Key terms & definitions

An operation that creates an alternative route for blood around a blocked coronary artery.

A disease in which fatty material builds up inside the coronary arteries, narrowing them and reducing blood flow to the heart muscle.

A disease in which layers of fatty material build up inside the coronary arteries, narrowing them and reducing the supply of oxygen to the heart muscle.

A disease in which the arteries supplying the heart muscle become narrowed, reducing its blood supply.

A condition in which fatty deposits narrow or block the coronary arteries, reducing the blood supply to the heart muscle.

Disease involving narrowing or blockage of the arteries supplying the heart muscle, reducing its blood supply.

A cardiovascular condition in which fatty deposits narrow or block the coronary arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood.

The ceremony in which a monarch swears an oath, is anointed with holy oil, receives the regalia and is crowned.

An official who investigates the cause and circumstances of certain deaths, including suspicious or violent deaths.

Punishment that deliberately inflicts physical pain or injury, such as whipping or branding.

Punishment that deliberately inflicts physical pain on an offender, such as whipping.

Crime committed by employees on behalf of their company, such as illegally producing and selling unsafe products.

Crime committed by a company, or by people acting on its behalf, such as illegal pollution.

A large company legally organised as a single business, which may own or control many factories and other operations.

A tax on a company’s profits.

A tax paid by companies on their profits.

A vision experienced as seeing a figure, such as an angel appearing in human form, while awake.

The structure formed from the empty follicle after ovulation; it produces progesterone.

The structure formed from the follicle left in an ovary after ovulation; it produces progesterone.

A Latin expression meaning a separate entity. The UN partition plan proposed this status for Jerusalem and its surrounding religiously significant area.

A program’s ability to produce the intended results for valid inputs.

An association between two variables: positive when they tend to increase together, and negative when one tends to decrease as the other increases.

A relationship in which changes in one variable are associated with changes in another variable.

A relationship in which two measured variables change together; it does not, by itself, show that one causes the other.

A relationship in which two measured variables tend to change together.

A relationship between two variables in which changes in one are associated with changes in the other. It does not, by itself, establish that one causes the other.

A tendency for two variables to change together.

A pattern of association between two variables, in which their values tend to vary together.

An association between two variables; it does not by itself show that one causes the other.

A pattern of association between two quantities: positive when they tend to increase together, or negative when one tends to decrease as the other increases.