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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

Labia

Labia Definition Often, when persons think of the female reproductive system, they think of the vagina. However, the female... Read More

Sort

sort 1. A kind or species; any number or collection of individual persons or things characterised by the same or like... 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

Emulation

Emulation 1. The endeavor to equal or to excel another in qualities or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel... 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

Detector

Detector One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. A deathbed's detector of the heart. (Young) bank-note detector, a... 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

Fur

Fur 1. The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is... 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

Hierarchy

Hierarchy 1. Any system of persons or things ranked one above the other. 2. In psychology and psychiatry, an organization of... Read More

Pulse

pulse (Science: cardiology, physiology) The impulse transmitted to arteries by contraction of the left ventricle of the... 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

Fowl

Fowl Instead of the pl. Fowls the singular is often used collectively. OE. Foul, fowel, foghel, fuhel, fugel, as. Fugol;... Read More

Espundia

Espundia a type of American leishmaniasis caused by leishmania braziliensis that affects the mucous membranes, particularly... Read More

Symbol

symbol 1. A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by... Read More

Botany

Botany is a highly diverse subject that encompasses several aspects of plants. When the question pops up, “what is a... Read More

Adultery

Adultery Origin: L. Adulterium. See Advoutry. 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual... Read More

Face

Face 1. The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or... Read More

Ascendant

Ascendant 1. Ascent; height; elevation. Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. (Temple) 2. (Science: astronomy)... Read More

Stripes

stripe 1. A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different colour or structure from the ground; hence, any linear... Read More

Pathogen

What are Pathogens? Pathogens are defined as microscopic organisms, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites that... Read More

Tents

tent (Science: surgery) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used... Read More

Hay

Hay grass cut and cured for fodder. Make hay while the sun shines. (Camden) Hay may be dried too much as well as too little.... Read More