| AMS | ablepharon-microstomia syndrome; acute mountain sickness; adenosylmethionine synthetase; aggravated ... |
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| IMS | incurred in military service; Indian Medical Service; industrial methylated spirit; information mana... |
| DASD | Direct Access Storage Device = RAM |
| DC | 1) Direct Current 2) Diffusion Capacity |
| DFA | Direct Fluorescent Antibody |
| dental service, hospital | Hospital department providing dental care. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| denture service | Those procedures performed in the diagnosis, construction, and maintenance of artificial substitutes for missing natural teeth. (05 Mar 2000) |
| oncology service, hospital | The hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of diagnostic and therapeutic services for the cancer patient. (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) |
| emergency service, hospital | Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient. (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states indian health service | A division of the united states public health service that is responsible for the public health and the provision of medical services to native american indian populations in the united states, primarily those residing on reservation lands. (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states public health service | See: USPHS. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fee-for-service plans | Method of charging whereby a physician or other practitioner bills for each encounter or service rendered. In addition to physicians, other health care professionals are reimbursed via this mechanism. Fee-for-service plans contrast with salary, per capita, and prepayment systems, where the payment does not change with the number of services actually used or if none are used. (12 Dec 1998) |
| food service, hospital | Hospital department that manages and supervises the dietary program in accordance with the patients' requirements. (12 Dec 1998) |
| laundry service, hospital | Hospital department which administers all activities pertaining to the hospital laundry service. (12 Dec 1998) |
| non-direct transmission | <epidemiology> A mode of transmission that differs in some mysterious way from indirect transmission. (05 Dec 1998) |
| direct | 1. Straight, in a straight line. 2. Performed immediately and without the intervention of subsidiary means. Origin: L. Directus (18 Nov 1997) |
| direct acrylic restoration | A direct resin restoration of autopolymerizing acrylic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| direct agglutination | A general term for techniques which use the agglutination (macroscopic clumping) of particulate reagents as an indicator of the presence of an antigen-antibody reaction. Examples (haemagglutination, latex agglutination and coagglutination) follow. (05 Mar 2000) |
| direct B-cell | Lymphocytes responding to a small range of antigens by antibody production without any requirement for T-cells. The antigens include flagellin and pokeweed mitogen. (18 Nov 1997) |