Category: D

A disklike placenta.  

Use of a contrast medium injected into the intervertebral disk so that it can be examined radiographically.  

Caused by an intervertebral disk.  

A normally shaped red blood cell.  

The emission of or the flowing out of material, as the discharge of pus from a lesion; excretion.  

A hospital unit where patients are held pending their release from emergency departments, urgent care settings, wards, or short-stay units. The lounge makes acute patient care resources available for active use and streamlines patient throughput.  

A document defining the resources, actions, tasks, and data required to manage the recovery of lost databases, programs, or other computing functions in the event of catastrophic damage to the computing infrastructure of an organization.  

A procedure for coping with mass casualties or massive disruptions of normal health care services as a result of human or natural catastrophes. In the U.S., the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Organizations (JCAHO) requires that all hospitals have a written plan in place and that drills be performed twice a year to…

A specially trained group of citizens trained to evaluate deceased victims of natural and man-made disasters and to provide them with mortuary services. DMORT members participate in the evaluation of the cause of mass deaths, in the identification of the dead, and in the processing and disposition of remains.  

The conversion of assimilated material into less complex compounds for energy production.