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A way of folding the overlapping bedding at each corner of a bed that keeps it tight.  

A religious minister attached to a hospital, who visits and comforts patients and their families ‘and gives them the sacraments if necessary.  

A regular detailed report on patients in hospitals, including information about treatment, length of stay and outcome.  

A disease caught during a stay in hospital. An infection acquired by a patient while in hospital. Because of the high level of antibiotic use in hospitals, some bacteria become resistant for example, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This makes hospital-acquired infections potentially dangerous and sometimes life-threatening, and is one of the developments that is prompting calls…

A long rubber or plastic tube.  

A severe headache, often with constant pain around one eye, which starts usually within a few hours of going to sleep. It is caused by the release of histamine in the body. [After Bayard Taylor Horton (b. 1895), US physician].    

A congenital condition of the kidney, where sometimes the upper but usually the lower parts of both kidneys are joined together. An anatomical variation in kidney development whereby the lower poles of both kidneys are joined together. This usually causes no trouble but it may be associated with impaired drainage of urine from the kidney…

Referring to skin which is very hard.  

A condition caused by paralysis of the sympathetic nerve in one side of the neck, making the eyelids hang down and the pupils contract [Described 1869. After Johann Friedrich Horner (1831-86), Professor of Ophthalmology in Ziirich, Switzerland.] Group of symptoms—drooping upper eyelid, constricted pupil, absence of facial sweating— occurring as a result of damage to…

A horizontal groove between the superior and middle lobes of a lung. Anatomical landmark of the right lung that separates the superior and middle lobes.