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Malpractice (medicine) and substitutional (iou)


Malpractice (medicine)


malpractice
Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.

Alternative forms: malepractice.

Origin: Mal- + practice.

Source: Websters Dictionary


substitutional (iou)



substitutional adjective. L18.
[from SUBSTITUTION + -AL1.]
Theology. Of, pertaining to, or based on the principle of sacrificial substitution. L18.
Involving a substitution; constituting or forming a substitute. E19.
b. Metallurgy. Of an alloy: involving the substitution at certain lattice sites of atoms of the minor component for those of the major. M20.
substitutional site a lattice site at which atomic substitution occurs.
substitutionally adverb L19.