Category: T

A squalid apartment building, usually defined as one in which several, unrelated families share the same facilities, such as the bathroom.  

A condition of the jaw characterized by pain and clicking in the jaw. Pain may also radiate to the neck and other parts of the head.  

A form of summation in which two impulses arriving at a synapse in very rapid succession add in strength and cross it spatial summation.  

A maze in which an organism must respond differently to the same portion of the maze, depending on previous behavior spatial maze.  

The arteries located on either side of the face in front of the ear supplying blood to the scalp. Any of three arteries on each side of the head. Blood vessel that brings oxygenated blood to the brain. A branch of the external carotid artery that supplies blood mainly to the temple and scalp.  

A periodic abstinence method of birth control that relies on the correlation between body temperature and the ovulation process to determine a woman’s safe period or infertility days in her menstrual cycle.  

A phenomenon in which a layer of cool air is trapped under a layer of warm air. Pollutants also become trapped and are subjected to the action of sunlight, which produces additional pollutants. The condition that occurs when a layer of cool air near the ground is trapped under a layer of warm air.  

A phage (virus) that invades but does not destroy the host (bacterial) cell, virulent phage. A virus that duplicates itself by transitioning through a prophage phase within a lysogenic bacterium.  

A moderation or restraint in some behavior. Moderation in one’s thoughts and actions, especially with respect to use of alcoholic beverages.  

The final phase of mitosis. The final stage of mitosis, the stage in cell division after anaphase. Last of the four main stages of division within a cell nucleus, in which the new daughter chromosomes are at the poles of the division spindle, the nuclear membrane forms around them, the nucleolus reappears, and cytoplasmic division…