Hospice care is multidisciplinary and includes home visits, professional health care available on call, teaching and emotional support of the family, and physical care of the client. Some hospice programs provide care in a center, as well as in the home or in a nursing home. Hospice also offers bereavement counseling for the family. See also emotional care of the dying patient, stages of dying.
a brittle, lustrous, white metallic element occurring in nature free or combined, used chiefly in alloys and in compounds in medicine. Symbol: Sb; atomic number: 51; atomic weight: 121.75. Origin of antimony Expand.
Parsimony (Molecular Biology). Parsimony is one of the principles of phylogenetic tree reconstruction in which the phylogeny of a group of species or genes is inferred to be the branching pattern that requires the smallest number of evolutionary changes (1).he merit of using the parsimony principle is that we can infer the amino acid or nucleotide sequences of all the intermediate stages in the continuous lineage between the ancestor and the present species. The intermediate stages may be trustworthy, however, only when closely-related genes are compared.