ANTECEDENT
1. an event preceding or occasioning another event - setting the stage for a particular response. 2. In linguistics, the…
ANTECEDENT VARIABLE
a variable that precedes another variable or consequence in a temporal sense. Although the consequence may not be related, both…
ANTERIOR CHOROIDAL ARTERY
a narrow artery that branches from the posterior of the mid-cerebral artery. It lays across the optic tract in the…
ANTERIOR COMMISSURE
a substantial bundle of myelinated nerve fibers that connect different parts of the brain hemispheres. The olfactory tract is also…
ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY SYNDROME (ACOA SYNDROME)
a syndrome arising as a consequence of rupture or aneurysm in the anterior communicating artery. This artery is small, located…
ANTERIOR HORN
1. refers to two regions of gray matter in the ventral spinal cord. These regions contain large motor neurons whose…
ANTERIOR PITUITARY
refers to the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland in the brain. Also known as adenohypophysis.
ANTERIOR PITUITARY HORMONE
any one of a number of hormones that are secreted by a brain region known as the anterior pituitary gland.…
ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR AXIS
A hypothetical plane or line that runs from front-back of the body or brain.
ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR DEVELOPMENT GRADIENT
refers to the rapid growth of the head region compared to the body region during fetal development in general. Specifically,…
ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA
loss of memory for events that occur after the onset of amnesia. Also involves a lack of new learning post-amnesia.…
ANTEROGRADE DEGENERATION
the degeneration of a neuron structure after sustaining injury, that spreads away from the nerve cell body. Also known as…
ANTEROLATERAL SYSTEM
one of the major somatosensory system comprising of ascending in the anterior lateral white matter of the spinal cord. Originating…
ANTHROPOCENTRISM
n. the assumption that the human experience is the central reality - and the idea that all animal and living…
ANTHROPOGENESIS
n. a scientific study paradigm relating to the study of human origins and development. Also known as anthropogeny.
ANTHROPOID
adj. resembling a human being in a meaningful way. More specifically, this term refers to apes without tails, for example,…
ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS
the branch of linguistics that connects language characteristics with particular cultural, social, and developmental structures in a given society. (see…
ANTHROPOLOGY
n. refers to the overall study of human beings. Subsectors look at similarities and differences between groups in terms of…
ANTHROPOMETRY
the empirical study of how human size and proportions tend to vary in conjunction with aging, sex, ethnicity, or culture.…