Category: L

The treatment and other services provided to a patient. Care is often described according to the needs of the patient: for example, neonatal care describes the care given newborns; respiratory care describes the care provided for patients with respiratory (breathing) difficulties. Care may also be described according to the “level” (intensity) or urgency of care,…

A legal relationship in which one person acts on behalf of another. A written agency agreement is called a power of attorney.  

The minimum amount of time that must expire between each dose of medication that is administered by patient-controlled analgesia (PCA). The PCA pump is inactivated during the lockout interval so that the patient cannot self-administer excessive amounts of drugs. In patient-controlled analgesia (PCA), the number of minutes a patient must wait between demanded doses of…

A set of reading skills necessary for a child to be able to find information in printed sources; these are prerequisite skills such as understanding how to find an item in an alphabetized dictionary or index, how to find material using the page numbers in a table of contents, or how to find a book…

Disorders in the complex internal organ in the upper right abdomen, which has hundreds of functions, mainly to produce key proteins and other chemicals, to regulate the chemistry of the blood, to store the sugar glucose as glycogen until needed, and to clear drugs, poisons, and other unwanted substances from the blood, excreting these waste…

A legal claim on someone’s property, to prevent sale or transfer until a debt is satisfied; in certain cases, as to satisfy unpaid child support, the property may be sold to pay the debt.  

Traditionally, the courses that made up the classical curriculum, such as literature, art, philosophy, history, music, and foreign languages, usually referring to COLLEGE-Ievel education. Today the term is more widely used to refer to a broad, general, “liberal” education, including study of the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences, as opposed to a narrowly…

The way a child most readily receives and processes new information, a general term used in many different ways, depending on how educators and psychologists them¬ selves approach the question; also called cognitive style.  

A general term for anything that might hinder a student’s gaining of new knowledge and skills, including handicaps of various kinds and lack of the necessary skills, such as reading.  

Informal term for a student thought to be an underachiever who, somewhat later than other students, begins to fulfill the expected potential indicated by previous performance on standardized tests of ability; sometimes called latent achiever. An adolescent who develops physically at a late age, after most other adolescents.