Category: I

A person who dies without leaving a valid will.  

A research technique in which an investigator or his or her representative seeks one-on-one information from the subject with respect to the issue being studied.  

The tissue that separates the right and left side of the heart. A membrane between the right and left ventricles in the heart. The myocardial wall between the ventricles of the heart.  

An active advocacy for change. Action to relieve a stressful situation or series of problems threatening someone’s health or welfare; generally called crisis intervention. A technique to encourage someone addicted to alcohol or drugs to enter treatment by telling that person to either recognize the disease or face its consequences, such as divorce or job…

A scale in which equal differences between the scores can be treated as equal so that the scores can be added or subtracted, categorical scale; ordinal scale; ratio scale.  

The area between the two trochanters of the femur.  

An acute inflammation of the lungs.  

Associated with development of the testicles and the secretion of testosterone. A hormone produced by the pituitary gland which stimulates the formation of corpus luteum in females and testosterone in males.  

Specialized cells in the testicles that produce the male sex hormone, testosterone. A testosterone-producing cell between the tubules in the testes. The cells interspersed between the seminiferous tubules of the testis. They secrete androgens in response to stimulation by luteinizing hormone from the anterior pituitary gland. Also called Leydig cells, these cells are scattered between…

In classical conditioning, the interval separating the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus.