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  • Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU)

    Inflammation of the urinary tract usually by Chlamydial trachomatis or Ureaplasma urealyticum. Symptoms are similar to those of gonorrhea, but ordinarily it is not considered a sexually transmitted disease. Infectious disease of the urethra, usually caused by the Chlamydia trachomatis para¬ site and sexually transmitted. Symptoms are painful urination and discharge from the penis in…

  • Nonfeasance

    Failure to perform a required duty. In law, failure to meet an obligation, especially an official duty or a legal one.  

  • Nonfasting reactive hypoglycemia

    The most common form of hypoglycemia. Symptoms appear 2-5 h after meals and are short-lived.  

  • Nonfamily householder

    A person who lives alone or with nonrelatives only.  

  • Nonexempt employees

    Employees who are covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act.  

  • Nonemissive erection

    A sexual dysfunction in which a man is able to achieve an erection but is not able to ejaculate.  

  • Noneffective environment

    That part of the external environment to which a person is not responding at any given time, effective environment.    

  • Nondisjunction

    Failure of chromosomes to separate in cell division, with the result that both go to the same cell. Particularly, failure of maternal and paternal chromosomes to separate in the reduction division of meiosis. Failure of homologous pairs of chromosomes to separate during the processes of nuclear division, resulting in an abnormal number of chromosomes in…

  • Nondirective techniques (Therapy)

    Methods for psychological treatment developed by Carl Rogers wherein the therapist refrains from offering advice or interpretations, but only tries to clarify the person’s feelings by repeating or restating what is said, client- centered therapy.  

  • Nondebatable

    Subjects or motions that cannot be discussed or debated under strict rules of order.  

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