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.
antimonynoun [ U ] âº a chemical element that is a silver-white, poisonous metal. It is hard but easily broken and is used to make other metals harder and stronger and to make semiconductors for computers. Great harm was done by the abuse of antimony, but then great harm is done by the abuse of anything, no matter how good it may be.