### ability:

Human ability
* Human abilities exist on a continuum
  - refer to differences in information processing speed and capacity
* is the cornerstone of golf.

Immunocompetence
* appears to influence the outcome of cytauxzoonosis in bobcats.
* is ability
  - essential for good health and longevity

### ability:

Psychic ability
* Psychic abilities are inherent in consciousness
  - scary
  - involve the use of all of our senses
* gift from spirit
  - uninvited by true psychics
* goes hand in hand with all exceptional ability.
* has to have a confident spirit in which to grow.
* is as common as the ability to walk.
* is like a musical or artistic talent
  - sometimes comparable to common sense and experience
* runs in families, and for a simple reason.
* skill of the mind and imagination.
* useful technique, because it hovers on the borders of sci-fi and reality.
* way of perceiving and using energy that is different from the physical world.

Totipotency
* is ability
  - known to be present in plant cells
* is the ability of each and every plant cell to regenerate an entirely new plant
  - physiological basis for reproducing plants from cuttings

Visual ability
* Visual abilities develop as a child matures
  - range from legal blindness to total blindness
* fundamental survival skill among creatures of the reef, especially fish.

### abjection:

Decadence
* is abjection
  - sometimes amoral, especially in the modern era
  - usually a state in a society which used to be good but has become bad
+ Decadence, Decadence and society: Culture :: Ethics :: Literature :: Painting :: Pop music
  * Decadence is usually a state in a society which used to be good but has become bad. Many people have started to behave in a way that others think is shocking and society does not function as well as it did before.

Degeneracy
* Degeneracies are important in physics.
* results because there are more codons than encodable amino acids
  - from symmetry in the system
+ Particle in a box, Higher-dimensional boxes: Quantum mechanics :: Physics
  * This situation is called 'degeneracy' and for the case where exactly two degenerate wavefunctions have the same energy that energy level is said to be 'doubly degenerate'. Degeneracy results from symmetry in the system.

### abnormal cells:

Large cell
* appear to be dark shades while small cells appear to be lighter shades.
* are abnormal cells
* have a smaller ratio of surface area to volume than do small cells.
* surround dorsal fenestra.
* term used in oncology.

### abnormal growths:

Spinal tumor
* Most spinal tumors are extradural.
* are abnormal growths
  - usually meningiomas or neurofibromas
* caused by lung cancer are more aggressive.
* is much less common than primary brain tumor.

Aboriginal group
* claim they have been discriminated against in earthquake relief efforts.
* occupy the upland area around the borders of Cambodia.
* say regulating guns violates aboriginal treaty rights.

### absent:

Calcium oxalate
* is absent
  - also a constituent of the root
  - associated with benign breast tissue
* is insoluble in alkali and acetic acid, but it dissolves in hydrochloric acid
  - water and acetic acid
  - more likely to form in males, struvite is more likely to form in females
* is the most common constituent of kidney stones
  - other common mineral

Free carbonate
* are absent
  - generally in the solum
* are in the organic layers in some pedons
  - substratum and in some pedons, are in the lower part of the subsoil
  - present

### absolute power:

Universal knowledge
* can develop from experience.
* is absolute power.

Absolutism
* carries a torch and wears a white robe.
* is control
  - divine command theory, but without the generous and humble spirit
  - doctrines
  - dominance
  - the pivot of Vedanta philosophy