Category: G

  • Grimace

    A distorted facial expression, sometimes a symptom of schizophrenia.  

  • Grievance procedure

    In business and industry, a procedure for the consideration and orderly resolution of disputes between management and employees.  

  • Grid organizational development (Grid od)

    In business and industry, a commonly used organizational development technique based on a theoretical model called the managerial grid.  

  • Greenhouse effect

    The warming of the earth’s surface that is produced when solar heat becomes trapped by layers of carbon dioxide and other gases. The rise in temperature that the Earth experiences after gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane, trap energy from the sun. Without these gases, heat would…

  • Greek culture

    In regard to sexual activity, anal intercourse.  

  • Great family

    In sociology, the large, extended family as seen in the traditional Chinese family system.  

  • Greater trochanter

    A large, bony prominence developed from an independent center near the extremity of the femur trochanter. A thick process at the lateral upper end of the femur projecting upward to the union of the neck and shaft.  

  • Gray panthers

    A political organization whose chief purpose is to combat ageism and old-age stereotyping.  

  • Gray lobby

    The advocacy movement whose members are concerned with the needs of the elderly. These persons come from the general public, organizations of older people, and health and welfare professionals.  

  • Gravitational water

    Water that the soil is unable to retain against the force of gravity.