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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms
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D001520 |
[The observable response made to a situation and the unconscious processes underlying it.
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Behavior, Addictive
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D016739 |
[The observable, measurable, and often pathological activity of an organism that portrays its inability to overcome a habit resulting in an insatiable craving for a substance or for performing certain acts. The addictive behavior includes the emotional and physical overdependence on the object of habit in increasing amount or frequency.
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Behavior, Animal
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D001522 |
[The observable response an animal makes to any situation.
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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
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D004191 |
[The specialties in psychiatry and psychology, their diagnostic techniques and tests, their therapeutic methods, and psychiatric and psychological services.
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Behavioral Medicine
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D001524 |
[The interdisciplinary field concerned with the development and integration of behavioral and biomedical science, knowledge, and techniques relevant to health and illness and the application of this knowledge and these techniques to prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation.
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Behavioral Research
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D035841 |
[Research that involves the application of the behavioral and social sciences to the study of the actions or reactions of persons or animals in response to external or internal stimuli. (from American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed)
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Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
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D040343 |
[Telephone surveys are conducted to monitor prevalence of the major behavioral risks among adults associated with premature MORBIDITY and MORTALITY. The data collected is in regard to actual behaviors, rather than on attitudes or knowledge. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in 1984.
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Behavioral Sciences
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D001525 |
[The study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of POPULATION DENSITY on BEHAVIOR, COMMUNICATION, and SOCIAL INTERACTION. Proxemics is a subcategory of the study of nonverbal communication along with haptics (touch), KINESICS (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time).
, Disciplines concerned with the study of human and animal behavior.
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Behavioral Symptoms
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D001526 |
[Observable manifestations of impaired psychological functioning.
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Behaviorism
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D001527 |
[A psychologic theory, developed by John Broadus Watson, concerned with studying and measuring behaviors that are observable.
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Behcet Syndrome
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D001528 |
[Rare chronic inflammatory disease involving the small blood vessels. It is of unknown etiology and characterized by mucocutaneous ulceration in the mouth and genital region and uveitis with hypopyon. The neuro-ocular form may cause blindness and death. SYNOVITIS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; gastrointestinal ulcerations; RETINAL VASCULITIS; and OPTIC ATROPHY may occur as well.
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Behind-the-Counter Drugs
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D056864 |
[Medicines that are stocked behind the counter of a pharmacy which require the attention or counsel of a pharmacist before being dispensed or handed over to a consumer or patient.
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Beijerinckiaceae
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D042062 |
[A genus in the family BEIJERINCKIACEAE.
, A family of aerobic gram-negative rods that are nitrogen fixers. They are highly viscous, and appear as a semitransparent slime in giant colonies.
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Beijing
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D000068476 |
[Capital of CHINA.
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Belgium
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D001530 |
[A country in Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between France and the Netherlands. The capital is Brussels.
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Belize
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D001531 |
[A country in CENTRAL AMERICA, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between GUATEMALA and MEXICO.
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Bell Palsy
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D020330 |
[A syndrome characterized by the acute onset of unilateral FACIAL PARALYSIS which progresses over a 2-5 day period. Weakness of the orbicularis oculi muscle and resulting incomplete eye closure may be associated with corneal injury. Pain behind the ear often precedes the onset of paralysis. This condition may be associated with HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN infection of the facial nerve. (Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, p1376)
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Belladonna Alkaloids
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D001533 |
[Alkaloids obtained from various plants, especially the deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna), variety acuminata; atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine are classical, specific antimuscarinic agents with many pharmacologic actions; used mainly as antispasmodics.
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Beloniformes
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D023761 |
[An order of fish in the group SMEGMAMORPHA, comprising adrianichthyids, medakas (ORYZIAS), needlefishes, halfbeaks, and flying fishes.
, Common name for the family Belonidae.
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Beluga Whale
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D050643 |
[The species Delphinapterus leucas, in the family Monodontidae, found primarily in the Arctic Ocean and adjoining seas. They are small WHALES lacking a dorsal fin.
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