[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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.