| DSP | decreased sensory perception; delayed sleep phase; desmoplakin; dibasic sodium phosphate; digital si... |
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| DTVP | developmental test of visual perception |
| ESP | early systolic paradox; echo spacing; effective sensory projection; effective systolic pressure; end... |
| GHPQ | General Health Perception Questionnaire |
| LP | labile peptide; labile protein; laboratory procedure; lactic peroxidase; lamina propria; laryngophar... |
| VPT | Vibration Perception Threshold |
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| VPT | Vibratory perception threshold |
| DAMP | deficit in attention, motor control and perception |
| time perception | The ability to estimate periods of time lapsed or duration of time. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| extrasensory perception | Perception by means other than through the ordinary senses; e.g., telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition. (05 Mar 2000) |
| form perception | The sensory discrimination of a pattern shape or outline. (12 Dec 1998) |
| loudness perception | The perceived attribute of a sound which corresponds to the physical attribute of intensity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| blue white colour selection | <molecular biology, procedure> Method for identifying bacterial clones containing plasmids with inserts. Many modern vectors have their polycloning site within a part of the LacZ gene encoding _ galactosidase, which provides _ complementation in an appropriate mutant E. Coli strain. This means that a re ligated (empty) vector will produce blue colonies when grown on plates containing IPTG and X gal, but colonies with a substantial insert in their plasmid's polycloning site are unable to produce functional _ galactosidase and so produce white colonies. (16 Dec 1997) |
| Reuss' colour tables | An obsolete charts in which coloured letters are printed on coloured backgrounds in such combination that some of them are invisible to a person with deficient colour vision. Synonym: Stilling colour tables. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour | 1. That aspect of the appearance of objects and light sources that may be specified as to hue, lightness (brightness), and saturation. 2. That portion of the visible (370-760 nm) electromagnetic spectrum specified as to wavelength, luminosity, and purity. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour aberration | When using white light through a lens system, it is inevitable that different wave lengths (colours) are brought to a focus at slightly different points. As a consequence, there are chromatic aberations in the image, good microscope objectives are therefore corrected for this at two wave lengths (achromats) or at three wave lengths (apochromats), as well as for spherical aberration. (18 Nov 1997) |
| colour agnosia | The inability to name or identify specific colours by sight; caused by lesions of the dominant occipital and temporal lobes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour blindness | A sex-linked inherited condition where there is an inability to distinguish colours. Very few women are colour blind, but up to 10% of all men have some degree of colour blindness. The most common for is red-green colour blindness. The second most common is blue-yellow. Inheritance: sex-linked (X chromosome). (27 Sep 1997) |
| colour constancy | Unchanging perception of the colour of an object despite changes in lighting or viewing conditions. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour-contrast microscope | <instrument> A type of microscope in which the condenser stop is of one colour and the annulus is a complement of it so that unstained objects are observed in one colour on a field of the other. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Colour Index | A publication concerned with the chemistry of dyes, with each listed dye identified by a five-digit Colour Index number, e.g., methylene blue is Colour Index 52015. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour match | The result of adjusting colour mixtures until all visually apparent differences are minimal. (05 Mar 2000) |
| colour radical | The part of a visibly coloured molecule responsible for light absorption over a range of wavelengths thus giving rise to the colour. By extension the term may be applied to UV or IR absorbing parts of molecules. Do not confuse with chromatophores. (18 Nov 1997) |