| DV | dependent variable; diagnostic variable; difference in volume; digital vibration; dilute volume; dis... |
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| AMWA | American Medical Women's Association; American Medical Writers' Association |
| HTDW | heterosexual development of women |
| SFW | sexual function of women; shell fragment wound; slow-filling wave |
| WIC | walk-in clinic; women, infants, and children |
| DV | Domestic violence |
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| IPV | Intimate partner violence |
| PMW | Postmenopausal women |
| WHI | Women's Health Initiative |
| WIHS | Women's Interagency HIV Study |
| astigmatism against the rule | Astigmatism when the greater curvature or refractive power is in the horizontal meridian. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| violence | 1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. "That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me." (Shak) "All the elements at least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict." (Milton) 2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault. "Do violence to do man." (Luke III. 14) "We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge." (T. Burnet) "Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence." (Milton) 3. Ravishment; rape; constupration. To do violence on, to attack; to murder. "She . . . Did violence on herself." . To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions. Synonym: Vehemence, outrage, fierceness, eagerness, violation, infraction, infringement, transgression, oppression. Origin: F, fr. L. Violentia. See Violent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domestic violence | Deliberate, often repetitive, physical abuse by one family member against another: marital partners, parents, children, siblings, or any other member of a household. (12 Dec 1998) |
| battered women | Women who are physically and mentally abused over an extended period, usually by a husband or other dominant male figure. Characteristics of the battered woman syndrome are helplessness, constant fear, and a perceived inability to escape. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physicians, women | Women licensed to practice medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| women | Of Woman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| women's health | The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of women. (12 Dec 1998) |
| women's health services | Organised services to provide health care to women. It excludes maternal care services for which maternal health services is available. (12 Dec 1998) |
| women's rights | The rights of women to equal status pertaining to social, economic, and educational opportunities afforded by society. (12 Dec 1998) |
| women, working | Women who are engaged in gainful activities usually outside the home. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sexually transmitted diseases in women | Gonorrhoea and chlamydia are bacterial sexually transmitted diseases (stds) frequently found together. Gonorrhoea is not transmitted from toilet seats. Women infected with it may not have any symptoms but can end up later with severe pelvic infection. Early syphilis causes a mouth or genital ulcer (chancre) and later can cause hair loss, headaches, sore throat, and skin rash. Even later, syphilis can lead to heart and brain damage. Genital herpes is a viral infection that can cause painful genital sores. Genital warts are caused by viruses and can increase a woman's risk for cancer of the cervix. Aids is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Hepatitis b is a virus that causes liver inflammation and can lead to cirrhosis and cancer of the liver. Hepatitis b can now be prevented with a vaccine. There is no safe sex. Condoms do not necessarily prevent stds. (12 Dec 1998) |
| stds in women | See Sexually transmitted diseases in women. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dentists, women | Female dentists. (12 Dec 1998) |
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