Category: P

Laws that establish the right to carry out a specific action without requiring that it be done.  

Allowing a person to do whatever he or she likes.  

Capable of, or allowing the passage of fluids into or through. Permeable describes the property of being able to permit the passage of substances.  

A group of neurons located in the hypothalamus and thalamus that is the punishment or avoidance center of the nervous system.  

A means of using irrational reasoning in response to persuasive or rational messages.  

Blood flow through small vessels surrounded by muscles.  

In epidemiology, the number of individuals with a specific health outcome at the time period when the count is made. May also be expressed as rate.  

A stage of an infectious disease when the body has overcome the infectious agent and the body is returning to normal strength and functioning.  

In Piaget’s theory, the period from about 11 years on, when genuinely abstract mental operations can be undertaken.