- Amish (Davis 290)
- Amniocentesis -
- Bona Fides (Jonas)
- Casuistical (Jonas)
- Cortical - In one of our articles refers to brain development. ("Sub-cortical thalamic fibres first begin to form synapses with cortical neurons at about twenty-five weeks gestation and only at some point well after birth does conductivity reach a critical threshold sufficient for self-awareness.")
- Cystic Fibrosis (Kass 312)
- Dements (Jonas)
- Dilettante (Jonas)
- Egalitarian (Kass 310) -
- Ephemeral (Kass 314)
- Euthanasia - A killing distinguished by its positive intention to relieve a being's suffering. It is usually consensual when involving self-aware human beings. ("Euthanasia would add a whole new category of killing to a society that already has too many excuses to indulge itself in that way.")
- Ex hypothesi (Jonas)
- Hemophilia (Kass 311)
- Heterozygous (Kass 311)
- Homozygous (Kass 313)
- In utero (Kass 311)
- Jehovah's Witness (Davis 287) -
- Meliorist (Kass 2 402)
- Metaphysical - When Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy begins its article on metaphysics with, "It is not easy to say what metaphysics is," you know you're in trouble. Literally metaphysics means "after" or "beyond" (meta) "physics" (matter, motion, force, energy, etc.). So we might say that metaphysics is about all the stuff we think about that does not seem to be easily reduced to questions about physics. ("These objections make a powerful cumulative case that something is amiss in FLO, but none comes to grips with the metaphysical thesis at the heart of the argument: the claim that actual persons possess a future of value.")
- Mongoloid (Kass 311)
- Penumbral (Jonas)
- Phenylketonuria (Kass 313)
- Prima Facie - On first appearance, or before deeper analysis. ("Since the reason that is sufficient to explain why it is wrong to kill human beings after the time of birth is a reason that also applies to fetuses, it follows that abortion is prima facie seriously wrong.")
- Quadriplegia (Kass 315)
- Reification (Jonas )
- Rights-in-Trust (Davis 287)
- Sentient - Responsive to sense impressions. A "sentient" being is not necessarily a self-aware being. ("A third trimester fetus may be sentient but there is no medical reason to think it is capable of self-consciousness.")
- Sophistry (Jonas)
- Tay-Sachs (Kass 310)
- Thalidomide (Kass 309)
- Transcendent (Jonas)
- Ubiquitous (Kass 2 404)
- Tort Claim (Kass 2 408)
- Unequivocal (Jonas)
- Valetudinarians (Kass 2 403)