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| A behavior or trait that helps an organism adjust and function well within a changing environment; increases chances |
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| consisting of or based on secondhand accounts rather than firsthand knowledge or scientific investigations |
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| to examine something in order to judge or evaluate it; to calculate value based on various factors |
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| a quality or characteristic |
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| to think of someone as caused by a particular circumstance |
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| involving, implying, or constituting a cause |
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| based on or involving medical treatment, practice, observation, or diagnosis |
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| relating to the process of aquiring knowledge by the use of reasoning |
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| an individual's sense of right and wrong; in psychoanalysis, the superego |
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| awake and responsive to stimuli; aware of something and attaching importance to it |
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| the identifying of an illness or disorder in a patent through an interview, physical exam, medical test, and/or other procedures |
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| based on an individual's inclination or tendency to act in a particular way |
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| to sepereate a group of mental processes from the rest of the mind causing them to lose their normal relationship with it |
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| made up of elements from various sources |
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| based on or characterized by observations and experiment rather than theory; knowledge from experience, particularly sensory observation, rather than from the application of logic |
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| the investigation of causes and origins; branch of medicine that investigates the causes and origins of disease |
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| to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of disease, ill feelins, etc.; to aggravate |
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not relevant, applicable, essential, or important; existing or coming from outside |
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| coming or operating from outside something |
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| relating to or affecting the underlying principles or structure of something; serving as an essential part of something |
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| categorization of members of a group according to the importance of each |
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free of any bias or prejudice caused by personal feelings; based on facts rather than thoughts or opinions |
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| a testable prediction that gives direction to research; a tentative explanation for a phenomenon, use as a basis for further investigation |
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| the process of drawing a conclusion based on evidence or reasoning |
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| ocurring wholly within or belonging wholly to a part of a body |
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| contrary to or lacking in reason or logic; lacking the normal ability to think clearly |
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| a behaviour or trait that is counterproductive to the survival or well-being of an organism |
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| the conclusion drawn as a result of the process of using the senses to aquire information about the surrounding environment or situation |
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| a measure or objective assesment of a situation, giving all elements their comparitive importance; a point of view |
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| a fact, occurrence, or circumstance obeserved or observable |
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| a medical opinion as to the likely course and outcome of a disease |
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| detailed plan of a scientific experiments, medical trial, or other piece of research |
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| able to think clearly and sensibly because the mind is not impaired by the physical or mental condition, violent emition, or prejudice |
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| the reasoning or principles that underlies or explains a particular course of action or a statement setting out these reasons or principles |
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| having some sensible or logical connection with something else; havin some bearing on or importance for real-world issues, present-day events or the current state of society |
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| a set of printed rules or instructions |
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| a physical feeling caused by having one or more of the sense organs stimulated |
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| based in an individual's inclination or tendency to respond to environmental circumstances |
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| to make a judgement or form an opinion on something based on incomplete facts or information |
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| a branch of mathematics that deals with the analysis and interpretation of numerical data in terms of samples and populations |
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| base on somebody's opinions or feelings rather than on facts or evidence |
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| carried out in a methodical and organized manner |
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| about, involving or based on theory; dealing with theory or speculation rather than practical applications |
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| one who holds or expounds a theory |
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| the body of rules, ideas, principles and techniques that apply to a particular subject |
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