APGAR

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration (used to remember how to give a newborn an Apgar score)
name
  1. A Dutch or North-German surname transferred from the given name

Word forms

APGAR

Etymology

Backronym, from Apgar score.

Derived words

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