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A genetic condition when a person has the recessive gene for Cooley’s anemia. Those with the trait are healthy and will not suffer the symptoms of the disease but may pass the defective gene to their offspring.  

A genetic disorder characterized by the inability of the body to produce hemoglobin. A person with must have blood transfusions. The disease can be detected by a simple blood test; but the positive diagnosis requires hemoglobin electrophoresis testing: Cooley’s anemia trait. An inherited disease in which there is abnormal production of part of the hemoglobin…

In physiology and exercise, the use of 5-10 min of very light exercise movements at the end of a vigorous workout to slowly cool the body to near normal core temperature. A gradual decrease in the intensity of activity to restore a normal heart rate. Cool-down is the final segment of the three-segment workout. The…

A meaningless vocalization that is purely vocalic consisting of vowel-like sounds.  

Treatment used for some forms of psychoses. The treatment causes the person to experience controlled convulsions. Two methods have been used: (a) electroconvulsive shock treatment and (b) insulin shock treatment.  

Treatment for homosexuals who want to become heterosexuals. Research shows such initiatives are not very successful.  

Changing intense anxiety into bodily functional symptoms. A type of neurosis in which loss or alteration of physical functioning suggests a physical disorder but instead expresses a psychological conflict or need. The disturbance is not under voluntary control and cannot be explained by a disease process; it is not limited to pain or sexual dysfunction.…

A feature or clause of an insurance plan that allows an insured to change from one type of policy to another as circumstances in life or insurance needs change. In group health insurance, the right given the insured to change his group insurance to some form of individual insurance, without medical examination, upon termination of…

A description of identical results from more than a single method of inquiring into the same research question, replicability; validity.  

Thinking that is directed at producing a single, correct answer to a problem, divergent thinking.