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surrogate n. 1) a person acting on behalf of another or a substitute, including a woman who gives birth to a baby of a mother who is unable to carry the child. 2) a judge in some states (notably New York) responsible only for probates, estates, and adoptions. SURROGATE. In some of the states, as in New Jersey, this is the name of an
officer who has jurisdiction in granting letters testamentary and letters of
administration.
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Clinical decision making comprises unique exchanges between patients or, when necessary, surrogates and physicians. Our aim in the present analysis is to reexamine the relationship between exposure to endotoxin and wheeze in the first year of life, accounting for the measurement error associated with using house-dust endotoxin measurements as surrogates for true exposure. The neurosis is so common, a common link to all of us who have surrogates. |
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