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Maternal mortality rate
The number of maternal deaths related to childbearing divided by the number of live births (or by the number of live births + fetal deaths) in that year. The maternal mortality rate in the United States in 1993 (and 1994) was 0.1 per 1,000…
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Show more- Round window The membrane separating the inner ear and middle ear. The tympanum (eardrum) separates the middle ear and…
- Corpse A dead body. The term corpse is more often used in in mystery stories than in medicine which, for obscure…
- Jejunostomy A surgical operation to create an opening of the jejunum (a part of the (a part of the small intestine) to a…
- Myeloid Referring to the nonlymphocytic groups of white blood cells, including the granulocytes, monocytes and…
- Disease, Hodgkin (Hodgkin lymphoma) A disease of the lymph nodes named after the English physician Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866) who discovered it…
- Dementia complex, AIDS See: AIDS dementia complex
- Keratosis A localized horny overgrowth of the upper layer of skin such as a callus or wart. Among the common forms of…
- DSM Abbreviation for the 'Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,' a comprehensive classification…
- Syndrome, paraneoplastic See: Paraneoplastic syndrome
- Starttheweekendearlyitis See: Fridayitis
- African American An American of black African descent. The term may also be written with a hyphen as African-American. The…
- Polyclonal Derived from different cells. As opposed to monoclonal