Glossary C

- Conduct problems (antisocial behavior) : conduct problems (antisocial behavior) refers to age-inappropriate actions and attitudes that violate family expectations, societal norms, and the personal or property rights of others.

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- Conduct problems (Antisocial behavior) : Conduct problems (Antisocial behavior ) refer to age-inappropriate actions and attitudes that violate family expectations, societal norms, and the personal or property rights of others.

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Conduction refers to the transfer of heat from warmer to cooler objects that are in contact with each other. This term may also be used in association with the conveyance of neural impulses.

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Conduction aphasia is an Aphasia characterized by the inability to repeat what one has heard.

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Conduction disturbances refer to a slowing or blockage of the wave of depolarization in the heart, examples are: first-degree AV block, or bundle branch block.

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- Conductive deafness (middle-ear deafness) : Conductive deafness (middle-ear deafness) refers to hearing loss that occurs if the bones of the middle ear fail to transmit sound waves properly to the cochlea

Conductive hearing loss is defined as poor transfer of sounds from the eardrum to the inner ear. It also refers to hearing loss that occurs when the vibrations of a sound stimulus are not conducted normally from the outer ear into the cochlea.

Conductivity is defined as the capacity for conduction.

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