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Neglect, child
Child neglect is the most frequently reported form of child abuse (60% of all cases) and the most lethal. Child neglect is the failure to provide for the shelter, safety, supervision and nutritional needs of the child. Child neglect may be…
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Show more- Curie (Ci) A unit of radioactivity. (Specifically, the quantity of any radioactive nuclide in which the number of…
- Genome, plague See: Plague bacterium genome
- Primordium In embryology, organ or tissue in its earliest recognizable stage of development. As, for example, the…
- MDCT Multidetector computed tomography
- Angiohemophilia See: Von Willebrand disease
- Hyperglycemia Hyperglycemia: A high blood sugar. An elevated level specifically of the sugar glucose in the blood…
- Neuraminidase inhibitor A drug that inhibits the enzyme called neuraminidase. For example, oseltamivir (Tamiflu), an antiinfluenza…
- National Institute for Occupational Safety Health: Known for short as NIOSH, a US Federal agency responsible for conducting research and making…
- Homozygote A person who has two identical forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. For example, a…
- Pinworm infection Pinworm infection: An infection caused by a small, white intestinal worm: the pinworm or, more formally…
- Cholesterol lowering with niacin Niacin or nicotinic acid, one of the water-soluble B vitamins, improves all lipoproteins when given in doses…
- Mongolism Obsolete name for Down syndrome. Down syndrome refers to the 19th century English physician J. Langdon Down…