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APGAR

APGAR noun: appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration (used to remember how to give a newborn an Apgar score).

Noun

APGAR

  1. appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration (used to remember how to give a newborn an Apgar score)

Proper noun capitalized: Apgar

Apgar

  1. A Dutch or North-German surname transferred from the given name

Origin of APGAR

Backronym, from Apgar score.

Words formed from APGAR

Phrases with APGAR

Questions about APGAR

What does APGAR mean?
APGAR means appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration (used to remember how to give a newborn an Apgar score).
What part of speech is APGAR?
APGAR can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near APGAR in the dictionary

  1. APFS
  2. APFSDS
  3. APFSDSs
  4. APG
  5. APG II
  6. APGAR
  7. Apgar score
  8. Apgar scores
  9. APH
  10. APHA
  11. aphacia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: APGAR (page history and authors); Apgar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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