Category: N

Referring to new, abnormal formation of tissue cells.  

In nutrition, the tendency for a person to refuse to eat new and unfamiliar foods.  

Seizures evidenced by alternating contractions of various muscle groups in newborns.  

In sociology, a residence outside the homes of parents of either the husband or wife.  

Theorists who accept the psychoanalytic theory of unconscious conflict but who, in contrast, describe these conflicts in social terms rather than in terms of bodily pleasures or frustrations, and in maintaining that many of these conflicts arise from the specific cultural conditions rather than being biologically established.  

An infection of the hair in which the fungus mycelium develops both inside and outside the hair shaft.  

The theory that adaptation is the result of natural selection of variations caused by spontaneous mutations and/or genetic recombinations.  

The behaviorist orientation that advocates the relationship between environmental events and social behavior, but also recognizes the importance of internal properties of the individual in determining this relationship.  

A commercial preparation of a barbiturate.  

A parasitic round worm. Any of a large group (phylum Nematoda) of unsegmented worms, tapered at both ends, including roundworms, pinworms, and hookworms; many species infest humans, producing disease. A group of worm organisms that are common parasites of humans and animals. Unlike other worm parasites, including flukes and tapeworms, many species of nematodes are…