Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A state of warm friendship and the sharing of innermost feelings and emotions develops through long association with another person. A close familial, personal, or emotional relationship with another person.  

An enzyme that hydrolyzes medium- and short-chain triglycerides to glycerol plus short- and medium-chain fatty acids.  

A person who dies without leaving a valid will.  

A research technique in which an investigator or his or her representative seeks one-on-one information from the subject with respect to the issue being studied.  

The tissue that separates the right and left side of the heart. A membrane between the right and left ventricles in the heart. The myocardial wall between the ventricles of the heart.  

An active advocacy for change. Action to relieve a stressful situation or series of problems threatening someone’s health or welfare; generally called crisis intervention. A technique to encourage someone addicted to alcohol or drugs to enter treatment by telling that person to either recognize the disease or face its consequences, such as divorce or job…

A scale in which equal differences between the scores can be treated as equal so that the scores can be added or subtracted, categorical scale; ordinal scale; ratio scale.  

The area between the two trochanters of the femur.  

An acute inflammation of the lungs.