Category: A
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Areolae
The brownish rings that surround the breast nipples.
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Areflexia
Loss or absence of the reflexes. Lack of reflex or response to verbal, sensory, or pain stimulation.
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Area vocational center
A shared-time facility that provides instruction in vocational education within a school system or region. Students attending receive their academic areas of education in regular schools within the district or region.
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Area of responsibility
In Role Delineation, a major aspect of the role which encompasses an aggregate of related functions.
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Archival study
A research procedure that depends on historical documents and records for data. This method of study is especially useful in studying the unfolding of social patterns over a period of time or the effects of particular historical events or conditions.
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Archetype
In psychology, a recurring theme or pattern with threads of common experience. An inherited idea or mode of thought supposed to be present in the unconscious mind and to derive from the experience of the whole human race, not from the life experience of the individual. The original type, from which other forms have developed…
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Arbitration
In educational labor relations, a procedure under which a neutral third party (arbitrator) hears both the union’s and the administration’s side in a dispute and issues an award that is binding upon both sides. In educational labor relations, an impartial third party to whom disputing parties submit their differences for a decision. A procedure under…
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Arbitrary
In education and labor relations, not supported by fair cause and without reason given.
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Aquiculture
The technique of cultivating and harvesting plants and animal that live in water.
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Aqueous humor
A watery fluid within the aqueous chamber of the eyeball. Clear, watery fluid circulating in the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye. A clear, watery fluid that is continuously probated by the ciliary. The watery fluid that fills the chamber of the eye immediately behind the cornea and in front of the lens. It…