Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Centrosome
A self-propagating cytoplasmic body usually present in animal cells and those of some lower plants, but not present in flowering plants, consisting of a centriole and sometimes a centrosphere or astral rays, located at each pole of the spindle during the process of nuclear division (mitosis). The structure in the cytoplasm of a cell, near…
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Centriole
The central granule in many animal cells that appears to be the active principle of the centrosome and which undergoes duplication preceding the division of the centrosome proper. A small structure found in the cytoplasm of a cell, which involved in forming the spindle during cell division. A small particle found in the cytoplasm of…
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Centrifugal force
The force that tends to impel a thing outward from a center of rotation. The force that impels a thing, or parts of it, outward from the center of rotation. A force that exhibits a tendency to propel an object or its constituent parts away from a central point of rotation.
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Centration
Thinking that is focused on one perceptually obvious feature of a problem to the exclusion of other relevant features so that changes in that feature are not conceptualized in relation to changes in other features, misleading the subject, conservation; egocentrism. The ability of the preschool child to focus or center attention on only one aspect…
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Central venous pressure
The pressure of the blood in the veins that aids in the return of blood to the heart. Blood pressure in the right atrium of the heart, which cab be measured by means of a catheter. A test to assess the heart’s ability to manage the volume of blood flowing through it. Special equipment is…
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Central tendency
In statistics, the tendency of scores in a frequency distribution to cluster around a central value, median; mean; variability.
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Central sulcus
In anatomy, a major fissure transversing the middle of the top and lateral surfaces of each cerebral hemisphere dividing the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe. One of the grooves which divide a cerebral hemisphere into lobes.
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Central route to persuasion
When rational processing is employed in response to persuasive messages, peripheral route to persuasion.
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Central orientation
Characteristically and relatively unchangeable predisposition to interact in certain ways that shape a person’s development, emotional expressiveness reserve; placidity explosiveness.
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Central office
In education, pertains to the district administration level of local school districts.
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