| ALOS | average length of stay |
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| CSR | central supply room; chart-stimulated recall [test]; Cheyne-Stokes respiration; continued stay revie... |
| DHS | delayed hypersensitivity; diabetic hyperosmolar state; duration of hospital stay; dynamic hip screw |
| ED | LOS emergency department length of stay |
| ELOS | estimated length of stay |
| ALOS | Average length of stay |
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| LOS | Length of Stay |
| LOS | Length of hospital stay |
| stay | 1. To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. "Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side." (Ex. Xvii. 12) "Sallows and reeds . . . For vineyards useful found To stay thy vines." (Dryden) 2. To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. "He has devoured a whole loaf of bread and butter, and it has not staid his stomach for a minute." (Sir W. Scott) 3. To bear up under; to endure; to support; to resist successfully. "She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes." (Shak) 4. To hold from proceeding; to withhold; to restrain; to stop; to hold. "Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands grisly grapplement." (Spenser) "All that may stay their minds from thinking that true which they heartly wish were false." (Hooker) 5. To hinde; to delay; to detain; to keep back. "Your ships are stayed at Venice." (Shak) "This business staid me in London almost a week." (Evelyn) "I was willing to stay my reader on an argument that appeared to me new." (Locke) 6. To remain for the purpose of; to wait for. "I stay dinner there." 7. To cause to cease; to put an end to. "Stay your strife." (Shak) "For flattering planets seemed to say This child should ills of ages stay." (Emerson) 8. <engineering> To fasten or secure with stays; as, to stay a flat sheet in a steam boiler. 9. To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. To stay a mast, to incline it forward or aft, or to one side, by the stays and backstays. Origin: OF. Estayer, F. Etayer to prop, fr. OF. Estai, F. Etai, a prop, probably fr. OD. Stade, staeye, a prop, akin to E. Stead; or cf. Stay a rope to support a mast. Cf. Staid, Stay. A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft stays; those which lead to the vessel's side are called backstays. In stays, or Hove in stays, a rope secured at the ends to the heads of the foremast and mainmast with thimbles spliced to its bight into which the stay tackles hook. Origin: AS. Staeg, akin to D, G, Icel, Sw, & Dan. Stag; cf. OF. Estai, F. Etai, of Teutonic origin. 1. That which serves as a prop; a support. "My only strength and stay." "Trees serve as so many stays for their vines." (Addison) "Lord Liverpool is the single stay of this ministry." (Coleridge) 2. A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. "How the strait stays the slender waist constrain." (Gay) 3. Continuance in a place; abode for a space of time; sojourn; as, you make a short stay in this city. "Make haste, and leave thy business and thy care; No mortal interest can be worth thy stay." (Dryden) "Embrace the hero and his stay implore." (Waller) 4. Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop. "Made of sphere metal, never to decay Until his revolution was at stay." (Milton) "Affairs of state seemed rather to stand at a stay." (Hayward) 5. Hindrance; let; check. "They were able to read good authors without any stay, if the book were not false." (Robynson (more's Utopia)) 6. Restraint of passion; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety. "Not grudging that thy lust hath bounds and stays." "The wisdom, stay, and moderation of the king." (Bacon) "With prudent stay he long deferred The rough contention." (Philips) 7. <engineering> Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them. <mechanics> Stay bolt, a bolt or short rod, connecting opposite plates, so as to prevent them from being bulged out when acted upon by a pressure which tends to force them apart, as in the leg of a steam boiler. Stay busk, a stiff piece of wood, steel, or whalebone, for the front support of a woman's stays. Cf. Busk. Stay rod, a rod which acts as a stay, particularly in a steam boiler. Origin: Cf. OF. Estai, F. Etai support, and E. Stay a rope to support a mast. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| length of stay | The period of confinement of a patient to a hospital or other health facility. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lace | 1. That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. "His hat hung at his back down by a lace." (Chaucer) "For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied." (Spenser) 2. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net. "Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace." (Chaucer) 3. A fabric of fine threads of linen, silk, cotton, etc, often ornamented with figures; a delicate tissue of thread, much worn as an ornament of dress. "Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costlylaces." (Bacon) 4. Spirits added to coffee or some other beverage. Alencon lace, a kind of point lace, entirely of needlework, first made at Alencon in France, in the 17th century. It is very durable and of great beauty and cost. Bone lace, Brussels lace, etc. See Bone, Brussels, etc. Gold lace, or Silver lace, lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt. Lace leather, thin, oil-tanned leather suitable for cutting into lacings for machine belts. <zoology> Lace lizard, the main piece of timber which supports the beak or head projecting beyond the stem of a ship. Lace pillow, and Pillow lace. See Pillow. Origin: OE. Las, OF. Laz, F. Lacs, dim. Lacet, fr. L. Laqueus noose, snare; prob. Akin to lacere to entice. Cf. Delight, Elicit, Lasso, Latchet. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lace-bark | <botany> A shrub in the West Indies (Lagetta Iintearia); so called from the lacelike layers of its inner bark. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| lace-winged | <zoology> Having thin, transparent, reticulated wings; as, the lace-winged flies. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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