HMO Definition

āchĕm-ō
noun
A healthcare system in which an organization hires medical professionals and operates medical facilities to provide a wide range of specified services to prepaid subscribers.
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abbreviation

(US, medicine) Health Maintenance Organization.

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(UK) Home of Multiple Occupation - a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers.
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prefix
(medicine) Alternative spelling of haemo-.
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Other Word Forms of HMO

Noun

Singular:
HMO
Plural:
hmos

Origin of HMO

  • h(ealth) m(aintenance) o(rganization)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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