FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE (FSH)
the gonadotropin that is released by the anterior pituitary gland. In females it stimulates development in the ovary of graafian…
FORAMINOTOMY
the surgical enlargement of one of the foramina between adjacent vertebrae that spinal nerves pass. It is done by enlarging…
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
Psychiatry. Deals with abnormal behaviour and mental disorders that relate to legal issues like trials and hearings. It mainly deals…
FORMAL DISCIPLINE
the term that is applied to the concept that some subjects, like mathematics and foreign languages need to be studied…
FORM-FUNCTION DISTINCTION
a distinction between two fundamentally different ways of analysing language. One with respect to its structural properties or form and…
FOSTER-CHILD FANTASY
the name that is given to the childhood belief or fantasy that their parents are actually adoptive or foster parents.…
FRAGMENTATION OF THINKING
where the process of thinking is confused where a complete action is no longer possible. It is a primary symptom…
FREE NERVE ENDING
the name of the branched ending of an afferent neuron that is found in the skin and is believed to…
FREE-RESPONSE TEST
The type of examination where answers are constructed by the student, short-answer tests and essay tests are examples. This type…
FREQUENCY SELECTIVITY
the property of a system that allows it to be tunes to respond to certain frequencies that give a better…
FRUSTRATION-AGGRESSION HYPOTHESIS
States that frustration produces aggression and aggression results from prior frustrations. Later noted by Neal Miller that frustration leads to…
FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES
These are the actions that are associated with our home and work settings. These need to be relearn by people…
FUNCTIONAL DISORDER
the term given to a disorder that there is no known organic basis. In psychology and psychiatry a functional disorders…
FUNGIFORM PAPILLAE
These are swellings on the front of the tongue that are shaped like a mushroom and number about200. Half have…
F DISTRIBUTION
is used in chi-squared distribution sets, as a probability distribution of two independent chi-square (based) random variables which are both…
FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT
is typically the result of a medical condition or accident in an individual's life which leaves them with any distortion,…
FACTITIOUS DISORDER
is considered (in the DSM-IV-TR), as any of a group of disorders in which the patient intentionally produces or feigns…
FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE
is knowledge, which is gained by the individual semantically, or otherwise the knowledge maybe generic. Examples can be any piece…