| christian science | A religion discovered by mary baker eddy in 1866 that was organised under the official name of the church of christ, scientist, that derives its teachings from the scriptures as understood by its adherents, and that includes a practice of spiritual healing based upon the teaching that cause and effect are mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the divine principle of jesus' teaching and healing. (webster, 3d ed) (12 Dec 1998) |
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| 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) |
| hard science | A field of scientific study which involves precise measurements of observations and well-defined methods for obtaining and interpreting new knowledge. Chemistry and physics are definitely hard sciences, biology, geology, and astronomy also are usually thought of as hard sciences. Psychology, sociology, and anthropology are not, and are considered soft sciences. (09 Oct 1997) |
| science | The study of the material universe or physical reality in order to understand it. This is done by making observations and collecting data about natural events and conditions, then organising and explaining them with hypotheses, theories, models, laws, and principles. The organised body of knowledge about the material universe which can be verified or tested. A particular branch of either the process of study or the body of knowledge, such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, and physics. (09 Oct 1997) |
| National Science Foundation | <organisation> A nonregulatory U.S. Federal agency which has oversight of biotechnology research activities that the agency funds. (09 Oct 1997) |
| information science | The field of knowledge, theory, and technology dealing with the collection of facts and figures, and the processes and methods involved in their manipulation, storage, dissemination, publication, and retrieval. It includes the fields of communication, publishing, library science and informatics. (12 Dec 1998) |
| laboratory animal science | The science and technology dealing with the procurement, breeding, care, health, and selection of animals used in biomedical research and testing. (12 Dec 1998) |
| library science | Study of the principles and practices of library administration and services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| religion and medicine | The interrelationship of medicine and religion. (12 Dec 1998) |
| abram-man | One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms. To sham Abraham, to feign sickness. Origin: Possibly in allusion to the parable of the beggar Lazarus in Luke xvi. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| man | Origin: AS. Mann, man, monn, mon; akin to OS, D, & OHG. Man, G. Mann, Icel. Mathr, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. Man, Goth. Manna, Skr. Manu, manus, and perh. To Skr. Man to think, and E. Mind. Cf. Minx a pert girl. 1. A human being; opposed tobeast. "These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one." (R. Of Glouc) "The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me." (Shak) 2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child. "When I became a man, I put away childish things." (I Cor. Xiii. 11) "Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man." (Dryden) 3. The human race; mankind. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion." (Gen. I. 26) "The proper study of mankind is man." (Pope) 4. The male portion of the human race. "Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties." (Cowper) 5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. "This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . The elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world "This was a man!" (Shak) 6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject. "Like master, like man." (Old Proverb) "The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor." (Blackstone) 7. A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose ! 8. A married man; a husband; correlative to wife. "I pronounce that they are man and wife." (Book of Com. Prayer) "every wife ought to answer for her man." (Addison) 9. One, or any one, indefinitely; a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun. "A man can not make him laugh." (Shak) "A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship." (Addison) 10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played. Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man eater or maneater, man-eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating, manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man-killing, man midwife, man pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing, manthief, man worship, etc. Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part of the compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman, fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the combination is not familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense; as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as distinguished from woodman). <medicine> Man ape, a contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps, and so on, traveling by successive stages. Man Friday, a person wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's servant Friday. Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily. <botany> Man-of-the earth To be one's own man, to have command of one's self; not to be subject to another. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| man-eater | <zoology> One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (especially. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| man-machine systems | A system in which the functions of the man and the machine are interrelated and necessary for the operation of the system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| man pr | <abbreviation> L. Mane primo, early morning, first thing in the morning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mendelian Inheritance in Man | A standard, comprehensive, perpetually updated reference source for traits in humans that have been shown to be mendelian or that are thought on reasonable grounds to be so. Each entry has a six-digit catalog number. Those securely established (by molecular biology or by extensive clinical studies) are marked with an asterisk. (05 Mar 2000) |