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6 relations: Blood substitute, Genetics of obesity, Heavy metals, Maternal death, Maternal near miss, Xenon.
Blood substitute
A blood substitute (also called artificial blood or blood surrogate) is a substance used to mimic and fulfill some functions of biological blood.
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Genetics of obesity
Like many other medical conditions, obesity is the result of an interplay between environmental and genetic factors.
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Heavy metals
Heavy metals are generally defined as metals with relatively high densities, atomic weights, or atomic numbers.
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Maternal death
Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes." There are two performance indicators that are sometimes used interchangeably: maternal mortality ratio and maternal mortality rate, which confusingly both are abbreviated "MMR".
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Maternal near miss
A maternal near miss (MNM) is an event in which a pregnant woman comes close to maternal death, but does not die – a "near-miss".
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Xenon
Xenon is a chemical element with symbol Xe and atomic number 54.
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