| Cogan's syndrome | <syndrome> A nonsyphilitic interstitial keratitis characterised by an abrupt onset with vertigo and tinnitus followed by deafness; about 50% of patients have an associated systemic disease, most commonly polyarteritis nodosa. Synonym: Cogan's syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Cogan, David | <person> U.S. Ophthalmologist, 1908-1993. See: Cogan's syndrome, Cogan-Reese syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Cogan-Reese syndrome | <syndrome> Syndrome of glaucoma, iris atrophy, decreased corneal endothelium, anterior peripheral synechia, and multiple iris nodules. Synonym: Cogan-Reese syndrome, iris-nevus syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cogeneration | The sequential production of electricity and useful thermal energy from a common fuel source. Reject heat from industrial processes can be used to power an electric generator (bottoming cycle). Conversely, surplus heat from an electric generating plant can be used for industrial processes, or space and water heating purposes (topping cycle). (05 Dec 1998) |
| coglucosidase | <chemical> From soluble, mitochondrial and lysosomal fractions of bovine spleen; from human gaucher's disease spleen stimulates glucosylceramide beta-glucosidase, galactosylceramide beta-galactosidase and sphingomyelinase; mw 6.2kda; has been sequenced Synonym: beta-glucosidase activator protein, beta-glucosidase stimulating protein, oligosaccharide sialidase-activator protein, gaucher activator protein, gaucher activator a1, saposin c (26 Jun 1999) |
| cognate | <biochemistry> Refers to two biomolecules that typically interact (for example, a receptor and its ligand). (09 Oct 1997) |
| cognition | <psychology> The mental process of knowing, thinking, learning and judging. (27 Sep 1997) |
| cognition disorder | <psychology> Disturbances in the mental process related to thinking, reasoning, and judgment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cognitive | <psychology> Of, pertaining, to or characterised by cognition. (18 Nov 1997) |
| cognitive dissonance | <psychology> Motivational state produced by inconsistencies between simultaneously held cognitions or between a cognition and behaviour; e.g., smoking enjoyment and believing smoking is harmful are dissonant. (12 Dec 1998) |
| cognitive dissonance theory | <psychology> A theory of attitude formation and behaviour describing a motivational state that exists when an individual's cognitive elements (attitudes, perceived behaviours, etc.) are inconsistent with each other, such as the espousal of the Ten Commandments concurrent with the belief that it is all right to cheat on one's taxes; a test which indicates that persons try to achieve consistency (consonance) and avoid dissonance which, when it arises, may be coped with by changing one's attitudes, rationalizing, selective perception, and other means. See: balance theory, consistency principle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cognitive laterality quotient | <psychology> Test for difference in cognitive performance of left and right sides of the brain. (21 Jun 2000) |
| cognitive psychology | <study> A branch of psychology that attempts to integrate into a whole the disparate knowledge from the subfields of perception, learning, memory, intelligence, and thinking. (05 Mar 2000) |
| cognitive reappraisal | <procedure> A coping strategy in which patients are taught to monitor and evaluate negative thoughts and replace them with more positive thoughts and images. (16 Dec 1997) |
| cognitive science | The study of the precise nature of different mental tasks and the operations of the brain that enable them to be performed, engaging branches of psychology, computer science, philosophy, and linguistics. (12 Dec 1998) |