must be contacted by the staff in the operating room so that the patientâs post-operative. recovery in a single room either in Variety Ward or ICU can be arranged. 6 Protective Isolation. Protective Isolation is designed to protect patients who are severely immunocompromised.
The thumb is the first digit of the hand. When a person is standing in the medical anatomical position (where the palm is facing to the front), the thumb is the outermost digit. The Medical Latin English noun for thumb is pollex (compare hallux for big toe), and the corresponding adjective for thumb is pollical.
Definition of ârule of thumbâ - English Dictionary. See all translations. C1 a practical and approximate way of doing or measuring something: A good rule of thumb is that a portion of rice is two handfuls. (Definition of ârule of thumbâ from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus Â© Cambridge University Press)