health [helth] a relative state in which one is able to function well physically, mentally, socially, and spiritually in order to express the full range of one’s unique potentialities within the environment in which one is living. In the words of René Dubos, “health is primarily a measure of each […]
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definition of fitness by The Free Dictionary
The former measured all actions by the unalterable rule of right, and the eternal fitness of things; the latter decided all matters by authority; but in doing this, he always used the scriptures and their commentators, as the lawyer doth his Coke upon Lyttleton, where the comment is of equal […]
definition of fitness by Medical dictionary
Many voluntary organisations offer the chance to try or develop sports, fitness, and outdoor activities. Provocative as the idea of fitness landscapes is, no one knows what these topologies look like — how rugged they are, how many peaks they have. “With funding to reach 1,000 cities and schools by […]
definition of hospital by Medical dictionary
hospital [hos´pit’l] an institution for the care and treatment of the acutely sick and injured. day hospital a facility that offers professional health care, such as psychiatric care or rehabilitation services, to individuals who require services but are able to return to their homes overnight. hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory […]
definition of medicine by The Free Dictionary
medicine Quotations“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic” [Thomas Szasz The Second Skin] Medicine Branches of medicine aetiology or etiology, anaesthetics, anaplasty, anatomy, andrology, angiology, audiology, aviation medicine, bacteriology, balneology, bioastronautics, […]
definition of medicine by Medical dictionary
medicine [med´ĭ-sin] 1. any drug or remedy. 2. the art and science of the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health. 3. the nonsurgical treatment of disease. aviation medicine the branch of medicine that deals with the physiologic, medical, psychologic, and epidemiologic problems involved in flying. ayurvedic […]
definition of hospital by The Free Dictionary
He didn’t tell you about his hospital? Ce sera admirable–everything from Paris.” I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doctor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials ‘C.C.’ are placed before that hospital the words The unwieldy […]
definition of dentist by The Free Dictionary
Then you would manage to stammer forth the confession that you were neither a doctor nor a dentist. Mrs. I will not accept as the crown of my desires a block of buildings with tenements for the poor on a lease of a thousand years, and perhaps with a sign-board […]