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In philosophy, impressions that come to an observer through common sense and sensory impressions.  

In law, a method used to arrive at a judgment or a decision by invoking long-established usages and tradition, as contrasted by the appeal to the rules of reason and to overwhelming scientific evidence.  

Court or law or educational officials or bodies before which legal appeals may be brought for a decision.  

In education law, an application to a higher court to rectify the decision of a lower court. In the court system, a formal request for a higher court to review the judgment of a lower court; if errors are found in the conduct of the earlier trial, the lower court may be overruled and a…

In psychology and physiology, the perception of motion under conditions where there is no physical movement, phi phenomenon.  

The appetite control mechanism in the brain.  

The end of a muscle where it becomes tendon, serving to connect a muscle with other muscle parts that it moves. A band of tissue which attaches muscles to each other. Aponeuroses, tendon-like expansion with which a flat muscle attaches to other parts. Fibrous tendon sheets that serve as attachments for muscular fibers and sometimes…

A protein in the mucosal cells of the small intestine, together with iron, that forms the compound ferritin. A protein that combines with iron to form ferritin. In the body, it is always bound to iron.  

Sweat glands that produce a milky liquid that is decomposed by bacteria on the skin, producing body odor have no known function to the body, eccrine glands. A gland producing body odour where parts of the gland’s cells break off with the secretions, e.g. a sweat gland. Any of several large, deep exocrine glands found…

Characterized by the absence of respiration apnea.