• A mental gland is a part of the body found in many species of amphibians and reptiles. Mental glands produce chemicals that conspecific animals use to...
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    The pineal gland (also known as the pineal body or epiphysis cerebri) is a small endocrine gland in the brain of most vertebrates. It produces melatonin...
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    the abraded spot which are secreted from a pad of tissue called the mental gland located underneath the male's chin. Courtship pheromones greatly increase...
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    cloacal gland, to attract males, but males do not seem to use pheromones for this purpose. In some plethodonts, males have conspicuous mental glands on the...
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    known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States), is a generalized neurodevelopmental...
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    help abrade the female's skin and introduce the secretions on the males mental gland, found on the chin, into her circulatory system, which stimulates her...
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    lips and a small mental gland. These glandular tissues become enlarged when sexually active. Female individuals lack a mental gland and have folded cloacal...
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  • the first frog in the genus Bokermannohyla to be reported to have a mental gland. "Bokermannohyla juiju". Amphibiaweb. Retrieved March 1, 2022. "Bokermannohyla...
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  • subject's ability to consciously access mental imagery including synaestesia (McKellar, 1957). Furthermore, the pineal gland is a hypothetical candidate for producing...
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    hypothyroidism include iodine deficiency and a developmental defect in the thyroid gland, either due to a genetic defect or of unknown cause. Treatment consists...
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    Tears (redirect from Tear Duct and Gland)
    Tears are a clear liquid secreted by the lacrimal glands (tear gland) found in the eyes of all land mammals. Tears are made up of water, electrolytes,...
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    than P. dixi and smaller than P. wehrlei. Mature males have a prominent mental gland on the chin and swellings above the base of the tail, while females have...
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    top of the head. The mental glands are also shaped differently in the males. The pygmy salamander has a large, U-shaped mental gland while the seepage salamander's...
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    a prominent mental gland on the underside of its chin, this gland produces hormones to induce female interest. Males will rub the gland on the females...
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    beneficial to people with "dementia praecox", the mental illness known today as schizophrenia. Voronoff's monkey-gland treatment was in vogue in the 1920s. The...
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    Adults are brownish with a pale ventral surface; the male has oval-shaped mental gland. The species was originally thought to be life-birthing, but is now known...
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    found under a single cover object and males have noticeably enlarged mental glands. Females then lay their eggs in late August or early September. Clutch...
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    of sadness (which are mental events) cause people to cry (which is a physical state of the body). Finding a joke funny (a mental event) causes one to laugh...
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    can be larger, growing up to 39 mm. Adult males have a creamy colored mental gland on the chin, a pale bluish-green throat and a single gular sac, and no...
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    The mental space is a fascial space of the head and neck (also termed fascial spaces or tissue spaces). It is a potential space, bilaterally located in...
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  • Adaptation Syndrome. This syndrome consists of an enlargement of the adrenal gland, atrophy of the thymus, spleen, and other lymphoid tissue, and gastric ulcerations...
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    research with related concepts in digital media use and mental health. Screen time is correlated with mental and physical harm in child development. The positive...
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    the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical, or that the mind and body are distinct and separable...
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  • the current, fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), which considers the criteria to be insufficient or inadequate...
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    secreted by the thyroid gland to stabilize blood calcium levels, was present in the blood serum. This suggests that the thyroid gland is releasing an abnormal...
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    Limbic system (redirect from Limbic gland)
    learning. This researcher and his team employed many different types of mental and physical training on their subjects, and found that the hippocampus...
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    particularly pertinent to mental illnesses, whereby chronic or severe stress remains a common risk factor for several mental illnesses. Acute stressful...
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    that occurs due to excessive production of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland. Thyrotoxicosis is the condition that occurs due to excessive thyroid hormone...
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    Oral cavity proper Glands of mouth Major salivary glands Parotid gland Sublingual gland Submandibular gland Minor salivary glands Teeth Incisor Canine...
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    obstructed, with the nearby apocrine sweat glands being strongly implicated in this obstruction. The sweat glands themselves may or may not be inflamed. Diagnosis...
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