Augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ) is an umbrella term that encompasses methods of communication for those with impairments or restrictions on the production or comprehension of spoken or written language.

In professional and research contexts, the term " alcoholism " sometimes encompasses both alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence, and sometimes is considered equivalent to alcohol dependence.

However in Daoism it refers more often to a meta-physical term that describes a force that encompasses the entire universe but which cannot be described nor felt.

The more general term computer generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and dynamic images, while computer animation only refers to moving images.

In British English and in the commonwealth countries, the term public company is more widely to describe the same sort of entity while the word company encompasses all incorporated entities.

The term " market failure " encompasses several problems which may undermine standard economic assumptions.

The term " cooking " encompasses a vast range of methods, tools, and combinations of ingredients to improve the flavor or digestibility of food.

The term encompasses geotextiles, geogrids, geomembranes, geocells and geocomposites.

It may refer to the whole of English grammar — that is, to the grammars of all the speakers of the language — in which case, the term encompasses a great deal of variation.

The term encompasses the more specific destruction of images of a ruler after his death or overthrow ( damnatio memoriae ), for example, following Akhenaten's death in Ancient Egypt.

In general, the term modernism encompasses the activities and output of those who felt the " traditional " forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, social organization and daily life were becoming outdated in the new economic, social, and political conditions of an emerging fully industrialized world.

Although the term polymer is sometimes taken to refer to plastics, it actually encompasses a large class of compounds comprising both natural and synthetic materials with a wide variety of properties.

The term which encompasses both, SALW ( Small Arms and Light Weapons ), is used by some organizations working to limit arms proliferation.

The term stuttering is most commonly associated with involuntary sound repetition, but it also encompasses the abnormal hesitation or pausing before speech, referred to by stutterers as blocks, and the prolongation of certain sounds, usually vowels and semivowels.

Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains ; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crişana, Maramureş, and Romanian part of Banat.

Learning in the Workplace and the Community is an umbrella term that encompasses several models of on-the-job assessment and training embedded in the curricula.

the term register can be somewhat confusing as it encompasses several aspects of the human voice.

The term " business " has at least three usages, depending on the scope — the singular usage to mean a particular organization ; the generalized usage to refer to a particular market sector, " the music business " and compound forms such as agribusiness ; and the broadest meaning, which encompasses all activity by the community of suppliers of goods and services.

The term encompasses a number of distinct phenomena, which can be subdivided into

Although the term commonly refers to wireless data transfer mechanisms ( e. g. using radio, hypersonic or infrared systems ), it also encompasses data transferred over other media such as a telephone or computer network, optical link or other wired communications like phase line carriers.

" This recent and limiting redefinition of the term makes it synonymous with a " oner " or a single shot that encompasses an entire scene.

The term encompasses both freshwater and marine species.

The term phytoplankton encompasses all photoautotrophic microorganisms in aquatic food webs.

The term discussion group encompasses both these types of lists and newsgroups.

In Taiwan, the term " mainland " is often used to refer to mainland China ( Hong Kong and Macau excluded ), by the Kuomintang ( KMT, " Chinese Nationalist Party ") and its supporters, who share the view that China encompasses both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

The project had a decompression sickness incidence of 0. 14 % with two workers having long term residual symptoms.

* 1873: Dr. Andrew Smith first utilizes the term " caisson disease " describing 110 cases of decompression sickness as the physician in charge during construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

* " The bends ", the common term used to refer to decompression sickness

The Chinese term liang cha, means cooling tea, and the Chinese drink it to cool down the body when it was overheated due to weather or sickness.

The side of Earth facing the GRB would receive potentially lethal radiation exposure, which can cause radiation sickness in the short term, and in the long term result in serious impacts to life due to ozone layer depletion.

The term ' sleeping sickness ' comes from the symptoms of the neurological phase.

Orgone interested Burroughs particularly because he believed that it could be used to ease or alleviate " junk sickness "— a popular term for heroin withdrawal.

In addition, the third regiment of the brigade, the German Battalion, had shrunk by casualties, sickness, and desertion ( the three-year term of enlistment of its soldiers had expired on June 27 ) to only 100 men, and was parceled out in 25-man companies as flank protection for the expedition.

Geoffroy became abbot at Vigeois ( 1170 – 1184 ) where he composed his Chroniques which trace in detail some great local families ( often Geoffroy's forebears and kin ) while relating events happening from 994 to 1184: the fiery convulsive sickness, actually Ergotism from a fungus or ergot of wheat, the preparations for the First Crusade, reports of combats in the Holy Land, the spread of Cathar beliefs ( writing in 1181, he was the first to use the term " Albigensians "), all the while unconsciously revealing the preoccupations and manners of the times.

The Invalid's Benefit is for someone who has a severe disability, and / or long term sickness, which is paid slightly more than the Sickness Benefit.

The IWO provided very low cost term life insurance, coverage which could be supplemented with additional protection against sickness.

The name of the band was derived from the Japanese term for the radiation sickness that followed the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, following correspondence between Burnett and Toxic Graffity ( sic ) fanzine editor Mike Diboll.

:" Falling sickness " was also an archaic term for epilepsy.

* Extremely long term sickness, for up to 4 years in total, couldn't count against the slave's right to manumission after six years of enslavement

The term " hypoxemic hypoxia " specifies hypoxia caused by low partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood.

Phylloquinone ( K < sub > 1 </ sub >) or menaquinone ( K < sub > 2 </ sub >) are capable of blocking the blood-thinning action of anticoagulants such as warfarin, which work by interfering with the action of vitamin K. They also reverse the tendency of these drugs to cause arterial calcification in the long term.

The term " arterial blood " is nevertheless used to indicate blood high in oxygen, although the pulmonary artery carries " venous blood " and blood flowing in the pulmonary vein is rich in oxygen.

Because it turned out that even this differentiation is not a sharp one, today quite often the term " angiogenesis " is used summarizing all different types and modifications of arterial vessel growth.

In many places in the United States and Canada, municipalities and developers have adapted the term to refer to arterial roads, not necessarily boulevards in the traditional sense.

The mean arterial pressure ( MAP ) is a term used in medicine to describe an average blood pressure in an individual.

In addition, the Blalock-Taussig shunt and the Sano shunt both expose the lungs to systemic arterial pressures, leading in the long term to pulmonary hypertension and eventually to heart failure.

Finally, the term was initially proposed to describe the low blood oxygen seen at high altitude and, had a general, non-technical definition-a defective oxygenation of the blood Current dictionaries and web sites track the original definition, generally defining the term as insufficient oxygenation of the ( arterial ) blood.