iontophoresis ionic medication iontotherapy electromotive drug administration EMDA | therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues |
administration judicature | the act of meting out justice according to the law |
administration giving medication | the act of administering medication |
government governing governance government activity administration | the act of governing, exercising authority, regulations for the governing of state prisons, he had considerable experience of government |
administration disposal | a method of tending to or managing the affairs of a some group of people (especially the group's business affairs) |
boardroom council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
conference table council table council board | the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting |
letters of administration | legal document naming someone to administer an estate when no executor has been named |
Master in Business Master in Business Administration MBA | a master's degree in business |
Continuity Irish Republican Army CIRA Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Fatah Revolutionary Council Fatah-RC Abu Nidal Organization ANO Arab Revolutionary Brigades Black September Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims | a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in , has conducted terrorist attacks incountries, in the s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group |
Food and Drug Administration FDA | a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and healthelated products |
Council of Economic Advisors | an executive agency responsible for providing economic advice to the President |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight |
National Archives and Records Administration NARA | the independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections |
National Security Council NSC | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security, supervises the Central Intelligence Agency |
Council on Environmental Policy | the executive agency that advises the President on protecting the environment |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA | an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources, predicts changes to the earth's environment, provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather |
Technology Administration | an agency in the Department of Commerce that works with United States industries to promote competitiveness and maximize the impact of technology on economic growth |
Social Security Administration SSA | an independent government agency responsible for the Social Security system |
Drug Enforcement Administration Drug Enforcement Agency DEA | federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances, goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations |
Transportation Security Administration TSA | an agency established in to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel |
legislative council | a unicameral legislature |
administration governance governing body establishment brass organization organisation | the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something, he claims that the present administration is corrupt, the governance of an association is responsible to its members, he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment |
Bush administration | the executive under President George W. Bush |
Clinton administration | the executive under President Clinton |
Bush administration | the executive under President George H. W. Bush |
Reagan administration | the executive under President Reagan |
Carter administration | the executive under President Carter |
Security Council SC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for preserving world peace |
Trusteeship Council TC | a permanent council of the United Nations that commissions a country (or countries) to undertake the administration of a territory |
Economic and Social Council ECOSOC | a permanent council of the United Nations, responsible for economic and social conditions |
Economic and Social Council commission ECOSOC commission | a commission of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations |
council | a meeting of people for consultation, emergency council |
North Atlantic Council NAC | a council consisting of permanent representatives of all the member countries of NATO, has political authority and powers of decision |
council | a body serving in an administrative capacity, student council |
city council | a municipal body that can pass ordinances and appropriate funds etc. |
executive council | a council that shares the supreme executive power |
privy council | an advisory council to a ruler (especially to the British Crown) |
works council | (chiefly Brit) a council representing employer and employees of a plant or business to discuss working conditions etc, also: a committee representing the workers elected to negotiate with management about grievances and wages etc |
council | (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine |
ecumenical council | (early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline, the first seven councils through are considered to be ecumenical councils by both the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church but the next fourteen councils are considered ecumenical only by the Roman Catholic church |
Nicaea First Council of Nicaea | the first ecumenical council in which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism |
Constantinople First Council of Constantinople | the second ecumenical council in which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed |
Ephesus Council of Ephesus | the third ecumenical council in which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius |
Chalcedon Council of Chalcedon | the fourth ecumenical council in which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ |
Constantinople Second Council of Constantinople | the fifth ecumenical council in which held Origen's writings to be heretic |
Constantinople Third Council of Constantinople | the sixth ecumenical council in - which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human |
Nicaea Second Council of Nicaea | the seventh ecumenical council in which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images |
Constantinople Fourth Council of Constantinople | the council in that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches |