Author: Glossary
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Risk for impaired parenting
Risk for inability of the primary caretaker to create, maintain, or regain an environment that promotes the optimum growth and development of the child.
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Impaired parenting
Inability of the primary caretaker to create an environment that promotes the optimum growth and development of the child.
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Parenteral therapy
A medicine or solution administered via a route other than ingestion.
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Parental leave
The policy of allowing one or both parents to have leave from work following the birth of their child.
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Parental consent
Permission granted to a health care provider by a child’s mother or father for health care services.
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Parenchymatous
Concerning the essential tissues of an organ.
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Parenchymatitis
Inflammation of the parenchyma or substance of a gland.
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Parencephalous
A fetus with imperfect development of the cranium.
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Parencephalocele
Herniation of the cerebellum through a defect in the cranium.
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Parazoon
An animal that lives as a parasite on another animal.