| UNICEF | United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund; ±¹Á¦¿¬ÇվƵ¿±¸È£±â±Ý |
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| ACOS | American College of Osteopathic Surgeons; associate chief of staff |
| ACOS/AC | associate chief of staff for ambulatory care |
| COS | cheiro-oral syndrome; chief of staff; Clinical Orthopaedic Society; clinically observed seizures |
| CS | calf serum; campomelic syndrome; carcinoid syndrome; cardiogenic shock; caries-susceptible; carotid ... |
| CIE | Commission International de l'Eclairage |
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| CIDI | Composite International Diagnostic Interview |
| IBCSG | International Breast Cancer Study Group |
| IARC | International Agency for Research in Cancer |
| IASP | International Association for the Study of Pain |
| fund | 1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. 2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc. 3. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; called also public funds. 4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object. 5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. "An inexhaustible fund of stories." (Macaulay) Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest. Origin: OF. Font, fond, nom. Fonz, bottom, ground, F. Fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. Fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish. 1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes. 2. To place in a fund, as money. 3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt. Origin: Funded; Funding. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| fund raising | Usually organised community efforts to raise money to promote financial programs of institutions. The funds may include individual gifts. (12 Dec 1998) |
| attending staff | Physicians and surgeons who are members of a hospital staff and regularly attend their patients at the hospital; may also supervise and teach house staff, fellows, and medical students. (05 Mar 2000) |
| medical staff | Professional medical personnel who provide care to patients in an organised facility, institution or agency. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical staff, hospital | Professional medical personnel approved to provide care to patients in a hospital. (12 Dec 1998) |
| medical staff privileges | Those rights or activities which are specific to members of the institution's medical staff, including the right to admit private patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rock staff | An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. Origin: Cf. Rock. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| consulting staff | Specialists affiliated with a hospital who serve in an advisory capacity to the attending staff. (05 Mar 2000) |
| professional staff committees | Committees of professional personnel who have responsibility for determining policies, procedures, and controls related to professional matters in health facilities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| house staff | Physicians and surgeons in specialty training at a hospital who care for the patients under the direction and responsibility of the attending staff. (05 Mar 2000) |
| staff | 1. A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff of a spear or pike. "And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar to bear it withal." (Ex. Xxxviii. 7) "With forks and staves the felon to pursue." (Dryden) 2. A stick carried in the hand for support or defense by a person walking; hence, a support; that which props or upholds. "Hooked staves." "The boy was the very staff of my age." (Shak) "He spoke of it [beer] in "The Earnest Cry," and likewise in the "Scotch Drink," as one of the staffs of life which had been struck from the poor man's hand." (Prof. Wilson) 3. A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office; as, a constable's staff. "Methought this staff, mine office badge in court, Was broke in twain." (Shak) "All his officers brake their staves; but at their return new staves were delivered unto them." (Hayward) 4. A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed. 5. The round of a ladder. "I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves." (Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels)) 6. A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave. "Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical." (Dryden) 7. The five lines and the spaces on which music is written; formerly called stave. 8. <mechanics> An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. 9. <surgery> The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder. An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution. See etat Major. 11. Hence: A body of assistants serving to carry into effect the plans of a superintendant or manager; as, the staff of a newspaper. Jacob's staff, a square rod of wood standing flush with the wall on each of its sides, at the external angles of plastering, to prevent their being damaged. The staff of life, bread. "Bread is the staff of life." <botany> Staff tree, any plant of the genus Celastrus, mostly climbing shrubs of the northern hemisphere. The American species (C. Scandens) is commonly called bittersweet. See Bittersweet . To set, or To put, up, or down, one's staff, to take up one's residence; to lodge. (04 Mar 1998) |
| staff cell | <pathology> Immature neutrophils released from the bone marrow reserve in response to acute demand. (18 Nov 1997) |
| staff development | The process by which the employer promotes staff performance and efficiency consistent with management goals and objectives. (12 Dec 1998) |
| staff of Aesculapius | A rod with only one serpent encircling it and without wings; symbol of medicine and emblem of the American Medical Association, Royal Army Medical Corps (Britain), and Royal Canadian Medical Corps. See: caduceus. Origin: L. Aesculapius, G. Asklepios, god of medicine (05 Mar 2000) |
| nursing staff | Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in an organised facility, institution, or agency. (12 Dec 1998) |
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