Category: S

  • Secondary sex characteristics

    The appearance of traits during adolescence that are typical for the mature sex of the person as male or female. Traits include larger breasts in the female, and facial and body hair and deeper voice in the male. A gender-related physical attribute that normally develops under the influence of sex hormones at puberty. Voice quality,…

  • Secondary schools

    Schools that provide education to older students, usually in grades 9-12 or 10-12.  

  • Secondary response

    A stronger response of the immune system following the invasion of an antigen into the body, primary response.  

  • Secondary reinforcement

    Learned reinforcement.  

  • Secondary prevention

    Measures taken after a disease exists to prevent further complications or new cases from occurring strategies include screening, case finding, diagnosis, and treatment. The use of methods such as screening tests which avoid a serious disease by detecting it early. The avoidance on alleviation of the serious consequences of disease by early detection. Best known…

  • Secondary orgasmic dysfunction

    A woman who has experienced orgasm in the past but is unable to do so at the present time.  

  • Secondary memory

    Long-term memory primary memory.  

  • Secondary level of health

    A level of health characterized by people who have contracted conditions that when left untreated will result in disability or death.  

  • Secondary labeling theory

    The hypothesis that the labeling of an individual can stigmatize the person in question, resulting in a limitation in learning, recovery, or rehabilitation, primary labeling theory.  

  • Secondary infection

    An infection occurring in someone already suffering from an infection or from a wound that becomes secondarily infected after the wound was inflicted. An infection which affects a person while he or she is weakened through having another infection. A new infection in a person who already has an infection. An infection made possible by…