| PM | after death (Lat. post mortem); after noon [Lat. post meridiem]; mean pressure; pacemaker; pantomogr... |
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| AOD | Academy of Operative Dentistry; Academy of Oral Dynamics; adult onset diabetes; anesthesiologist-on-... |
| DC | daily census; data communication; data conversion; decrease; deep compartment; Dental Corps; deoxych... |
| EDDA | expanded duty dental auxiliary |
| EOD | entry on duty; every other day |
| Post-op | post-operative |
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| DPP | day post partum |
| dpl | 7-day post-lesion |
| hpi | 9h post infection |
| CPSP | Central post-stroke pain |
| general duty nurse | Nurse who accepts assignment to any unit of a hospital other than an intensive care unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| private duty nurse | A nurse who is not a member of a hospital staff, but is hired by the client or his/her family on a fee-for-service basis to care for the client, a nurse who specialises in the care of patients with diseases of a particular class, e.g., surgical cases, tuberculosis, children's diseases. Synonym: private nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nursing, private duty | The practice of nursing by a registered or licensed nurse to care for a specific patient in a health facility or in the home. (12 Dec 1998) |
| duty | Origin: From Due. 1. That which is due; payment. "When thou receivest money for thy labour or ware, thou receivest thy duty." (Tyndale) 2. That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory. "Forgetting his duty toward God, his sovereign lord, and his country." (Hallam) 3. Hence, any assigned service or business; as, the duties of a policeman, or a soldier; to be on duty. "With records sweet of duties done." (Keble) "To employ him on the hardest and most imperative duty." (Hallam) "Duty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them." (C. J. Smith) 4. Specifically, obedience or submission due to parents and superiors. 5. Respect; reverence; regard; act of respect; homage. "My duty to you." 6. <engineering> The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. Old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs, England, or 100 lbs, United States). 7. Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods. An impost on land or other real estate, and on the stock of farmers, is not called a duty, but a direct tax. Ad valorem duty, a duty which is graded according to the cost, or market value, of the article taxed. See Ad valorem. Specific duty, a duty of a specific sum assessed on an article without reference to its value or market. On duty, actually engaged in the performance of one's assigned task. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| duty factor | <radiobiology> Ratio of the duration of time when a system is actually operating to the total time for a complete cycle of the system. For example: if a tokamak experiment runs for 5 seconds and then sits for 500 seconds while the power supplies are recharged, then the duty factor is 1%. Similar to capacity factor for powerplants. Synonym: duty cycle. (09 Oct 1997) |
| duty to warn | The legal, moral, or ethical responsibility of a health professional to warn an intended victim of specific threats of harm or to warn a person of potential risk for acquiring a disease as the result of a relationship to a patient. (12 Dec 1998) |
| acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis | <nephrology> A disease of the kidneys that results in inflammation of the glomerulus (the portion of the kidney that filters the blood). Conditions which may cause glomerulonephritis include post-streptococcal disease (strep throat), lupus, syphilis, bacterial endocarditis, membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, sepsis, vasculitis, Goodpasture's syndrome, typhoid fever, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, hepatitis or a viral infection (for example mumps, measles, mononucleosis). (27 Sep 1997) |
| RNA processing, post-transcriptional | Post-transcriptional biological modification of messenger, transfer, or ribosomal rnas or their precursors. It includes cleavage, methylation, thiolation, isopentenylation, pseudouridine formation, conformational changes, and association with ribosomal protein. (12 Dec 1998) |
| post | 1. To travel with post horses; figuratively, to travel in haste. "Post seedily to my lord your husband." "And post o'er land and ocean without rest." (Milton) 2. To rise and sink in the saddle, in accordance with the motion of the horse, especially. In trotting. Origin: Cf. OF. Poster. See 4th Post. 1. A piece of timber, metal, or other solid substance, fixed, or to be fixed, firmly in an upright position, especially when intended as a stay or support to something else; a pillar; as, a hitching post; a fence post; the posts of a house. "They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses." (Ex. Xii. 7) "Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar." (Milton) "Unto his order he was a noble post." (Chaucer) Post, in the sense of an upright timber or strut, is used in composition, in such words as king-post, queen-post, crown-post, gatepost, etc. 2. The doorpost of a victualer's shop or inn, on which were chalked the scores of customers; hence, a score; a debt. "When God sends coin I will discharge your post." (S. Rowlands) From pillar to post. See Pillar. Knight of the post. See Knight. <machinery> Post hanger, a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the roof of the mine. Origin: AS, fr. L. Postis, akin to ponere, positum, to place. See Position, and cf. 4th Post. Hired to do what is wrong; suborned. Origin: F. Aposter to place in a post or position, generally for a bad purpose. 