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  • 71National Health Service — (in Britain) a comprehensive service offering therapeutic and preventive medical and surgical care, including the prescription and dispensing of medicines, spectacles, and medical and dental appliances. Exchequer funds pay for the services of… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 72catchment area — the geographic area from which a hospital can expect to receive patients and on which (in Britain) the designated population of the hospital is based. There is no statutory requirement for patients to use the hospital(s) of their area, but a code …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 73hospital — n. an institution providing medical or psychiatric care and treatment of patients. Such care may be residential (in patient), including the care of patients for a whole day and their return home at night (day care). Out patient services include… …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 74National Health Service — NHS (in Britain) a comprehensive service offering therapeutic and preventive medical and surgical care, including the prescription and dispensing of medicines, spectacles, and medical and dental appliances. Exchequer funds pay for the services of …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 75YIDDISH LANGUAGE — YIDDISH LANGUAGE, language used by Ashkenazi Jews for the past 1,000 years. Developed as an intricate fusion of several unpredictably modified stocks, the language was gradually molded to serve a wide range of communicative needs. As the society… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism