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- Article 32
- Constitutional right to move the Supreme Court for enforcement of Fundamental Rights; Dr. Ambedkar termed it the heart and soul of the Constitution.
- AIIMS Act, 1956
- Statute under which AIIMS New Delhi was created in 1956 with New Zealand Colombo Plan funding; it grants the institute autonomous status and degree-awarding power.
- Ayushman Bharat
- National health scheme launched in 2018 with two pillars: Health and Wellness Centres for primary care and PM-JAY insurance cover of five lakh rupees per family per year.
- Directive Principles
- Guidelines in Part IV, Articles 36 to 51, directing state policy toward social and economic welfare; they are not enforceable in courts.
- World Health Day
- Observed on 7 April each year to mark the founding of the World Health Organization in 1948 and to highlight a chosen global health theme.
- Chandrayaan-3
- Indian lunar mission whose lander touched down near the Moon's south pole in August 2023, making India the first country to land in that region.
- Subject-verb agreement rule
- A verb agrees with its subject in number; intervening phrases such as along with or as well as do not make a singular subject plural.
- Present perfect tense
- Formed with has or have plus the past participle; it expresses a past action whose result or relevance continues into the present.
- Passive voice formation
- The object becomes the subject, the verb becomes a form of be plus past participle, and the doer follows by; the original tense is retained.
- Affect versus effect
- Affect is usually a verb meaning to influence; effect is usually a noun meaning a result or outcome.
- Since versus for
- Since is used with a specific starting point in time, while for is used with a length of duration, as in since 2010 or for five years.
- Eleventh hour idiom
- Means at the last possible moment before a deadline; it refers to timing, not to the number eleven literally.
- Between versus among
- Between is used for two distinct persons or things, while among is used when three or more are involved without individual separation.
- Letter position values
- In the English alphabet A equals 1 and Z equals 26; the reverse value is 27 minus the forward value, so A is 26 and Z is 1.
- Clock hand angle formula
- The angle between the hour and minute hands equals the absolute value of 30 times the hour minus 5.5 times the minutes, in degrees.
- Leap year day shift
- An ordinary year shifts the weekday of a given date by one day, while a leap year shifts it by two days because of the extra day.
- Syllogism validity test
- A conclusion is valid only if it is true in every possible Venn diagram consistent with the premises; possibility questions allow alternative arrangements.
- Ventrogluteal site
- The safest intramuscular injection site in adults, located in the upper outer buttock; it avoids major nerves and blood vessels.
- Z-track technique
- During intramuscular injection the skin is pulled aside before insertion and released after withdrawal, sealing the track and preventing drug leakage.
- Autoclave parameters
- Standard steam sterilisation uses about 121 degrees Celsius at 15 psi for 15 to 20 minutes, which destroys bacteria and heat-resistant spores.
- Universal precautions
- An infection-control approach treating all blood and body fluids as potentially infectious, requiring gloves and other barriers based on anticipated exposure.
- Needle-stick first action
- Wash the wound with soap and running water without squeezing or scrubbing, report immediately, and seek HIV post-exposure prophylaxis assessment promptly.
- Universal red cell donor
- O negative blood, because its red cells carry neither A nor B antigens nor the Rh D antigen, so it can be given before crossmatching.
- ECG P wave
- The P wave represents atrial depolarisation; a normal PR interval of 0.12 to 0.20 seconds separates it from the QRS complex.
- Adult CPR ratio
- For adults, deliver 30 chest compressions followed by 2 rescue breaths, compressing at 100 to 120 per minute to a depth of 5 to 6 centimetres.
- Normal adult SpO2
- Oxygen saturation in a healthy adult at rest is typically 95 to 100 percent as measured by pulse oximetry on room air.
- Deltoid injection limit
- The deltoid muscle is suitable only for small volumes of about one millilitre or less, because of its small muscle mass.
- Burn cooling rule
- Cool thermal burns with clean running water for about twenty minutes; never apply ice, which can worsen tissue damage.
- Normal adult pulse range
- Resting heart rate in a healthy adult is 60 to 100 beats per minute; rates below 60 are bradycardia and above 100 tachycardia.
- Blood relation tree method
- Draw each person as a node, mark gender, and connect with parent, spouse or sibling links; then read the asked relationship directly from the diagram.
- Direction sense displacement
- Track movement as north-south and east-west components; when turns are right angles, final distance equals the square root of the sum of squares.