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An international organization of professional social workers.  

A trade association of professionals who provide course work and training for health care professionals who want to study how to assess and manage health care crises.  

An intelligence test in which subjects are asked to read and pronounce words with unusual spellings.  

An international health, fitness and sports medicine organization offering evidence-based education, training, certification, and advanced specialization programs to qualified athletic and health care professionals.  

Rate of stillbirths in proportion to birth rate.  

The birth rate; the ratio of births to population of a given community.  

Inspection of the nasopharynx and posterior nares. A diagnostic technique that investigates the nasal passages and pharynx using a specialized instrument equipped with an optical system.  

Device used to visualize the nasal passage and pharynx.  

Contraction of mentalis muscle with elevation of lower lip and wrinkling of skin of chin. The reflex is elicited by percussion of the side of the nose.  

A tube passed through the nose into the jejunum for formula feeding.