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ACH
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ACHAutomated Clearing House
AcHAlcohol
ACHArkansas Children's Hospital (Little Rock, AR)
ACHAir Changes per Hour (ventilation)
ACHAcetylcholine
ACHAssociation for Computers and the Humanities
ACHAdult Care Home
ACHAchondroplasia
ACHAll Children's Hospital (St. Petersburg, FL)
ACHAdvanced Combat Helmet
ACHAcute Care Hospital (various locations)
ACHAccess Channel
ACHArmy Community Hospital
ACHAircraft Hangar (USAF bare base deployable aircraft shelter)
ACHAngeles Crest Highway (California SR2)
ACHArmada de Chile (Spanish: Chilean Navy)
ACHAdrenal Cortical Hormone
ACHAmerican College of Heraldry
ACHAutomated Charge
ACHAttempts per Circuit per Hour
ACHAssociation Coopération Humanitaire (French: Humanitarian Cooperation Association; est. 1992)
ACHAgent Charge (freight forwarding)
ACHAmerican Clearinghouse
ACHAbove Counter Height (construction blueprints)
ACHAssault Craft Helmet (Gentex)
ACHAntenna Selection Reference Signal Channel
ACHAdler-Coppersmith-Hasner (algorithm)
ACHACCS Common Hardware
ACHAverage Call Handle (time; call center metric)
ACHAlpha-Cellulose Hydrolysis
ACHAuckland City Hospital (New Zealand)
ACHAnything Can Happen (various meanings)
ACHAcademic Credit Hours
ACHAssociation of Children's Hospices (UK)


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The new discovery might provide an insight into the origins of several serious conditions that affect childhood growth and development like achondroplasia and Apert, Noonan and Costello syndromes, as well as some conditions causing stillbirth.
In an earlier court hearing, Magistrates were told that Kildare claimed he was affected more by alcohol than the average person because of his condition, which is called achondroplasia, or dwarfism.
Simmonds, who was born with achondroplasia, or dwarfism, has continued to excel in 2009, clocking world records at the British Championships and in the Paralympic World Cup.
 
 
 
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