| school health services | Preventive health services provided for students. It excludes college or university students. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| school nurse | A nurse, usually an RN, working in a school or similar institution. (05 Mar 2000) |
| school nursing | Health and nursing care given to primary and secondary school students by a registered nurse. (12 Dec 1998) |
| school phobia | <psychology> A young child's sudden aversion to or fear of attending school, usually considered a manifestation of separation anxiety. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hippocratic school | The followers of the teachings of Hippocrates. See: dogmatic school. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dogmatic school | Ancient Greek school or tradition in medicine whose members were the successors to or followers of Hippocrates; they based their conceptions of disease upon the humoral theory and their practice upon experience and sound reasoning, and were comparatively free from fads, speculative theories, and dogma, which the term dogmatic falsely implies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| iatromathematical school | A group of academicians, of whom Descartes was one of the foremost proponents, who maintained that all physiologic processes were the result of physical laws. Synonym: mechanistic school. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic school | A group of theorists founded by Stahl, who professed the belief that all vital action is the result of an internal force independent of anything external to the body. (05 Mar 2000) |