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human rights

(Encyclopedia)human rights, universal rights held to belong to individuals by virtue of their being human, encompassing civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights and freedoms, and based on the notion ...

pigment

(Encyclopedia)pigment, substance that imparts color to other materials. In paint, the pigment is a powdered substance which, when mixed in the liquid vehicle, imparts color to a painted surface. The pigments used i...

human chorionic gonadotropin

(Encyclopedia)human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG): see gonadotropic hormone. ...

human-factors engineering

(Encyclopedia)human-factors engineering: see ergonomics. ...

Human Genome Project

(Encyclopedia)Human Genome Project, international scientific effort to map all of the genes on the 23 pairs of human chromosomes and, to sequence the 3.1 billion DNA base pairs that make up the chromosomes (see nuc...

human granulocytic ehrlichiosis

(Encyclopedia)human granulocytic ehrlichiosis: see ehrlichiosis. ...

human growth hormone

(Encyclopedia)human growth hormone (HGH): see growth hormone. ...

human immunodeficiency virus

(Encyclopedia)human immunodeficiency virus: see HIV. ...

mimicry

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Mimicry in butterflies mimicry, in biology, the advantageous resemblance of one species to another, often unrelated, species or to a feature of its own environment. (When the latter results fr...

phenothiazine

(Encyclopedia)phenothiazine fēˌnəthīˈəzĭn [key], any one of a class of drugs used to control mental disorders. Phenothiazines, along with other antipsychotic, or neuroleptic, drugs are used for such disorder...