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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- Vein, jugular The jugular veins are in the neck and drain blood from the head, brain, face and neck and convey it toward…
- Inbreeding The mating of two closely related persons. Also called consanguinity.
- Heterosexuality Sexuality directed toward someone of the opposite sex
- Lawson Wilkins See: Wilkins, Lawson
- Injure To harm, hurt, or wound. The word injure may be in physical or emotional sense. Treadmill machines may injure…
- Medical jurisprudence The branch of the law that deals with the application of law to medicine or, conversely, the application of…
- Nerve, third cranial The third cranial nerve is the oculomotor nerve. The cranial nerves emerge from or enter the skull (the…
- Salk Institute The Salk Institute for Biological Studies , a prominent independent non-profit institution doing basic…
- Proctology A medical specialty that deals with disorders of the rectum and anus
- Rhinitis, allergic, perennial Allergic rhinitis (hayfever) that occurs throughout the year
- Transplantation, cross-species A new technique in which stem cells are obtained from a patient's blood and used in bone marrow…
- Th2 A distinct type of T-helper cell. See: T-helper cell