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ACNM
The American College of Nurse-Midwives. See: Nurse-midwife
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- Jugular vein The jugular veins are in the neck and drain blood from the head, brain, face and neck and convey it toward…
- Normal range By convention, the normal range for whatever (a particular test, condition, symptom, behavior, etc.) is set…
- Counseling, genetic An educational counseling process for individuals and families who have a genetic disease or who are at risk…
- Lens, objective In a microscope, the objective lens is the lens nearest to the object being examined whereas the lens closest…
- Condyloma latum A manifestation of the secondary stage of syphilis that takes the form of broad flat wartlike growths in…
- Hammer The malleus
- Leon virus Type 3 poliovirus. Named after the patient in California from whom this virus was first isolated. There are…
- Plasma The liquid part of the blood and lymphatic fluid, which makes up about half of its volume. Plasma is devoid…
- Renal Having to do with the kidney. From the Latin renes (the kidneys), which gave the French les reins which mean…
- Abuse, child Child abuse is a very complex and dangerous set of problems that include child neglect and the physical…
- Subjacent Just beneath or underneath. The opposite of subjacent is superjacent. Other related terms include adjacent…