Category: T

Any program using positive reinforcement (operant conditioning) to teach or train desired skills or behaviors.  

Cleansing of a wound after operation or of an obstetrical patient.  

A family of RNA viruses that include the genus Alphavirus. They cause Western and Eastern equine encephalitis. Other Togaviridae include the rubiviruses (e.g., rubella virus).  

A reflex in which strong flexion of the great toe flexes all the muscles below the knee.  

Contraction of the big toe caused by sudden extension of the first phalanx.  

A colloquial term for a child who has begun to walk but whose gait remains clumsy or unsteady.  

Science of parturition and obstetrics.  

A device for estimating and recording the force of uterine contractions.  

A device for estimating the force of uterine contractions in labor.  

A record obtained by using a tocodynamometer.