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To use the inhaler, start breathing, press the trigger, and poosh. keep inhaling slowly after the poosh and then hold your breath for about 10 seconds for maximum effectiveness.
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Get the Poosh mug.Lordosis is a basketball term for when the player shoots the ball from under the basket, contorting their spine in spectacular fashion so as to score. The term originally described the change in spinal shape typically found in pregnant women, but since the word has the word "lord" in it, using the term implies that the player who scored the basket possessed - if only for a moment - divine finesse.
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Get the Lordosis mug.A medical condition describing the copious diuresis experienced by postpartum women about 6 hours after delivery.
As a nurse, you should expect the new mommy to pee like a Russian racehorse within the first 24 hours after delivery.
by InstituteOfNursingParlance September 7, 2019
Get the pee like a Russian racehorse mug.A word characterizing the degree of cataclysmic pressure exerted on the head of a baby as it is being delivered vaginally.
Tenses: squoze, squozed, had squozen
Tenses: squoze, squozed, had squozen
As the baby comes out you might see some early decelerations on the fetal heart monitor strip. This tells you that the baby's head is getting squozed.
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Get the ambulate mug.A concept of professional nursing that describes the unproductive and usually poorly timed externalization of the nurse's true thoughts, opinions, and emotions.
Nurse David almost lost his license because his sense of humor always bordered extreme levels of incivility.
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