1. The place at which anything is stopped, placed, or fixed; a station. Specifically: A station, or one of a series of stations, established for the refreshment and accommodation of travelers on some recognised route; as, a stage or railway post. A military station; the place at which a soldier or a body of troops is stationed; also, the troops at such a station. The piece of ground to which a sentinel's walk is limited. 2. A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. "In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other." (Abp. Abbot) "I fear my Julia would not deign my lines, Receiving them from such a worthless post." (Shak) 3. An established conveyance for letters from one place or station to another; especially, the governmental system in any country for carrying and distributing letters and parcels; the post office; the mail; hence, the carriage by which the mail is transported. "I send you the fair copy of the poem on dullness, which I should not care to hazard by the common post." (Pope) 4. Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier. "In post he came." 5. One who has charge of a station, especially of a postal station. "He held office of postmaster, or, as it was then called, post, for several years." (Palfrey) 6. A station, office, or position of service, trust, or emolument; as, the post of duty; the post of danger. "The post of honor is a private station." (Addison) 7. A size of printing and writing paper. See the Table under Paper. Post and pair, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. Post bag, a mail bag. Post bill, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. Post chaise, or Post coach, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. Post day, a day on which the mall arrives or departs. Post hackney, a hired post horse. Post horn, a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman. Post horse, a horse stationed, intended, or used for the post. Post hour, hour for posting letters. Post office. An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail. The governmental system for forwarding mail matter. Postoffice order. See Money order. Post road, or Post route, a road or way over which the mail is carried. Post town. A town in which post horses are kept. A town in which a post office is established by law. To ride post, to ride, as a carrier of dispatches, from place to place; hence, to ride rapidly, with as little delay as possible. To travel post, to travel, as a post does, by relays of horses, or by keeping one carriage to which fresh horses are attached at each stopping place. Origin: F. Poste, LL. Posta station, post (where horses were kept), properly, a fixed or set place, fem. Fr. L. Positus placed, p. P. Of ponere. See Position, and cf. Post a pillar. 1. To attach to a post, a wall, or other usual place of affixing public notices; to placard; as, to post a notice; to post playbills. Formerly, a large post was erected before the sheriff's office, or in some public place, upon which legal notices were displayed. This way of advertisement has not entirely gone of use. 2. To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation; as, to post one for cowardice. "On pain of being posted to your sorrow Fail not, at four, to meet me." (Granville) 3. To enter (a name) on a list, as for service, promotion, or the like. 4. To assign to a station; to set; to place; as, to post a sentinel. "It might be to obtain a ship for a lieutenant, . . . Or to get him posted." 5. To carry, as an account, from the journal to the ledger; as, to post an account; to transfer, as accounts, to the ledger. "You have not posted your books these ten years." (Arbuthnot) 6. To place in the care of the post; to mail; as, to post a letter. 7. To inform; to give the news to; to make (one) acquainted with the details of a subject; often with up. "Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day." (Lond. Sat. Rev) To post off, to put off; to delay. "Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business?" . To post over, to hurry over. Origin: Posted; Posting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| post-abdomen | <zoology> That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; more commonly called abdomen. Origin: Pref. Post- + abdomen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| post-aeration | The introduction of oxygen into waste water to further reduce BOD and COD after secondary or advanced treatment. (05 Dec 1998) |
| post and core technique | Use of a metal casting, usually with a post in the pulp or root canal, designed to support and retain an artificial crown. (12 Dec 1998) |
| post-captain | A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognised in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| post-ictal state | A period of confusion, lethargy and deep breathing that may last for 15 minutes to several hours after the cessation of a generalised seizure. (27 Sep 1997) |
| post implant | That portion of an implant substructure that protrudes through the mucosa to connect with the restoration. (05 Mar 2000) |
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