Category: F
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Functional defects
Genetic defects affecting the body’s ability to perform certain normal tasks.
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Functional autonomy
The hypothesis that sometimes habits become drives or ends in themselves, free of their original motivational origin.
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Functional authority
The right to give orders within a segment of the management system in which the right is normally nonexistent.
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Functional analysis of behavior
A process used in naturalistic observations to record the person’s behavior as well as the situational events surrounding it.
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Fulminating anoxia
In medicine, a sudden, intense, and severe anoxia.
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Full-time staff
People who are on the payroll of an institution and classified by the institution as full-time.
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Full-time equivalency (FTE)
A funding model used at many universities where programs are funded based on the number of full-time students enrolled.
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Full-term infant
From conception to within 3 weeks of 280 days gestation.
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Full-range movement
In physiology, movement that starts from a fully extended, pre-stretched position and continues to a fully contracted position.
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Full potential
The talents, skills, and abilities an individual can acquire and/or develop if provided with the proper learning experiences and environments.