Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
-
Automated external defibrillator (AED)
A portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the potentially life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia in a patient and is able to treat them through defibrillation.
-
Auditory learner
A person who learns primarily through spoken word, music, or other auditory input.
-
Audible (verbal) cue
A cue that is received by hearing, such as spoken words, whistles, claps, musical changes, or bells.
-
Attitude
A feeling of emotion or a mental position regarding a fact or state. A tendency to respond in a characteristic way to some social stimulus. An opinion or general feeling about something. A way of standing or sitting. Bodily posture or position, especially of the limbs. A particular attitude may be a symptom of disease…
-
ATP-PCr system
A metabolic anaerobic system providing immediate fuel from stored phosphocreatine.
-
Athetoid
Demonstrating slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts. Resembling or affected with athetosis.
-
Ataxic
An inability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements that is symptomatic of some central nervous system disorders and injuries and not caused by muscle weakness. Having ataxia, or relating to ataxia.
-
Assisted movement
Refers to any part in the range of motion of an exercise that is facilitated by the forces of gravity or buoyancy, or the properties or mechanics of an apparatus or particular piece of equipment.
-
Archimedes’ principle
The loss of weight of a submerged body equals the weight of the fluid displaced by the body. The principle that a partially or fully submerged object will experience an upward buoyant force equal to the weight or the volume of fluid displaced by the object. An object’s volume when submerged in water equals the…
-
Aquatic heart rate deduction (Kruel formula)
Determined by subtracting the heart rate standing in the water from the heart rate standing out of the water.
Got any book recommendations?