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Holothurin
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D006697 |
[A highly toxic saponin occurring in HOLOTHUROIDEA. This marine toxin is an anionic surfactant, hemolyzing ERYTHROCYTES.
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Holtzman Inkblot Test
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D006698 |
[Personality evaluation based on the scoring of several variables as a result of the subject's responses in perceiving 47 inkblot plates.
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Holy Roman Empire
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D060786 |
[Realm in central Europe consisting of a confederation of German and Italian territories under the suzerainty of an emperor and existing from the 9th or 10th century to 1806.
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Home Care Agencies
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D018574 |
[Public or private organizations that provide, either directly or through arrangements with other organizations, home health services in the patient's home. (Hospital Administration Terminology, 2d ed)
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Home Care Services
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D006699 |
[Community health and NURSING SERVICES providing coordinated multiple services to the patient at the patient's homes. These home-care services are provided by a visiting nurse, home health agencies, HOSPITALS, or organized community groups using professional staff for care delivery. It differs from HOME NURSING which is provided by non-professionals.
, Care of a patient at home, by family members and/or health personnel. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
] |
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Home Care Services, Hospital-Based
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D018575 |
[Hospital-sponsored provision of health services, such as nursing, therapy, and health-related homemaker or social services, in the patient's home. (Hospital Administration Terminology, 2d ed)
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Home Childbirth
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D006700 |
[Childbirth taking place in the home.
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Home Health Aides
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D018576 |
[Persons who assist ill, elderly, or disabled persons in the home, carrying out personal care and housekeeping tasks. (From Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms. 2d ed, p202)
] |
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Home Health Nursing
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D064650 |
[A nursing specialty in which skilled nursing care is provided to patients in their homes by registered or licensed practical NURSES. Home health nursing differs from HOME NURSING in that home health nurses are licensed professionals, while home nursing involves non-professional caregivers.
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Home Infusion Therapy
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D018718 |
[Use of any infusion therapy on an ambulatory, outpatient, or other non-institutionalized basis.
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Home Nursing
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D006701 |
[Nursing care given to an individual in the home. The care may be provided by a family member or a friend. Home nursing as care by a non-professional is differentiated from HOME CARE SERVICES provided by professionals: visiting nurse, home health agencies, hospital, or other organized community group.
] |
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Homebound Persons
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D018577 |
[Those unable to leave home without exceptional effort and support; patients (in this condition) who are provided with or are eligible for home health services, including medical treatment and personal care. Persons are considered homebound even if they may be infrequently and briefly absent from home if these absences do not indicate an ability to receive health care in a professional's office or health care facility. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988, p309)
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Homeless Persons
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D006703 |
[Housing created or provided for homeless persons.
, Persons who have no permanent residence. The concept excludes nomadic peoples.
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Homeless Youth
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D018453 |
[Runaway and homeless children and adolescents living on the streets of cities and having no fixed place of residence.
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Homemaker Services
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D006704 |
[Non-medical support services, such as food preparation and bathing, given by trained personnel to disabled, sick or convalescent individuals in their home.
] |
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Homeobox A10 Proteins
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D000080905 |
[Sequence-specific transcription factor which is part of a developmental regulatory system that provides cells with specific positional identities on the anterior-posterior axis of tissues. They bind to the DNA sequence 5'-AA[AT]TTTTATTAC-3'.
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Homeobox Protein Nkx-2.5
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D000072576 |
[A homeobox-containing transcription factor that functions in heart development. Mutations in the NKX2-5 gene are associated with ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECTS and TETRALOGY OF FALLOT.
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Homeodomain Proteins
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D018398 |
[Proteins encoded by homeobox genes (GENES, HOMEOBOX) that exhibit structural similarity to certain prokaryotic and eukaryotic DNA-binding proteins. Homeodomain proteins are involved in the control of gene expression during morphogenesis and development (GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL).
] |
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Homeopathy
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D006705 |
[A system of therapeutics founded by Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), based on the Law of Similars where "like cures like". Diseases are treated by highly diluted substances that cause, in healthy persons, symptoms like those of the disease to be treated.
] |
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Homeostasis
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D006706 |
[The processes whereby the internal environment of an organism tends to remain balanced and stable.
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