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Nurse-midwifery
The practice engaged in by a nurse-midwife
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- Androgen suppression Treatment designed to suppress or block the production of male hormones. Androgen suppression can be achieved…
- Acrocentric chromosome A chromosome (one of the microscopically visible carriers of the genetic material DNA) with its centromere…
- AK 1. Above the knee. 2. Acanthamoeba keratitis. 3. Actinic keratosis
- Intersexual genitalia Genitalia that are neither typically female nor typically male. Known in clinical medicine as ambiguous…
- Mg Abbreviation for milligram, a unit of measurement of mass in the metric system equal to a thousandth of a…
- Facial nerve paralysis Loss of voluntary movement of the muscles on one side of the face due to abnormal function of the facial…
- Nerve, sixth cranial The sixth cranial nerve is the abducent nerve, a small motor nerve that has one task: to supply a muscle…
- Pneuma The life-giving principle. According to the school of medicine in ancient Alexandria, life was associated…
- Pathogen, special See: Special pathogen
- Wesand See: Weasand
- Inheritance, mitochondrial The type of hereditary pattern seen when there is more than one genetic factor involved and, sometimes, when…