Major teaching hospitals have the lowest mortality rate of all hospital categories, according to a new study conducted by Truven Health Analytics. But they also have significantly higher incidence of adverse patient-safety events and complications.
The turtle is often associated with myths of creation, in which it is seen as a support for the world: 1  In India, the earth rests on the backs of elephants, supported by the shell of a turtle. 2  In numerous North American creation myths, the turtle carries the world on its back.
pearl. 1  a smooth, hard, usually white or bluish-gray body of varied but usually roundish shape that is an abnormal nacreous growth within the shell of some oysters and certain other bivalve mollusks and forms around a grain of sand, a parasite, or some other foreign object: it is used as a gem. 2  mother-of-pearl.