Category: T

  • Testicle self-examination

    A procedure whereby men can detect abnormalities in their testicles when preformed every 6-8 weeks. A procedure for a man or boy to check his own testicles for cancer. Since testicular cancer often develops without symptoms, regular self- examination is a preventive measure that can catch the disease early, when it is most curable. Physicians…

  • Test cross

    A cross of a dominant with a homozygous recessive to determine whether the dominant is homozygous or heterozygous. Used as a test for linkage.  

  • Testator

    A person who has made a will.  

  • Testability

    The extent to which a hypothesis is amenable to systematic scientific study.  

  • Tertiary water treatment

    The purification of water by using chemicals to remove phosphates and other compounds, and electrodialysis to remove dissolved salts, primary water treatment; secondary water treatment.  

  • Tertiary stage of syphilis

    The final stage of the syphilis infection characterized by a variety of symptoms depending upon the organs and tissues involved. When the brain is involved, an organic mental illness, general paresis results. Syphilis is treated with penicillin or other antibiotics.  

  • Tertiary prevention

    Controlling the progress of a disease and rehabilitating a person. Within an organizational stress intervention context, tertiary prevention refers to providing rehabilitation and recovery assistance to individuals who have developed mental or physical health conditions related to stress.  

  • Tertiary health care

    Those services involved in posthospitalization care.  

  • Territory

    In ethology, a region a particular animal stakes out as its own. The holder is usually a male, but in some species the held by a mating pair or group.  

  • Terramycin

    A commercial preparation of the antibiotics.