Category: C
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Combination approach
An approach to planning that emphasizes the advantages and deemphasizes the disadvantages of the high probability approach, the maximizing approach, and the adapting approach.
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Combat reaction
Transient personality decompensation resulting from the acute stress of battle experience.
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Comatose
Affected with coma. Unconscious or in a coma. Like a coma.
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Colposcope
An instrument used to examine the cervix for abnormalities. A surgical instrument used to examine the inside of the vagina. An instrument that is inserted into the vagina and permits visual examination of the neck of the womb and the upper part of the vagina in which it lies. An instrument used to examine the…
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Color vision
The ability to distinguish various colors is tested by the use of the pseudoisochromatic plates is made possible by the presence of proper functioning of the cones located in the retina of the eye color blindness. The ability to perceive colors. Specialized cells called cones in the light-sensitive layer (retina) at the back of the…
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Color solid
A three-dimensional representation of visual experience.
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Color circle
A schematic arrangement of colors in which the spectrum is bent back against itself to form a circle.
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Color blindness
Any of various abnormal conditions characterized by inability to distinguish colors. The most common form is daltonism, occurring mostly in males (approx. 8% of Caucasian males) as a sex-linked inherited trait characterized by an inability to distinguish red from green. Total color blindness, or achromatic vision, is rare and due to a defect of the…
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Colony morphology
The microscopic appearance of organisms when grown on media, colony.
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Colonial period
That period in American education from 1607 to 1788.