Category: M

A training course to teach nurses the techniques of being a midwife.  

A professional person who helps a woman give birth to a child, often at home. A person, usually a woman, who assists a woman during pregnancy and childbirth. Most often today, the term refers to a certified nurse-midwife (CNM), who meets training and licensing requirements set by various states. Midwives without formal training or certification,…

Between the two rows of bones that make up the tarsus of the foot.  

A sample of urine collected in a sterile bottle in the middle of a flow of urine, because the first part of the flow may be contaminated with bacteria from the skin.  

An imaginary line drawn down the middle of the body from the head through the navel to the point between the feet. Any line that bisects a structure that is bilaterally symmetrical.  

The middle part of the gut in an embryo, which develops into the small intestine. The middle portion of the embryonic gut, which gives rise to most of the small intestine and part of the large intestine. Early in development it is connected with the yolk sac outside the embryo via the umbilicus. The midportion…

The longest of the five fingers.  

An artery which leads from the superior mesenteric artery.  

Not young and not old, in the middle years of life.  

The centre or central point of something. The waist or stomach area (informal).