- Industry: Health care
- Number of terms: 8622
- Number of blossaries: 1
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No longer routinely administered in hospitals for laboring women, an enema empties the bowels.
Industry:Parenting
In pregnancy, a laceration refers to a tear in the perineal area that occurs during childbirth.
Industry:Parenting
Insulin regulates the level of glucose in the blood and ensures that enough is taken in by the body cells for nourishment.
Industry:Parenting
Diseases communicable by sexual relations, such as gonorrhea, syphilis, genital warts, chlamydia, trichomoniasis, HIV, hepatitis B, and human papillomavirus (HPV).
Industry:Parenting
Drugs that make a person unconscious and unable to feel pain. General anesthesia is sometimes used for emergency cesarean sections.
Industry:Parenting
