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custodial care

1. care rendered to a patient with prolonged mental or physical disability that includes assisted daily living (e.g., the regular feeding and washing of bedridden patients) but typically not mental health services themselves.

2. confinement in such institutions as prisons and military correctional facilities that place restrictions on individuals’ liberty under the rules of law and that protect and monitor the individual or protect others from the individual’s violent and harmful tendencies or potential.

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May 9th 2024

on-center ganglion cell

on-center ganglion cell

a retinal ganglion cell that is excited by light in the center of its receptive field but is inhibited by light in the surround. See also on response. Compare off-center ganglion cell.