Category: F

  • First reading

    In politics, to read for the first time of three times, the bill or its title for consideration by the legislature.  

  • First-rank symptom

    In schizophrenia specific delusions and hallucinations as particularly for its more exact diagnosis.  

  • First professional certificate

    An award that requires completion of an organized program of study designed for individuals who had completed the first professional degree. This usually involves 4 years of undergraduate college work.  

  • First-order change

    In sociology, change from one behavior to another that occurs from within a group.  

  • First aid

    The immediate and temporary care given to the victim of an accident or sudden illness until qualified medical help is available. Help given by a non-medical person to someone who is suddenly ill or injured before full-scale medical treatment can be given. Immediate care given an injured or ill person before treatment by medically trained…

  • Finger oscillation test

    A neuropsychological test used to assess possible impairment to the right or left side of the brain.  

  • Final offer arbitration

    In labor relations, each party submits its final proposal or offer and the arbitrator selects one of them.  

  • Final common path

    In reflex physiology, the motor pathway upon which many neural pathways converge. Linked neurones which take all impulses from the central nervous system to a muscle.  

  • Fimbrial hood

    An experimental form of contraception that operates by covering the fimbriae of the fallopian tubes thereby preventing eggs from entering them.  

  • Fimbria

    The fingerlike upper end of the fallopian tubes that pick up the egg expelled from the ovary. A fringe, especially the fringe of hair-like processes at the end of a Fallopian tube near the ovaries. Fimbriae, fringe or fringelike structure, such as the fingerlike projections around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube. Finger-or fringe-shaped…