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A sick, injured, wounded, or other person requiring medical or dental care or treatment.
Source of Definition
The DoD-managed healthcare program for active duty military, active duty service families, retirees and their families, and other beneficiaries.
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A product (other than tobacco) that is intended to supplement a diet that bears or contains one or more of these dietary ingredients: a vitamin; a mineral; an herb or other botanical; an amino acid; a dietary substance for use by humans to ...
The processes by which living organisms obtain food and use it for growth, metabolism, and repair. Its stages include ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, assimilation, and excretion. The science that deals with food and nourishment, ...
Products voluntarily introduced into the body that are not defined strictly as food or dietary supplements. Examples include functional foods (any healthy food claimed to have a health-promoting or disease-preventing property beyond the basic ...
A DoD hospital or clinic operated to provide healthcare to active duty Service members or other DoD beneficiaries.
The proceedings, records, minutes, and reports that emanate from quality assurance program activities described in paragraph (1) and are produced or compiled by the Department of Defense as part of a medical quality assurance program.
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