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.
1. hiccup (n.). (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion.