Activities which are essential for daily living, such as self care, mobility and communication.
A concept of functioning – activities of daily living are basic activities that are necessary to independent living, including eating, bathing and toileting. This concept has several assessment tools to determine an individual’s ability to perform the activity with or without assistance. See related “instrumental activities of daily living (IADL)”.... activities of daily living (adl)
Activities with aspects of cognitive and social functioning, including shopping, cooking, doing housework, managing money and using the telephone. See also “activities of daily living (ADLs)”.... instrumental activities of daily living (iadl)
(ADLs) the tasks of everyday life. Basic ADLs include self-care tasks, such as bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, toileting, and moving. Instrumental ADLs include housework, shopping, managing finances, taking medication, and cooking. Inability to perform ADLs is a practical measure of disability in many disorders; problems are much more prevalent in the elderly.... activities of daily living
adj. describing the characteristic radiographic appearance of a *stricture of the large bowel resulting from the presence of a cancer, observed in a double-contrast barium enema study. The bowel is narrow with an irregular outline and the ends of the stricture are ‘shouldered’, giving the appearance of an apple core after eating the fleshy portion of the fruit. This contrasts with smooth tapering strictures, which are commonly benign.... apple-core
Health Encyclopedia