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suburban health services(medicine)
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student health services(medicine)
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health services accessibility (medicine) and smart(2) (iou)


health services accessibility (medicine)


Health Services accessibility


The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and Services from the Health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.


smart(2) (iou)



smart noun. [sm¨»:t] ME.
[In branch I app. from base of SMART adjective, rel. to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch smerte, smarte, Old High German smerza, smerzo (German Schmerz); in branch II directly from SMART adjective.]
I.
(An instance of) sharp physical pain, esp. caused by a blow, sting, or wound. ME.
W. C. Bryant Patroclus..applied a root..to assuage the smart.
Sharp mental pain or suffering; an instance of this, a pang. ME.
ellipt. = smart-money below. E19.
II.
A person who affects smartness in dress, manners, or talk. Now Hist. E18.
The quality of smartness in talk or Writing. M19.
Chiefly right smart. A fair quantity, a reasonable number. US colloq. M19.
W. Faulkner There is a right smart of folks in Jefferson I don't know.
sing. & (usu.) in pl. Intelligence, acumen, nous. N. Amer. slang. L20.
street smarts: see STREET noun.
New Yorker Beep Jennings..lacked the smarts to close a loan properly.
Comb.: smart-money (a) money paid to sailors, soldiers, workmen, etc., as compensation for injuries received while on duty or at work; (b) money paid to obtain the discharge of a recruit who has enlisted in the army; smartweed (chiefly dial. & US) any of various kinds of persicaria; esp. water-pepper, Persicaria hydropiper, with peppery-tasting leaves.