Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In botany, a period of inactivity in bulbs, buds, seeds, and other plant organs. Temporary inactivity; e.g., a state of transiently reduced metabolic activity.  

The use of ergogenic agents to artificially improve athletic performance. In sports, the illicit use of a drug or blood product by an athlete in an effort to improve performance.  

In politics, the affirmative recommendation made by a committee in sending a bill to the floor for additional action.  

The theory that schizophrenia victims are oversensitive to the neurotransmitter dopamine and are therefore in a state of over arousal. Phenothiazines alleviate schizophrenia symptoms acting as a block to transmission.  

When an extreme request is refused, it is more likely that a second, smaller request will be granted. Used in labor relations.  

A bacterium that causes granuloma inguinale. Small Gram-negative organism, pleomorphic and of doubtful classification, causing granulomatous lesions, tropical in distribution. Cultivated on yolk sacs, or on egg yolks in vitro, the organism possesses antigenic components in common with Klebsiella rhino-scleromatis.  

A term sometimes used in psychology to describe a person who possesses the personality of a roue, seducer, and profligate.  

Retinal loci of electrical responsivity to light, modulator unit.  

The response that is learned most thoroughly.  

A genetic material that is expressed even in the presence of a recessive gene. When one member of a gene pair is dominant and the other is recessive, the dominant gene will exert its effects regardless of what the recessive gene calls for: chromosome.