| BHK | baby hamster kidney [cells]; type-B Hong Kong [influenza virus] |
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| BLS | bare lymphocyte syndrome; basic life support; blind loop syndrome; blood and lymphatic system; blood... |
| CHSS | cooperative health statistics system |
| DHES | Division of Health Examination Statistics |
| MEDSTATS | Medical Statistics Expert System |
| H3N2 | A/Hong Kong |
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| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| BLS | Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| NCHS | National Center for Health Statistics |
| NCHS | National Centre for Health Statistics |
| hong kong | The former british crown colony located off the southeast coast of china, comprised of hong kong island, kowloon peninsula, and new territories. The three sites were ceded to the british by the chinese respectively in 1841, 1860, and 1898. Hong kong reverted to china in july 1997. The name represents the cantonese pronunciation of the chinese xianggang, fragrant port, from xiang, perfume and gang, port or harbor, with reference to its currents sweetened by fresh water from a river west of it. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Hong Kong foot | Tinea involving the feet, particularly the interdigital spaces and soles, most often caused by Trichophyton rubrum, T. Mentagrophytes or Epidermophyton floccosum and characterised by intensely pruritic lesions varying from mild, chronic and scaling to acute exfoliative, pustular and bullous. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Hong Kong influenza | Influenza caused by a serotype of influenza virus type A and first identified in Hong Kong. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Hong Kong toe | Tinea involving the feet, particularly the interdigital spaces and soles, most often caused by Trichophyton rubrum, T. Mentagrophytes or Epidermophyton floccosum and characterised by intensely pruritic lesions varying from mild, chronic and scaling to acute exfoliative, pustular and bullous. (18 Nov 1997) |
| digest | 1. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. "Joining them together and digesting them into order." (Blair) "We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested." (Shak) 2. <physiology> To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. 3. To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. "Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer." (Sir H. Sidney) "How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy?" (Shak) 4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. "Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them." (Book of Common Prayer) 5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. "I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works." (Coleridge) 6. <chemistry> To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. 7. <medicine> To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. 8. To ripen; to mature. "Well-digested fruits." (Jer. Taylor) 9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. Origin: L. Digestus, p. P. Of digerere to separate, arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear, carry, wear. See Jest. 1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. 2. <medicine> To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| vital statistics | Used for general articles concerning statistics of births, deaths, marriages, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national centre for health statistics | A centre in the public health service which is primarily concerned with the collection, analysis, and dissemination of health statistics on vital events and health activities to reflect the health status of people, health needs, and health resources. (12 Dec 1998) |
| statistics | The science and art of collecting, summarizing, and analyzing data that are subject to random variation. The term is also applied to the data themselves and to the summarization of the data. (12 Dec 1998) |
| statistics, nonparametric | A class of statistical methods applicable to a large set of probability distributions used to test for correlation, location, independence, etc. In most nonparametric statistical tests, the original scores or observations are replaced by another variable containing less information. An important class of nonparametric tests employs the ordinal properties of the data. Another class of tests uses information about whether an observation is above or below some fixed value such as the median, and a third class is based on the frequency of the occurrence of runs in the data. (12 Dec 1998) |
| descriptive statistics | Numerical values such as mean, median, and mode which describe the chief features of a group of scores, without regard to a larger population. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inferential statistics | Statistics from which an inference is made about the nature of a population; the purpose is to generalise about the population, based upon data from the sample selected from the population. (05 Mar 2000) |
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