OTOLARYNGOLOGIST
noun. a specialist physician or surgeon that examines and remediates illness of the ears, nose, and throat and of the…
OUTCOME RESEARCH
a step-by-step investigation of the efficacy of a sole form or kind of psychotherapy, or of the comparative efficacy of…
OVERDETERMINATION
with regard to psychoanalytic theory, the idea postulating that many unconscious facets might mix to generate one symptom, dream, dysfunction,…
OVERLOAD PRINCIPLE
an idea postulating that to escalate the size or operational capacity of muscle fibers, they must be pushed close to…
OBJECTIVE SCORING
scoring an examination by way of a formula or key, so that varied scorers will come to the exact same…
OBSERVATION
noun. 1. the deliberate analysis of an item or procedure for the purpose of gathering facts about it or recounting…
OBTRUSIVE IDEA
an obsessive, undesired, and foreign concept which intrudes upon an individual
OCCUPATIONAL CLASSIFICATION
the designation of jobs to professions using programs like O-FT (the Occupational data Network),
OCULOGYRIC SPASM, OCULOMOTOR APRAXIA
a state wherein deliberate eye movements are disabled. Impacted people seem to have lost the capacity to move their eyes.…
OFF CELLS (OFF CELLS)
neurons within the visual system, specifically the retina, which depolarize whenever the retina is aroused by light offset.
OLDER ADULT RESOURCES AND SERVICES
a survey utilized as a societal evaluation tool to identify the degree of functioning of older adults in five departments:…
OLFACTORY HALLUCINATION
a false comprehension of odors, that are generally not desirable or disgusting, like toxic gas or decomposing flesh.
OLIVARY NUCLEUS
an mass of gray matter, in the form of an olive, within the medulla oblongata, consisting of the cell bodies…
ONE-GROUP PRE-POST DESIGN
a model operated prior to experiements, wherein the responses of only one set of participants are gauged prior to and…