See Also: Total Quality Management (TQM)(encyclopedia)
total quality management(medicine)
Total Quality Management(money)
pontobulbar body(medicine)
Total Quality Control (TQC)(encyclopedia)
management quality circles(medicine)
total body irradiation(medicine)
total body water(medicine)
total body hypothermia(medicine)
quality(1)(dictionary)

Total Quality Management (TQM) (sh) and pontobulbar body (medicine)


Total Quality Management (TQM) (sh)




Management practices designed to improve the performance of organizational processes in business and industry.

Based on concepts developed by statistician and Management theorist W. Edwards Deming, TQM includes techniques for achieving Efficiency, solving problems, imposing standardization and statistical control, and regulating design, housekeeping, and Other aspects of business or production processes. See also International Organization for Standardization (ISO); Total Quality Control (TQC).


pontobulbar body (medicine)


pontobulbar body


A collection of nerve cells in the lower part of the medulla oblongata forming a ridge which crosses the restiform body obliquely.

Synonym: corpus pontobulbare.