Category: O

An administrative policy in which employees are encouraged to express complaints, ask questions, make suggestions, without the threat of reprisal.  

An open fracture.  

Among homosexuals and heterosexuals, couples who live together but who engage in sexual relations with others, open marriage.  

An organizational structure in schools in which self-contained classrooms are replaced by an open plan where students have the freedom to move about the school for different educational experiences, traditional classroom.  

Consists of the nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs of a language, morphemes, closed-class morphemes.  

A cell in the female prior to meiosis. A cell produced at the beginning of the development of an ovum. A cell produced at an early stage in the formation of an ovum (egg cell). Primordial germ cells that have migrated to the embryonic ovary multiply to form numerous small oogonia. After the fifth month…

The maturation of ova in the female. The formation and development of ova. The production of oocytes by the ovary of the female. Development of ova, female reproductive cells. During the reproductive years of a woman’s fife, at roughly monthly intervals, one or two oocytes present in the ovary since birth undergo a series of…

A kind of sexual reproduction in which one gamete (the egg) is large and nonmotile, and the other gamete (the sperm) is smaller and motile.  

A cyst formed from the zygote of plasmodium. A spherical structure, 50-60 μm in diameter, that develops from the zygote of the malarial parasite (Plasmodium) on the outer wall of the mosquito’s stomach. The oocyst steadily grows in size and its contents divide repeatedly to form sporozoites, which are released into the body cavity of…

The surgical removal of a finger or toe nail.