Category: R

Rebuilding of the breast through plastic surgery.  

A method of studying retention in which the items are presented in a scrambled order and the subject attempts to put them into correct order.  

An attempt to form a “perfect society” through teaching techniques associated with experimentalism and existentialism.  

Conditioning after extinction. The process of restoring normal cardiovascular and neuromuscular function following injury, disease, or inactivity.  

The smallest unit of DNA capable of recombination.  

A pressure chamber so designed that air under greater than atmospheric pressure can be administered to a person. The used in the treatment of the bends and in conditions requiring administration of oxygen under pressure.  

The action of compressing again. The re-subjection of a person to increased atmospheric pressure, as in the treatment of caisson disease (the bends). Reinstating the heightened pressure of the underwater environment in order to address gas embolism through the reduction of bubble dimensions.  

An increase in integration or inner organization, decompensation.  

Techniques that involve the isolation of segments of DNA and inserting them into a host cell, which then replicate and are expressed as the host cell multiplies.  

A method used in the study of retention in which the measure is the number of items recognized as previously learned when correct items are presented along with incorrect items.