Category: R

A method of estimating costs in accounting. There is generally a desire that charges for health care reflect the costs of that care. This is fairly easy to achieve globally, that is, the total costs for a hospital, say, for a year can be ascertained and the charges or reimbursement can be matched to those…

The process by which an individual is taught to reenter society and resume a productive life-style following completion of a drugrehabilitation program. Supportive measures to reintegrate a client into family and community life following a critical or long-term hospitalization.  

A type of vaccine that is normally given in a combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine.  

In hospitals, the practice of allowing the mother and newborn (and sometimes the father as well) to stay in the same room, instead of placing the baby in a nursery; sometimes the baby remains in the room only during daytime hours, to give the mother more time to recover from the birth. This allows breastfeeding…

A student whose legal place of residence is in the district served by a school, such as the school district of a local public school or the state for a state-supported college. Nonresident students must make special arrangements to attend a school that does not serve their neighborhood; at the college level, they are not…

In education, a college’s or university’s requirement that a student must be enrolled in the institution for a specified number of years (generally one or two) before being eligible to receive a degree, a requirement waived in external degree programs. In a looser sense, the term residency requirement sometimes refers to a public college’s or…

A course a student must take to fulfill the requirements of a school and eventually to graduate, as opposed to optional courses, or electives.  

Alternate term for menstrual cycle.  

Alternate term for kidney failure. Inability of the kidneys to excrete wastes and function in the maintenance of electrolyte balance. Acute renal failure, characterized by inability to produce urine and an accumulation of wastes, is often associated with trauma, bums, acute infection, or obstruction of the urinary tract; its treatment depends on the cause and…

A school, often ungraded, designed to help students make up for previous academic deficiencies, as for former dropouts returning to school; also called tutoring school or catch-up school.