Dasein

n. in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), the particular kind of being manifest in humans. It is their being as Dasein that allows humans access to the larger question of being in general, since access to the world is always through what their own being makes possible. The term is commonly used in existential psychology and related therapeutic approaches. See being-in-the-world. [German, literally: “being there”]

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extremely low birth weight (ELBW)

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