Hospice Glossary of Terms
The following are health and medical definitions of terms that appear in the Hospice article. Anxiety: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Bereavement: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Board certified: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Cancer: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Chemotherapy: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Chronic: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Cirrhosis: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Coma: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Congestive heart failure: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Constipation: See the definition from MedTerms.com
COPD: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Cure: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Dementia: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Diagnosis: See the definition from MedTerms.com
End stage: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Essential: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Euthanasia: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Fracture: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Grief: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Heart: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Heart disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Heart failure: See the definition from MedTerms.com
HIV: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Hospice: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Hospice care: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Hospitalist: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Human immunodeficiency virus: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Immunodeficiency: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Incurable: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Indicate: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Indication: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Infection: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Intractable: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Kidney: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Liver: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Liver disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Living will: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Medicaid: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Medicare: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Medicare Part A: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Mourning: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Nausea: See the definition from MedTerms.com
NIH: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Nurse: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Nursing: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Nursing home: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Nutrition: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Oxygen: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Pain: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Pain management: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Palliative care: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Parkinson's disease: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Pediatric: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Pneumonia: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Prognosis: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Progressive: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Psychology: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Quality of life: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Radiation: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Referral: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Respiratory: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Shortness of breath: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Stage: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Stroke: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Symptom: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Therapy: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Uncertainty: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Urinary: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Urine: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Virus: See the definition from MedTerms.com
Vital: See the definition from MedTerms.com
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