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Mourning
The process by which people adapt to a loss as, for example, the death of someone near and dear. Mourning is influenced by cultural customs, rituals, and society's rules for coping with loss
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- Naris One of the two nares, the openings to the nasal cavities that allow air to flow in and out or, more simply, a…
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- Triage The process of sorting people based on their need for immediate medical treatment as compared to their chance…
- Dementia Dementia: Significant loss of intellectual abilities such as memory capacity, severe enough to interfere with…
- Chromaesthesia See: Chromesthesia
- Childbed fever Fever due to an infection usually of the placental site within the uterus. The fever is also called…
- TIPS TIPS stands for 'transjugular, intrahepatic, portosystemic shunt.' It is a shunt (tube) placed between the…
- Corticotropin-releasing hormone A hormone made by the hypothalamus that stimulates the release of corticotropin by the anterior pituitary…