Market - On the Stock Market, trading which takes place between members before the official opening time.

existing condition - A medical problem or illness you had before applying for health care coverage.

Existing Condition - A coverage limitation included in many health policies which states that certain physical or mental conditions, either previously diagnosed or which would normally be expected to [..]

word-forming element meaning "before," from Old French pre- and Medieval Latin pre-, both from Latin prae (adverb and preposition) "before in time or place," from PIE *peri- (sourc [..]

PRE is a white balance mode incorporated into certain Nikon cameras that allows you to record and recall a custom white balance setting. It is useful when you are shooting under mixed lighting conditi [..]

Admission Approval or Certification - An agreement by your insurance company to pay for your medical treatment. Doctors and hospitals ask your insurance company for this approval before providing your [..]

CLINICAL STUDIES - Tests occurring prior to clinical studies, usually in vitro or in vivo involving animals. The purpose of these studies is to determine the safety and efficacy of the test material.

1 a : earlier than : prior to : before [premarital] [prejudgment] b : preparatory or prerequisite to [prehearing] 2 : in advance : beforehand [prepay]

industrial - The period before the industrial revolution.

before, in front of

Morbid Condition - Characteristics of an individual present before the disease or injury occurred. [Click Here To Return To List]

Screening - The process of reviewing all available pertinent data on referrals to determine the need for additional information. [Click Here To Return To List]

Existing Condition - A health condition or medical problem that you already have before you sign up to receive insurance. Some health insurers may not pay for health conditions you already have.

Authorization: Most group medical policies require that patients contact the insurer prior to a non-emergency hospitalization or surgery and receive authorization.

Partial Redundancy Elimination - Partial redundancy elimination (PRE) is a compiler optimization that eliminates expressions that are redundant on some but not necessarily all paths through a program. [..]

Emptive Multitasking - Pre-emptive multitasking, also known as preemptive multithreading, is a form of multitasking where the scheduler can interrupt and suspend ("swap out") the currently r [..]

emergence - Term used in reference to treatments, e.g., treatment made before weed seedlings emerge from the soil.

requisite unit - a unit that you must pass before you can do another, usually more advanced, unit.

sessional - denotes an activity which takes place before the start of the session, during the summer vacation, e.g. pre-sessional English language courses for international students.

MORBID - the condition of the patient before the onset of the present symptoms.     

LOAD: To load before applying a different load as with the Isky UltraRev Kit which pre-loads the roller tappets to the cam lobe to keep them in constant contact.

Claims Assistance (PCA) - Formerly a Request for Collection Assistance, activities that guaranty agencies were required to perform to encourage repayment by borrowers with delinquent student loans. PCA was replaced by Default Aversion Assistance on February 15, 1999.

PASTING - A technique for applying paste to the surface of posters in the plant rather than in the field.

PRE is a white balance mode incorporated into certain Nikon cameras that allows you to record and recall a custom white balance setting. It is useful when you are shooting under mixed lighting conditi [..]

Existing Condition - A coverage limitation included in many health policies which states that certain physical or mental conditions, either previously diagnosed or which would normally be expected to require treatment prior to issue, will not be covered under the new policy for a specified period of time.

existing Condition: A medical condition that required treatment during a fixed period of time, usually 3 or 6 months, before you purchased your insurance policy.

Certification - Sometimes required by the patients insurance company to determine medical necessity for the services proposed or rendered. This doesn't guarantee the benefits will be paid.

existing Condition (PEC) - A medical condition that has been diagnosed or treated within a certain specified period of time just before the patients effective date of coverage. A Pre-existing conditio [..]

existing Condition Exclusion - When insurance coverage is denied for the insured when a pre-existing medical condition existed when the health plan coverage became effective.

heat

Preset

precommission

strike-sweep - A sweep flown in advance of an attack force to clean the area of enemy fighters.

Set of games before the competitive, domestic fixtures begin and a time period in which players return to training before the new season starts to get their fitness back to the appropriate level.

before, in front

PREs are coherent areas of heavy rainfall that occur well in advance of tropical cyclones (TCs), and are separate from the main precipitation shields. PREs tend to develop along pre-existing frontal b [..]

Abbreviation for the Preparatory School.