| delirium, dementia, amnestic, cognitive disorders | Cognitive disorders including delirium, dementia, and other cognitive disorders. These may be the result of substance use, trauma, or other causes. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| delitescence | 1. Concealment; seclusion; retirement. "The delitescence of mental activities." (Sir W. Hamilton) 2. <medicine> The sudden disappearance of inflammation. See: Delitescent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| delitigate | To chide; to rail heartily. Origin: L. Delitigare to rail. See Litigate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| deliver | 1. To assist a woman in childbirth. 2. To extract from an enclosed place, as the foetus from the womb, an object or foreign body, e.g., a tumour from its capsule or surroundings, or the lens of the eye in cases of cataract. Origin: fr. O. Fr. Fr. L. De-+ liber, free (05 Mar 2000) |
| deliverance | 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. "He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives." (Luke iv. 18) "One death or one deliverance we will share." (Dryden) 2. Act of bringing forth children. 3. Act of speaking; utterance. In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used. 4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. "I do desire deliverance from these officers." (Shak) 5. Anything delivered or communicated; especially, an opinion or decision expressed publicly. 6. <psychology> Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. Origin: F. Delivrance, fr. Delivrer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| deliveress | A female de. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| delivery | Expulsion or extraction of the child and the after-birth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery of health care | The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery of health care, integrated | A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (coddington et al., integrated health care: reorganizing the physician, hospital and health plan relationship, 1994, p7) (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery rooms | Hospital units equipped for childbirth. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery system | A manmade system with the purpose of delivering a drug or another chemical directly into a cellular target, such as a via a manmade vesicle called a liposome. (09 Oct 1997) |
| delivery, breech | A breech delivery is birth, buttocks first. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery, footling | There are single-footling or double-footling deliveries depending upon whether the presenting part of the baby at delivery is just one foot or both feet. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery, vertex | In a vertex delivery, the top of the baby's head comes first. The vertex here refers to the top of the head The word vertex in Latin means a whirlpool, whirlwind, top of the mountain, or the top of the head. Why top of the head ? Because the hairs on the top of the head often form a whorl, a whirl-like pattern. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dell | 1. A small, retired valley; a ravine. "In dells and dales, concealed from human sight." (Tickell) 2. A young woman; a wench. "Sweet doxies and dells." (B. Jonson) Origin: AS. Del, akin to E. Dale; cf. D. Delle, del, low ground. See Dale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |