VOCABULARY GROWTH
the cultivation of vocabulary in kids. With regard to estimating vocabulary size, a differention is commonly drawn between receptive vocabulary…
VOICE THERAPIST
a specialist in the physiology and pathology of voice generation who identifies and remediates voice disorders.
VOLTAGE-GATED ION CHANNEL
an ion channel which opens or closes in reaction to the voltage variation across the membrane, like the voltage-gated sodium…
VOCATIONAL APPRAISAL
the foretelling by a vocational specialist of a client's probability for success and fulfillment in a given occupation. A vocational…
VOLUNTARY AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS
nonprofit groups supported entirely or partly by public donations and committed to the restructuring of public wellbeing or social welfare…
VOLUME OF DISTRIBUTION
the quantity of a drug in the body in correlation to its concentration in a multitude of bodily fluids. It…
VOMITING CENTER
a nerve center inside the brain's medulla oblongata which is considered to partly oversee vomiting. Another region, the chemoreceptor trigger…
VON RESTORFF EFFECT
a memory-procedure theory postulating that an object which is different from others within a sequence will be recalled more than…
VOICE-STRESS ANALYZER
an tool which identifies minute alterations in the voice, that the human ear cannot hear, which supposedly happen whenever an…
VOODOO DEATH
a culturally-bound syndrome viewed in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific islands, Haiti, and Australia. A person who has went against a…
VON DOMARUS PRINCIPLE
an explanation of schizophrenic thinking based upon the idea that the person interprets two things as exactly alike only because…