Category: P

  • Placidity explosiveness

    A central orientation characterized by readiness to react to different situations and whether the reactions tend to be belligerent or calm, emotional expressiveness reserve.  

  • Place theory

    According to Helmholtz’s theory, the physiological condition for pitch perception is in the place on the basilar membrane stimulated by a particular sound, frequency theory.  

  • Placenta previa

    Low implantation of the blastocyst in the uterus that often results in miscarriage because of premature detachment of the placenta. A disorder in which the placenta that provides nourishment to a fetus is placed abnormally low, over the cervix. Condition of pregnancy in which the placenta is implanted abnormally in the lower, rather than the…

  • Place learning

    Learning the general location of the goal in any situation.  

  • Placebo pills

    Pills that contain no active ingredients. Inert pills that control for expectancy effects because participants believe these pills may contain active medicinal ingredients.  

  • Pit viper

    A venomous snake that has a hollow, heat- sensitive pit between eye and nostril.  

  • Pituitary gonadotropins

    Hormones produced by the pituitary gland that stimulate the gonads. The hormone from the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland specifically influences the activity of the sex organs.  

  • Pitch disorder

    A condition where the .voice tonal characteristics are abnormal (high, low, or monotone).  

  • Pitch

    The psychological attribute that depends mainly upon the frequency of the physical stimulus. That quality of the sensation of sound that enables one to classify it in a scale from high to low. It is dependent principally on frequency of vibrations.  

  • Pinworm

    An intestinal roundworm that causes intense rectal itching A parasitic nematode worm of the genus Enterobius (Oxyuris), which lives in the upper part of the large intestine of man. The threadlike female worm, some 12 mm long, is larger than the male; it emerges from the anus in the evening to deposit its eggs, and…