Accounting

Accounting

Includes the principles as well as the system of documenting and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results.

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serotonin

Health care; Psychiatry

A hormone, also called 5-hydroxytryptamine, in the pineal gland, blood platelets, the digestive tract, and the brain. Serotonin acts both as a chemical messenger that transmits ...

lithium

Health care; Psychiatry

•Lithium is a soft, silver-white metal that belongs to the alkali metal group of chemical elements. It is represented by the symbol Li, and it has the atomic number 3. Under ...

neurasthenia

Health care; Psychiatry

Neurasthenia is a psycho-pathological term first used by George Miller Beard in 1869 to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, neuralgia and depressed ...

libido

Health care; Psychiatry

A Freudian term for sexual urge or desire.

somnambulism

Health care; Psychiatry

A sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. Sleepwalkers arise from the slow wave sleep stage in a state of low consciousness and perform activities that are usually ...

nervous system

Health care; Psychiatry

An organ system containing a network of specialized cells called neurons that coordinate the actions and transmit signals between different parts of the body. The nervous system ...