| HWB | hot water bottle |
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| SBS | shaken baby syndrome; short bowel syndrome; sick building syndrome; sinobronchial syndrome; small bo... |
| WBC | well baby care/clinic; white blood cell; white blood cell count; whole blood cell count |
| FTP | Failure To Progress, where dilation stalls or labor does not progress fast enough in the provider's ... |
| BHK-21 | Baby hamster kidney cells |
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| BRK | Baby rat kidney |
| SBS | Shaken Baby syndrome |
| SCBU | Special Care Baby Unit |
| nursing bottle caries | Rampant caries of the primary dentition associated with the habitual use, after age 1, of a baby bottle as an aid for sleeping. Synonym: baby bottle syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| syndrome, floppy baby | Floppy baby syndrome is a general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifest by inadequate tone of the muscles. Hypotonia (inadequately toned muscles resulting in floppiness) in the newborn period and infancy can be due to a multitude of different neurologic and muscle problems. (12 Dec 1998) |
| test-tube baby | Popular term for a baby born after uterine implantation of a maternal ovum fertilised in vitro. (05 Mar 2000) |
| floppy baby syndrome | <syndrome> A general medical reference to an abnormal condition of newborns and infants manifest by inadequate tone of the muscles. Hypotonia (inadequately toned muscles resulting in floppiness) in the newborn period and infancy can be due to a multitude of different neurologic and muscle problems. (12 Dec 1998) |