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  • Sex-aggression defusion rapist

    A rapist for whom sexual and aggressive acts have become fused. Violence becomes necessary to attain the desired level of sexual excitement.  

  • Sex

    Male or female, gender. Also used to mean coitus. One of two groups, male and female, into which animals and plants can be divided. Classification of male or female based on the physical, psychological, and behavioral characteristics of an animal that relate to reproduction, especially in having specific chromosomes (Y in the human male) and…

  • Sewage treatment

    The process of handling sewage to safely return it to the environment. The process consists of 1. preliminary treatment to remove solid particles, 2. primary treatment to create a substance void of free oxygen to allow anaerobic bacteria to digest all organic materials, 3. secondary treatment to allow the effluent to come into contact with…

  • Severity rate

    In industrial safety, the number of days lost due to accidents per million hours worked.  

  • Severe and profound multiple disorders

    A description of those individuals who exhibit physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or social and interpersonal performance deficits beyond three standard deviations from the norm. These deficits are evident in all environmental settings.  

  • Severe mental retardation

    Mental development measured by IQ tests at a level of between 20 and 34. At this level, individuals are unable to care for them selves and engage in very limited communication, and are listless and inactive.  

  • Settings

    The variety of organizational entities in which health educators are found working.  

  • Setting

    The total external environment of an individual. In relation to drug use, the physical surroundings in which a drug is taken.  

  • Set-point hypothesis

    The theory that different persons have different set-points for weight.  

  • Set-point

    A general term for the level at which negative feedback tries to maintain the system. The concept that homeostatic mechanisms maintain variables such as body temperature, body weight, blood glucose level, and hormone levels within a certain physiological range compatible with optimal function. Set point is a fat amount or weight level that the body…

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