Category: G

  • Gender constancy

    Recognition that a person’s gender does not change as one grows older.  

  • Gender adoption

    The lengthy process of learning the behaviors that are traditional for one’s sex: gender identity.  

  • Gender

    A person’s genetic sex, biologically determined at the moment of conception by the pairing of the sex determining chromosomes. The fact of being of the male or female sex.  

  • Gelatinization

    Conversion to gelatin.  

  • Geiger counter

    An instrument consisting of a Geiger-Muller tube and the electronic equipment used in conjunction with it to record the momentary current pulsations in the tube gas produced by the passage of radioactive particles. An instrument for the detection and measurement of radiation [Described 1908. After Hans Geiger (1882-1945), German physicist who worked with Rutherford at…

  • Gay liberation

    A movement, sometimes militant, seeking to achieve civil rights for homosexuals and recognition of the normality of homosexuality.  

  • Gay community

    A colloquial term pertaining to homosexuals collectively.  

  • Gay

    Gay

    Slang for homosexual. Relating to sexual activity among people of the same sex.  

  • Gastrula

    The embryonic stage of development in which the cells form a double-layered hollow sphere. The second stage of the development of an embryo. Early stage in embryo development occurring after the blastula stage; the gastrula is a hollow, cup-shaped structure consisting of an outer ectoderm layer and an inner layer that later differentiates into two…

  • Gastrointestinal drug

    A drug used to control or treat various disorders and diseases of the stomach and intestinal tract.