PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
safety gear, like face masks, hearing safety devices, or gloves, which serves as a block to lessen or remove someone
PERSONALITY CORRELATES
1. characteristics which are correlated with a specific disease or disorder. 2. variants which correspond to measures of character.
PERSUASION THERAPY
a kind of supportive psychotherapy wherein the therapy professional tries to get the patient to change flawed outlooks and behavior…
PHAGOCYTOSIS
noun. the procedure by which solid particles, inclusive of foreign compounds, food pieces, and other cells, are engulfed by cells…
PHANTASMAGORIA
1. a shifting sequence of confused or deceptive pictures. 2. An apparition of spirits or ghostly entities.
PHARMACOTHERAPY
noun. the remediation of a disorder by the delivery of drugs, in contrast to such methods as psychotherapy, surgery, or…
PHENOMENISTIC CAUSALITY
with regard to the theory of Jean Piaget, an inference of causality between occurrences, drawn only on the premise of…
PHENYLPYRUVIC OLIGOPHRENIA
an intense type of cognitive retardation which is correlated with or because of an innate error of metabolism of phenylalanine,…
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
the department of philosophy committed to the analysis and perception of science and its growth. It is regarded with such…
PHONOLOGICAL RECODING
the utilization of reading abilities to transform written symbols into noises and words.
PHOTOMANIA U
1. an irregular craving for light, specifically sunlight. 2. worshiping of the sun.
PHOTOTROPISM
noun. an orienting reaction, particularly of a plant, either toward or veered away from light. It is obviously different from…
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
an evaluation of the body and its particular acts, usually by a doctor or other medical professional, using examination, auscultation,…
PILTZ'S REFLEX
an automatic and indeliberate escalation in the size of the pupil whenever attending to an item or occurence.