Omniscience
All knowledge. Infinite awareness, understanding, and insight. Someone who (supposedly) possesses omniscience is omniscient. From the Latin “omni-” (all) + “scire” (to know) = to know all.
Medical students and nursing students would do well to recall what Francis Bacon said a while back (about 1615), “By no means trust to your own judgement alone; for no man is omniscient.”
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Prefix indicating a relationship to the umbilicus (the navel). From the Greek word for the decorative boss protruding from the center of a Greek warrior?s shield.
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A birth defect in which part of the intestine, covered only by a thin transparent membrane, protrudes outside the abdomen at the umbilicus. An omphalocele occurs due to a failure during embryonic development for a section of the intestines (the midgut) to return from outside the abdomen and reenter the abdomen as it should. The […]
- Omphalos
The omphalos (or omphalus) is also called the umbilicus or navel. “Omphalos” is the Greek word for the navel. The decorative boss protruding from the center of a Greek warrior’s shield was also called the omphalos, as was the knob at the center of a yoke. The omphalos was the “center of anything.” The omphalos […]
- World Health Organization
The subagency of the United Nations (UN) that is concerned with international health. Abbreviated WHO. Also known as Organisation Mondiale de la Sant’ (OMS).
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In medicine, the person who is ready to respond, the one on duty. As in “Who is the doctor on call this weekend?” or “This is the on call schedule.”