The integration of acute care with preventive and primary care completes a health-care system paradigm that fully encompasses all essential aspects of health care delivery. The predominant conceptual framework divides health problems into communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases and injuries.
tense - in or of a state of physical or nervous tension. adjective (Informal) tense, wired (slang), anxious, neurotic, uneasy, prickly, edgy, on the defensive, on edge, nervy (Brit. informal) Penny never got uptight about exams. adjective.
Definition of 'hiccup'. hiccup. You can refer to a small problem or difficulty as a hiccup, especially if it does not last very long or is easily put right. A recent sales hiccup is nothing to panic about. Despite the occasional hiccup, the U.S. and Laos have had quite cordial relations.