Malpractice

Definitions: Malpractice

Malpractice

Noun

1. Professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage; "the widow sued his surgeon for malpractice".

2. A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "malpractice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)

Note: Malpractice \Mal*prac"tice\, noun. [Mal- practice.]. (Websters 1913)

Shipping

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Malpractice

Guilt

Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum.

Crosswords: Malpractice

Dr. Nick, this malpractice committee has received a few complaints against you. Of the 160 gravest charges, the most troubling are performing major operations with a knife and fork from a seafood restaurant. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Malpractice (2001)

Diagnosis: Malpractice (1986)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Profile of legal malpractice : a statistical study of determinative characteristics of claims asserted against attorneys (reference)

• Medical Malpractice and the American Jury: Confronting the Myths About Jury Incompetence, Deep Pockets, and Outrageous Damage Awards (reference)

• The constitutionality of medical malpractice reform legislation : a supplemental report (reference)

• The Health Care Provider's Guide to Facing the Malpractice Deposition (reference)

• Insuring Medical Malpractice (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Anesthesia Malpractice Prevention (reference)

• Exercise Standards And Malpractice Reporter (reference)

• New York Medical Malpractice (reference)

• Sports Medicine Standards & Malpractice Reporter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Limitation of Damages In Medical Malpractice Cases (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Malpractice [Clean] (reference)

• Malpractice [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Medical Society of the District of Columbia : Third Luncheon Round Table for Malpractice Discussion.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Human Rights

Bolivia

Its powers include the authority to conduct administrative investigations and to censure for malpractice judges at all levels found culpable of malfeasance. (references)

China

Judges who violate prohibitions against accepting money or other gifts from litigants or who meet privately with litigants may be found guilty of malpractice under the new regulations. (references)

Bolivia

At year's end, legislation was pending to give the Council the power to effect suspension of up to 3 years or specifically to establish the Council's power to dismiss judges found guilty of malpractice by the Council. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

Finland has exceptions to the EU directives on insurance covering medical and drug malpractice and nuclear power supply. (references)

Political Rights

Jamaica

These problems persisted in the December 1997 election, despite the best efforts of the security forces, which were credited with controlling violence such as the beating of voters, and reducing election malpractice such as the theft of ballot boxes from polling places. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

veprim i ndaluar, shpërdorim (abuse, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, waste), neglizhencë (pretermission). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تزوير (counterfeit, forgery, fraud, piracy, rigging), ‏خطاء مقصود, ‏خطاء متعمد, ‏إهمال (default, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, easiness, forgetfulness, fribble, frowst, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, limbo, neglect, negligence, omission, overlooking, remissive, remissness, slovenliness), ‏إختلاس (conversion, embezzlement, fraudulent conversion, misapprehension, pilfering, pinching). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нарушение (aberration, breach, breaker, breaking, contravention, defection, dereliction, disturbance, entrenchment, fault, foul, infraction, infringement, offence, offense, perpetration, transgression, violation), лекарска небрежност, професионална небрежност. (various references)

Chinese 

营私弊端, 弊病 (disadvantage, drawback, evil, malady), 弊端 (abuse, corrupt practice). (various references)

Czech

nesprávná léèba. (various references)

Danish

kunstfejl. (various references)

Dutch

kunstfout. (various references)

Farsi 

معالجه غلط, سوء اداره (Maladministration, Misrule), عمل سوء . (various references)

French

malversation. (various references)

German

Untat (atrocity, crime, outrage), übeltat (evil act, misdeed, wicked deed). (various references)

Greek 

κακή πράξη (misdeed, misdoing), κατάχρηση (abuse, defalcation, embezzlement, graft, intemperance, malversation, misappropriation, overuse, peculation), παράνομη πράξη, αμέλεια γιατρού, αδίκημα (misdeed, offence, tort, wrong). (various references)

Hebrew 

עסוק לא ב�"תאם לחוק, �"ז� ח�" פושעת (culpable neglect). (various references)

