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Medical Seminar YBI
Chapter 6 Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Advocate | one who pleads the cause of another |
| Allocating | apportioning for a sepcific purpose or to a particular person or things |
| Annotations | notes added by way of comment or 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 in the subjects, usually human beings |
| Disparities | marked differences or distinctions |
| Disposition | the tendency of something or someone to act in a certain manner under given circumstances |
| Duty | obligatory tasks, conduct, service, or functions that arise from one's position, as in life or in a group |
| Euthanasia | the act or practiec of killing or permitting death of the 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 or female germ cells, usually possessing a haploid chromosome set and capable or initiating formation of a new diploid individual |
| 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 state or less than whole condition |
| Infertile | not fertile or productive |
| Introspection | an inward, reflective examination of one own thoughts or feelings |
| Justice | with regard to medical ethics, the fair distribution of benefits and burdens among invidividuals or groups in society with legitimate claims on those benefits |
| Nonmaleficence | refraining from the act of harming or committing evil |
| Opinions | formal expressions of judgement or advice by an expert, formal expressions of the legal reasons and principles on which a legal decision is based |
| Philospher | a person who seeks wisdom or enlightenment, an expounder of a theory in a certain area of experience |
| Postmortem | done, collected, or occuring after death |
| Procurement | to get possession of, to obtain, by particular care of effort |
| public domain | The realm embracing property rights that belong to the community at large, are unprotected by copyrights or patent, and are subject to use or appropriation by anyone |
| ramifications | Consequence produced by a cause or following from a set of conditons |
| reparations | amends, acts of atonement,or satisfaction given as a result of a wrong o injury |
| sociologic | Oriented or directed toward socal needs and problems |
| surrogate | A subtitute, to put in place of another |
| uniquque identifiers | codes used instead of names to protect the confidentiality of patient in a manor of anonymous HIV testing |
| veracity | a devotion to or conformity with the truth |
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