sedentary death syndrome — (SED.un.tair.ee deth SIN.drum, drohm) n. Death caused by extreme inactivity and poor nutrition. Also: SeDS. Example Citation: Americans are killing themselves at nearly double the rate of a decade ago with something that has been officially… … New words
XYY syndrome — Not to be confused with XXY (2 X s, Klinefelter s syndrome). XYY syndrome Classification and external resources Y chromosome ICD 10 Q … Wikipedia
Diseases and Syndromes — allergy bullying andropause animal hoarding baby lag baggage malaria bigorexia BlackBerry thumb … New words
Sociology (General) — Sociology General acoustic privacy adorkable age heaping anticipointment antiskeptic banana problem behalfism … New words
Plural of virus — In the English language, the plural of virus is viruses . In reference to a computer virus, the plural is often believed to be virii or, less commonly, viri, but both forms are neologistic folk etymology [Wiktionary definition… … Wikipedia
monomath — n. A person who knows a lot about one thing, and very little about anything else. (The opposite of a polymath.) Related Word: False Authority Syndrome Category: People … New words
Recall (memory) — Recollection redirects here. For other uses, see Recollection (disambiguation). Recall in memory refers to the retrieval of events or information from the past. Along with encoding and storage, it is one of the three core processes of memory.… … Wikipedia
Alien Abduction Trauma and Recovery — According to The Journal of American Culture, most people claiming to have experienced alien abduction report “traumatic alien investigations of their bodies,” (Barbeito 202). [Barbeito, Patricia Felisa. “He s Making Me Feel Things in My Body… … Wikipedia
Day-care sex-abuse hysteria — was a panic that occurred primarily in the 1980s and early 1990s featuring claims against daycare providers of satanic ritual abuse and several forms of child abuse.[1][2] A prominent case in Kern County, California, first brought the issue of… … Wikipedia
Motivated forgetting — is a debated concept referring to a psychological defence mechanism in which people forget unwanted memories, either consciously or unconsciously.[1] There are times when memories are reminders of unpleasant experiences that make people angry,… … Wikipedia
