| american dental association | Professional society representing the field of dentistry. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| american heart association | A voluntary organization concerned with the prevention and treatment of heart and vascular diseases. (12 Dec 1998) |
| american hospital association | A professional society in the united states whose membership is composed of hospitals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| american medical association | Professional society representing the field of medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| american nurses' association | Professional society representing the field of nursing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| american speech-language-hearing association | A professional society concerned with the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and remediation of speech, language, and hearing disorders. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tissue banks | Centres for acquiring, characterizing, and storing organs or tissue for future use. (12 Dec 1998) |
| biological specimen banks | Centres for collecting, storing, and distributing human or other animal material or tissues for future use by other individuals, as blood banks, bone banks, eye banks, milk banks, skin banks, sperm banks, and tissue banks. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blood banks | Centres for collecting, characterizing and storing human blood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bone banks | Centres for acquiring, characterizing, and storing bones or bone tissue for future use. (12 Dec 1998) |
| milk banks | Centres for acquiring, storing, and distributing human milk. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sperm banks | Centres for acquiring and storing semen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| eye banks | Centres for storing various parts of the eye for future use. (12 Dec 1998) |
| American Cancer Society | <address, organisation> American Cancer Society, National Headquarters, 1599 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30329 USA. Tel: 00 1 404 320-3333 (05 Feb 1998) |
| American Law Institute formulation | Used in certain jurisdictions to determine criminal responsibility in legal proceedings. See: criminal insanity. (05 Mar 2000) |