| outcome and process assessment | Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (outcome assessment) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (process assessment) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| outcome assessment | Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure). (12 Dec 1998) |
| outcrop | <geology> The coming out of a stratum to the surface of the ground. That part of inclined strata which appears at the surface; basset. <geology> To come out to the surface of the ground; said of strata. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| outer cone fibre | Located between the inner segment and the cell body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| outer malleolus | The process at the lateral side of the lower end of the fibula, forming the projection of the lateral part of the ankle; the lateral malleolus is more inferiorly placed then the medial malleolus. Synonym: malleolus lateralis, external malleolus, extramalleolus, outer malleolus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| outer membrane | The larger of the two membranes of a double membrane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| outer table of skull | The outer compact layer of the cranial bones. Synonym: lamina externa cranii. (05 Mar 2000) |
| outfit | A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; things required for equipment; the expense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| outlet | An exit or opening of a passageway. (05 Mar 2000) |
| outlet forceps delivery | Delivery by forceps applied to the foetal head when it has reached the perineal floor and is visible between contractions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| outlier | 1. One who does not live where his office, or business, or estate, is. 2. That which lies, or is, away from the main body. 3. <geology> A part of a rock or stratum lying without, or beyond, the main body, from which it has been separated by denudation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| outliers, drg | In health care reimbursement, especially in the prospective payment system, those patients who require an unusually long hospital stay or whose stay generates unusually high costs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| outline form | The shape of the area of the tooth surface included within the cavosurface margins of the cavity preparation of a dental restoration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| outlook | 1. The act of looking out; watch. 2. One who looks out; also, the place from which one looks out; a watchower. 3. The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance. "Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms." (Young) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| outness | 1. The state of being out or beyond; separateness. 2. <psychology> The state or quality of being distanguishable from the perceiving mind, by being in space, and possessing marerial quality; externality; objectivity. "The outness of the objects of sense." (Sir W. Hamiltom) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| outlier |
a person who lives away from his place of work an extreme deviation from the mean
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| Oudin technique |
a single diffusion (see under diffusion) technique in which agar containing antiserum is placed in a test tube and antigen is layered over it; precipitin lines form where the concentrations of each antigen and antibody are equivalent.
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| outbreak |
Virus outbreaks occur when a virus bypasses infection control measures and a relatively high number of infections are observed where no cases or sporadic cases occurred in the past. The study of pathogenic viral outbreaks is a branch of epidemiology and usually refers to virus outbreaks that make people, animals, or plants sick. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak
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| outsourcing |
Outsourcing (or contracting out) is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production to an external entity (such as a subcontractor) that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing is a business decision that can be made for quality or financial reasons. A subset of the term (offshoring) also implies transfering jobs to another country, either by hiring local subcontractors or building a facility in an area where labor is cheap. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing
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| out-of-body experience |
a spontaneous or intentionally induced experience in which the person feels their consciousness to be located elsewhere than where their body is located; in the esoteric literature, referred to as astral projection.
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| OU | be made known |
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| OU | reveal somebody else's homosexuality |
| OU | to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality |
| OU | of a fire |
| OU | knocked unconscious by a heavy blow |
| OU | outer or outlying |
| OU | outside or external |
| OU | not in |
| OU | no longer fashionable |
| OU | directed outward or serving to direct something outward |
| OU | excluded from use or mention |
| OU | not worth considering as a possibility |