| CA | anterior commissure [Lat. commissura anterior]; calcium antagonist; California [rabbit]; cancer; Can... |
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| CA/N | child abuse and neglect |
| CBC | capillary blood gases; carbenicillin; child behavior characteristics; complete blood cell count |
| CBCL | Child Behavior Checklist |
| CBCL/2-3 | Child Behavior Checklist for ages 2-3 |
| child rearing | The training or bringing-up of children by parents or parent-substitutes. It is used also for child rearing practices in different societies, at different economic levels, in different ethnic groups, etc. It differs from parenting in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the child and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behaviour of the parent. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| CHILD syndrome | <syndrome> Congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects. (05 Mar 2000) |
| child, unwanted | The child who is not wanted by one or both parents. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child welfare | Organised efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mother-child relations | Interaction between the mother and the child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| hyperactive child syndrome | <psychiatry> A condition seen in children where there is increased motor activity in association with poor attention span. Often treated with amphetamine medications. (27 Sep 1997) |
| only child | Child who has no siblings. (12 Dec 1998) |
| father-child relations | Interaction between the father and the child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| adducted thumbs with mental reatardation | A syndrome with the following characteristic features: (1) neurologically:mental retardation and aphasia (lack of speech); (2) limbs: adducted (clasped) thumbs, absent extensor pollicis longus and/or brevis muscles to the thumb, shuffling gait, and leg spasticity; (3) growth: small body size; (4) skeleton: lumbar lordosis (sway back). The syndrome is inherited as an X-linked trait and so affects mainly boys. Alternative names include MASA syndrome ( MASA stands for mental retardation, aphasia, shuffling gait, and adducted thumbs), clasped thumb and mental retardation, congenital clasped thumb with mental retardation, and the Gareis-Mason syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mental | 1. <psychiatry> Pertaining to the mind, psychic. 2. <anatomy> Pertaining to the chin. Origin: L. Mens = mind, L. Mentum = chin (18 Nov 1997) |
| mental aberration | Disturbed thought or behaviour that connotes a psychological or psychiatric impairment. See: delusion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental age | A measure, expressed in years and months, of a child's measured intelligence relative to age norms as determined by testing with the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental agraphia | The inability to express ideas in writing. Synonym: mental agraphia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental apparatus | Mental structure consisting of thoughts, feelings, cognitions, and memories; in psychoanalysis, the topographic structure of the mind. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mental artery | <anatomy, artery> Distribution, chin; the terminal branch of the inferior alveolar; anastomoses, inferior labial artery. Synonym: arteria mentalis. (05 Mar 2000) |