Category: C

Pulse located on the carotid artery down from the corner of the eye, just under the jawbone; used for taking heart rate. The beating of the heart felt in the carotid artery located to the side of the larynx. A pulse felt in the carotid artery at the side of the neck. Systolic pulsation felt…

Part of a workout that emphasizes specific muscular work, utilizing resistance.  

Swiss pspchoanalyst; founder of the school of analytic pspchology. Swiss psychologist born in Kesswil, the son of a pastor of the Swiss Reform Church. Jung studied at both the universities of Basel and Zurich, receiving his degree in 1902, and had a background in biology, zoology, paleontology, and archaeology. He eventually formulated a psychological system…

A firm and settled belief.  

Pertains to one’s basic strivings as expressed in behavior and actions; volitional as contrasted with cognitive. Striving; a purposeful act that is related to motivation conative component of attitudes.  

A technique for imaging anatomical structures using x-ray. Objects are exposed to a series of x-ray beams on a single plane but with origin at different points around a 180-degree arc. A computer algorithm recon- structs the beam absorption data so as to display an image of absorption values at each point in the plane.…

Factitious illness, complicated by unresolved monetary claims. A form of malingering that develops subsequent to an injury in the belief that financial or other forms of compensation can be obtained or will be continued by being ill.  

A legal process for admitting a mentally ill person to a psychiatric treatment program. The legal definition and procedure vary from state to state although commitment usually requires a court or judicial procedure. Commitment may also be voluntary. A legal process for admission to a psychiatric hospital. An act of legally making someone enter a…

Hardening of the arteries of the brain sometimes resulting in an organic mental dis- order that may be either primarily neurologic (e.g. convulsions, aphasia, chorea, athetosis, parkinsonism, etc.) or primarily psychologic (e.g. intellectual dulling, memory deficits, emotional lability, paranoid delusions, and confusion) or a combination of both. In dsm-iv-tr, it is termed vascular dementia. Arteriosclerosis…

Very low-temperature (-320°F /-195.6°C) freezing, usually with liquid nitrogen. The production and use of low temperature—temperatures in the range of -150°C to -273°C (-238°F to -459°F), which is roughly a range of 120°C (220°F) above absolute zero. Long-term storage of body parts is very much in the realm of pseudoscience: It has been suggested as…