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Attention
The ability to focus selectively on a selected stimulus, sustaining that focus and shifting it at will. The ability to concentrate. 'Everyone knows what attention is,' wrote William James in his Principles of Psychology (1890). 'It is the…
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Show more- Dysphonia See: Spasmodic dysphonia.
- Red jungle fowl Gallus gallus, the ancestor of domestic chickens
- Atrophy, peroneal muscular Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
- Peritonitis, chronic Longstanding inflammation of the peritoneum, the membrane lining the inner wall of the abdomen and pelvis…
- NCS Nerve conduction study. See: Nerve conduction velocity test
- Fluorescent in situ hybridization An important molecular cytogenetic method for identifying chromosomes and parts of chromosomes, deciphering…
- IgG Immunoglobulin G, a major class of immunoglobulins found in the blood, including many of the most common…
- Motoneuron The term motoneuron is an elision of motor and neuron. See: Motor neuron
- Hallucinosis, musical See: Musical hallucination
- Skute barbata See: Scutellaria barbata
- Bursitis, elbow Inflammation of the olecranon bursa, the bursa at the tip of the elbow is called the olecranon bursitis. A…
- Burkholderia cepacia (B. cepacia, for short.) A group of bacteria found in soil and water that are often resistant to common…