| H&C | hot and cold |
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| HMP | hexose monophosphate pathway; hot moist packs |
| HOT | health-oriented telecommunication; human old tuberculin; hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Hypertension Opt... |
| HP | halogen phosphorus; handicapped person; haptoglobin; hard palate; Harvard pump; health profession(al... |
| HWB | hot water bottle |
| social work | The use of community resources, individual case work, or group work to promote the adaptive capacities of individuals in relation to their social and economic environments. It includes social service agencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| social work department, hospital | Hospital department responsible for administering and providing social services to patients and their families. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social work, psychiatric | Use of all social work processes in the treatment of patients in a psychiatric or mental health setting. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stroke work index | A measure of the work done by the heart with each contraction, adjusted for body surface area; equal to the stroke volume of the heart multiplied by the arterial pressure and divided by body surface area; the normal stroke work index does not exceed 40 gram-meters per square meter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dream-work | In psychoanalysis, the process by which the change from latent to manifest content of a dream is effected. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tut-work | <chemical> Work done by the piece, as in nonmetaliferous rock, the amount done being usually reckoned by the fathom. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| unit of work | See: unit of energy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot | 1. Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air. "A hotvenison pasty." 2. Characterised by heat, ardor, or animation; easily excited; firely; vehement; passionate; violent; eager. "Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful." (Dryden) "There was mouthing in hot haste." (Byron) 3. Lustful; lewd; lecherous. 4. Acrid; biting; pungent; as, hot as mustard. Hot bed, an iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc, are laid to cool. <botany> Hot wall, a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the feed pump. In hot water (Fig), in trouble; in difficulties. Synonym: Burning, fiery, fervid, glowing, eager, animated, brisk, vehement, precipitate, violent, furious, ardent, fervent, impetuous, irascible, passionate, hasty, excitable. Origin: OE. Hot, hat, AS. Hat; akin to OS. Het, D. Heet, OHG. Heiz, G. Heiss, Icel. Heitr, Sw. Het, Dan. Heed, hed; cf. Goth. Heito fever, hais torch. Cf. Heat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hot abscess | A recently formed abscess with little or no fibrosis in the wall of the cavity. Synonym: hot abscess. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot-blooded | Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hot bone lesions | <radiology> Non-routine localised hot bone lesions: Paget's disease, osteoid osteoma, fibrous dysplasia, melorheostosis generalised: hyperparathyroidism, haematologic disorders, Paget disease (rare), fibrous dysplasia, renal osteodystrophy (12 Dec 1998) |
| hot cell | <radiobiology> Heavily radiation-shielded enclosure in which radioactive materials can be handled by persons using remote manipulators and viewing the materials through shielded windows or periscopes. (09 Oct 1997) |
| hot flash | Colloquialism for one of the vasomotor symptoms of the climacteric that may involve the whole body as a flash of heat; also used interchangeably with hot flush. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hot flashes | A sudden, temporary sensation of heat predominantly experienced by some women during menopause. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hot flush | <symptom> A sensation of heat and flushing that occurs suddenly. May be associated with menopause or some medications. (09 Oct 1997) |