Category: S

  • Store-front clinic

    Usually, a small health services program located in a neighborhood for the ready access of residents.  

  • Storage fat

    Excessive reserves of body fat. Storage fat is the extra fat that accumulates in fat (adipose) cells around internal organs and beneath the skin surface to insulate, pad, and protect the body from trauma and extreme cold. Excess fat deposited in adipose tissue (fat cells) that protects organs and insulates the body. Adipose tissue, commonly…

  • Stop-start technique

    Treatment for premature ejaculation in which stimulation is ceased just prior to ejaculation, then resumed once the urge to ejaculate dissipates, squeeze technique.  

  • Stomach medicine

    A slang expression for drugs used or intended for gastrointestinal disturbances, e.g., antacids.  

  • Stoic

    Capable of ending pain and discomfort while remaining calm.  

  • Stipulation

    A particular provision in an agreement.  

  • Stimulus/response bit

    A conceptual unit consisting of sensory input to a person and the response that input produces.  

  • Stimulus generalization

    A similar reaction to a variety of stimuli.  

  • Stimulation theory

    The theory that reinforcement is a matter of stimulation.  

  • Stimulation

    Increase in the rate of functional activity, speeding up of the central nervous system function. The action of stimulating something. The irritating or arousing of muscles, nerves, or other sensory organs. Irritating or invigorating action of agents on muscles, nerves, or sensory end organs by which excitation or activity in a part is evoked.