| MCCI | medical care component of the consumer price index; medical cost control initiative |
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| NMC | National Medical Care; Naval Medical Center; neuromuscular control; nonmotor condition; nucleus reti... |
| AMA | against medical advice; alkaline membrane assay; American Management Association; American Medical A... |
| AMC | academic medical center; acetylmethyl carbinol; Animal Medical Center; antibody-mediated cytotoxicit... |
| CMT | California mastitis test; cancer multistep therapy; catechol methyltransferase; certified medical tr... |
| education, medical, undergraduate | The period of medical education in a medical school. In the united states it follows the baccalaureate degree and precedes the granting of the m.d. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| topography, medical | The systematic surveying, mapping, charting, and description of specific geographical sites, with reference to the physical features that were presumed to influence health and disease. Often associated with hippocrates, the process became a significant part of public health investigation and epidemiological methodology, particularly between the 17th and 19th centuries. Medical topography should be differentiated from epidemiology in that the former emphasizes geography whereas the latter emphasizes disease outbreaks. (dr. James h. Cassedy, nlm history of medicine division) (12 Dec 1998) |
| emergency medical service communication systems | The use of communication systems, such as telecommunication, to transmit emergency information to appropriate providers of health services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| emergency medical services | Services specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for the emergency care of patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| emergency medical technicians | Paramedical personnel trained to provide basic emergency care and life support under the supervision of physicians and/or nurses. These services may be carried out at the site of the emergency, in the ambulance, or in a health care institution. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ethics, medical | The principles of proper professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician himself, his patients, and his fellow practitioners, as well as his actions in the care of patients and in relations with their families. (12 Dec 1998) |
| journalism, medical | The collection, writing, and editing of material of current interest for presentation through the mass media, including newspapers, magazines, radio, or television, usually for a public audience such as health care consumers. (12 Dec 1998) |
| faculty, medical | The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a medical school. (12 Dec 1998) |
| unified medical language system | A research and development program initiated by the national library of medicine to build an intelligent automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and expressions and their interrelationships, and use this understanding to help users retrieve and organise information from a variety of machine-readable sources. The goal of the umls is to compensate for differences in the terminology of the disparate systems and for variations in user modes of expression. The umls project has produced four knowledge sources meant to be used by user interface programs. These are the metathesaurus, the semantic network, the information sources map, and the specialist lexicon. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fees, medical | Amounts charged to the patient as payer for medical services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| foreign medical graduates | Physicians who hold degrees from medical schools in countries other than the ones in which they practice. (12 Dec 1998) |
| legislation, medical | Laws and regulations, pertaining to the field of medicine, proposed for enactment or enacted by a legislative body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| licensure, medical | The granting of a license to practice medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| ambulatory care | Medical care (including diagnosis, observation, treatment and rehabilitation) provided on an outpatient basis. Ambulatory care is given to persons who are not confined to a hospital but rather are ambulatory and, literally, are able to ambulate or walk about. (A well-baby visit is considered ambulatory care even though the baby is not walking). (12 Dec 1998) |
| ambulatory care facilities | Those facilities which administer health services to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization. (12 Dec 1998) |