must be contacted by the staff in the operating room so that the patientâs post-operative. recovery in a single room either in Variety Ward or ICU can be arranged. 6 Protective Isolation. Protective Isolation is designed to protect patients who are severely immunocompromised.
uk â /Î¸Êm/ us â /Î¸Êm/. B1 the short, thick finger on the side of your hand that makes it possible to hold and pick things up easily. Examples. The thorn was embedded in her thumb. She hit her thumb with the hammer. I gave my thumb quite a nip with the pliers. I sucked my thumb until I was seven.
English dictionaries describe finger as meaning either one of the five digits including the thumb, or one of the four excluding the thumb (in which case they are numbered from 1 to 4 starting with the index finger closest to the thumb).