Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Total person

    A holistic view of a person, incorporating the dynamic interplay of physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual factors, dimensions of health.  

  • Total mother person

    A composite score that summarizes several of a mother’s traits. Used to determine  

  • Total mastectomy

    A simple mastectomy refers to the surgical removal of solely the breast tissue, along with the nipple and a small section of the overlying skin.    

  • Total marriage

    A marriage in which the needs and goals of each partner are assigned a lower priority for the good of the partnership, vital marriage.  

  • Totalitarianism

    A form of government in which the state controls all phases of the people’s lives.  

  • Total immediate ancestral longevity (TIAL)

    The sum of the ages of death of both parents and all four grandparents of a given individual. It will fall somewhere between 100 and 600 year’s. Developed by Raymond Pearl.  

  • Total fertility rate (TRF)

    The average number of children a woman would have if she bore children throughout her child-bearing years, age 15 through 44 years, at the same rate of those ages in a given year, fertility rate.  

  • Total expenditures per pupil in average dairy attendance

    All expenditures that are allocable to per pupil costs divided by average daily attendance. Used to calculate the amount of state aid received by school districts.  

  • Tort law

    Civil liability laws governing acts or failure to act by which a person injures another person or property or reputation either directly or indirectly.  

  • Torticollis

    A condition of the neck, where the head is twisted to one side by contraction of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. Stiff, spasmodic neck typically producing lateral flexion of the muscles of the, cervical spine. A muscle spasm in the neck that produces a contraction of several muscles pulling the head to one side in an unnatural…

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