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In anatomy, to open one into the other. To join two blood vessels or tubular structures together. To communicate directly or by means of connecting two parts together, especially nerves or blood vessels. To connect or establish communication between two separate hollow structures or organs.  

A condition characterized by the inability to articulate speech sounds as a result of a lesion of the central nervous system. The loss of the ability to speak words properly. Loss of motor power to speak distinctly. It may result from a neural lesion or a muscular defect. The inability to speak recalled words due…

A stage in mitosis in which the chromatids of each chromosome separate and move to opposite poles. A stage in cell division, after the metaphase and before the telophase. Stage in cell division in which the chromosomes move from the center plane of the cell toward the poles. The third stage of mitosis and of…

Researchers who see challenging and validating hypotheses as the main business of science. They are like the natural scientists in method and outlook. Any device that determines some characteristic of an object or process, such as its chemical composition, cellularity, mass, oxygen content, or particle content, among other features. A testing instrument utilized for measuring…

Emphasizes the importance of one’s goals and strivings as well as one’s past experiences in the development of the personality q.v. This theory is centered around four psychological functions: (a) thinking, (b) feelings, (c) sensing, and (d) intuition.  

In reading education, combining the methods of analytic and synthetic teaching in which reading is taught by taking each word and breaking it down into its parts and then fusing it back into its whole.  

Play therapy is used most by child therapists when the child is too young to talk out his or her problems or feelings.  

In reading education, a method of teaching reading wherein the whole is presented first and then broken down into its elements. In phonics, the analysis of a word for pronunciation purposes, synthetic method.  

In research, finding commonalities and regularities in qualitative data, seeking their explanation, and finding other situations in which to test the generality of that explanation.  

That phase of epidemiology that attempts to find significant relationships between the frequency, distribution, and other characteristics of the disease process, descriptive epidemiology; experimental epidemiology.