Category: G

  • Greater auricular nerve

    Located at the side of the neck; affects the face, ears, neck, and parotid gland.  

  • Graduated haircut

    Graduated shape or wedge; an effect or haircut that results from cutting the hair with tension, low to medium elevation, or over-direction.  

  • Gommages

    Also known as roll-off masks; peeling creams that are rubbed off of the skin.  

  • Glyceryl monothioglycolate

    Main active ingredient in true acid and acid-balanced waving lotions.  

  • Game plan

    The conscious act of planning your life, instead of just letting things happen.  

  • Galvanic current

    Constant and direct current having a positive and negative pole that produces chemical changes when it passes through the tissues and fluids of the body.  

  • Generic medicine

    A medicine made by a company other than the company that (developed the original medicine.    

  • Giovanni virginio schiaparelli

    Italian astronomer whose first notable discovery was the asteroid Hesperia in 1861. He then went on to demonstrate that meteor swarms have orbits similar to certain comets and speculated that these swarms were probably the remains of spent comets. He also did some work on double stars and conducted extensive observations on Mercury, Venus, and…

  • George Psamanazar (1679-1766)

    Initially a very successful literary fraud. Almost certainly this was not his real name, and his place of birth is not known (possibly Avignon, France), but he came to London in 1701 claiming to be a native of Formosa (Taiwan) who had been recently converted to Christianity. He was taken under the wing of the…

  • George Mccready Price (1870-1963)

    A Seventh Day Adventist and a vigorous opponent of theories of evolution. He received his college education at Adventist schools and subsequently taught at several as a geology professor, finally retiring in 1938. He published a number of books, among them The New Geology (1923), which describes his theory of Earth’s history in great detail.…