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Waiver
An amendment to a regular insurance policy that exempts from coverage certain disabilities normally covered by such a policy. A special permission. In health care, a common usage is exemption of a state from participating in the Medicare program under the prospective payment system (PPS) when the state has presented an alternate method of payment…
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Waive
In law, to renounce or abandon a right.
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Vulvovaginitis
Inflammation of the vulva (the external female genitals) and the vagina. Symptoms include redness, itching, and soreness of the vulva and vagina, sometimes accompanied by a vaginal discharge. Inflammation of the vulva and vagina. It may be due to infection, and may be a presenting feature of late onset diabetes mellitus. Trauma or the presence…
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Vulval tissues
Tissues surrounding the vaginal opening, vulva.
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Vulva
The external genital region of the female. A woman’s external sexual organs, at the opening leading to the vagina. A female’s external genitals, including the mons veneris, the mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic bone; the clitoris, the small organ of sexual stimulation (removed in rare female circumcision) between the pubic bone and the…
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Vulnerability
The capability of being hurt or affected in some way. Vulnerable to harm or infection.
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Vroom expectancy model
A model of motivation that hypothesizes that the strength of needs and motivation depends upon the degree of desire to perform a behavior.
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Voodoo death
The demise of a person in a primitive culture who violates tribal laws or who is cursed by a witch doctor.
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Vomitus
Vomited matter. Expelled food or chyme.
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Vomer
Plowshare. Thin bone forming the lower and back part of the nasal septum. A narrow wafer of bone that forms the inferior part of the nasal septum that continues posteriorly to the cranium, where it joins the sphenoid bone. A thin plate of bone that forms part of the nasal septum. The plow-shaped bone that…
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