OPTIMALITY THEORY
any of several varied ideas established to figure out the constructs or behavior which best deal with specific troubles encountered…
OPTOKINETIC EFFECT 1
any of a wide category of perceptual and motor reactions to moving of the eyes. 2. the motions of the…
OPTOKINETIC REFLEX (OKR)
the compensatory eye motions which permit the eyes to keep focus on a visual mark during fairly big, slow head…
ORA SERRATA
the very most anterior part of the retina, found across from the ciliary body. The average retinal layers are attenuated…
ORAL APRAXIA
trouble performing skilled motions with the face, lips, tongue, and cheeks upon an order.
ORAL BEHAVIOR
activities consisting of the mouth, like thumb sucking, smoking, ingesting food, kissing, biting one's nails, speaking, and oral sex.
ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES
pills taken on a regular basis by females to inhibit pregnancy. Most are combined forms of a synthetic estrogen and…
ORAL EROTICISM
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the satisfaction stemming from oral behaviors like speaking, biting, kissing, smoking, and oral-genital contact. Commonly…
ORAL IMPREGNATION
fertilization which is said, with some degree of uncertainty, to arise by oral instead of genital contact.
ORAL PERSONALITY
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, a trend of character traits stemming from obsessive focus during the oral stage of psychosexual…
ORAL SADISM
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the primitive impulse to utilize the mouth, lips, and teeth as tools of violence, mastery,…
ORAL SOUND
a speech noise generated by the movement of air by way of the mouth cavity with minimal or no nasal…
ORAL STAGE
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the first phase of psychocarnal growth, occurring in the first year of life, wherein the…