Category: C

Usually, a board-certified specialist with experience and skill whose advice is sought by a hospital’s staff of physicians. The physicians and surgeons attached to a hospital who may be consulted by members of the attending staff.  

An assertion that visual patterns are constructed based on visual expectation.  

A theory holding that emotions are complex social performances that vary according to historical and cultural context.  

An abstract conceptualization such as intelligence, creativity, or dependence, that is inferred from what people do.  

A narrowing focus of the mind that is symptomatic of acute suicidal tendencies.  

Bacteria producing specific enzymes in the absence of their substrate.  

According to Sheldon, temperament and physical constitution are correlated.  

A tendency to develop some behavioral attributes more readily than others, perhaps reflecting genetic influences. An inherited tendency to develop a condition when certain environmental factors exist, genetic potentials.  

In politics a bare majority of all members of each house, not merely the members voting on a given issue.  

In law, a change in the provisions of a constitution by modifying, deleting, or adding portions.