| child guidance | The psychiatric, sociological and psychological study and treatment of the developing child with emphasis on preventive or prophylactic measures focused on the familial, educational and socio-environmental milieu of the child. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| child guidance clinics | Facilities which administer the delivery of mental health counseling services to children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| axonal guidance | <cell biology> General term for mechanisms that ensure correct projections by nerve cells in developing and regenerating nervous systems. Implies accurate navigation by growth cones, the highly motile tips of growing neuronal processes. See: growth cone collapse. (12 Mar 1998) |
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| vocational guidance | Systematic efforts to assist individuals in selecting an occupation or suitable employment on the basis of aptitude, education, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| guidance | Directed locomotory response of cells to an anisotropy of the environment, for example the tendency of fibroblasts to align along ridges or parallel to the alignment of collagen fibres in a stretched gel. (18 Nov 1997) |
| condylar guidance | The mechanical device on an articulator which is intended to produce guidance in articulator movement, similar to those produced by the paths of the condyles in the temporomandibular joints. See: condylar guidance inclination. Synonym: condylar guide. (05 Mar 2000) |
| condylar guidance inclination | The angle of inclination of the condylar guidance to an accepted horizontal plane. (05 Mar 2000) |
| contact guidance | Directed locomotory response of cells to an anisotropy of the environment, for example the tendency of fibroblasts to align along ridges or parallel to the alignment of collagen fibres in a stretched gel. (18 Nov 1997) |
| neuronal guidance | <cell biology> General term for mechanisms that ensure correct projections by nerve cells in developing and regenerating nervous systems. Implies accurate navigation by growth cones, the highly motile tips of growing neuronal processes. See: growth cone collapse. (12 Mar 1998) |
| incisal guidance | The influence on mandibular movements caused by the contacting surfaces of the mandibular and maxillary anterior teeth during eccentric excursions. Synonym: incisal path. (05 Mar 2000) |
| battered child syndrome | <radiology> Multiple assymetrical fractures, separation of distal epiphyses, irregularity and fragmentation of metaphyses, bucket-handle fracture, corner fracture of elbow, knee, ankle (sudden twisting motion), isolated spiral fracture, extensive periosteal reaction (subperiosteal haemorrhage), exuberant callus formation, cortical hyperostosis extending to epiphyseal plate, avulsion fracture at ligamentous insertion, subdural haematoma (most common), brain atrophy (up to 100%), infarction (50%), subdural hygroma, encephalomalacia, porencephaly (12 Dec 1998) |
| parent-child relations | The interactions between parent and child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal-child health centres | Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to mothers and children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maternal-child nursing | The nursing specialty that deals with the care of women throughout their pregnancy and childbirth and the care of their newborn children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| vulnerable child syndrome | <syndrome> A reaction characterised by disturbance in psychosocial development, often occurring in children whose parents expect them to die prematurely. (05 Mar 2000) |
| child | A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is child, preschool. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child, abandoned | A child who is deserted by parents or parent substitutes without regard for its future care. (12 Dec 1998) |