| HAP | Handicapped Aid Program; Hazardous Air Pollutants [List]; hazardous air pollution; health alliance p... |
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| HIP | health illness profile; health insurance plan or program; homograft incus prosthesis; hospital insur... |
| MHP | hemiplegic migraine; maternal health program; maternal health program; medical center health plan; 1... |
| MSTP | Medical Scientist Training Program [of NIH]; medical student training program |
| PMP | pain management program; patient management program; patient medication profile; peripheral myelin p... |
| INCAP | Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama |
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| IDPN | Intradialytic parenteral nutrition |
| NHANES | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey |
| NHANES I | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey |
| NHANES II | National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey |
| child nutrition disorders | Malnutrition, occurring in children ages 2 to 12 years, which is due to insufficient intake of food, dietary nutrients, or a pathophysiologic condition which prevents the absorption and utilization of food. Growth and development are markedly affected. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| nutrition | All foods, the physical and chemical process by which food is converted into body tissue. (27 Sep 1997) |
| nutrition assessment | Evaluation and measurement of nutritional variables in order to assess the level of nutrition or the nutritional status of the individual. Nutrition surveys may be used in making the assessment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nutrition policy | Governmental guidelines and objectives pertaining to public food supply and nutrition including recommendations for healthy diet and changes in food habits to ensure healthy diet. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nutrition surveys | A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to the nutritional status of a human population within a given geographic area. Data from these surveys are used in preparing nutrition assessments. (12 Dec 1998) |
| infant nutrition | Nutrition of children from birth to 2 years of age. (12 Dec 1998) |
| infant nutrition disorders | Malnutrition, occurring in infants ages 1 month to 24 months, which is due to insufficient intake of food, dietary nutrients, or a pathophysiologic condition which prevents the absorption and utilization of food. Growth and development are markedly affected. (12 Dec 1998) |
| total parenteral nutrition | <pharmacology> Intravenous feeding that provides patients with all essential nutrients when they are unable to feed themselves. Acronym: TPN (12 Jan 1998) |
| enteral nutrition | Nutritional support given via the alimentary canal or any route connected to the gastrointestinal system (i.e., the enteral route). This includes oral feeding, sip feeding, and tube feeding using nasogastric, gastrostomy, and jejunostomy tubes. (12 Dec 1998) |
| benign essential tremor | A benign tremor inherited as a dominant character; it may be a rapid oscillation resembling that seen in thyrotoxicosis, a coarse tremor during rest and inhibited by a voluntary effort, or one which appears only upon movement. Synonym: benign essential tremor, familial tremor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| drugs, essential | Drugs considered essential to meet the health needs of a population as well as to control drug costs. (world health organization action programme on essential drugs, 1994, p3) (12 Dec 1998) |
| osteolysis, essential | Syndromes of bone destruction where the cause is not obvious such as neoplasia, infection, or trauma. The destruction follows various patterns: massive (gorham disease), multicentric (hajdu-cheney syndrome, winchester syndrome), or carpal/tarsal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Eagle's minimum essential medium | A tissue culture medium similar to Eagle's basal medium but with different amounts and a few exclusions (e.g., antibiotics and phenol red). (05 Mar 2000) |
| essential | 1. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. "Majestic as the voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness." (Hawthorne) 2. Hence, really existing; existent. "Is it true, that thou art but a a name, And no essential thing?" (Webster (1623)) 3. Important in the highest degree; indispensable to the attainment of an object; indispensably necessary. "Judgment's more essential to a general Than courage." (Denham) "How to live? that is the essential question for us." (H. Spencer) 4. Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil. "Mine own essential horror." 5. Necessary; indispensable; said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones. 6. <medicine> Idiopathic; independent of other diseases. <biology> Essential character, a class of volatile oils, extracted from plants, fruits, or flowers, having each its characteristic odour, and hot burning taste. They are used in essences, perfumery, etc, and include many varieties of compounds; as lemon oil is a terpene, oil of bitter almonds an aldehyde, oil of wintergreen an ethereal salt, etc.; called also volatile oils in distinction from the fixed or nonvolatile. Origin: Cf. F. Essentiel. See Essence. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| essential albuminuria | A collective term for types that are not the result of pathologic changes in the kidneys. Synonym: essential albuminuria. (05 Mar 2000) |