Category: C

A system that is not influenced by and does not interact with its environment.  

A term in labor law meaning that a worker must be a member of the union as a condition precedent to employment, union shop.  

An insurance plan that covers limited health and medical services that are provided by specified health and medical practitioners.  

A closed organization that is set apart from the rest of society, forms an all-encompassing social environment, and serves as the only source of meeting the needs of its members.  

A brain trauma in which the skull is not opened by the injury, open head injury. A cranial injury characterized by a lack of skull fracture or penetration.  

A fracture which has no communication between the broken bone and the outside environment through the overlying skin, compound fracture. Alternate term for simple fracture, a kind of fracture in which two bone pieces are not displaced. A break in which the bone does not penetrate the overlying skin. A fracture in which the broken…

Little words whose function is grammatical in a language, morphemes; open-class morphemes.  

A form of educational technology using television technology to broadcast a program to a highly defined, limited population.  

Rapid oscillatory movements in which muscular rigidity and relaxation rapidly follow each other. Occurs following the tonic phase in a grand mal epileptic seizure. The rhythmic contraction and relaxation of a muscle, usually a sign of upper motor neurone lesions. Abnormal condition in which a skeletal muscle alternately contracts and relaxes; a rhythmical spasm often…

The process of reproducing a plant or animal identical to one of its kind. The reproduction of an individual organism by asexual means. The process of producing offspring which are genetically exactly the same as the parent, of producing clones. Cloning, from the Greek klon meaning a cutting such as is used to propagate plants,…