Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Characterized by a person’s ability to resist disease, maintain body temperature, and total body (biological) chemistry.  

A study designed to use biomedical testing or the measurement of a chemical (analyte), its metabolite or another marker or exposure in human body fluids or tissues in order to validate environmental exposure to a hazardous substance.  

Structural and functional health.  

The amount of time required to remove half of the original amount of drug from the body, half-life. The time required to reduce the concentration of a drug in the blood, plasma, or serum by 50%. This is a measure of the rate of drug distribution and elimination. The period of time necessary for the…

In evolutionary theory, the reproductive success of individual animals. A sudden attack, convulsion, or paroxysm. The ability of an individual to produce children who survive to adult life and are themselves able to reproduce.  

That aspect of the total environment that consists of living things, physical environment.  

Disease-producing organisms associated chiefly with infectious. diseases. The common agents are viruses, richettsiae, bacteria, arthropods, helminthes, protozoa, and fungi, chemical agents.  

Pertaining to the science of life. Living materials that hold, or are believed to possess, properties usable in the treatment of disease or illness, biologies. Medicinal preparation made from living organisms and their products, as serums, vaccines, antitoxins.  

Statistically weighted list of questions about an applicant’s personal history.  

A drive or biological need motivation originating from the need for biological survival, e.g., hunger. In health can be powerful movers toward unhealthful, as well as healthful behavior. The goal, for example, of a hungry personal is to satisfy the hunger drive and may be moved to eat foods detrimental to health. A thirsty person…