Category: D

  An information system that contains information on a wide range of resources related to biotechnology. Among these are on-line databases and networks, publications, organizations, and collections and repositories of cells and subcellular elements.  

A treatment center providing care for alcoholics or other addicts. The person using these facilities has a place to go to at night, but needs assistance during the day. A hospital where people are treated during the day and go home in the evenings. A hospital in which patients spend a substantial part of the…

In politics, adjournment with a specific day to reconvene.  

A place or institution charged with caring for children, typically during normal work hours. A place for the care of preschool children whose parents are for any reason unable to care for their children during normal working hours.  

An acronym for The Drug Abuse Warning Network, a federal government system for reporting drug- related medical emergencies and deaths.  

A type of acquired characteristic.  

Screening out the information that comes to a person through the senses in greater amounts or intensity than can be used in making sense of the environment, data; database.    

A set of facts determined to be adequate for planning or for problem solving, data; data reduction. A structured collection of information in a computer that can be automatically retrieved and manipulated. A collection of data or information organized with some type of structure, such as records (rows) and fields (columns). A database record is…

A commercial preparation of propoxyphene.  

Fear of a firefighter, especially one who is attired in special firefighting gear. It is especially likely to occur in children during a fire when the firefighter enters the house in which the child is trapped. The child may hide from the firefighter.