Category: G

A group of closely related plants or animals that contains one or more different species. A group of closely related species. A group of closely related plants containing one or more species. A category of biological classification ranking between the family and the species, comprising structurally or phylogenetically related species or an isolated species exhibiting…

The second portion of the pulse that is felt with the practitioner’s middle finger, which indicates Liver on the left wrist, Spleen on the right wrist, and their related Fu organs.  

Qi is a central concept in Chinese medicine. Qi in the human body is thought to be formed, or derived, from three sources: Jing Qi, Qing Qi, and Gu Qi. Gu Qi is the Qi that is extracted from food by the digestive system.  

A syndrome that results from long-term Qi and blood stagnation in the Liver. Its manifestation includes distended sensation or pain in the hypochondriac region, better with pressure, and a preference for warm drinks.  

This term refers to children who have been malnourished, and have developmental disabilities as a result. They look small for their age, and are slow and listless, without any energy. As they grow up, they have learning disabilities and emotional problems.  

An asexual reproductive body that becomes detached from the parent plant and can develop into a new plant. Adventitious bud on a fern frond (on a stipe or in a pinna axil) that can develop into a plant. Adventitious bud on a frond that can develop into a new plant. A small budlike reproductive structure…

The structure in certain plants that produces gametes for the sexual phase of the alternation of generations. The generation that bears the sexual organs in seed plants, pteridophytes and mosses. The stage of a plant that forms the sexual organs in seed plants, ferns, lycopods and mosses; in seed plants, this stage is dependent on…

A mature sex cell that is capable of uniting with a gamete of the opposite sex to begin the formation of a new individual. Unisexual body, unable to give rise to an individual plant until joined with another gamete to produce a zygote. A germ or reproductive cell. In animals (and humans) the functional, mature,…

Any or various diseases specific to women.  

Glutathione S transferase M2, a major group of detoxification enzymes.