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Stochastic
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Stochastic Random or involving a random variable.
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Stochastic (statistics)
Involving a random variable; involving chance or probability.
Stockholm Syndrome
The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological state in which the victims of a kidnapping, or persons detained against their free will – prisoners – develop a relationship with their captor(s). This solidarity can sometimes become a real complicity, with prisoners actually helping the captors to achieve their goals or to escape police.
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Symptomatic treatment
A treatment with drugs that only affects the symptoms of the disease, not its cause - e.g. antihistamines and corticosteroids.
Serial nuclear transfer
Or recloning. The first step of this technique is a normal nuclear transfer, in which a nucleus is transferred into an enucleated egg, forming an embryo. In the second step, a nucleus from the resulting cloned embryo is transferred into another enucleated egg or an enucleated zygote (a fertilized egg with both male and female pronuclei removed). The second step can be repeated one or more times. This technique allows the nucleus to have two (or more) opportunities to be reprogrammed by egg cytoplasm (one during the original nuclear transfer, and more during subsequent nuclear transfers), thus potentially improving the chance of successful reprogramming of the nucleus.
Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)
Transfer of the nucleus from a donor somatic cell to an unfertilized egg cell from which the maternal chromosomes have been removed.
Somatic cell
Any cell of a plant or animal other than a reproductive cell or reproductive cell precursor. Latin: soma = body.
Stem cells
Nonspecialized cells that have the capacity to divide indefinitely in culture and to differentiate into more mature cells with specialized functions.
Stochastic
Scarlet fever
Named for the bright red rash it produces, scarlet fever is caused by the bacteria responsible for strep throat and is most common in children between 2 and 10. The infection is treated with antibiotics.
Sciatica
A common pregnancy-related condition, caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve, which passes through the pelvis. Symptoms, which include pain, tingling, or numbness in the lower back and down the legs, often last only a few hours but can, in severe cases, linger throughout pregnancy.
Secondary infertility
When a woman is unable to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term after already having had a child.
Seizure
Convulsions caused sometimes by a fever or by another serious condition such as epilepsy.
Sseparation anxiety
When an infant or toddler is anxious about being away from her primary caregiver. Infants can have this as early as 7 months, but separation anxiety usually peaks between a year and 18 months.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Stochastic (statistics)
Involving a random variable; involving chance or probability.
Stockholm Syndrome
The Stockholm syndrome is a psychological state in which the victims of a kidnapping, or persons detained against their free will – prisoners – develop a relationship with their captor(s). This solidarity can sometimes become a real complicity, with prisoners actually helping the captors to achieve their goals or to escape police.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Symptomatic treatment
A treatment with drugs that only affects the symptoms of the disease, not its cause - e.g. antihistamines and corticosteroids.
Serial nuclear transfer
Or recloning. The first step of this technique is a normal nuclear transfer, in which a nucleus is transferred into an enucleated egg, forming an embryo. In the second step, a nucleus from the resulting cloned embryo is transferred into another enucleated egg or an enucleated zygote (a fertilized egg with both male and female pronuclei removed). The second step can be repeated one or more times. This technique allows the nucleus to have two (or more) opportunities to be reprogrammed by egg cytoplasm (one during the original nuclear transfer, and more during subsequent nuclear transfers), thus potentially improving the chance of successful reprogramming of the nucleus.
Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)
Transfer of the nucleus from a donor somatic cell to an unfertilized egg cell from which the maternal chromosomes have been removed.
Somatic cell
Any cell of a plant or animal other than a reproductive cell or reproductive cell precursor. Latin: soma = body.
Stem cells
Nonspecialized cells that have the capacity to divide indefinitely in culture and to differentiate into more mature cells with specialized functions.
Stochastic
Scarlet fever
Named for the bright red rash it produces, scarlet fever is caused by the bacteria responsible for strep throat and is most common in children between 2 and 10. The infection is treated with antibiotics.
Sciatica
A common pregnancy-related condition, caused by pressure on the sciatic nerve, which passes through the pelvis. Symptoms, which include pain, tingling, or numbness in the lower back and down the legs, often last only a few hours but can, in severe cases, linger throughout pregnancy.
Secondary infertility
When a woman is unable to get pregnant or carry a pregnancy to term after already having had a child.
Seizure
Convulsions caused sometimes by a fever or by another serious condition such as epilepsy.
Sseparation anxiety
When an infant or toddler is anxious about being away from her primary caregiver. Infants can have this as early as 7 months, but separation anxiety usually peaks between a year and 18 months.
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