ADVANCE BENEFICIARY NOTICE (ABN) A notice that a doctor or supplier should give a Medicare beneficiary when furnishing an item or service for which Medicare is expected to deny payment. If you do not get an ABN before you get the service from your doctor or supplier, and Medicare does not pay for it, then you probably do not have to pay for it. If the doctor or supplier does give you an ABN that you sign before you get the service, and Medicare does not pay for it, then you will have to pay your doctor or supplier for it.
Chinese Chopping Blocks. The Chinese version of the cutting board, these chopping blocks are better than their Western counterpart, for not only are they anti-bacterial (as studies have proven), but the soft wood also does not dull knife blades like harder woods and plastics.
Origin of the word. The English word chopstick seems to come from Chinese Pidgin English, a pidgin where chop chop meant quickly. The Mandarin Chinese word for chopsticks is kuÃ izi (ç­·å­). It is a word made of different parts; it has the phonetic part of å¿«, which means quick, and a semantic part, ç«¹, meaning bamboo. In Chinese, the old word for chopsticks, and also in some varieties of modern Chinese such as Hokkien, was zhÃ¹ (MC: dÌªjwo-) (ç®¸ Pinyin:zhÃ¹, Minnan: tÄ«).