Category: O

A condition where the population exceeds the ability of the land to sustain it. The point at which a population is too large to be supported by the available resources.  

Used in training programs to increase muscular strength. The concept whereby a person gradually increases the resistance load on muscles. The overload principle states that muscle growth will not occur unless the muscle is stressed at a level beyond normal loads. Thus, for resistance training to be effective in increasing lean body mass, the exercises…

Subjecting a person to excessive stress.  

Practice beyond the point of mastery in learning a set of material.  

A situation in which several people may be responsible for the same activity.  

A statistical term describing situations in which, although a difference exists between the overall values of a particular variable for two groups, the values of the variable for some individual members of the two groups are the same.  

The tendency to draw an inappropriately general or illogical conclusion from very limited data or experience.  

A condition in which a person possesses more body fat than is normal for people of the same height and sex overweight; obesity.  

A child’s tendency to use a rather specific term to refer to a wide class of referents. In dentistry, the assessment of the vertical extent of a root canal filling, denoting an extrusion beyond the apical foramen.  

In reference to childhood disorders, a situation in which a child cannot adequately cope with stress and anxiety and may withdraw socially because of a very controlling environment.