Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A listserv/discussion group, established in 1990, that encourages health educators from each area of practice to share ideas, seek advice, promote programs and conferences, etc.  

That branch of medicine that deals mainly with the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of adolescents.  

A type of schizophrenia characterized by bizarre ideas and silliness. A term rarely used today by psychiatrists and psychologists.  

A type of schizophrenia characterized by marked shallowness and distortion of affect and silly, inappropriate behavior. Hebephrenic schizophrenia.  

Heat exhaustion.  

Cardiac muscle.  

A device that oxygenates and circulates blood in the body during a coronary bypass or other appropriate surgical procedure. A machine used to pump blood round the body and maintain the supply of oxygen to the blood during heart surgery. Mechanical device that serves as artificial lungs and heart during some cardiac procedures. A device…

An interference with the conduction of the electrical impulses of the heart. Blockage can be either partial or complete. The slowing of the action of the heart because the impulses from the sinoatrial node to the ventricles are delayed or interrupted. There are either longer impulses (first degree block) or missing impulses (second degree block)…

In law, testimony given by any witness who relates what others have told him or her or what he or she has heard said by others, rather than what he or she knows personally.  

Procedures to detect hearing loss. The use of the pure tone audiometer by an audiometrician health screening.