Accounting

Accounting

Includes the principles as well as the system of documenting and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results.

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amphetamine

Health care; Psychiatry

A drug with a stimulant effect on the central nervous system that can be both physically and psychologically addictive when overused. This drug has been much abused ...

anhedonia

Health care; Psychiatry

An inability to experience pleasure. A mood abnormality among schizophrenics in which the person's experience of pleasure is reduced. Often experienced by people during major ...

antidepressants

Health care; Psychiatry

Antidepressants are the most prescribed therapy for depression. The exact mechanism of action of antidepressants is unknown. The prevailing theory is that antidepressants increase ...

ecstasy

Health care; Psychiatry

A street name for 3-4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), also called "Adam," "ecstasy," or "XTC" on the street, a synthetic, psychoactive (mind-altering) drug with ...

methadone

Health care; Psychiatry

A synthetic opiate. The most common medical use for methadone is as a legal substitute for heroin in treatment programs for drug addiction. It is usually administered to ...

morphine

Health care; Psychiatry

A powerful narcotic agent with strong analgesic (painkilling) action and other significant effects on the central nervous system. It is dangerously addicting. Morphine is a ...

heroin

Health care; Psychiatry

Semisynthetic drug derived from morphine. Discovered in 1874, it was introduced commercially in 1898 by the Bayer company in Germany. The name heroin was coined from the German ...