Category: Q

Educational schedule that divides the school year into five 45-day units, plus one 30-day vacation unit. Students are expected to attend at least four or, if they wish, all five of the units.  

A way of ranking test scores, on the same principle as a percentile, but with four divisions. A 25% section, wedge, or slice of a consecutively arranged set of data.  

A fourth. In education, the school year is sometimes divided into four equal periods, instead of two semesters or three trimesters; also an alternative term for quartile, a way of ranking test scores, on the same principle as a percentile, but from 1 to 4.  

Ace inhibitor, antihypertensive drug.  

Baked flour products made without yeast using baking powder or baking soda as the leavening agent. A type of bread that relies on baking soda, baking powder, air, or steam, in lieu of yeast, to produce the necessary rise during the baking process. Consequently, it expands while baking without requiring any preliminary time for the…

An imaging technique consisting of an array of X-ray sources and radiation detectors aligned opposite each other. As X-ray beams pass through the subjects, they are weakened or attenuated by the tissues and picked up by the detectors. The signals are then compared using a computer, which can construct a cross section of the body…

A part of the electron transport chain; shuttles reducing equivalents back and forth through the inner mitochondrial membrane.  

Refers to the narrow, tubular shape of petals or florets of certain flowers.  

The result when one number is divided by another. The number of times one number is contained in another.  

A violent form of malaria in which the fever returns at daily or even shorter intervals.