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poltroon A poltroon is a coward. Poltroons have a lack of courage and fortitude. Poltroon is an old-fashioned word for a type of person that exists in every time period: a coward. If you behave in a way that shows no courage or confidence, you're acting like a poltroon. In movies, the villains are often poltroons who are sneaky and devious instead of brave and straightforward.
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- moron (plural morons) ( 1 informal) A stupid person; an idiot; a fool. ( 2 dated, originally) A person of borderline intelligence in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50-69.
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Definitions &Translations Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Sponson. spon′son, n. the curve of the timbers and planking towards the outer part of the wing, before and abaft each of the paddle-boxes of a steamer.—Also Spon′sing.
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Definitions &Translations (Pedagogy) A mentally retarded person whose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development; an adult having the mental development of an 8-to-12-year old.iktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: moron (Noun). A person of borderline intelligence in the former classification of mental retardation, having of an intelligence quotient of 50-69.
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EducationalObjectives The prion is a product of a human gene, termed the PrP gene, found on chromosome 20. This gene contains two exons separated by a single intron. Exon I and Exon II are transcribed and the two RNAs ligated into a single mRNA.
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What is Force Protection Condition Level Bravo? The Force Protection Condition, or FPCON, is a five-tier threat level system that is overseen and decided by the Department of Defense. It has various levels that show security concern in the country.
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- Moron may refer to: 1  Moron (psychology) , disused term for a person with a mental age between 8 and 12. 2  A common insult for a person considered stupid (or just a generic insult).3  Welsh word for carrots. Moron (psychology) , disused term for a person with a mental age between 8 and 12.
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Quadroon Historically in the context of slave societies of the Americas, a quadroon or quarteron was a mixed-race person with one quarter African and three quarters European ancestry (or in the context of Australia, one quarter aboriginal ancestry). Similar classifications were octoroon for one eighth black and hexadecaroon for one sixteenth black.
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- THERE are some who view the bouffant-haired, pompous poltroon as one of those English eccentrics who add to the gaiety of the nation. Flashman, Brown's one-time school-room nemesis, may be lecher, womaniser, coward and self-confessed poltroon but he is all too candidly human as well.
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- im·plo·sion. 1. A sudden collapse, as of an evacuated vessel, in which there is a bursting inward rather than outward as in explosion. 2. A type of behavior therapy, similar to flooding, during which the patient is given massive exposure to extreme anxiety-arousing stimuli.m·plo·sion. n. 1. A type of behavior therapy in which the patient is repeatedly subjected to anxiety-arousing stimuli while the therapist attempts to extinguish the patient's anxiety and anxious behavior and replace them with more appropriate responses. 2.
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moron 2. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
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- Definition of PRION. : any of several protein particles that are abnormal forms of normal cellular proteins, that lack nucleic acid, and that in mammals have been implicated as the cause of prion diseases when accumulated in the mammalian brain.
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Polio Polio is in infectious disease that is caused by viruses that may result in a wide range of symptoms in patients. Other terms for polio include poliomyelitis and infantile paralysis. Symptoms can range from a non-paralytic flu-like infection to total paralysis that can occur within a few hours.
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- poltroon (plural poltroons) An ignoble or total coward; a dastard; a mean-spirited wretch. c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Act I, Scene 1, Patience is for poltroons, such as he: He durst not sit there, had your father lived.
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prion Definition of prion. : prion protein A prion is a protein of unknown function that resides on the surface of brain cells.
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- Moron was originally a scientific term, coined by psychologist Henry Goddard from a Greek word meaning foolish and used to describe a person with a genetically determined mental age between 8 and 12 on the Binet scale.oron was originally a scientific term, coined by psychologist Henry Goddard from a Greek word meaning foolish and used to describe a person with a genetically determined mental age between 8 and 12 on the Binet scale.
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Sociotropy Sociotropy is a personality trait characterized by excessive investment in interpersonal relationships and usually studied in the field of social psychology. People with sociotropy tend to have a strong need for social acceptance, which causes them to be overly nurturant towards people who they do not have close relationships with.
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Polio vaccine Oral polio vaccine (OPV) is an attenuated vaccine, produced by the passage of the virus through non-human cells at a sub-physiological temperature, which produces spontaneous mutations in the viral genome. Oral polio vaccines were developed by several groups, one of which was led by Albert Sabin.Other groups, led by Hilary Koprowski and H.R. Cox, developed their own attenuated vaccine strains. In 1958, the National Institutes of Health created a special committee on live polio vaccines.ral polio vaccine (OPV) is an attenuated vaccine, produced by the passage of the virus through non-human cells at a sub-physiological temperature, which produces spontaneous mutations in the viral genome. Oral polio vaccines were developed by several groups, one of which was led by Albert Sabin.
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Orimune DRUG DESCRIPTION. Oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) contains live attenuated poliovirus (Sabin strain types 1, 2 and 3) and is intended for polio prophylaxis in infants 6-12 weeks of age, all unimmunized children up to 18 years of age, and high-risk adults.
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Prion prion. Origin: proteinaceous infectious particle (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system.
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polio Noun. 1. polio-an acute viral disease marked by inflammation of nerve cells of the brain stem and spinal cord. acute anterior poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, poliomyelitis. infectious disease-a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact.Translations.o·li·o. A contagious disease, caused by a virus, that mainly affects the nerve cells of the spinal cord and brain, often leading to muscle weakness and paralysis. The name is a shortening of poliomyelitis (pō′lē-ō-mī′ə-lī′tĭs).
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- extrovert [(ek-struh-vurt)] A term introduced by the psychologist Carl Jung to describe a person whose motives and actions are directed outward. Extroverts are more prone to action than contemplation, make friends readily, adjust easily to social situations, and generally show warm interest in their surroundings.
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CHEVROLET MALIBU Problems - 2005 CHEVROLET MALIBU Steering Problems The contact owns a 2002 Buick Regal. The contact stated that while driving 25 mph, the vehicle stalled. The contact was able to restart the vehicle and on the way to the dealer the vehicle stalled five times. The technician diagnosed the ignition switch was defective and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired.
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- Confidence votes 173K. There are three kinds of answers: ones that are mostly right, ones that are mostly wrong, and those that once were right but now are wrong. Moron is a term properly used to denote a category of mental retardation. It is widely and incorrectly used as a derogatory insult.
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- Moron was originally a scientific term, coined by psychologist Henry Goddard from a Greek word meaning foolish and used to describe a person with a genetically determined mental age between 8 and 12 on the Binet scale.
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- [syn: drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave] The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:Peon \Peon\, n. [Sp. peon, or Pg. pe?o, one who travels on foot, a foot soldier, a pawn in chess. See Pawn in chess.] 1. A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India] [1913 Webster] 2. A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt. [1913 Webster] 3. (Chess) See 2d Pawn. [1913 Webster] The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:Peon \Peon\, n. See Poon.