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1. The distance from one fixed point to another. Originally, it was the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully expanded.
2. A length of time.
3. The duration of a process.
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Span." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767788/all/memory_span.
Span. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. 23rd ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767788/all/memory_span. Accessed December 8, 2019.
Span. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary. Available from https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767788/all/memory_span
Span [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2019 December 08]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767788/all/memory_span.
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