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Financial assistance provided to a local school district for specific programs or purposes, categorical program. Governmental financial assistance given to people who fit into a certain category, such as disabled or family with dependent children, rather than only to people who pass a means test. Much assistance under Social Security is categorical, as under the…

In child growth and development, unusually rapid growth following interference with growth in the course of which a child regains some or all of the growth lost during the period of interference.  

A subcategory of schizophrenia characterized by odd motor behavior, immobility, and catatonia. A type of schizophrenia where the patient is alternately apathetic or very active and disturbed. Psychiatric disorder characterized by marked disturbance in thought process, stupor, negativism, and rigidity alternating with periods of great excitement. A schizophrenic disorder marked by motor immobility or stupor;…

Catatonia.  

Trancelike. Referring to behaviour in which a person is either motionless or extremely violent.  

A severe disintegration of personality organization while under extreme stress. Unrestrained actions in response to an apparently minor but, to a child, frightening, threatening, frustrating, overstimulating, or otherwise upsetting situation. The child may, for example, scream uncontrollably, bang his or her head on the floor, throw things, or cry unconsolably. Children with learning disabilities or…

An insurance policy that provides protection against major medical expenses.  

Sexual activity with a nonhuman partner.  

Obsolete term for infectious hepatitis. An acute illness marked by jaundice that arises shortly after gastrointestinal symptoms. It’s accompanied by a loss of appetite, diarrhea, and sometimes a fever. The urine turns a distinct orange-yellow due to bile pigments, while the lack of these pigments in the stool gives it a pale yellow hue. This…

In epidemiology, day-to-day contact between human immunodeficiency virus-infected (HIV) persons and others at home, at work, or at school. This type of contact does not include sexual or needle sharing interaction, in regards to AIDS.