| delivery obstetrical delivery | the act of delivering a child |
rescue
deliverance
delivery
saving | recovery or preservation from loss or danger, work is the deliverance of mankind, a surgeon's job is the saving of lives |
| jail delivery | the use of force to liberate prisoners |
| pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
breech delivery
breech birth
breech presentation | delivery of an infant whose feet or buttocks appear first |
frank breech
frank breech delivery | position of a fetus in which the buttocks are present at the maternal pelvic outlet |
d cesarean delivery
caesarean delivery
caesarian delivery
cesarean section
cesarian section
caesarean section
caesarian section
C-section
cesarean
cesarian
caesarean
caesarian
abdominal delivery a b a a | the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) |
| forceps delivery | delivery in which forceps are inserted through the vagina and used to grasp the head of the fetus and pull it through the birth canal, since the forceps can injure the fetus this procedure has generally given way to cesarean deliveries |
| delivery bringing | the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail), his reluctant delivery of bad news |
| trouble difficulty | an effort that is inconvenient, I went to a lot of trouble, he won without any trouble, had difficulty walking, finished the test only with great difficulty |
healthcare delivery
health care delivery
care delivery | the provision of health care |
delivery livery
legal transfer | the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another |
delivery truck
delivery van
panel truck | a van suitable for delivering goods or services to customers |
difficulty
difficultness | the quality of being difficult, they agreed about the difficulty of the climb |
| difficulty | a factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result, serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent |
trouble
problem | a source of difficulty, one trouble after another delayed the job, what's the problem? |
| problem solving | the thought processes involved in solving a problem |
| problem solving | the area of cognitive psychology that studies the processes involved in solving problems |
rural free delivery
RFD | free government delivery of mail in outlying country areas |
| special delivery | mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge) |
| problem | a question raised for consideration or solution, our homework consisted of ten problems to solve |
| homework problem | a problem that students are assigned to do outside of class |
application-oriented language
problem-oriented language | a language whose statements resemble terminology of the user |
manner of speaking
speech delivery | your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally, his manner of speaking was quite abrupt, her speech was barren of southernisms, I detected a slight accent in his speech |
| delivery | the event of giving birth, she had a difficult delivery |
general delivery
poste restante | the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it |
| liposomal delivery vector | a transducing vector that uses liposomes to carry the gene of interest |
transducing vector
gene delivery vector | a vector for delivering genes into cells |
| viral delivery vector | a transducing vector that uses a retrovirus |
deliveryman
delivery boy
deliverer | someone employed to make deliveries |
problem solver
solver
convergent thinker | a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution |
ill health
unhealthiness
health problem | a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain |
| difficulty | a condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome, grappling with financial difficulties |
problem
job | a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved, she and her husband are having problems, it is always a job to contact him, urban problems such as traffic congestion and smog |
| race problem | a social and political problem caused by conflict between races occupying the same or adjacent regions |
| balance-of-payments problem | an economic problem caused by payments for imports being greater than receipts for exports |
C.O.D.
COD
cash on delivery | collecting the charges upon delivery, mail a package C.O.D. |