy that encourages and instructs manual activities for therapeutic or remedial purposes in mental and physical disorders. (27 Sep 1997) |
| occupational therapy department, hospital | Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of any occupational or work activity for remedial purposes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paediatric nursing | The nursing care of children from birth to adolescence. It includes the clinical and psychological aspects of nursing care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| geriatric nursing | Nursing care of the aged patient given in the home, the hospital, or special institutions such as nursing homes, psychiatric institutions, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal-child nursing | The nursing specialty that deals with the care of women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth and the care of their newborn children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rehabilitation nursing | The diagnosis and treatment of human responses of individuals and groups to actual or potential health problems with the characteristics of altered functional ability and altered life-style. (12 Dec 1998) |