patient-controlled
Medicine
adjective
(Of treatment or equipment) controlled by the patient rather than a medical practitioner; specifically designating analgesics supplied intravenously by a pump activated by the patient when pain relief is needed; designating the pump itself.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Journal Speech Disorders.
- absonant
- absonous
- absorb
- absorbability
- absorbable
- absorbance
- absorbancy
- absorbative
- absorbed dose
- absorbedly
- absorbedness
- absorbefacient
- absorbency
- absorbent
- absorbent cotton
- absorber
- absorbing
- absorbingly
- absorbition
- absorptance
- absorptiometer
- absorptiometric
- absorptiometrically
- absorptiometry
- absorption