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• ill —    1. menstrual    Common female usage:     When were you ill last? About a fortnight ago, she replied. (F. Harris, 1925)     Mrs Pepys was ill of those: Thence home and my wife ill of those upon the maid s bed. (Pepys, 1669)    2.    suffering… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• Quality-adjusted life years — Quality adjusted life years, or QALYs, is a way of measuring disease burden, including both the quality and the quantity of life lived, as a means of quantifying in benefit of a medical intervention. The QALY model requires utility independent,… …   Wikipedia

• Disability-adjusted life year — for all causes per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.[1] …   Wikipedia

• Quality adjusted life year (QALY) — A year of life adjusted for its quality or its value. A year in perfect health is considered equal to 1.0 QALY. The value of a year in ill health would be discounted. For example, a year bedridden might have a value equal to 0.5 QALY …   Medical dictionary

• Empedocles — M.R.Wright INTRODUCTION Empedocles was a native of Acragas (Agrigento) in Sicily, a Doric colony founded on the south coast of the island in the sixth century BC, which soon grew to rival Syracuse in its prosperity. A line of temples, many of… …   History of philosophy

• saddle sore — noun Date: 1946 1. a gall or open sore developing on the back of a horse at points of pressure from an ill fitting or ill adjusted saddle 2. an irritation or sore on parts of the rider chafed by the saddle …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• saddle sore — 1. noun A gall, a sore developed by a horse from an ill fitting or ill adjusted saddle. 2. adjective Pertaining to a horse with saddle sores, or to a rider who has been riding too long …   Wiktionary

• Levisham railway station — Infobox UK station name=Levisham locale=Levisham borough=North Yorkshire manager=North Yorkshire Moors Railway platforms=2 caption = Down platform Running in board at Levisham.Levisham railway station is a station on the North Yorkshire Moors… …   Wikipedia

• The Celestial Bed — is a non fiction 1987 book by Irving Wallace, revolving around scientific issues of sex. It is based on some of the sex therapy techniques developed after Masters and Johnson, who created the term sex surrogates . It was first published in 1987… …   Wikipedia

• Whitby and Pickering Railway — The Whitby and Pickering Railway was built as the culmination of attempts to halt the gradual decline of the port of Whitby on the east coast of the United Kingdom. The basic industries of Whitby, whaling and shipbuilding, had been in decline for …   Wikipedia

• Gezelle, Guido — ▪ Flemish poet and priest born May 1, 1830, Bruges, Belg. died Nov. 27, 1899, Bruges       Flemish priest and poet who was one of the masters of 19th century European lyric poetry.       Gezelle was ordained in 1854 while already a teacher at… …   Universalium