Glossary

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  • Aglutition

    Difficulty in swallowing or inability to swallow.  

  • Aglossostomia

    Congenital absence of the tongue and mouth.  

  • Aglossia

    Congenital absence of the tongue.  

  • Agitophasia

    Excessive rapidity of speech, with slurring, omission, and distortion of sounds.  

  • Agitographia

    Writing with excessive rapidity, with unconscious omission of words and syllables. An uncontrollable urge to write quickly, often resulting in the unintentional skipping of words or entire sentences.  

  • Aging in place

    Any services provided to elderly patients that allow them to continue to live independently rather than relocating them to care facilities.  

  • Successful aging

    Aging in which emotional, intellectual, physical, social, or spiritual interests are optimally maintained or developed.  

  • Secondary aging

    Changes in structure and function due to diseases prevalent in aging rather than to universal aging processes.  

  • Primary aging

    Universal changes in structure and function that occur naturally during normal processes of growing older, independent of disease or excessive environmental stress.  

  • Aggregometry

    The measurement of the degree to which objects, e.g., platelets, stick together.  

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