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The immediate cost of selling, underwriting, and issuing a new insurance policy, including clerical costs, agents’ commissions, advertising, and medical inspection fees. Also refers to the cost paid by a pharmacist or other retailer to a manufacturer or wholesaler for a supply of drugs.  

Responsible, liable, explainable. To account means to furnish a justification or detailed explanation of financial activities or responsibilities; to furnish substantial reasons or convincing explanations. Accountability entails an obligation to periodically disclose in adequate detail and consistent form to all directly and indirectly responsible or properly interested parties the purposes, principles, procedures, relationships, results, incomes,…

Insurance under which benefits are payable in case of disease, accidental injury, or, in some cases, accidental death.  

An individual’s (or group’s) overall assessment of medical care available to him. The individual appraises such things as the cost, quality, result, and convenience of care, and provider attitudes in determining the acceptability of health services provided.  

The second generation of antipsychotic agents that have an effect on both dopamine receptors (in particular, D2 receptors) and serotonin receptors (in particular, 5-HT2A receptors). Currently available atypical antipsychotic agents include aripiprazole, clozapine, olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone, and ziprasidone.  

Another name for anticholinergic medications.  

Substances that retard or block the activity of acetylcholine within the central nervous system (CNS) and in other organs.  

Synonym for obsessive-compulsive personality.  

Loss of the ability to name objects; also called anomic aphasia.  

A group of major mental disorders associated with organic brain dysfunction due to alcohol. In DSM-IV-TR, categorized as alcohol-induced psychotic disorder. Includes delirium tremens (DT) and alcohol halluinosis.