| child, abandoned | A child who is deserted by parents or parent substitutes without regard for its future care. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| abandoned | 1. Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." 2. Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain. Synonym: Profligate, dissolute, corrupt, vicious, depraved, reprobate, wicked, unprincipled, graceless, vile. Abandoned, Profligate, Reprobate. These adjectives agree in expressing the idea of great personal depravity. Profligate has reference to open and shameless immoralities, either in private life or political conduct; as, a profligate court, a profligate ministry. Abandoned is stronger, and has reference to the searing of conscience and hardening of heart produced by a man's giving himself wholly up to iniquity; as, a man of abandoned character. Reprobate describes the condition of one who has become insensible to reproof, and who is morally abandoned and lost beyond hope of recovery. " God gave them over to a reprobate mind." (Rom. I. 28) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| battered child syndrome | <radiology> Multiple assymetrical fractures, separation of distal epiphyses, irregularity and fragmentation of metaphyses, bucket-handle fracture, corner fracture of elbow, knee, ankle (sudden twisting motion), isolated spiral fracture, extensive periosteal reaction (subperiosteal haemorrhage), exuberant callus formation, cortical hyperostosis extending to epiphyseal plate, avulsion fracture at ligamentous insertion, subdural haematoma (most common), brain atrophy (up to 100%), infarction (50%), subdural hygroma, encephalomalacia, porencephaly (12 Dec 1998) |
| parent-child relations | The interactions between parent and child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal-child health centres | Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to mothers and children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal-child nursing | The nursing specialty that deals with the care of women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth and the care of their newborn children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vulnerable child syndrome | <syndrome> A reaction characterised by disturbance in psychosocial development, often occurring in children whose parents expect them to die prematurely. (05 Mar 2000) |
| child | A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is child, preschool. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child abuse | Abuse of children in a family, institutional, or other setting. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child abuse, sexual | Sexual maltreatment of the child or minor. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child advocacy | Promotion and protection of the rights of children; frequently through a legal process. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child behaviour | Any observable response or action of a child from 24 months through 12 years of age. For neonates or children younger than 24 months, infant behaviour is available. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child behaviour disorders | Disturbances considered to be pathological based on age and stage appropriateness, e.g., conduct disturbances and anaclitic depression. This concept does not include psychoneuroses, psychoses, or personality disorders with fixed patterns. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child care | Care of children in the home or institution. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child custody | The formally authorised guardianship or care of a child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child day care centres | Facilities which provide care for pre-school and school-age children. (12 Dec 1998) |