L& E-Chapt 14-15-16 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Concepts | General term referring to any product of conception |
Infanticide | A type of homicide consisting of killing the newborn |
Mitosis | The process by which the cell splits into two new cells, each having the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell. |
Ovum | The female germ cell |
Quickening | The first perceptible movement of the fetus in the uterus |
Spermatozoon | The male germ cell |
Therapeutic Abortion | Abortion performed to preserve the life of health of the mother |
Zygote | The fertilized ovum; the cell produced by the union of gametes |
Code Red | Medical slang indicating a life-or-death emergency |
Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care | Sometimes called medical proxy; the legal right to act on another s behalf in making health care decisions |
Euthanasia | From the Greek for "Good death", willfully causing or allowing death to keep a person with incurable disease from suffering, more commonly used today to express active euthanasia |
Living Will | Legal document, voluntarily made by an adult, stating what treatment and procedures that person wants done in the event of a terminal illness, especially when the person is comatose or incompetent |
Patient Self-Determination Act | Federal law requiring institutions giving medical care to inform client of their option to use advance directives such as living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care |
Physician's Directive | A state's response to the living will; called the Natural Death Act |
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