Babinski
Babinski reflex
Babinski sign | extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front, normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons |
check checkout
check-out procedure | the act of inspecting or verifying, they made a check of their equipment, the pilot ran through the check-out procedure |
diagnostic procedure
diagnostic technique | a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis |
| emergency procedure | (medicine) a procedure adopted to meet an emergency (especially a medical emergency) |
| experimental procedure | the specific techniques used in conducting a particular experiment |
double-blind procedure
double-blind experiment
double-blind study | an experimental procedure in which neither the subjects of the experiment nor the persons administering the experiment know the critical aspects of the experiment, a double-blind procedure is used to guard against both experimenter bias and placebo effects |
Gram's method
Gram method
Gram's procedure
Gram's stain
Gram stain | a staining technique used to classify bacteria, bacteria are stained with gentian violet and then treated with Gram's solution, after being decolorized with alcohol and treated with safranine and washed in water, those that retain the gentian violet are Gram-positive and those that do not retain it are Gram-negative |
| operation procedure | a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work, the operations in building a house, certain machine tool operations |
operation
surgery surgical operation
surgical procedure
surgical process | a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments, performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body, they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available, he died while undergoing surgery |
desensitization technique
desensitisation technique
desensitization procedure
desensitisation procedure
systematic desensitization
systematic desensitisation | a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety, client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished |
| procedure | a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings |
procedure
process | a particular course of action intended to achieve a result, the procedure of obtaining a driver's license, it was a process of trial and error |
| medical procedure | a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners |
| dental procedure | a procedure employed by a dentist |
| operating procedure | a procedure for operating something or for dealing with a given situation |
standing operating procedure
standard operating procedure
SOP
standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
bureaucratic procedure
red tape | needlessly timeonsuming procedure |
signboard
sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted, the highway was lined with signboards |
cloze procedure
cloze test | a test for diagnosing reading ability, words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks |
statistical method
statistical procedure | a method of analyzing or representing statistical data, a procedure for calculating a statistic |
| sign manual | the signature of a sovereign on an official document |
routine
subroutine
subprogram
procedure
function | a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program |
| cataloged procedure | a set of control statements that have been placed in a library and can be retrieved by name |
| contingency procedure | an alternative to the normal procedure, triggered if an unusual but anticipated situation arises |
| sign mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened), he showed signs of strain, they welcomed the signs of spring |
order rules of order
parliamentary law
parliamentary procedure | a body of rules followed by an assembly |
signal
signaling
sign | any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message, signals from the boat suddenly stopped |
| sign | a public display of a message, he posted signs in all the shop windows |
| street sign | a sign visible from the street |
| high sign | a silent signal of warning or recognition, she started to speak but he gave her the high sign |
pound
pound sign | a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) |
| sign | a character indicating a relation between quantities, don't forget the minus sign |
| equal sign | a sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal |
| plus sign | a sign indicating the operation of addition |
| minus sign | a sign indicating the operation of subtraction |
| radical sign | a sign indicating the extraction of a root |
dollar mark
dollar sign | a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars |
dollar
dollar mark dollar sign | a symbol of commercialism or greed, he worships the almighty dollar, the dollar sign means little to him |
percent sign
percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by |
sign language
signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL
American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
| sign | a gesture that is part of a sign language |
| V sign | a sign (for victory), making a V with the index and middle fingers |
| sign of the cross | a gesture with the right hand moving to form a cross, used by Catholics as a profession of faith |
| sign | a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified, The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary--de Saussure |
augury
sign
foretoken
preindication | an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come, he hoped it was an augury, it was a sign from God |
| sign industry | an industry that produces signs |
sign of the zodiac
star sign
sign
mansion
house
planetary house | (astrology) one of equal areas into which the zodiac is divided |
| sign painter | someone who paints signs and billboards etc. |
polarity
sign | having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges), he got the polarity of the battery reversed, charges of opposite sign |