| treatment ind | An FDA-approved program that allows a physician to procure an experimental drug for seriously ill patients who have no other treatment options in exchange for data on the safety and perhaps the effectiveness of the drug. See: compassionate use, parallel track, expanded access. (09 Oct 1997) |
|---|---|
| treatment outcome | Studies undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, practicability, etc., of these interventions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| treatment protocol program | An FDA initiative to allow terminally ill patients to be given experimental drugs. (14 Nov 1997) |
| treatment refusal | Refusal of a person to accept medical or psychiatric treatment or his unwillingness to comply with the physician's instructions or prescribed regimens. In the case of a legally incompetent person the concept may include a third party authorised to make decisions on his behalf. (12 Dec 1998) |
| treble | The highest of the four principal parts in music; the part usually sung by boys or women; soprano. This is sometimes called the first treble, to distinguish it from the second treble, or alto, which is sung by lower female voices. Origin: " It has been said to be a corruption of triplum [Lat], a third part, superadded to the altus and bassus (high and low).". Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tree | <botany> A woody plant at least 5 metres high, with a main stem the lower part of which is usually unbranched. (19 Jan 1998) |
| tree measurement sale | A type of timber sale contract in which the buyer and seller argree upon the volume at the time of the sale. (05 Dec 1998) |
| treebeard | <botany> A pendulous branching lichen (Usnea barbata); so called from its resemblance to hair. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| treeful | The quantity or number which fills a tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| treeless | Destitute of trees. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| treen | 1. Made of wood; wooden. " Treen cups." 2. Relating to, or drawn from, trees. "Treen liquors, especially that of the date." (Evelyn) Origin: AS. Treowen. Of Tree. " The shady treen." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| treenail | A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other. Alternative forms: trenail, and trunnel. Origin: Tree + nail. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trees | Woody, usually tall, perennial higher plants (angiosperms, gymnosperms, and some pterophyta) having usually a main stem and numerous branches. (12 Dec 1998) |
| trefoil | 1. <botany> Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic. 2. An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils. 3. A charge representing the clover leaf. Origin: L. Tres three + E. Foil leaf; cf. F. Frefle, It. Trifoglio, L. Trifolium. See Tri-, Foil leaf, and cf. Trifoly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| trefoil dermatitis | A form of photosensitization that occurs in horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs from eating several types of clover and alfalfa. Synonym: clover disease, trefoil dermatitis. Origin: L. Trifolium, trefoil, clover (05 Mar 2000) |