Medical Term:
habit
Pronunciation: hab'it
Definition
- An act, behavioral response, practice, or custom established in one's repertoire by frequent repetition of the same activity.
- A basic variable in the study of conditioning and learning used to designate a new response learned either by association or by being followed by a reward or reinforced event.
See: conditioning, learning
[L. habeo, pp. habitus, to have]
See Also: addiction
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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
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