Hungarian

helytelen kezelés (ill-treatment), szabálytalanság (abuse, anomaly, foul, infringement, irregularity), mulasztás (default, failure, fault, omission), hűtlen kezelés (fraudulent misuse of funds, malfeasance, misappropriation), gondatlanság (carelessness, dereliction, imprudence, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, neglect, negligence, recklessness). (various references)

Indonesian

salah mengobati. (various references)

Italian

pratica illecita, negligenza medica. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

不正行為 (cheating, foul play, unfair practices, wrongdoing), 不始末 (carelessness, misconduct, mismanagement, unthriftiness, wastefulness), 不仕末 (carelessness, misconduct, mismanagement, unthriftiness, wastefulness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふしまつ (carelessness, misconduct, mismanagement, unthriftiness, wastefulness), ふせい�"うい (cheating, foul play, unfair practices, wrongdoing). (various references)

Manx

drogh-yannoo (evil doings, misdeed, misdemeanour), drogh-oash (vice), drogh-lheeys. (various references)

Pig Latin

alpracticemay

Portuguese

malversação (mama, misappropriation), procedimento condenável (monkey business), fedentina, falta profissional médica, culpa (blame, fault, frame, guilt, offence, offense). (various references)

Romanian

tratament greşit, infracţiune (breach, delinquency, malfeasence, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, trespass, violation, wrongdoing), incompetenţã (incompetence), delict (crime, delict, delinquency, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, trespass). (various references)

Russian 

невнимание (disregard, inattention, negligence), небрежность (inadvertence, inadvertency, laxity, neglect, negligence, nonchalance), противозаконное действие. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zloupotreba službene dužnosti (malversation), pogrešno lečenje, nesavestan postupak. (various references)

Spanish

mala conducta profesional, procedimientos ilegales, práctica abusiva, negligencia profesional, error médico. (various references)

Swedish

försyndelse (lapse, sin), försummelse (default, neglect, omission). (various references)

Turkish

yolsuzluk (defraudation, graft, lawlessness), yanlış tedavi, görevi kötüye kullanma (misprision). (various references)

Ukranian 

зловживання довір'ям, потизаконна карна дія. (various references)

Vietnamese 

h� nh động xấu (misdeed), h� nh động bất chính. (various references)

Welsh

camarfer (abuse, misuse). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "malpractice": malpractices. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Malpractice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: malprctice. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: acclaimer, acclimate, eclamptic, metacarpi, practical.

-3 letters: apractic, calamite, impacter, malapert, material, metrical, parietal, particle, placater, practice, prelatic, primatal, tailrace.

-4 letters: acclaim, acmatic, amirate, apteral, apteria, article, calcite, caliper, caltrap, camelia, cameral, campier, capital, caprice, caramel, carpale, ceramal, ceramic, circlet, claimer, clamper, climate, crampit, crimple, impaler, impearl, lempira, maltier, marital, marlite, martial, metical, miracle, palmate, palmier, paretic, partial, picrate, placate, plaiter, platier, plectra, plicate, practic, primate, racemic, recital, reclaim, replica, templar, trample.

-5 letters: accept, acetal, acetic, aecial, aerial, alcaic, ampler, amrita, amtrac, apical, aplite, arctic, armlet, armpit, atelic, atrial, caecal, calami, calcar, calmer, calpac, camail, camera, camlet, camper, capita, caplet, capric, carate, carcel, carpal, carpel, carpet, cartel, celiac, cicala, cicale, circle, citral, claret, cleric, cretic, earlap, eclair, epical, icecap, imaret, impact, impala, impale, impart, ipecac, lacier, lactam, lactic, lamiae, lariat, latria, limper, limpet, mailer, malate, malice, marcel, meatal, metric, milter, mitral, palace, palate, palier, palmar, palmer, palter, parcel, pectic, permit, picara, pirate, placer, placet, plaice, plater, plicae, preact, prelim, primal, racial, ramate, ramtil, realia, rectal, relict, remail, retail, retial, rictal, rimple, tailer, tamale, tamari, tamper, tarmac, tramel, triple.

+1 letter: malpractices.

+2 letters: impracticable.

+3 letters: pharmaceutical.

+4 letters: pharmaceuticals.

+5 letters: impracticalities, microencapsulate, pharmaceutically.

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