| behavioural pathogen | The personal habits and lifestyle behaviours of an individual which are associated with an increased risk of physical illness and dysfunction. See: risk factor. Compare: behavioural immunogen. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pathogen | <microbiology> Any disease producing microorganism. Origin: Gr. Gennan = to produce (18 Nov 1997) |
| specific pathogen-free organisms | Animals or humans raised in the absence of a particular disease-causing virus or other microorganism. Less frequently plants are cultivated pathogen-free. (12 Dec 1998) |
| opportunistic pathogen | <microbiology> Pathogenic organism that is often normally a commensal, but which gives rise to infection in immunocompromised hosts. (18 Nov 1997) |
| anniversaries and special events | Occasions to commemorate an event or occasions designated for a specific purpose. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, special | Hospitals which provide care for a single category of illness with facilities and staff directed toward a specific service. (12 Dec 1998) |
| special anatomy | The anatomy of certain definite organs or groups of organs involved in the performance of special functions; descriptive anatomy dealing with the separate systems. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special aquatic site | Those sites identified in 40 CRF 230, Subpart E (i.e., sanctuaries and refuges, wetlands, mud flats, vegetated shallows, coral reefs, and riffle and pool complexes). They are geographic areas, large or small, possessing special ecological characteristics of productivity, habitat, wildlife protection, or other important and easily disrupted ecological values. These areas are generally recognised as significantly influencing or positively contributing to the general overall environmental health or vitality of the entire ecosystem of a region. Source: Environmental Protection Agency, 40 CFR |
| special hospital | A hospital for the medical and surgical care of patients with specific types of diseases, as of the ear, nose, and throat, eyes, or mental illness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special nurse | A nurse, who might be a registered nurse or a practical nurse, assigned to limited, specialised functions; usually synonymous with private duty nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special sensation | A sensation referred to a stimulus produced by an external body and acting on any of the sense organs. Subjective sensation, a sensation not readily referrable to a denotably verifiable stimulus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special sense | One of the five senses related respectively to the organs of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special somatic afferent column | A column of gray matter in the hindbrain of the embryo, represented in the adult by the nuclei of the auditory and vestibular nerves. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special visceral efferent column | A column of gray matter in the hindbrain of the embryo, represented in the adult by the trigeminal and facial nuclei and the nucleus ambiguus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| special visceral efferent nuclei | Collective term for those motoneuronal nuclei of the brainstem (n. Ambiguus, facial motor nucleus, motor nucleus of the trigeminus) that develop from the branchiomotor column of the embryo and innervate striated muscle fibres (muscles of mastication, facial musculature, pharynx and vocal cord muscles) developed from the mesenchyme of the branchial arches. Synonym: special visceral efferent nuclei, special visceral motor nuclei. (05 Mar 2000) |