(n.) One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
(n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
Example Sentences:
(1) With the aid of 25 medical terms familiar to a layman, basic medical knowledge of the patient was tested.
(2) When he went on to begin a sentence with the words, "In my layman's understanding ... " Nel pounced and said: "You see, Mr Dixon, now you call yourself a layman."
(3) Quantum pioneer: Paul Dirac Moreover, there is a feeling, hard to convey to the layman but shared by many experienced theorists, that these ideas all hang together.
(4) An article written for the layman presents information on oral contraception, the IUD, the vaginal diaphragm, the condom, and foam.
(5) To some extent, a real effort must be made to educate the professional as well as the layman to face the diagnosis of cancer without evasion and go forward from there.
(6) Only in one-quarter was it very conspicuous even to the layman.
(7) If nothing else, this layman's take on society's ills reminds us that politics is not theirs – it's ours.
(8) The study of Lichtenstein, Slovic, Fischhoff, Layman, and Combs reports several types of errors in subjects' frequency judgments of lethal events.
(9) Being a layman, all I had to go by was the height – between four and a half and five feet tall.
(10) For the novice and layman such a question opens usually Pandora's box of reply.
(11) A knowledge of the layman's illness concepts is of value both for diagnosis and therapy in the practical application of the medical services.
(12) Even a layman can tell what made Albert Einstein famous as a scientist.
(13) To investigate the layman's knowledge, perception and attitudes regarding normal body temperature, fever, infections and the effect of penicillin on virus infections a representative sample of the Norwegian population (619 women and 592 men over the age of 15) was interviewed in 1988 as part of a monthly national opinion poll.
(14) A 31-year-old male has been "bulls-eyed" by a car and we're in the air ambulance, flying out from the Royal London hospital to a suburban street, where the man lies in a twisted, bloodied heap with his feet pointing in what even a layman would identify as the wrong direction.
(15) Photograph: Getty The layman's term for this sort of offer is: a joke.
(16) In addition, they were questioned about therapeutic wishes if primary resuscitation with ventilation and cardiac massage were administered by a layman.
(17) The surgeon uses elementary mathematics just as much as any other educated layman.
(18) The imminent availability of inexpensive ultrasonic scanners for the layman is a worrying prospect to which the medical profession should now try to develop a prudent response.
(19) In order for a patient to give an informed consent for a procedure, he or she needs to understand the risks, benefits and consequences of the procedure explained in layman's terms.
(20) He later added: "As a layman I would now say I think we have it" – meaning the Higgs.
Specialist
Definition:
(n.) One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(4) Greater knowledge about these disorders and closer working relationships with mental health specialists should lead to decreased morbidity and mortality.
(5) The Future Forum is a group of 57 health sector specialists chaired by the Professor Steve Field, the former chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
(6) The system is being exploited by population specialists, demographers, medical demographers and epidemiologists, both nationally and internationally, both for analytical purposes and as part of health monitoring systems.
(7) Management of these patients was difficult and emphasizes the need for specialist expertise for patients with epilepsy and apparent epilepsy.
(8) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
(9) And it comes as members of the European parliament in Brussels plan to establish a specialist group to campaign in favour of carbon divestment and demand new carbon reporting requirements.
(10) Therefore, rehabilitation specialists should treat patients who had brain strokes, taking into consideration the localization of the lesion focus and promote the use of techniques directed toward a correction of specific right hemispheric defects.
(11) An examination involving British specialists confirmed they were from Iran.
(12) Cecil Laguardia is an emergency specialist at World Vision
(13) The emergence of consultation psychiatry as an important psychiatric subspecialty is in part due to the siting of psychiatric units in general hospitals, the manifest advances in medical technology and the increasing elderly population needing specialist care.
(14) A questionnaire was answered by 542 health professionals (392 general practitioners, 20 specialist oncologists, and 130 oncology nurses).
(15) Mandela was admitted to a hospital in Johannesburg yesterday and South African media report that he has been seen by a specialist pulmonologist who treats respiratory disorders.
(16) The trip raised millions for Comic Relief but prompted some uncharitable headlines after it emerged in July that Parfitt had billed the taxpayer £541.83 for "specialist clothing" – and a further £26.20 for the cost of picking it up in a cab.
(17) The results suggest that this relationship contributed to changes in health care utilization, including reductions in use of emergency rooms, specialists, and nonphysician providers and some increase in the likelihood of obtaining care from a primary care physician.
(18) This paper presents strategies for the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in the school setting in case management of migrant children with dental disease.
(19) Providing accessible, effective health care to this population in the face of today's economic climate is a problem facing community health clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) with increasing frequency.
(20) In the meantime, it is accepted that many hospitals have to provide the best treatment they can without access to the specialist knowledge and equipment which may be available elsewhere.