Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The process by which two people form an extremely close attachment.  

A threshold, influenced by psychological factors, at which a person indicates that he or she cannot tolerate any further stimulation. The degree of pain an individual can withstand.  

That level of tolerance at which pain becomes uncomfortable, pain tolerance. The point at which a person finds it impossible to bear pain without crying. Point at which a stimulus activates pain receptors to produce a feeling of pain. Individuals differ in pain threshold, some experiencing pain sooner than others with a higher pain threshold.…

A hypothetical system in the spinal cord thought to account for moderating the signals being sent to the brain. The “gate” can be closed by such techniques as acupuncture and hypnosis, by sending inhibitory signals back down the spinal cord, effectively “closing” the gate.  

A compact, pocket carried radio receiver for providing one-way communication that is used to locate or direct persons within a limited geographic area.  

A person who is not Jewish, Christian, or Moslem.  

A medication used in the treatment of genital warts acts as an irritant to cause sloughing off of the area affected by the wart virus.  

A midprophase stage in meiosis. In well-prepared microscope slides, the chromosomes are visible as long, paired threads.  

Small projections of the arachnoid tissue chiefly into the venous sinuses of the dura mater.