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Which can be seen or measured.  

The complete destruction of something. The complete blocking of something such as a cavity. Loss of body function or part due to surgical intervention, disease, or degenerative condition.  

To destroy something completely. To block a cavity completely.  

Each of two muscles in the wall of the abdomen. Each of two muscles which control the movement of the eyeball.  

A groove between the superior and inferior lobes of a lung. Anatomical landmark of the right lung.  

To do what a person, authority or rule says you should do.  

Disclosure by a health program of all ownership interests in the program. By law, each skilled nursing facility participating in Medicare and Medicaid must supply ownership information to the State survey agency and each intermediate care facility must supply such information to the State licensing agency. Full and complete information must be supplied on the…

Variously used synonymously with measure of the productivity of health programs and manpower, programs and manpower, process measures or outcome measures.  

A facility designed to provide a limited or full spectrum of health and medical services (including health education and maintenance, preventive services, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation) to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization (outpatients).  

Those borne directly by a patient without benefit of insurance, sometimes called direct costs. Unless insured, these include patient payments under cost-sharing provisions.