Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Characterized by a person associating great meaning to insignificant events, delusion. The unjustified belief that event, objects, or other persons have exaggerated significance: delusion. A delusion that causes the patient to read an unintended meaning into the acts or words of others. Usually the affected person interprets comments about others as being directed toward himself…

One of the ways children simplify language by repeating a single syllable of a word in order to represent the whole word, e.g., “wa-wa” for water. Doubling of the heart sounds, which may be heard in healthly individuals and shows variation with respiration due to the slightly asynchronous closure of the heart valves. A doubling,…

Reconstruction of the breast through plastic surgery to reduce its size.  

Heterotypic division. The first division of meiosis, in which the chromosome number is halved. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for the whole of meiosis.  

In law, an interpretation that would lead to results illogical or not intended.  

A device attached to an oxygen container to control the pressure of the oxygen delivered to a person. The reduces the pressure from its very high storage level to one suitable for delivery to the person.  

A food that cannot contain more than one-fourth the cholesterol of the food it replaces, low cholesterol.  

In physiology, the process by which a substance, such as a drug, is distributed through out the body from one area of concentration in order to achieve a uniform concentration systemically. The matching of care personnel resources to the population’s site of care. The term usually is used in discussing the maldistribution of in-hospital personnel…

The body temperature measured by a thermometer inserted into the rectum and retained there for 1 min or more. The usually 1° higher than oral body temperature. The temperature in the rectum, taken with a rectal thermometer. The temperature obtained by inserting a thermometer into the anal canal to a depth of at least 1½…

The muscle that controls release of waste material from the rectum.