Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Cognitive developmental theory of identification

    The theory that identification with same sex models is a result of conceptualizing oneself as feminine or masculine, rather than a cause of such conceptualization.  

  • Cognitive conceit

    A common assumptive reality among children that adults are not very bright although the children are assumptive reality.  

  • Cognitive balance

    A process characterized by attitudes going together harmoniously.  

  • Congentin

    A commercial preparation of benztropine.  

  • Coffee grounds vomitus

    Coffee grounds vomitus

    A vomitus having the appearance and consistency of coffee grounds indicates slow bleeding in the stomach and represents the vomiting of partially digested blood. Vomit containing dark pieces of blood, indicating that the person is bleeding from the stomach or upper intestine. The act of expelling partially digested blood from the stomach, resembling ground coffee…

  • Coffea arabica

    Coffea arabica

    The plant from which the coffee bean is grown, caffeine.  

  • Ceonocytic

    Multinucleate, the nuclei are not separated by cross walls.  

  • Coelomate

    Possessing a coelom.  

  • Coelom

    A cavity in the mesoderm in the body of higher animals, which arises in the embryo and is lined on all surfaces by a duplicate epithelium, the peritoneum. A body cavity in an embryo, which divides to form the thorax and abdomen. Body cavity of an embryo that gives rise in humans to the pleural,…

  • Coefficient of friction

    An expression of the frictional force developed when two surfaces pass across one another is useful in predicting the number of feet required to stop a vehicle at a given speed, on a given surface, under specific circumstances.  

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