| APTD | Aid to Permanently and Totally Disabled |
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| ADTP | attitude toward disabled persons [scale] |
| DAV | data valid; Disabled American Veterans; duck adenovirus |
| dis | disability, disabled; disease; dislocation; distal; distance |
| DL | danger list; De Lee [catheter]; deep lobe; developmental level; difference limen; diffusion lung [ca... |
| audiovisual aids | Auditory and visual instructional materials. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| autocrine communication | Denoting a type of cellular communication in which a hormone binds to receptors on and affects the function of the cell type that produced it. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paracrine communication | Cellular signaling in which a factor secreted by a cell affects other cells in the local environment. This term is often used to denote the action of hormones on surrounding cells. (12 Dec 1998) |
| manual communication | Method of nonverbal communication utilizing hand movements as speech equivalents. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cell communication | Any of several ways in which living cells of an organism communicate with one another, whether by direct contact between cells or by means of chemical signals carried by neurotransmitter substances, hormones, and cyclic AMP. (12 Dec 1998) |
| persuasive communication | A mode of communication concerned with inducing or urging the adoption of certain beliefs, theories, or lines of action by others. (12 Dec 1998) |
| communication | The exchange or transmission of ideas, attitudes, or beliefs between individuals or groups. (12 Dec 1998) |
| communication barriers | Those factors, such as language or sociocultural relationships, which interfere in the meaningful interpretation and transmission of ideas between individuals or groups. (12 Dec 1998) |
| communication disorders | Disorders characterised by the individual's inability to comprehend or share ideas or feelings because of impairment of language, speech, or hearing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| communication methods, total | Utilization of all available receptive and expressive modes for the purpose of achieving communication with the hearing impaired, such as gestures, postures, facial expression, types of voice, formal speech and non-speech systems, and simultaneous communication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| computer communication networks | A system containing any combination of computers, computer terminals, printers, audio or visual display devices, or telephones interconnected by telecommunications equipment or cables: used to transmit or receive information. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hearing aids | Devices which amplify sound to help persons with hearing loss. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospital communication systems | The transmission of messages to staff and patients within a hospital. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nonverbal communication | Transmission of emotions, ideas, and attitudes between individuals in ways other than the spoken language. (12 Dec 1998) |
| emergency medical service communication systems | The use of communication systems, such as telecommunication, to transmit emergency information to appropriate providers of health services. (12 Dec 1998) |