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Report Card: A set of performance measures applied uniformly to different health plans or providers.

New Account Report: A broker's document including information about a new client. See: Know your customer.

Network Interface Card (NIC): An adapter installed in an expansion slot or integrated onto the motherboard and allows the computer to connect to a network.

Myocardial Infarction: Heart attack: bleeding or blockage cuts off blood flow to part of the heart muscle

Muscardin: Minor grape grown in the southern Rhone region of France and used to create color and body in red wine blends.

Network Card: Also, Network Interface Card or NIC. This is a component of a computer that enables the computer to communicate with other computers via a direct network connection.

PC Card (PCMCIA): PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International Association. Roughly credit-card sized, it is an expansion adapter for notebook and laptop PCs. They are removable modules that . . . View Full Definition

Picardan (Noir): Synonym name for Cinsaut variety where grown in the southern Rhone region of France. Occasionally used in red wine blends but finding less favor in the last decades of the 20th century.

Picardan (Blanc): Listed as a synonym name, by the international grape variety database (above) at Geilweilerhof, Germany, for the Bourboulenc white wine producing variety grown in the southern Rhone and Prov . . . View Full Definition

Photo-Reportage: Use of photographs in newspapers and magazines, to supplement or replace written journalistic accounts.