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AMA

 
American Medical Association.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

AMA

Abbreviation for American Medical Association.
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AMA

abbr.
American Medical Association
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ama

Ayurvedic medicine
A physiologic impurity in the ayurvedic construct.

Medspeak
Abbreviation for “against medical advice”. The self-discharge of a patient from a healthcare facility, contrary to what his or her physician(s) perceive to be in the patient’s best interests

AMA

Abbreviation for:
acute metabolic acidosis
acute metabolic alkalosis
advanced maternal age
against medical advise (usually abbreviated in lower case, ama) (Medspeak-UK)
American Medical Association
anterior mesenteric artery
antimitochondrial antibody
antimyosin antibodies
antithyroid microsomal antibody
Association of Metropolitan Authorities (Medspeak-UK)
Australian Medical Association
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AMA

1. American Medical Association, see there.
2. Aerospace Medical Association.
3. Against medical advice, see ama.
4. Alternative Medical Association.
5. Antimitochondrial antibodies, see there.

ama

Against medical advice The self-discharge of a Pt from a health care facility, contrary to what his/her physician(s) perceive to be in the Pt's best interests. See Good Pt.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

AMA

Abbreviation for American Medical Association.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah is from Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University, KM 22 Lekki-Epe Expressway Lagos, Nigeria.
The negative relationship between the availability of 'work and family 'friendly policies and 'family and work' conflict is an indication that there is potential benefit when employers invest in such policies (Amah 2010).
In "Ayi Kwei Armah and a Commonwealth of Souls", Henry Chakava observes that Amah is sensitive to all kinds of filth, from the indecency of speech to that filth which is the natural result of decay, use and age.
Furthermore, the facts that Billie's landlady Magi and her sister-in-law Amah provide a sisterly solidarity during her depression, and that due to her depression Billie is labeled as "a mad woman in the attic" by the men around her, strengthen the feminist aspect of the play.
(10) Eerkiyoot and Ishaka (1949); Amah, Avinga, and Nangmalik (1963); Lois Wilson (1985); David Lewis (1990); Wayne Hussey (2000); Richard Trites and Michael Breau (2001); Julianna Zsiros (2003); Evelyn Martens (2002) (described and referenced at "Assisted Suicides in Canada," online: Assisted Suicides in Canada <http://www.righttodie.ca/assistedsuicides-canada.html>).
Those children were spared when their Chinese "amah" covered them with her own body as bullets crashed through the windows.
A George Street Playhouse presentation of a musical revue in two acts created by Michael Bush, Michael Amah and Joel Silberman.
I earn 700 yuan a month [by way of comparison, my host in Beijing had an amah who earned 1,000 a month].
Ever since leaving Ivory Coast to study abroad in 1984, Amah Assiama had dreamed of returning to Africa.
All three are represented as cruel and inhuman in different ways, a stark contrast with the feminine culture, which attracts Camoes and provides him with a haven on the Ilha Verde where he is cared for by Pilar and her amah. It is clear in the novel that the feminine is closely connected to poetry: it is Pilar who preserves Camoes's manuscript for some five years while he is absent on the Chinese embassy, and who returns it to him when he has retired to the cave.
The third of seven children, Ambrose Pratt, was nursed by a Chinese amah and was endlessly intrigued by his grandfather, Henry Pratt, a physician turned Orientalist, who spent the last twenty-five years of his life seeking scholarly and spiritual enlightenment in India and Tibet.
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