Category: V

A free, nonprofit, outpatient, multispecialty, health clinic in Hilton Head Island, SC, which is staffed by approximately 100 retired volunteer physicians, nurses, dentists and over 200 lay volunteers. They have unlimited malpractice insurance, with a 21-year “tail” through the Joint Underwriters of SC. VIM Clinic engineered a bill through the SC General Assembly creating a…

A hospital department which coordinates volunteer services to the hospital.  

A person who counsels disabled individuals with respect to vocations and vocational training in order best to fit together the individual and a vocation suitable to her physical, mental, and emotional abilities. Vocational rehabilitation is a program of services designed to enable people with disabilities to become or remain employed. Originally mandated by the Rehabilitation…

In public health, a blood-feeding insect, such as a mosquito, which transmits disease.  

A self-replicating deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule into which foreign DNA fragments are inserted and then propagated in a host cell.  

Reflecting the position that something done to a given product or service has increased its value. Value-added taxes indicate that a product is worth more, and thus can be subject to a higher tax, after something has been done to it, such as merely keeping it in stock for the convenience of the customer. An…

The SI unit of electric potential, equal to the potential difference between two points on a conducting wire through which a constant current of 1 ampere flows when the power dissipated between these points is 1 watt. An electrical unit of pressure, the electromotive force required to produce 1 am pere of current through a…

The sounds heard through the stethoscope when the patient speaks (“ninety-nine”). These are  normally just audible but become much louder {bronchophony) if the lung under the stethoscope is consolidated, when they resemble the sounds heard over the trachea and main bronchi. Vocal resonance is lost over pleural fluid except at its upper surface, when it…

A vitamin of the B complex that is active in the form of thiamin pyrophosphate, a coenzyme in decarboxylation reactions in carbohydrate metabolism. A deficiency of vitamin B1, leads to beriberi. Good sources of the vitamin are cereals, beans, meat, potatoes, and nuts. The recommended daily intake is 1 mg for an adult.  

The process of staining a living tissue by injecting a stain into the organism.