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Small projections found on the surface of brush border cells that increase the surface area of the small intestine are known as ____.
Autonomy
The capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision about one's own life and actions.
Life Support
Medical interventions or equipment used to keep a person alive who would otherwise fail to maintain autonomous bodily functions, including devices that assist respiration and circulation.
Utilitarianism
A specific, consequence-based, ethical theory that judges as right the action that does the most good and least amount of harm for the greatest number of persons.
Values Clarification
A process by which individuals define their own values.
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