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Anthropological characteristics
Human characteristics including the physical and cultural and their relationships.
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Anthropology
The science that studies humans. The scientific study of human origins, including the development of physical, human cultural, religious, and social attributes. Anthropology is the scholarly exploration of the primordial roots, physiological attributes, ideologies, and communal traditions of Homo sapiens. The systematic examination of humankind, encompassing aspects such as its origins, physical attributes, and cultural…
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Antropogeography
A branch of anthropology concerned with the distribution of humans, anthropography. That branch of anthropology interested in the distribution of people rather than the physical characteristics of customs, language, and the nature of existing institutions, anthropogeography.
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Anterograde amnesia
Memory loss resulting from brain damage. A brain condition in which the person cannot remember things which happed recently. Inability to recall long-ago events but with normal recall of recent happenings. Lack of ability to recall events after a specific event such as a trauma or administration of a medication. Amnesia for events that occurred…
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Anterior pituitary lobe
A part of the pituitary gland.
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Antepartum
Before delivery of the fetus: antenatal. The period of three months before childbirth. An adjective describing an event in pregnancy before labour starts. This pertains to the duration of a woman’s pregnancy, starting from the moment of conception until the onset of labor.
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Antenatal
Prior to birth, antepartum. During the period between conception and childbirth.
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Antecubital fossa
In anatomy, the depression in the skin and soft tissue of the upper extremity anterior to the elbow. Triangular area lying anterior to and below the elbow, bounded medially by the pronator teres and laterally by the brachioradialis muscles.
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Antecubital
In anatomy, the front of the elbow. To the region of the arm in front of the elbow; it is the site often used for drawing blood for examination. In front of the elbow; at the bend of the elbow.
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Antecedents
In pharmacology, behaviors or individual characteristics that can be measured before drug use and might therefore be somewhat predictive of the drug use. These are not necessarily causes of the subsequent drug use. Something that comes before something else; a precursor.