Category: M

Deliberate devices for helping memory, mnemonic device.  

A memory aid or system designed to improve a person’s ability to recall, mnemonics.  

A hearing impairment caused by both a conductive disorder and sensorineural problems. Reduced hearing acuity due to a combination of sensorineural and conductive pathology.  

A term applied to certain learning disorders, particularly in terms of language, caused because neither hemisphere of the brain is dominant cerebral dominance. A condition in which dominance in hands, feet, and eyes is not clearly established on one side of the body or the other.  

A research strategy in which both experimental and classificatory variables are used. Assigning subjects from discrete populations to two experimental conditions is an example.  

A common but rarely dangerous heart valve dysfunction. The mitral valve, which separates the upper and lower chamber in the left side of the heart, may not close properly causing a click sound to the physician through a stethoscope and may be followed by a murmur. Intermenstrual pain. Signals the moment of ovulation. A form…

Bicuspid valve. A valve in the heart which allows blood to flow from the left atrium to the left ventricle but not in the opposite direction. One of four valves of the heart; it is situated between the left atrium and left ventricle and allows blood to flow from the left atrium to the left…

Shaped like a miter. Referring to the mitral valve. Shaped like a miter (the official headdress of a bishop).  

Those circumstances that may exonerate a person charged with a crime or which may reduce the extent of the person’s culpability in the commission of the crime.  

A woman whose lifestyle as a sex partner is maintained by a man to whom she is not married and who does not provide her with other payment for sexual intercourse.