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111climacteric — climacterically, adv. /kluy mak teuhr ik, kluy mak ter ik/, n. 1. Physiol. a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause. 2. any critical period. 3. a year in which important changes in… …
112neuroplasticity — ▪ biology Introduction capacity of neurons (neuron) and neural networks in the brain to change their connections and behaviour in response to new information, sensory stimulation, development, damage, or dysfunction. Although neural networks… …
113climacteric — ► NOUN 1) Medicine the period of life when fertility is in decline; (in women) the menopause. 2) a critical period or event. ► ADJECTIVE 1) having extreme and far reaching implications or results; critical. 2) Medicine characteristic of or… …
114climacteric — n. & adj. n. 1 Med. the period of life when fertility and sexual activity are in decline. 2 a supposed critical period in life (esp. occurring at intervals of seven years). adj. 1 Med. occurring at the climacteric. 2 constituting a crisis;… …
115cli|mac|ter|ic — «kly MAK tuhr ihk, KLY mak TEHR », noun, adjective. –n. 1. a time when some important event occurs, changing the course of things; crucial period: »Italy s climacteric came in 1948, when Signor Alcide de Gasperi was returned as Prime Minister in… …
116Primal therapy — is a trauma based psychotherapy created by Arthur Janov, Ph.D. Arthur Janov claims that neurosis is caused by repressed pain which is the result of childhood trauma. Janov claims that repressed pain can be brought to consciousness and resolved,… …
117Visual acuity — 20/15 and 20/15 vision redirect here. For other uses, see 2020 (disambiguation). Typical Snellen chart used for visual acuity testing. Visual acuity (VA) is acuteness or clearness of vision, which is dependent on the sharpness of the retinal… …
118Shah Waliullah — Infobox Philosopher region = Islamic philosopher/scholar era = Mughal era color = #B0C4DE image caption = name = Shah Waliullah birth = 1703 death = 1762 school tradition = Sunni Islam, Hanafi main interests = influences = Al Ghazali, Mujaddid… …
119American Ceylon Mission — The American Ceylon Mission (ACM) to Jaffna, Sri Lanka started with the arrival in 1813 of missionaries sponsored by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). The British colonial office in India and Ceylon restricted the… …
120Du Bois, W.E.B. — ▪ American sociologist and social reformer Introduction in full William Edward Burghardt Du Bois born February 23, 1868, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S. died August 27, 1963, Accra, Ghana American sociologist, the most important black… …
