any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
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the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession
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Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educationa…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the system of production and distribution and consumption
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the system of production and distribution and consumption
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educationa…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educationa…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted h…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the study of government of states and other political units
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society; "the institution of marriage"; "the institution…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted h…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Institutions and organisations.the study of government of states and other political units
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an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.The distinctive dress of any profession, especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, he…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.That which is offered as a reason for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment; apology; as, an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.Relating to Hygeia, the goddess of health; of or pertaining to health, or its preservation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.That department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of princi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.A treatise on, or the science of, the preservation of health.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.affected by a disorder of the mind; "a mental patient"; "mental illness"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: preservation, mental, physical, health, preventing.
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