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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Cares for patients and children in private homes, hospitals, sanatoriums, industrial plants, and similar institutions: Bathes and dresses bed patients, combs hair, and otherwise attends to their comfort and personal appearance. Cleans room, and changes bed linen. Takes and records temperature, pulse, and respiration rate. Gives medication as directed by physician or NURSE, GENERAL DUTY (medical ser.) 075.364-010, and makes notation of amount and time given. Gives enemas, douches, massages, and alcohol rubs. Applies hot and cold compresses and hot water bottles. Sterilizes equipment and supplies, using germicides, sterilizer, or autoclave. Prepares food trays, feeds patients, and records food and liquid intake and output. Cooks, washes, cleans, and does other housekeeping duties in private home. May give injections. May care for infants and small children in private home. For practical nurses meeting state licensing requirements see NURSE, LICENSED PRACTICAL (medical ser.) 079.374-014. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Remedy | Doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general practitioner, specialist; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech; osteopath, osteopathist; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist, oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist, public health specialist; dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer, quack, exorcist; Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur, accoucheuse, midwife, oculist, aurist; operator; nurse, registered nurse, practical nurse, monthly nurse, sister; nurse's aide, candystriper; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist, pharmacist, druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters ",-a-a-c-c-e-i-l-n-p-r-r-s-t-u" | |
-4 letters: caricatures, cartularies, particulars, spectacular, unpractical. | |
-5 letters: analeptics, caricature, circulates, crustacean, curtailers, inaccurate, inculcates, inculpates, lacustrine, naturalise, pancreatic, paniculate, particular, practicals, practicers, retinacula, scriptural, spiracular, suprarenal, tarpaulins, tarriances. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 55 52 53 45 2C 50 52 41 43 54 49 43 41 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01010101 01010010 01010011 01000101 00101100 00100000 01010000 01010010 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N U R S E ,   P R A C T I C A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0055 0052 0053 0045 002C 0050 0052 0041 0043 0054 0049 0043 0041 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4855525339142505235375443373546 |
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