Category: A

  • Antihemophilia globulin

    Blood globulin which reduces the clotting time of hemophilic blood, hemophilia.  

  • Antigravity muscles

    The larger extensor muscles of the body that give support to the skeletal framework and that combat the pull of gravity. Muscles that pull against the constant force of gravity to maintain posture.  

  • Antigen-producing cells

    B cells, cells of the monocyte lineage including morophages and dendritic cells and various other body cells that present antigen in a form that T cells can recognize.  

  • Antifeminism

    An opposition movement to the practice of those who advocate economic, social, and political equality of the sexes.  

  • Antidromic impulse

    An impulse from axon to dendrite in a single neuron which is the opposite of the normal direction of nerve conduction.  

  • Antidiuretic hormone

    A hormone secreted by one of the parts of the pituitary gland instructs the kidneys to reabsorb more of the water that passes through them. A hormone secreted by the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland which acts on the kidneys to regulate the quantity of salt in body fluids and the amount of urine…

  • Antidiscrimination

    A policy of refusing to use or permit the use of nonrelevant factor, such as race, creed, color, ethnic origin, in the employment of faculty, other staff, or in the admission of students to educational institutions or to any of its programs, activities, services, or facilities.  

  • Anticonformity

    In sociology and psychology, behavior in which defiance of a group or an authority is an end in itself, independence.  

  • Anticlericalism

    A political movement during the nineteenth century, extending into the twentieth century, occurring in countries that were very hostile to the excessive power of the church. Its goals were to establish supremacy of the state over religions.  

  • Anticipatory error

    In serial rote learning, an error that consists of giving as a response an item that would be correct later in the list, perseverative error; anticipatory method.