| habit | <botany> The growth form of a plant, comprising its size, shape, texture and orientation. (09 Oct 1997) |
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| habit chorea | <clinical sign> An involuntary compulsive, repetitive, stereotyped movement, resembling a purposeful movement because it is coordinated and involves muscles in their normal synergistic relationships, tics usually involve the face and shoulders. (18 Nov 1997) |
| habit scoliosis | Scoliosis supposedly due to habitual standing or sitting in an improper position. (05 Mar 2000) |
| habit spasm | <clinical sign> An involuntary compulsive, repetitive, stereotyped movement, resembling a purposeful movement because it is coordinated and involves muscles in their normal synergistic relationships, tics usually involve the face and shoulders. (18 Nov 1997) |
| habit tic | A habitual repetition of some grimace, shrug of the shoulder, twisting or jerking of the head, or the like. (05 Mar 2000) |
| habitan | Same as Habitant. "General met an emissary . . . Sent . . . To ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry." (W. Irwing) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| habitat | <ecology, zoology> The physical location or type of environment in which an organism or biological population lives or occurs. The place occupied by an organism, population, or community. It is the physical part of the community structure in which an organism finds its home, and includes the sum total of all the environmental conditions present in the specific place occupied by an organism. Often a habitat is defined to include a whole community of organisms. (09 Oct 1997) |
| habitat component | <ecology> A single element (for example, velocity, depth, cover, etc.) of the habitat or environment in which a fish or other aquatic species or population may live or occur. (09 Oct 1997) |
| habitat type | <ecology> A land or aquatic unit, consisting of an aggregation of habitats having equivalent structure, function, and responses to disturbance. (09 Oct 1997) |
| habits | Acquired or learned responses which are regularly manifested. (12 Dec 1998) |
| habitual | <psychology> Of the nature of a habit, according to habit, established by or repeated by force of habit, customary. (18 Nov 1997) |
| habitual abortion | A condition in which a woman has had three or more consecutive, spontaneous abortion's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| habituation | 1. <physiology> The tendency of some neurons to require either a stronger nerve signal or a longer recharge period before it can fire again, if it has been triggered recently. 2. <psychology> The disappearance of responsiveness to accustomed stimulation. It does not include drug habituation. (03 Jul 1999) |
| habitude | 1. Habitual attitude; usual or accustomed state with reference to something else; established or usual relations. "The same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to another." (Locke) "The verdict of the judges was biased by nothing else than heir habitudes of thinking." (Landor) 2. Habitual association, intercourse, or familiarity. "To write well, one must have frequent habitudes with the best company." (Dryden) 3. Habit of body or of action. "It is impossible to gain an exact habitude without an infinite umber of acts and perpetual practice." (Dryden) Origin: F, fr. L. Habitudo condition. See Habit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| habitus | <zoology> Habitude; mode of life; general appearance. Origin: L. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |