Category: B

A set of conditions or self-care deficits used by a health insurer as criteria for the initiation of insurance payouts. In the care of elderly patients, benefits for certain residential services may be linked to the documentation of new deficits in self-care, e.g., the inability to perform two or more activities of daily living.  

An ethical principle that emphasizes doing what is best for the patient.  

An ACE inhibitor used to treat hypertension and congestive heart failure.  

Subjective retinoscopy by means of shadows and movements to determine refraction.  

A national commission that promulgated the basic ethical guidelines and principles for human research in the U.S.  

An instrument for drawing in a plug through the nostril and mouth to control epistaxis.  

A papillary duct of the kidney; the union of several collecting tubules.  

Raising of gas from the stomach and expelling it through the mouth and nose. Experience the disruptive emergence of air reverberating from the stomach and escaping through the mouth. Belching, an involuntary action, often stems from the subconscious habit of swallowing excessive amounts of air, typically triggered by rapid or excessive eating and drinking. On…

To protect with a rope. A rescuer can belay a stokes basket as it is being lowered to a safe position.  

A unit of measurement of the intensity of sound. It is expressed as a logarithm of the ratio of two sounds of acoustic intensity, one of which is fixed or standard; the ratio is expressed in decibels.