| HSA | Hazardous Substances Act; Health Services Administration; health systems agency; hereditary siderobl... |
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| HSMHA | Health Services and Mental Health Administration |
| AFSAM | Air Force School of Aviation Medicine |
| AMSP | Association of Medical School Pharmacology |
| BSO | bilateral sagittal osteotomy; bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy; British School of Osteopathy; butathi... |
| biometrical school | A group of British geneticists, followers of Galton and Karl Pearson, whose approach to genetics was quantitative rather than enumerative. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| mechanistic 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) |
| school | A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish. Origin: For shool a crowd; prob. Confuced with school for learning. 1. A place for learned intercourse and instruction; an institution for learning; an educational establishment; a place for acquiring knowledge and mental training; as, the school of the prophets. "Disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus." (Acts xix. 9) 2. A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school. "As he sat in the school at his primer." (Chaucer) 3. A session of an institution of instruction. "How now, Sir Hugh! No school to-day?" (Shak) 4. One of the seminaries for teaching logic, metaphysics, and theology, which were formed in the Middle Ages, and which were characterised by academical disputations and subtilties of reasoning. "At Cambridge the philosophy of Descartes was still dominant in the schools." (Macaulay) 5. The room or hall in English universities where the examinations for degrees and honors are held. 6. An assemblage of scholars; those who attend upon instruction in a school of any kind; a body of pupils. "What is the great community of Christians, but one of the innumerable schools in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences?" (Buckminster) 7. The disciples or followers of a teacher; those who hold a common doctrine, or accept the same teachings; a sect or denomination in philosophy, theology, science, medicine, politics, etc. "Let no man be less confident in his faith . . . By reason of any difference in the several schools of Christians." (Jer. Taylor) 8. The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school. "His face pale but striking, though not handsome after the schools." (A. S. Hardy) 9. Figuratively, any means of knowledge or discipline; as, the school of experience. Boarding school, Common school, District school, Normal school, etc. See Boarding, Common, District, etc. High school, a free public school nearest the rank of a college. School board, a corporation established by law in every borough or parish in England, and elected by the burgesses or ratepayers, with the duty of providing public school accomodation for all children in their dictrict. School commitee, School board, an elected commitee of citizens having charge and care of the public schools in any district, town, or city, and responsible control of the money appropriated for school purposes. School days, the period in which youth are sent to school. School district, a division of a town or city for establishing and conducting schools. Sunday school, or Sabbath school, a school held on Sunday for study of the Bible and for religious instruction; the pupils, or the teachers and pupils, of such a school, collectively. Origin: OE. Scole, AS. Sclu, L. Schola, Gr. Leisure, that in which leisure is employed, disputation, lecture, a school, probably from the same root as, the original sense being perhaps, a stopping, a resting. See Scheme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| school admission criteria | Requirements for the selection of students for admission to academic institutions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| school dentistry | Preventive dental services provided for students in primary and secondary schools. (12 Dec 1998) |
| 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) |
| ancillary services, hospital | Those support services other than room, board, and medical and nursing services that are provided to hospital patients in the course of care. They include such services as laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and physical therapy services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| backup electricity, backup services | Power or services needed occasionally; for example, when on-site generation equipment fails. (05 Dec 1998) |
| centralised hospital services | The coordination of services in one area of a facility to improve efficiency. (12 Dec 1998) |