Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A strain of organisms in which they cannot reproduce with themselves but are able to reproduce with others of different strains, but within the same species.  

A gradient referring to the practice of a young, attractive woman marrying a better educated, well-established less attractive male.  

Variables expressed quantitatively within functional relationships.  

A sexual variance (also called swinging) that involves the sexual exchange of partners of two or more married couples. In most cases, all of those involved are aware of the swapping activities.  

That branch of medical science concerned with the sources, preparation, properties, and uses of the drugs in preventing, diagnosing, treating, and controlling diseases, toxicology; pharmacognosy. The study of drugs or dosages as used in treatment. Study of the origins, preparation, uses, and effects of drugs and other substances used therapeutically in medicine. The study of…

A system of values in which goods and their acquisition have special significance.  

That branch of dental studies that deals with medicinal substances used in the practice of dentistry.  

A general term referring to the development of the placenta and other tissues specifically associated with pregnancy.  

The number of deaths of mother from childbirth per 10,000 live births in a given year. The number of deaths due to complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium expressed as a proportion of all births (i.e. including stillbirths). Formerly the rate was expressed per 1000 births but with the low levels currently reported it…

The death of a mother that is immediately related to or significantly contributed to by a pregnancy, as during childbirth, miscarriage, or abortion. Maternal mortality, normally expressed as a rate of the number of deaths per specified number of pregnancies, has much declined in recent years, to about eight per 100,000 in 1983. Among the…