Category: S

A term loosely applied to various salts of sodium, especially to caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). An ambiguous expression that typically refers to sodium carbonate.  

To sociology and medicine, especially the interrelationships between the two.  

The long-range ill effects of environmental noise on auditory acuity.  

An affiliate of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine consisting of clinics and programs that provide assisted reproductive technology. SART reports annual fertility clinic data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  

The processing of inter personal cues as a means of copying or learning acceptable behavior.  

Aloneness experienced by the individual and perceived as imposed by others and as a negative or threatened state.  

The state in which an individual participates in an insufficient or excessive quantity or ineffective quality of social exchange.  

The ability of a person to interact easily and successfully with other people.  

Community assets, i.e., interpersonal networks, bonds, and institutions that support communities, maintain their cohesiveness, and help them weather crises.  

To weep with convulsive movements of the chest.