Category: A
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Affective
Pertaining to a person’s beliefs, values, and predispositions. Relating to a person’s moods or feelings.
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Affection
An emotional state or feeling associated with love or the need to possess. The general state of a person’s emotions.
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Aesthetic needs
Associated with the beauty of life and the things of living.
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Aesthetic experience
Psychedelic experience marked by sensory aspects, such as fascinating alterations in perceptions and sensations of euphoric illusions, hallucinations, synesthesias.
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Aesthete
A person who is sensitive to and highly appreciative of the beauty of things; one with artistic taste, aesthetic.
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Aerosols
Solid particles or dust held in suspension in the air. Tiny particles of a liquid such as a drug or disinfectant suspended in a gas under pressure in a container and used as a spray. A suspension of extremely small liquid or solid particles (about 0.001 mm diameter) in the air. Drugs in aerosol form…
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Aero-otitis media
Damage to the middle ear due to pressure differences.
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Aeroembolism
A condition produced by a rapid decrease of pressure and characterized by the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and body tissues. A condition in which nitrogen bubbles form in body fluids and tissues due to an excessively rapid decrease in atmospheric pressure, occurring either during ascent to high altitudes or in resurfacing from…
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Aerobics
A variety of exercises to increase heart and lung capacity for a time period sufficiently long to produce beneficial changes in the body. Oxygen to live, or taking place in the presence of oxygen. Requiring oxygen. Aerobic is an adjective used to describe activities, life forms, or events that depend on the presence of oxygen.…
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Aerobic power
Aerobic capacity.