Category: L

An expression of the amount of time required to complete a project, often based on labor hours.  

The probability that the value of a statistic is equal to or exceeds its observed value.  

The tendency of persons to set goals in an effort to succeed at the highest possible level while avoiding failure.  

The muscle that raises the upper eyelid.  

The muscle that draws the anus upward in defecation and aids in the support of the pelvic floor. A muscle of the pelvic floor that supports the pelvic organs. A broad muscle that helps to form the floor of the pelvis.  

A muscle that serves to raise some part. Muscle that lifts or raises a structure (e.g., levator scapulae, which lifts the shoulder blade). A surgical instrument used for levering up displaced bone fragments in a depressed fracture of the skull. A muscle that raises or elevates a part; opposite of depressor.  

A deficiency of pigmentation of the skin. Loss of skin pigment in a localized area. Loss of melanin as a result of disease. Deficiency of skin pigmentation, especially in patches. Skin disorder characterized by light abnormal patches (hypopigmentation); caused by a burn or congenital disease that destroys the pigment-producing cells. A persistent, innate skin condition…

A brain operation involving the severing of association pathways in the frontal lobes of the brain in which the surgical instruments are inserted transor-bitally frontal lobotomy  

A colorless plastid commonly the center of starch formation.  

A gene that results in a cell that cannot replicate or the death of the organism. A gene, usually recessive, that results in the premature death of an individual who inherits it, e.g. the gene controlling sickle-cell anaemia. Any gene that produces an effect that causes the death of the organism at any stage, from…