| 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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| staynil | <zoology> The European starling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| stayship | <zoology> A remora, fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| length of stay | The period of confinement of a patient to a hospital or other health facility. (12 Dec 1998) |
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stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" bide: dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children" stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" persist: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" continuing or remaining in a place or state; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court" a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court" last out: hang on during a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm" arrest: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order" fasten with stays (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) quell: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
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a fleshy bridge from side of body to upper base of pelvic fin
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Lines running fore and aft from the top of the mast to keep the mast upright. Also used to carry some sails. The backstay is aft of the mast and the forestay is forward of the mast.
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When judicial proceedings are briefly delayed by the court.
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A stopping or arresting of a judicial proceeding by order of a court (eg, a stay of enforcement of a judgment).
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| stay | continuing or remaining in a place or state |
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| stay | (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar |
| stay | a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) |
| stay | a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted |
| stay | the state of inactivity following an interruption |
| stay | stay the same |
| stay | stop or halt |
| stay | overcome or allay |
| stay | fasten with stays |
| stay | stay put (in a certain place) |
| stay | remain behind |
| stay | stop a judicial process |
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