Category: C
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Cultural familial retardation
A mild backwardness in mental development with no indication of brain pathology but evidence of similar limitation in at least one of the parents or siblings.
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Cultural fairness of a test
The extent to which test performance does not depend upon information or skill provided by one culture but not another, culture fair tests.
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Cultural evolution
The effects of human culture on human evolution.
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Cultural bias
Accepting one’s own cultural values as valid for all.
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Culpotomy
A type of tubal ligation procedure that entails reaching and cutting the fallopian tubes through the vagina.
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Culdoscopy sterilization
Cauterization of the fallopian tubes where they join the uterus.
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Cue function
An environmental condition that provides the individual with an indication of the direction a behavior response should take.
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Cubital
Pertaining to the forearm. Relating to the elbow or forearm; for example the cubital fossa is the depression at the front of the elbow.
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Crystallized intelligence
The accumulated information, cognitive skills, and strategies acquired by the application of fluid intelligence to various disciplines is thought to increase with age.
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Crystalloid
Solute particle less than 1 μm in diameter.