Category: H
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Health-related physical fitness (HRPF)
That portion of physical fitness directed toward the prevention of or rehabilitation from disease, the development of a high level of functional capacity for the necessary and discretionary tasks of life, and the maintenance or enhancement of physiological functions in biological systems that are not involved in performance but are influenced by habitual activity.
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Hyperventilate
Excessive rate and depth of respiration, leading to abnormal loss of carbon dioxide from the blood; can cause dizziness. To breathe very fast.
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Hyaline cartilage
Translucent bluish-white cartilage with a homogeneous matrix, present in joints and respiratory passage, and forms most of the fetal skeleton. A type of cartilage found in the nose, larynx and joints. It forms most of the skeleton of the fetus. Most common type of cartilage; the bluish-white elastic cartilage covering the ends of bones, connecting…
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Herniated disc
A condition that occurs when the nucleus pulposus distends outside of the intervertebral disc, usually quite painful. Rupture of fibro-cartilage of the disc between vertebrae of the spinal column (intervertebral discs), occurring most often in the lumbar region. With the ruptured disc there is a lack of cushioning between the vertebrae above and below and…
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Heart failure
Congestion or accumulation of fluid in various parts of the body result from the inability of the heart to pump out all the blood that returns to it. A condition characterized by the inability of the heart to perform its proper pumping action. The failure of the heart to maintain the output of blood to…
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Histrionic
Excitability, emotional instability, over- reactivity, and attention-seeking and often seductive self-dramatization, whether or not the person is aware of its purpose. People with this disorder are immature, self-centered, vain, and unusually dependent. Sometimes referred to as hysterical personality. Relating to being very dramatic or excessive in behavior.
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Hospital and community psychiatry
An interdisciplinary monthly journal of the American Psychiatric Association.
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Homey, Karen (1883-1952)
German psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States in 1932, departed from orthodox Freudian thought and founded her own school, emphasizing cultural factors underlying the neuroses.
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Homosexuality, ego-dystonic
A sustained pattern of overt homosexual arousal which is a source of distress, since the person involved wishes to acquire or increase arousal patterns that allow heterosexual relations to be initiated or maintained. The term has been removed as a diagnostic entity in DSM-lIl-R. A disorder of people who are persistently dissatisfied with their homosexuality…
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Health and human services
A federal department established in 1953 as the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to supervise and coordinate the following agencies: Food and Drug Administration, Office of Human Development, Public Health Service, Social Security Administration, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, National Institutes of Health, Center for Disease Control, Health Care Financing Ad- ministration,…