| MCH | Maternal and Child Health; mean corpuscular hemoglobin; muscle contraction headache |
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| MCHB | maternal and child health bureau |
| MCHS | Maternal and Child Health Service |
| NICHHD | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
| PAC | papular acrodermatitis of childhood; parent-adult-child; pericarditis-arthropathy-camptodactyly [syn... |
D factor
| child, preschool | A child between the ages of 2 and 5. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| child psychiatry | The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders in children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child psychology | The study of normal and abnormal behaviour of children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child reactive disorders | Reactions to an event or set of events which are considered to be of pathological degree, that have not developed into a neurosis, psychosis, or personality disorder with fixed patterns. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child rearing | The training or bringing-up of children by parents or parent-substitutes. It is used also for child rearing practices in different societies, at different economic levels, in different ethnic groups, etc. It differs from parenting in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the child and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behaviour of the parent. (12 Dec 1998) |
| CHILD syndrome | <syndrome> Congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| child, unwanted | The child who is not wanted by one or both parents. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child welfare | Organised efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mother-child relations | Interaction between the mother and the child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hyperactive child syndrome | <psychiatry> A condition seen in children where there is increased motor activity in association with poor attention span. Often treated with amphetamine medications. (27 Sep 1997) |
| only child | Child who has no siblings. (12 Dec 1998) |
| father-child relations | Interaction between the father and the child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| abstracting and indexing | Shortening or summarizing of documents; assigning of descriptors for referencing documents. (12 Dec 1998) |
| academies and institutes | Organizations representing specialised fields which are accepted as authoritative; may be non-governmental, university or an independent research organization, e.g., national academy of sciences, brookings institution, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| accounts payable and receivable | Short-term debt obligations and assets occurring in the regular course of operational transactions. (12 Dec 1998) |