Category: S

  • Secular ideology

    A world view of sexual phenomena sacred ideology; scientific ideology.  

  • Secular decline hypothesis

    The theory that the onset of menstruation has been occurring at an increasingly earlier age over the past century and a half.      

  • Sector therapy

    A type of goal-limited psychotherapy using associative anamnesis as a therapeutic technique for keeping the therapy focused on a particular problem area.  

  • Secretory phase

    The postovulatory phase. The second half of the menstrual cycle. Second half of the menstrual cycle, after ovulation during which progesterone secreted by the corpus luteum stimulates the development and thickening of the endometrium in preparation for the implantation of an embryo. If fertilization does not occur, the secretory phase ends as the corpus luteum…

  • Secretory cells

    Specialized cells within the breast that will, upon stimulation from specific hormones, produce milk.  

  • Secretary of education

    A cabinet level official in charge of the United States Department of Education.  

  • Second wind

    A sudden relief from the symptoms of exhaustion, such as breathlessness, muscle fatigue, and rapid pulse.  

  • Second-order change

    Change from outside the group that results in movement of the group to a higher logical type.  

  • Secondary water treatment

    The removal of up to 90% of suspended organic matter from sewage water by the use of trickling filters or activated sludge aeration tanks where bacterial action breaks down most of the organic matter, primary water treatment; tertiary water treatment.  

  • Secondary syphilis

    The second stage of syphilis primary syphilis; tertiary stage of syphilis.