| 1. | Cedric Howell Swanton | Swanton was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne, then went to the United Kingdom for postgraduate studies in surgery in London and Edinburgh. On his return to Australia More… 1.0 KB |
| 2. | Cell nucleus | In cell biology, the nucleus (pl. nuclei; from Latin nucleus or nuculeus, or kernel) is a membrane-enclosed organelle found in all eukaryotic cells. It contains most of the cell's More… 1.9 KB |
| 3. | Censorship | In psychoanalysis, the regulation of the repressed material in the unconscious to see that nothing threatening to the EGO is allowed to escape into consciousness. Censorship is apparently More… 0.3 KB |
| 4. | Central nervous system | 1- The brain and the spinal cord. 2- The part of the nervous system that in vertebrates consists of the brain and spinal cord and to which all sensory impulses are transmitted and from which More… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | Central trait | A personality aspect of medium value, below cardinal traits in importance, and more important than peripheral traits. Describes the basic pattern of an individual's personality using More… 0.3 KB |
| 6. | Centromedian nucleus | |
| 7. | Cephalgia (Headache or head pain) | A headache (cephalalgia in medical terminology) is a condition of pain in the head; sometimes neck or upper back pain may also be interpreted as a headache. It ranks amongst the most common More… 1.2 KB |
| 8. | Cephalic disorder | Cephalic disorders (from the Greek word κεφάλη, meaning "head") are congenital conditions that stem from damage to, or abnormal development of, the budding nervous system. Cephalic More… 2.3 KB |
| 9. | Cephalic index | A measure of the proportions of an individual head calculated by dividing the maximum width by the maximum height and multiplying the result by 100. Ratios run from below 75 for a long. More… 0.3 KB |
| 10. | Cephalocaudal axis | Refers to the fact that behavior develops from the head downward in the fetus. |
| 11. | Cerea flexibilitas | The “waxy flexibility” often present in catatonic schizophrenia in which the patient’s arm or leg remains in the position in which it is placed. |
| 12. | Cerebellum | An area of the hindbrain concerned with balance, posture, and motor coordination. |
| 13. | Cerebral atherosclerosis | 1- Hardening of the arteries of the brain sometimes resulting in an organic mental disorder that may be either primarily neurologic (e.g., convulsions, aphasia, chorea, athetosis, More… 0.6 KB |
| 14. | Cerebral contusion | A bruising of neural tissue marked by swelling and hemorrhage and resulting in coma. Can permanently impair intellectual functioning. |
| 15. | Cerebral cortex | The thin outer covering of each of the cerebral hemispheres. It is highly convoluted and composed of nerve cell bodies which constitute the gray matter of the brain. |
| 16. | Cerebral dominance | The tendency for one Cerebral Hemisphere or the other to be dominant in its regulation of bahaviour--the left hemisphere in right-handed people, the right in left-handed people. |
| 17. | Cerebral hemisphere | One of the two regions of the brain that are delineated by the body's median plane. The brain can thus be described as being divided into left and right cerebral hemispheres. Each of More… 1.0 KB |
| 18. | Cerebral hemispheres | The two symmetrical left and right halves of the CEREBRUM. The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body, the left hemisphere the right side. |
| 19. | Cerebral thrombosis | The formation of a blood clot in a cerebral artery that blocks circulation in that area of brain tissue and causes paralysis, loss of sensory function, and possibly death. |
| 20. | Cerebrum | The main division of the brain in all vertebrates but much more highly developed than any other. It is thought to be crucially involved in processing sensory information and in all forms of More… 0.2 KB |
