Incompetent

Incompetent cervix: A cervix that is abnormally liable to dilate and so is not competent to keep the fetus up in the uterus and keep it from being spontaneously aborted (miscarried).
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To better protect consumers from incompetent health professionals, the Pew Health Professions Commission, led by former Senator George Mitchell, is urging Congress and states to adopt tougher standards to regulate the health care workforce.
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Blood clots
Incompetent valves in your leg veins, which cause fluid to accumulate (venous insufficiency)
Heart valve defects and congenital heart disease
A blocked artery (arterial occlusion)
Narrowing (stenosis) of an artery ...
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Incompetent Cervix
Incomplete Abortion (Incomplete Miscarriage)
Incomplete Miscarriage
Increased Intracranial Pressure
Induced Sensitivity Reaction (Allergic Reactions)
Infant Apnea (Apparent Life-Threatening Event) ...
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Varicose veins develop spontaneously, and are usually attributed to a hereditary weakness of the vein; the valves in the vein that keep the blood circulating upward toward the heart are usually incompetent.
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Chronic venous insufficiency is a prolonged condition of incompetent venous circulation, occuring because of partial vein blockage or venous valve leakage.
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abruption, in which the placenta detaches from the uterus; placenta previa, in which the placenta grows too low in the uterus; premature rupture of membranes, in which the amniotic sac is torn, causing the amniotic fluid to leak out; incompetent ...
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Advance directives are documents, written while a person is still able to make decisions, saying that if the person becomes mentally incompetent, then he or she no longer wants artificial life-sustaining measures.
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Besides, in the most severe cases of schizophrenia or other causes of dementia, there are legal steps for having the individual judged incompetent.
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Regurgitation: A backward flowing. For example, of food. Or the sloshing of blood back into the heart (or between chambers of the heart) when a heart valve is incompetent and does not close effectively.
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For a living will to be legal, when you sign it there must be witnesses and you must be competent. All adults are presumed competent unless a judge has declared them incompetent.
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these 'primary appraisals', it's important to develop 'secondary appraisals' after the fact (when we ask ourselves if there's anything we can do about a life event we've appraised as stressful). If we feel helpless to change things, or incompetent ...
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Narrowing of the cervix (cervical stenosis) that causes infertility may occur (rare).
Inability of the cervix to remain closed during pregnancy (incompetent cervix) may occur, causing pregnancies to end in miscarriage or premature labor (rare).
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