Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 68 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Ablative procedure: means a procedure that is expected to excise, vaporize, disintegrate, or remove living tissue, including the use of carbon dioxide lasers and erbium: YAG lasers. See Utah Code 58-68-102
• Adjudicative proceeding: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Associate physician: means an individual licensed under Section 58-68-302. See Utah Code 58-68-102
• Attempted sex change: means an attempt or effort to change an individual's body to present that individual as being of a sex or gender that is different from the individual's biological sex at birth. See Utah Code 58-68-102
• Biological sex at birth: means an individual's sex, as being male or female, according to distinct reproductive roles as manifested by:

  (a)	sex and reproductive organ anatomy;

  (b)	chromosomal makeup; and

  (c)

  endogenous hormone profiles. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Board: means the Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon's Licensing Board created in Section 58-68-201. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Collaborative practice arrangement: means the arrangement described in Section 58-68-807. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Cosmetic medical device: means tissue altering energy based devices that have the potential for altering living tissue and that are used to perform ablative or nonablative procedures, such as American National Standards Institute (ANSI) designated Class IIIb and Class IV lasers, intense pulsed light, radio frequency devices, and lipolytic devices and excludes ANSI designated Class IIIa and lower powered devices. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Diagnose: means : (a)  to examine in any manner another person, parts of a person's body, substances, fluids, or materials excreted, taken, or removed from a person's body, or produced by a person's body, to determine the source, nature, kind, or extent of a disease or other physical or mental condition; (b)  to attempt to conduct an examination or determination described under Subsection (13)(a); (c)  to hold oneself out as making or to represent that one is making an examination or determination as described in Subsection (13)(a); or (d)  to make an examination or determination as described in Subsection (13)(a) upon or from information supplied directly or indirectly by another person, whether or not in the presence of the person making or attempting the diagnosis or examination. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Nonablative procedure: means a procedure that is expected or intended to alter living tissue, but is not expected or intended to excise, vaporize, disintegrate, or remove living tissue. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Physician: means both physicians and surgeons licensed under Section 58-67-301, Utah Medical Practice Act, and osteopathic physicians and surgeons licensed under Section 58-68-301, Utah Osteopathic Medical Practice Act. See Utah Code 58-68-102 Practice of osteopathic medicine: means : (i)  to diagnose, treat, correct, administer anesthesia, or prescribe for any human disease, ailment, injury, infirmity, deformity, pain, or other condition, physical or mental, real or imaginary, or to attempt to do so, by any means or instrumentality, which in whole or in part is based upon emphasis of the importance of the musculoskeletal system and manipulative therapy in the maintenance and restoration of health, by an individual in Utah or outside of the state upon or for any human within the state; (ii)  when a person not licensed as a physician directs a licensee under this chapter to withhold or alter the health care services that the licensee has ordered; (iii)  to maintain an office or place of business for the purpose of doing any of the acts described in Subsection (19)(a)(i) or (ii) whether or not for compensation; or (iv)  to use, in the conduct of any occupation or profession pertaining to the diagnosis or treatment of human diseases or conditions, in any printed material, stationery, letterhead, envelopes, signs, or advertisements, the designation "doctor" "doctor of osteopathic medicine" "osteopathic physician" "osteopathic surgeon" "osteopathic physician and surgeon" "Dr. See Utah Code 58-68-102 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Unlawful conduct: means the same as that term is defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-68-501. See Utah Code 58-68-102