Booking office () An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. |
Booking office () An office where passage tickets are sold. |
Crown office () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. |
Medical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine |
Medical (a.) Containing medicine |
Office (n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others |
Office (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose |
Office (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself |
Office (n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform |
Office (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted |
Office (n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office |
Office (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. |
Office (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass |
Office (v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office |
Post office (n.) See under 4th Post. |
Practice (n.) Frequently repeated or customary action |
Practice (n.) Customary or constant use |
Practice (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use |
Practice (n.) Actual performance |
Practice (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline |
Practice (n.) Application of science to the wants of men |
Practice (n.) Skillful or artful management |
Practice (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. |
Practice (n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts. |
Practice (v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually |
Practice (v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine. |
Practice (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity |
Practice (v. t.) To put into practice |
Practice (v. t.) To make use of |
Practice (v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice |
Practice (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement |
Practice (v. i.) To learn by practice |
Practice (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems. |
Practice (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment |
Surgery (n.) The art of healing by manual operation |
Surgery (n.) A surgeon's operating room or laboratory. |
medical evacuation medevac medivac | the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care |
checkup medical checkup medical examination medical exam medical health check | a thorough physical examination, includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person |
medical diagnosis | identification of a disease from its symptoms |
prognosis prospect medical prognosis | a prediction of the course of a disease |
practice pattern | a customary way of operation or behavior, it is their practice to give annual raises, they changed their dietary pattern |
practice praxis | translating an idea into action, a hard theory to put into practice, differences between theory and praxis of communism |
exhibition game practice game | a game whose outcome is not recorded in the season's standing |
post office | a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters |
position post berth office spot billet place situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
public office | a position concerning the people as a whole |
law practice of law | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system, he studied law at Yale |
medicine practice of medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries, he studied medicine at Harvard |
practice | the exercise of a profession, the practice of the law, I took over his practice when he retired |
dental practice | the practice of dentistry |
law practice | the practice of law |
medical practice | the practice of medicine |
family practice family medicine | medical practice that provides health care regardless of age or sex while placing emphasis on the family unit |
group practice | (medicine) the practice of medicine by a group of physicians who share their premises and other resources |
private practice | the practice of a profession independently and not as an employee, he teaches at the medical school but his fortune came from private practice, lawyers in private practice are in business and must make a profit to survive |
medical care medical aid | professional treatment for illness or injury |
brain surgery | any surgical procedure involving the brain |
operation surgery surgical operation surgical procedure surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
wrong-site surgery | a surgical operation performed on the wrong part of the body |
eye operation eye surgery | any surgical procedure involving the eyes |
face lift facelift lift face lifting cosmetic surgery rhytidectomy rhytidoplasty nip and tuck | plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face, an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised, some actresses have more than one face lift |
heart surgery | any surgical procedure involving the heart |
closed-heart surgery | heart surgery in which a small incision is made (the chest cavity is not opened) |
open-heart surgery | heart surgery in which the rib cage is spread open, the heart is stopped and blood is detoured through a heart-lung machine while a heart valve or coronary artery is surgically repaired |
coronary bypass coronary bypass surgery coronary artery bypass graft CABG | open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart |
port-access coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed by the use of small instruments and tiny cameras threaded through small incisions while the heart is stopped and blood is pumped through a heart-lung machine |
minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery | heart surgery in which a coronary bypass is performed on the beating heart by the use of small instruments and cameras threaded through small incisions |
cataract surgery | eye surgery that involves removing all or part of the lens and replacing it with an intraocular lens implant |
intracapsular surgery | cataract surgery in which the entire lens is removed |
extracapsular surgery | cataract surgery in which only the front of the lens is removed, the back of the lens capsule remains intact and provides support for the lens implant |
cyclodestructive surgery | an eye operation that treats glaucoma by destroying the ciliary body with a laser |
filtration surgery | eye surgery that opens a passage allowing excess aqueous humor to drain into surrounding tissues, a treatment for glaucoma |
laser trabecular surgery | eye surgery that makes many tiny laser burns in an area that will increase the drainage of aqueous humor |
major surgery | any surgical procedure that involves anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
minor surgery | any surgical procedure that does not involve anesthesia or respiratory assistance |
plastic surgery reconstructive surgery anaplasty | surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue |
sexhange operation transsexual surgery | surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex |
function office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
sexual activity sexual practice sex sex activity | activities associated with sexual intercourse, they had sex in the back seat |
exercise practice drill practice session recitation | systematic training by multiple repetitions, practice makes perfect |
skull session skull practice | teaching strategy to an athletic team |
target practice | practice in shooting at targets |
tree surgery | treatment of damaged or decaying trees |
medical procedure | a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners |
office | a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities, the offices of the mass |
Divine Office | canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church) |