Category: S

  • Score profile

    Test profile.  

  • Scoptophilia

    A sexual variance characterized by the person gaining sexual gratification from viewing sexual acts and genitalia.  

  • Scopolamine

    An alkaloid obtained from various plants in the nightshade family. Used medicinally as a sedative hypnotic. A colourless thick liquid poisonous alkaloid found in some plants of the nightshade family. It is used especially to prevent motion sickness and as a sedative. Anticholinergic drug used to treat nausea and vomiting, to sedate, and in ophthalmic…

  • Scope (Of health education)

    The entire range of organizing elements considered within the discipline of health education sequence.  

  • Scoop stretcher

    A split-frame stretcher. A type of stretcher formed of two jointed sections which can slide under someone and lock together.  

  • Scolex

    The head of a tapeworm that is adorned with suckers for attachment. The head of a tapeworm. The presence of suckers and/or hooks on the scolex enables the worm to attach itself to the wall of its host’s gut. The headlike segment of a tapeworm, by which it attaches itself to the wall of the…

  • Sclerotic changes

    Thickening or hardening of tissues sclerosis.  

  • Sclerenchyma fibers

    Elongated cells with tapering ends and thick secondary walls, usually nonliving at maturity.  

  • Scientology

    A mixture of philosophy, psychology, and special counseling techniques, the object of which is to bring the reactive or unconscious mind under control of the analytical or conscious mind. A religious movement begun in 1952 which teaches immortality and reincarnation, and claims a sure psychotherapeutic method for freeing the individual from personal problems, increasing human…

  • Scientific theory

    An interrelated set of propositions that explain phenomena being examined and that can be tested by making logical predictions based upon them.