Category: C

In politics, action by which one house agrees to a proposal or action that the other house has approved. A proposal may be amended, adopted, and then returned to the other house for.  

In polygamous societies, secondary wives or wives of a lower social status.  

The developmental period between 7 and 11 years characterized by the capacity to mentally manipulate concrete experiences.  

The likelihood that when one twin manifests a certain trait, the other twin will also manifest it. The frequency with which a gene will be inherited or expressed by identical or fraternal twins.  

The probability that two people, e.g., identical twins, who stand in a particular family relationship, will both have the same disorder. A state in which two or more things are in the correct or expected relationship to each other. For example, the atrioventricular concordance is the relationship between the atria and the ventricles in the…

In research, phenomena that consistently vary together are presumed to be connected to one another, directly or indirectly, through causal relationship.  

The process of getting a party in a dispute to agree.  

In anatomy, a shell-shaped structure. A part of the body shaped like a shell. Conchae, shell-shaped structure (e.g., the concha auriculae, in the ear). Any part resembling a shell. For example, the concha auriculae is a depression on the outer surface of the pinna (auricle), which leads to the external auditory meatus of the outer…

General physiological term for the result of conception, encompassing the whole range of development from the egg (ovum) when first fertilized by the sperm through the complete pregnancy and birth, including the stages called zygote, embryo, and fetus. An embryo or fetus together with all the tissues that surround it during pregnancy. Product of conception,…

The ability to see the organization as a whole.