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Ch. 6.
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Advocate | One who pleads the cause of another; one who defends or maintains a cause or proposal |
Allocating | Apportioning for a specific perpose or explanation |
Annotations | Notes added by way of comment os explanation |
Beneficence | The act of doing or producing good, especially performing acts of charity or kindness |
Clinical Trials | Research studies that test how well new medical treatments or other interventions work the subjects, usually human beings |
Disparities | Marked differences or distinctions |
Deposition | The tendency of somthing or someone to act in the subjects, usually human beings |
Duty | Obligatory tasks, onduct, service, or functions that arise from one's position, as in life or in death |
Euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy. |
Fidelity | Faithfulness to something to which one is bound by pledge or duty |
Gametes | Mature male and female germ cells, usually possessing a haploid chromasome set and capable of initiating formation of a new diploid individual; a sex cell, weather sperm or ovum |
Genome | The Genetic material of an organism |
Idealism | The practice of forming ideas or living under the influence of ideas. |
Impaired | Being in a less-than-perfect or less-that-whole condition; inculdes having handicaps or functional defacts and being under the influence of drugs, alcohol, and/or controlled substance. |
Infertile | Not fertile or productive; not capable of reproducing |
Introspection | An inward, reflective examination of one's own thoughts and feelings |
Nonmsleficence | Refraining from the act of harming or commiting evil |
Opinions | Formal expressions of judgement or advice by an expert; formal expressions of the legal reasons and principles on which a legal decicion is based |
Philosopher | A person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment; and expounder of a theory in a certain area of experience |
Postmortem | Done, collected, or certain area of experience |
Procurement | To get possession of, to obtain by particular car and effort |
Public Domain | The realm embracing proper rights the belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyright or patent, and are subject to use or appropriation by anyone |
Remifications | Consequences produced by a cause or following form a set of condidtions |
Reparations | Amends, acts of atonement, or satisfaction given as a result of a wrong or injury |
Sociolgic | Oriented or directed toward social needs and problems |
Surrogate | A substitutes; to put in place of another |
Unigue Identifiers | Codes usd instead of names to protect the confidentiality of the patient in a method of anonymous HIV |
Veracity | A devotion to or conformity with the truth |