Category: D

Disinfection of the area of the body where surgery is to be performed. Universally accepted fields of preparation for most surgical procedures have been widely published.  

A rescue technique used to free a trapped victim that involves removing the wreckage from around the patient (rather than removing the patient from the wreckage). For example, freeing a person trapped in a crushed car often requires the car to be pried apart with heavy rescue tools capable of cutting through metal.  

The emergence of the fetal head from within the maternal pelvis.  

A program of health care specific to a designated population (e.g., diabetic patients), offering an organized, systematic pathway to guide clinicians and patients through predetermined steps to measurable outcomes. The program encompasses five elements: clinical guidelines, a coordinated delivery system, health care provider support, patient support and education, and outcomes management,  

Any disease or condition that potentially results from a life situation or circumstance that diminishes engagement and personal meaning and creates anomie, desperation, or the need to withdraw (e.g., into unipolar depression, substance abuse, alcoholism, self-inflicted injury).  

The total effect of a disease on an individual or on a society.  

The inability to make finely coordinated antagonistic movements, as when quickly supinating and pronating the hand.  

An automated methodology in which samples are held in separate containers to be assayed. In a continuous flow system, all samples flow through the same tubing.  

Resulting from or producing conflict with one’s self image.  

In genetics, the expression of a trait in only one of a twin pair.