Category: H

Ingestion of particulate food: typical animal-like nutrition.  

Pertains to plants that manufacture their own foods. Resembling a plant, especially protozoa that are capable of photosynthesis.  

A one-word utterance, which is to say, an utterance in which a single word carries the meaning of an entire sentence.  

In genetics, inheritance through females only, holandric. Transmitted only by a gene in the nonhomologous portion of the X chromosome.  

A will that is handwritten, dated, and signed by the maker of the will.  

Photography using lasers and mirrors to create a three-dimensional picture.  

An instrument for assessing the stress on an individual by quantifying major life changes according to the difficulty people typically have readjusting to them. A self-report instrument created by Holmes and Rahe to measure the magnitude of positive and negative life change events experienced by the participant.  

Stands for a series of reforms posed by college deans. Reforms call for rigorous standards and moving teacher education to the graduate level.  

Based upon the concept that all persons are an integrated whole, with their biological, psychological, and sociological dimensions of health being in constant interaction. Factors affecting one dimension of health affect the other two and hence lowers one’s health status medical model; statistical model of health.  

Medical treatment of all aspects of the person: physically and psychologically. This term is also used as a camouflage used by pseudoscientists to promote their unscientific treatment methods. A term originally applied to the principle that the whole person should be treated, rather than just the person’s disease, disturbance of function, or injury. This principle…