Category: F

Speech problems such as repetition, prolongation of sound, hesitations, and impediments in speech flow.  

A test designed to measure the frequency of spontaneous mutations.  

The rate at which oxygen flows from a cylinder. The can be adjusted by a control.  

A device to measure the rate of flow of any agent introduced into a person, such as oxygen or intravenous fluid. A meter attached to a pipe, e.g. as in anaesthetic equipment, to measure the speed at which a liquid or gas moves in the pipe. An instrument for measuring the flow of a liquid…

In politics, that portion of the assembly chamber reserved for members and officers of the legislature and other persons granted the privilege. The surface that forms the lower limit of a cavity or space, as the floor of the cranial cavity, fourth ventricle, mouth, nasal fossa, pelvis, or a cavity preparation in a tooth.  

A behavior therapy procedure in which a fearful person exposes himself or herself to what is frightening, in reality or in the inclination, for extended periods of time without opportunity for escape, flooding.  

In psychology, experiencing something so often that a person is no longer aroused by it is a technique used to help a person to become more comfortable with sexual terminology. Excessive bleeding from the womb, as in menorrhagia or miscarriage. A popular name for an excessive blood-stained discharge from the womb (uterus). In the majority…

In biology, fine projections from the side of the tinsel, fibrillose, or flimmer-geisel flagellum.    

Escaping from some unpleasant situation or problem by simulating the symptoms of some organic condition and being convinced of one’s illness.  

An in-depth study of medical education in the United States and Canada, directed by Abraham Flexner and funded by the Carnegie Foundation. Published in 1910.