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  • Transudation

    The passing of a fluid through a membrane the lubrication in the vagina during sexual arousal. The process of passing a fluid from the body’s cells through the pores of a membrane. Passage of a liquid through a membrane, as into the intercellular space of a tissue or through a capillary wall. The passage of…

  • Transsexualism

    A surgical and psychological procedure to alter the obvious sex of a person. A condition in which a person, especially a man, feels uncomfortable with their birth gender. Condition in which a person assumes the psychological identity of the sex opposite to his or her biological gender. Belief of an individual that he or she…

  • Transmitter of message

    Changes information into a form that can be easily conveyed from the source to the destination. A component of information theory.  

  • Transmission of infectious diseases

    Infectious diseases may be transmitted from person to person in one of two ways: 1. indirect contact (airborne, water and food borne, vector borne) and 2. direct contact.  

  • Transmission

    The conveyance of disease from one person to another. Passing of information from one cell, tissue, or region of the body to another. Also may refer to passing of a disease from one person to another, such as the common cold. Transfer of anything, as a disease or hereditary characteristics. The act of conveying or…

  • Transitory ischemic attack (TIA)

    Transient ischemic attack.  

  • Transition prephase

    The first of two prephases to the sexual response cycle during which a person makes the transition from a nonsexual to a sexual physiologic state.  

  • Transient situational personality disorders

    An acute symptom response to an overwhelming situation in a basically stable personality.  

  • Transient obesity

    Obesity that occurs during preadolescence that disappears following maturity, persistent obesity.  

  • Transgenderist

    A person who identifies strongly with the opposite sex and may cross-dress, yet does not wish to undergo transsexual surgery, transsexualism.  

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