Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Vested right

    A right completely defined and settled that cannot be cancelled or impaired.  

  • Vested

    Fixed, accrued, not subject to any contingency.  

  • Vessel element

    One of the cells composing a vessel.  

  • Vesprin

    A commercial preparation of phenothiazine.  

  • Verumontanum

    A small mound in men in the portion of the urethra passing through the prostate, which contains openings of the ejaculatory ducts. An elevation on the floor of the prostatic portion of the urethra where the seminal ducts enter.  

  • Vertical enrichment

    The teacher instructs learners who complete assignments faster than classmates to do more difficult or advanced assignments, horizontal enrichment.  

  • Vertical decalage

    Across different periods of intellectual growth, successive rediscovery of the same principle at each new stage of thinking, horizontal decalage.  

  • Vertical curriculum format

    The most conventional curricular organization or arrangement. Basically, it is composed of topic, objectives, content outline, activities, and resources, horizontal curriculum format.  

  • Vertex presentation

    In childbirth, when the crown of the head is seen first at the opening of the vagina. An optimal type of fetal presentation, in which the fetus is head first. Presentation of the upper and back part of the fetal head. The typical presentation where the back of the skull is the part that emerges…

  • Vertebrate

    An animal having a vertebral column or backbone. Having or resembling a vertebral column. A creature with a spinal column.  

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