sci-, -science, -sciently, -scientific, -scientifically, -scient, -sciently +
(Latin: to know, to learn; knowledge)
No knowledge of a science can be properly acquired until the terminology of that science is mastered, and this terminology is in the main of Greek and Latin origin.
2. A person who has studied science, especially one who is active in a particular field of investigation.
3. Anyone who has expert knowledge of some branch of science (usually, of physical or natural science), and devotes himself or herself to its investigation.
Its value is usually determined on the basis of likelihood that completion of exploratory or developmental research objectives will move towards effective therapies.
The most important aspect of Translational Research is the clinical interface. It is bi-directional in nature, working from the laboratory to the clinic, and from the clinic back to the laboratory.
Translational Scientific Research is, therefore, an inherently collaborative and interdisciplinary area of medical research.
Special information about Transitional Scientific Research is available here.
2. Showing no regard for conscience; not in accordance with what is right or reasonable.
2. Not characterized by, or endowed with, the faculty or presence of consciousness.
3. In psychology, applied to mental or psychic processes of which a person is not aware but which have a powerful effect on his attitudes and behavior; specifically, in Freud's psychoanalytic theory, processes activated by desires, fears, or memories that are unacceptable to the conscious mind and so repressed; also designating that part of the mind or psyche in which such processes operate.
4. Not realized or known as existing in oneself.
5. Etymology: "unaware, not marked by conscious thought" comes from un-, "not" + conscious, "knowing, aware". Meaning "temporarily insensible, knocked out" is recorded from 1860.
2. An abnormal state of the lack of response to sensory stimuli, resulting from injury, illness, shock, or some other bodily disorder.
A brief loss of consciousness from which a person recovers spontaneously, or with slight help, is called syncope or faint. Deep, prolonged unconsciousness is known as a coma.
3. A physiological state in which the patient is incapable of responding to usual environmental stimuli.It is an imprecise term, but it usually refers to impairment of consciousness less profound than a coma, in which no response can be elicited even at the reflex level.
2. Not knowledgeable about science or the scientific method.
2. Not possessing knowledge about science and its methods and principles.
Motto of East Texas Baptist College, Marshall, Texas, USA.
Related articles about science: "Science Race"; STEM, Part 1; STEM, Part 2; Scientific Specialties.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "know, knowledge; learn, learning": cogni-; discip-; gno-; histor-; intellect-; learn, know; math-; sap-; sopho-.
