Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 63 > Chapter 6 > Part 11 - Tennessee Abortion-Inducing Drug Risk Protocol Act

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Associated physician: means an individual licensed, and in good standing, to practice medicine in this state pursuant to chapter 6 or 9 of this title and who has entered into an associated physician agreement pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Complication: means an adverse physical or psychological condition arising from the performance of an abortion, including, but not limited to, uterine perforation. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Facility: means a public or private hospital, clinic, center, medical school, medical training institution, healthcare business, physician's office, infirmary, dispensary, ambulatory surgical center, or other institution, location, or business where medical care or pharmaceuticals are provided to individuals. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Last menstrual period: means the time that has elapsed since the first day of the patient's last menstrual period. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Physician: means an individual licensed, and in good standing, to practice medicine in this state pursuant to chapter 6 or 9 of this title. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• pregnancy: means the female reproductive condition of having an unborn child in the patient's uterus. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Provide: means an act of giving, selling, dispensing, administering, transferring possession to, or otherwise providing or prescribing, an abortion-inducing drug. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Qualified physician: means a physician who has the ability to:
  (A) Identify and document a viable intrauterine pregnancy. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Unborn child: means an individual organism of the species homo sapiens, beginning at fertilization, until the point of being born alive as defined in 1 U. See Tennessee Code 63-6-1102