Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Participatory research
A community process in which a group of people takes an active role in defining its own health needs and devising means to meet them, including setting priorities for public health, controlling health-enhancing techniques, and evaluating results.
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Medical research
Research concerned with any phase of medical science.
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Clinical research
Research based mainly on bedside observation of the patient rather than on laboratory work.
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Abdominal rescue
Emergency cesarean delivery of a fetus jeopardized during labor or failed vaginal birth. Indications for surgical intervention include fetal distress associated with dystocia, arrested descent, abruptio placentae, or umbilical cord prolapse.
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Request for production of documents and things
A discovery technique in which the plaintiff or defendant requests in a written form that the other party furnish information pertaining to the issues of the lawsuit.
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Reptilase time
A test that is used to identify hypofibrinogenemia or dysfibrinogenemia in plasma.
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Reproductive tract infection
An infection of the genital organs as a result of a sexually transmitted disease, a medical error, or overgrowth of the reproductive organs by bacteria or fungi.
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Reproductive age
In women, those years of life between menarche and menopause, roughly from ages 12 to 49. The term is imprecise, since some women can become pregnant and bear children at younger or older ages. In men, those years between the onset of puberty and loss of fertility.
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Somatic reproduction
Asexual reproduction by cloning of somatic cells.
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Reproducibility
The quality of being provable again by repeated experimentation.
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