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A method of rote learning employing a serial list in which the person must respond with the next item on the list, serial learning.  

A chemical contraceptive. The first 15 pills taken in any given menstrual cycle contain synthetic estrogen, the remaining five or six contain both estrogen and progestogen. The estrogen inhibits ovulation, while the progestogen prepares the uterus for a menstrual flow.  

Analysis of biochemicals in the blood by use of a computer.  

A plan for the ordering of organizing elements either vertically or horizontally for any one course or sequence, scope. A series of things, numbers etc., which follow each other in order.  

A reservoir in a sewage disposal system where bacterial digestion liquefies solid waste, cesspool.  

Shock developing in the presence of, and as a result of, severe infection. Shock caused by bacterial toxins in the blood as a result of infection. There is a dramatic drop in blood pressure, preventing the delivery of blood to the organs. Toxic shock syndrome is one type of septic shock. The end result of…

A hymen with two or more openings. A hymen in which the opening is separated by a thin septum.  

A triangular double membrane separating anterior horns of lateral ventricles of the brain.  

A heart defect in which there is an unnatural opening in the wall of the tissue that divides the heart into right and left sides. A congenital condition in which a hole exists in the wall between the left and right sides of the heart allowing an excessive amount of blood to flow through the…

An arrangement by which a husband and wife live apart and separately by mutual agreement. May be a prelude to divorce. The act of separating or dividing two or more people or things, or the state of being separated. A term used in Canada to mean the same as patient “discharge” in the U.S. It…