| holidays | Days commemorating events. Holidays also include vacation periods. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| holing | <chemical> Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass. See: Hole a hollow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| holism | 1. The principle that an organism, or one of its actions, is not equal to merely the sum of its parts but must be perceived or studied as a whole. 2. The approach to the study of a psychological phenomenon through the analysis of a phenomenon as a complete entity in itself. Compare: atomism. Origin: G. Holos, entire (05 Mar 2000) |
| holistic | Pertaining to the characteristics of holism or holistic psychologies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| holistic health | Health as viewed from the perspective that man and other organisms function as complete, integrated units rather than as aggregates of separate parts. (12 Dec 1998) |
| holistic medicine | Various systems of health protection and restoration, both traditional and modern, that are reputedly based on the bodys natural healing powers, the various ways the different tissues affect each other and the influence of the external environment. (09 Oct 1997) |
| holistic nursing | A philosophy of nursing practice that takes into account total patient care, considering the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of patients, their response to their illnesses, and the effect of illness on patients' abilities to meet self-care needs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| holistic psychology | Any psychologic system which postulates that the human mind or any mental process must be studied as a unit; e.g., gestaltism, existential psychology. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holl's ligament | <anatomy> Ligament joining the corpora cavernosa clitoridis in front of the urinary meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holl, Moritz | <person> Austrian surgeon, 1852-1920. See: Holl's ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hollander test | A test to determine the completeness of vagotomy for peptic ulcer; after the surgical procedure is performed, insulin is administered to cause hypoglycaemia; if vagotomy is complete, the acid output from the stomach following administration of insulin is less than that before insulin administration; if the reverse if true, incomplete vagotomy is likely. Synonym: Hollander test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hollander, Franklin | <person> U.S. Physiologist, 1899-1966. See: Hollander test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hollenhorst plaques | Glittering, orange-yellow, atheromatous emboli in the retinal arterioles that contain cholesterol crystals and originate in the carotid artery or great vessels. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hollenhorst, Robert | <person> U.S. Ophthalmologist, *1913. See: Hollenhorst plaques. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Holliday junction | <molecular biology> A structure which occurs during homologous recombination between homologous chromosomes. While the two chromosomes are side by side, one strand of DNA on each chromosome is broken and then attached to the broken strand of DNA on the other chromosome. The crossover point, which is called the Holliday junction, is able to slide up and down between the two chromosomes, so that a little or a lot of DNA can ultimately be switched between them. (09 Oct 1997) |