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A fracture of the distal end of the radius may be accompanied by a fracture of a small fragment of the ulna styloid process. A fracture of the lower end of the radius with displacement of the wrist backwards, usually when someone has stretched out a hand to try to break a fall [After Abraham…

Elongated living cells with variously thickened primary cell walls. A flexible, supporting tissue.  

A program designed to stimulate and promote the part-time employment of students with demonstrated financial need.  

A report that asserts a set of standards that describe what high school students should master before attending college.  

A postsecondary school that offers general or liberal arts education, usually leading to a first degree. Junior colleges or community colleges are included within this terminology. In general, a school offering education beyond the high school level, but most often one that offers academic education leading to the lower-level postsecondary degrees. Two- year colleges (junior…

Ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that are generally spontaneous and unstructured, but largely in agreement.  

In labor relations, a continuing institutional relationship between an employer and a labor organization representing a defined group of employees and concerned with the negotiation, administration, interpretation, and enforcement of written agreements concerning joint understandings as to wages, rates of pay, hours of work, and other conditions of employment. The process of negotiation regarding compensation,…

Circulation of the blood through nearby smaller blood vessels when a major vessel is blocked or damaged, collateral blood vessels. An enlargement of some secondary blood vessels as a response when the main vessels become slowly blocked. An alternative route provided for the blood by secondary vessels when a primary vessel becomes blocked. Circulation established…

Blood vessels that develop around a blocked artery compensate in part for the loss of blood supply to the heart, collateral circulation.  

In law, an attempt to destroy the effect of a judgment by reopening the merits of a case or by showing why the judgment should not have been given, in an action other than that in which the judgment was given.