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A postsecondary school that offers general or liberal arts education, usually leading to a first degree. Junior colleges or community colleges are included within this terminology. In general, a school offering education beyond the high school level, but most often one that offers academic education leading to the lower-level postsecondary degrees. Two- year colleges (junior…

Ways of feeling, thinking, and acting that are generally spontaneous and unstructured, but largely in agreement.  

In labor relations, a continuing institutional relationship between an employer and a labor organization representing a defined group of employees and concerned with the negotiation, administration, interpretation, and enforcement of written agreements concerning joint understandings as to wages, rates of pay, hours of work, and other conditions of employment. The process of negotiation regarding compensation,…

Circulation of the blood through nearby smaller blood vessels when a major vessel is blocked or damaged, collateral blood vessels. An enlargement of some secondary blood vessels as a response when the main vessels become slowly blocked. An alternative route provided for the blood by secondary vessels when a primary vessel becomes blocked. Circulation established…

Blood vessels that develop around a blocked artery compensate in part for the loss of blood supply to the heart, collateral circulation.  

In law, an attempt to destroy the effect of a judgment by reopening the merits of a case or by showing why the judgment should not have been given, in an action other than that in which the judgment was given.  

The clavicle. One of two long thin bones which join the shoulder blades to the breastbone. The bone that spans the top of the chest from the upper sternum (breastbone) to an extension of the shoulder blade (scapula). Because the collarbone (also called the clavicle) functions as a strut that forces the shoulder blade out…

A type of relationship between a client and an intervener which implies a partnership. The identification of the client’s needs is a shared responsibility and the intervention is jointly implemented by client and intervener.  

A major study comparing the effectiveness of public and private schools in the United States.  

In relation to drug addiction, the process of suddenly stopping the use of a drug. A colloquial expression for abruptly and entirely ceasing the consumption of nicotine or any other addictive substance.