| licensure, medical | The granting of a license to practice medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| licensure, nursing | The granting of a license to practice the profession of nursing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| licensure, pharmacy | The granting of a license to practice pharmacy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| licentiate | 1. One who has a license to exercise a profession; as, a licentiate in medicine or theology. "The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates, to give gratuitous advice to the neighboring poor." (Johnson) 2. A friar authorised to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy. 3. One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty, as if having a license therefor. 4. On the continent of Europe, a university degree intermediate between that of bachelor and that of doctor. Origin: LL. Licentiatus, fr. Licentiare to allow to do anything, fr. L. Licentia license. See License. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lich | A dead body; a corpse. <zoology> Lich fowl, the European goatsucker; called also lich owl. Lich gate, a covered gate through which the corpse was carried to the church or burial place, and where the bier was placed to await clergyman; a corpse gate. Lich wake, the wake, or watching, held over a corpse before burial. Lich wall, the wall of a churchyard or burying ground. Lich way, the path by which the dead are carried to the grave. Origin: AS.lic body. See Like. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lichen | A large group of symbiotic associations between fungi and green and occasionally blue green algae. Several genera of algae and of fungi are involved and the associations are so stable and of such varied but distinct types that the lichens have been classified into genera and species. A variety of incompatibility phenomena are often manifest between individual lichens. Confined to terrestrial habitats and often used as indicators of pollution status of the environment. (18 Nov 1997) |
| lichen acuminatus | A primary disorder of the skin resulting in violaceous, polygonal, flat skin lesions that often pruritic (itchy). Seen commonly on the wrists, shins, lower back and genitalia. Involvement of the scalp may lead to hair loss. The cause of lichen planus is unknown, but may occur after the use of a drug (thiazide diuretics, phenothiazines, antimalarials). Treatment with topical corticosteroids is common. In most patients, spontaneous regression of the disease will be seen 6 months to 2 years after onset. (27 Sep 1997) |
| lichen agrius | Acute papular eczema of severe type. Synonym: Celsus' papules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lichen albus | Chronic lichenoid dermatitis with depigmentation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lichen amyloidosis | Localised cutaneous amyloidosis with pruritic brownish-red papules, most commonly on the lower legs, due to amyloid infiltration of the papillary dermis. Synonym: amyloidosis cutis, lichen amyloidosis. Origin: G. Leichen, lichen, a lichen-like eruption + eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000) |
| lichen annularis | <dermatology> Benign granulomatous disease of unknown aetiology characterised by a ring of localised or disseminated papules or nodules on the skin and palisading histiocytes surrounding necrobiotic tissue resulting from altered collagen structures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lichen haemorrhagicus | A papular eruption due to haemorrhage into the hair follicles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lichen infantum | An eruption of papules and vesicles at the orifices of sweat glands, accompanied by redness and inflammatory reaction of the skin. Synonym: heat rash, lichen infantum, lichen strophulosus, prickly heat, strophulus, summer rash, tropical lichen, lichen tropicus, wildfire rash. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lichen iris | Ringworm with concentric rings of erythematous papules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lichen lichens on bark | A mutualistic association of a fungus andphotosynthetic organism, either a unicellular alga or a cyanobacterium. Some lichens are used to make natural fabric dyes. (09 Oct 1997) |