procedure
Other forms: procedures
A procedure is a tried and true process or method used to accomplish a particular task. Using sharp metal picks, dentists scrape the plaque from their patients’ teeth. While effective, it’s a procedure most people despise.
The word procedure is often used in the fields of medicine and law, sometimes in combination with other words, as in "surgical procedure" or "legal procedure." A "Parliamentary procedure" is the set of rules that you follow at a meeting of a club or some other organization (not necessarily a House of Parliament). Procedure is also related to the word procedural, which is sometimes used a term for a genre of television drama in which the plot revolves around a technical procedure, like the solving of a police case.
Definitions of procedure
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a particular course of action intended to achieve a result“the procedure of obtaining a driver's license”synonyms: processtypes:Bertillon systema system or procedure for identifying personsfingerprintingthe procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identificationgenetic fingerprinting, genetic profilingthe procedure of analyzing the DNA in samples of a person's body tissue or body fluid for the purpose of identificationemergency procedure(medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency)experimental procedurethe specific techniques used in conducting a particular experimentcalculation, computation, computingthe procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methodsmedical procedurea procedure employed by medical or dental practitionersoperating procedurea procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situationstiffeningthe act of becoming stiffindirectionindirect procedure or actioncondition, experimental conditionthe procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control conditionprenatal diagnosisany of the diagnostic procedures used to determine whether a fetus has a genetic abnormalitydouble-blind experiment, double-blind procedure, double-blind studyan experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experimentcardiac massage, heart massagean emergency procedure that employs rhythmic compression of the heart (either through the chest wall or, during surgery, directly to the heart) in an attempt to maintain circulation during cardiac arrestoperation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical processa medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living bodyartificial respirationan emergency procedure whereby breathing is maintained artificiallycardiography, electrocardiographydiagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram)echocardiographya noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study to structure and motions of the heartechoencephalographya noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study the anatomy of the brainCPR, cardiac resuscitation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, kiss of life, mouth-to-mouth resuscitationan emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygenHeimlich maneuver, Heimlich manoeuverean emergency procedure to help someone who is choking because food is lodged in the tracheatransposition(mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of signnumber crunchingperforming complex and lengthy numerical calculationsmathematical operation, mathematical process, operation(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methodsrecalculationthe act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data)auscultationlistening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)electromyographydiagnosis of neuromuscular disorders with the use of an electromyographmammographya diagnostic procedure to detect breast tumors by the use of X raysthermographydiagnostic technique using a thermograph to record the heat produced by different parts of the body; used to study blood flow and to detect tumorsdental procedurea procedure employed by a dentistSOP, standard operating procedure, standard procedure, standing operating procedurea prescribed procedure to be followed routinelyrat racean exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxationmetarulea rule that describes how other rules should be used (as in AI)algorithm, algorithmic program, algorithmic rulea precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problemheuristic, heuristic program, heuristic rulea commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problemrecursion(mathematics) an expression such that each term is generated by repeating a particular mathematical operationtype of:activityany specific behavior
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a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
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a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedingstypes:objection(law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegalityrecusation(law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the partiestype of:legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings(law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked
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a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer programsynonyms: function, routine, subprogram, subroutinetypes:cataloged procedurea set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by namecontingency procedurean alternative to the normal procedure; triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation ariseslibrary routinea debugged routine that is maintained in a program libraryrandom number generatora routine designed to yield a random numberrecursive routinea routine that can call itselfreusable routinea routine that can be loaded once and executed repeatedlytracing routinea routine that provides a chronological record of the execution of a computer programdump routinea routine that writes from an internal store to some external mediuminput routinea routine that writes from an external source to an internal storeoutput routinea routine that controls an output devicetype of:computer software, package, software, software package, software program, software system(computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory
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