Category: A

  • Aloin

    A yellow crystalline substance obtained from aloe.  

  • Alma-Ata declaration

    A declaration made in 1978 at the Conference on Primary Health Care in Alma-Ata, Russia. It stated that primary health care is the key to attaining health for all by the year 2000. Defined as essential to this were eight elements: education, food supply, safe water, maternal and child health, including family planning, immunization, prevention…

  • Allyl

    A univalent unsaturated radical found in garlic and mustard.  

  • Allotype

    Any one of the genetic variants of protein that occur in a single species. The serum from a person with one form of allotype could be antigenic to another person.  

  • Allotropism

    The existence of an element in two or more distinct forms with different physical properties. A condition or state in which the same chemical substance exhibits two distinct appearances, as seen with phosphorus, which can exist as either red or yellow phosphorus.  

  • Allotropic

    To the existence of an element in two or more distinct forms with different physical properties.  

  • Allotriogeustia

    Perverted appetite or sense of taste.  

  • Allostery

    In bacteria, alteration of a regulatory site on a protein that changes its shape and activity. This change is important in altering the way the organism responds to its molecular environment.  

  • Allopsychic

    To mental processes in relation to the external environment. Concerning the mental connection with the outside world.  

  • Allopolyploidy

    The state of having more than two sets of chromosomes derived from different ancestral species.