Glossary F

Funerals or Funeral services is defined as formal services to mark a death and celebrate a life with the body present in an open or closed casket. Funerals or funeral services may be religious, humanist, or secular in nature

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Fusiform face area (FFA) refers to an area in the human infero-temporal (IT) cortex that contains neurons that are specialized to respond to faces.

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Fusiform muscles refer to a type of parallel muscle with fibers shaped together like a spindle with a central belly that tapers to tendons on each end, such as the brachialis and the biceps brachii.

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Fusion refers to a merging or meshing of thoughts and feelings in a family member; the opposite of differentiation. Fusion also refers to a relationship where one person lives through another person, denying the meaning of his own separate existence by merging with the other. In systems theory, Fusion refers to a confusion of emotion and thought.

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Fussbudget refers to a person who is fussy about unimportant things.

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Futilitarian means holding the belief that human striving is useless and also refers to a person who holds such belief.

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Future criminology refers to the study of likely futures as they impinge on Crime and its control.

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Future projection means playing a situation that could occur at some time in the future. For example, playing out an interaction with a future son-in-law