Search Results for: persons
Predisposing factors
All organisms can be born with or develop a disease at any point in their lifetime. When someone is born with a disease, it... Read More
Family traits
When one thinks of family, they often think of persons who are blood-related to each other as parents to their children and... Read More
Null hypothesis
Null Hypothesis Definition Null hypothesis is defined as “the commonly accepted fact (such as the sky is blue) and... Read More
Crown of head
Crown of Head Definition The crown of the head is the upper dorsal part (or area) of the head. Several creatures have... Read More
Hermaphrodite
We all know that typically living organisms are divided into two main categories of sex-based on their biological structure.... Read More
Precipitating factors
Precipitating Factor Definition Precipitating factors are factors that initiate or promote the onset of any illness,... Read More
Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud was a famous Austrian neurologist (1856 - 1939), who stated that dreams were the manifestation... Read More
Complete dominance
Complete Dominance Definition Genetics is the study of how traits are inherited by organisms and in what ways these... Read More
Age groups
Age groups persons classified by age from birth (infant, newborn) to octagenarians and older (aged, 80 and... Read More
Loose associations
Definition of Loose Associations When asked to define loose associations in psychology one can tell that it is a formal... Read More
Winterbottoms sign
Winterbottom's sign (Science: clinical sign) swelling of the posterior cervical lymph nodes, characteristic of early stages... Read More
Naked virus
Viruses are infectious entities with size ranges between 20 to 400 nanometers. The mammoth-sized virus would be about the... Read More
Dissociation
Dissociation 1. The act of separating or state of being separated. 2. (Science: chemistry) The separation of a molecule into... Read More
Papyraceous scars
papyraceous scars --> cigarette-paper scars atrophic scar's in the skin at sites of minor lacerations over the knees,... Read More
Chromosomal mutation
Every living thing is made up of DNA. Our DNA is what makes us unique and different in the world. Our DNA is made up of... Read More
Sample size
sample size The number of units (persons, animals, patients, specified circumstances, etc.) in a population to be studied.... Read More
Degenerative disease
Degenerative Disease Definition A degenerative disease is defined as a disease characterized by the worsening condition due... Read More
Colonization
Colonization Synonym: innidiation. 2. The formation of compact population groups of the same type of microorganism, as the... Read More
Health transition
Health transition Demographic and epidemiologic changes that have occurred in the last five decades in many developing... Read More
Half blood
The term half blood is used to describe the relation between individuals that share descent from only one parent. In humans,... Read More
Law of biogenesis
Law Of Biogenesis Definition Law of Biogenesis states that life arises from pre-existing life, not from nonliving matter.... Read More
Administration
Administration 1. The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in... Read More