[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR51a.2]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 51a--PROJECT GRANTS FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 51a.2  Definitions.

    Act means the Social Security Act, as amended.
    Genetic diseases means inherited disorders caused by the 
transmission of certain aberrant genes from one generation to another.
    Hemophilia means a genetically transmitted bleeding disorder 
resulting from a deficiency of a plasma clotting factor.
    Institution of higher learning means any college or university 
accredited by a regionalized body or bodies approved for such purpose by 
the Secretary of Education, and any teaching hospital which has higher 
learning among its purposes and functions and which has a formal 
affiliation with an accredited school of medicine and a full-time 
academic medical staff holding faculty status in such school of 
medicine.
    Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services or his or 
her designee.

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