Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The immediate and temporary care given to the victim of an accident or sudden illness until qualified medical help is available. Help given by a non-medical person to someone who is suddenly ill or injured before full-scale medical treatment can be given. Immediate care given an injured or ill person before treatment by medically trained…

A neuropsychological test used to assess possible impairment to the right or left side of the brain.  

In labor relations, each party submits its final proposal or offer and the arbitrator selects one of them.  

In reflex physiology, the motor pathway upon which many neural pathways converge. Linked neurones which take all impulses from the central nervous system to a muscle.  

An experimental form of contraception that operates by covering the fimbriae of the fallopian tubes thereby preventing eggs from entering them.  

The fingerlike upper end of the fallopian tubes that pick up the egg expelled from the ovary. A fringe, especially the fringe of hair-like processes at the end of a Fallopian tube near the ovaries. Fimbriae, fringe or fringelike structure, such as the fingerlike projections around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube. Finger-or fringe-shaped…

Fluid pressure in the blood vessels generated by the pumping action of the heart. The action of passing a liquid through a filter. To strain or separate by passing liquid through a device to separate wanted from unwanted substances, as in dialysis. The addition of sheets of metal into a beam of x rays, altering…

Disease spread by germs transmitted through excretions.  

An unusual love and honor for parents.