Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A psychoanalytic concept proposing that a male homosexual’s parents consist of an intimate and controlling mother and a detached, rejecting father.  

A piece of cloth in the shape of a right-angled triangle and used as a sling for the arm. A bandage made of a triangle of cloth, used to make a sling for the arm. A piece of material cut or folded into a triangular shape and used for making an arm sling or holding…

A relationship in which a man and a woman live together before making a final decision to marry.  

Attempts to solve a problem by trying out alternative solutions or possibilities and discarding those that prove to be unsatisfactory.  

The sorting or selection of injured to determine the priority of care to be rendered to each. Commonly used to describe the sortins out or screening of patients seeking care, to determine which service is initially required and with what priority. A patient coming to a facility for care may be seen in. a triage,…

A commercial preparation of naltrexone.  

Nelson’s specific test using living treponemas mixed with the serum of a person immune to syphilis. The organism becomes fixed in the presence of compliment.  

A spirochete bacterium responsible for syphilis. The infective agent of syphilis, slender spiral filament around 10 pm in length with 6-12 sharp, regular corkscrew coils. Demonstrated by dark-ground microscopy, silver impregnation (e.g., Fontana, Levaditi) methods or by fluorescent antibody techniques. Cultivable with difficulty under anaerobic conditions in, for example, Noguchi’s medium. Apart from demonstration of…

To operate with a trephine for the purpose of cutting a small hole in the head. The process of cutting bone with a trephine. The procedure involving the use of a trephine.  

An indicator of changes in the character of a given phenomenon over time.