#abilitare
- Abacus — An ancient manual computing device consisting of a frame with rods along which beads slide. In modern medicine, neuropsychology, and occupational therapy, the abacus is utilized as a tactile therapeutic tool for the cognitive rehabilitation of stroke survivors, traumatic brain injury patients, or early-stage dementia patients, aiding in the recovery of fine motor skills and mathematical executive functions.
- Abebe Bikila phenomenon — A medical and physiological eponym derived from the name of the legendary Ethiopian marathon runner, used in sports medicine, neurorehabilitation, and exercise pathophysiology (the Abebe Bikila effect or phenomenon). The term denotes extreme neuro-muscular adaptation capacity, absolute cardiovascular economy, and proprioceptive optimization through barefoot running. Additionally, in spinal cord injury neurology, his name illustrates volitional power and psychic resilience during post-trauma functional recovery, after a car accident left him paraplegic.
- Habilitation — The act of habilitating and its result; the formal acquisition or granting of a competence, legal right, or official title. In the contemporary Romanian university system, it represents the certification to supervise doctoral studies, obtained after defending a specific thesis by a faculty member holding a PhD.
- Habilitation (archaic variant) — A learned, obsolete, or rare variant of the noun 'abilitare'. It denotes the act of habilitating and its result, representing the official investment, empowerment, or recognition of a legal right or competence by an administrative or judicial authority.
- Ambulation — The act, faculty, or process of walking or moving on foot; autonomous or assisted locomotion. In a medical, clinical, and physical rehabilitation context, the term describes a patient's ability to walk independently or with the aid of special devices (crutches, walkers, prosthetics) following a trauma, surgical intervention, or a severe neurological condition.
- To amnesty — To grant amnesty to a person or a group of persons; to remove through a legal act of the legislative power the criminal liability for a committed offense, the consequences of the conviction, or the execution of the sentence. This public act of clemency symbolically and legally erases the criminal record for the targeted acts, restoring the person's prior rights.
- Structural enveloping — The act of enveloping and its result; the technical and constructive process of wrapping, covering, or externally insulating a structure; in construction, it refers specifically to the thermal insulation of a building's facades, roofs, and windows to optimize energy consumption.
- Tires — The plural form of the noun anvelopă; a set of elastic rubber tires intended for mounting on vehicle wheels to ensure traction; in an architectural sense, the totality of exterior peripheral elements making up the thermal barrier and insulation of buildings.
- Apocatastasis — A theological and eschatological doctrine, originally attributed to Origen, which asserts the ultimate and universal restoration of all conscious creatures to their initial state of divine perfection; the final reconciliation of the world with God, implying the ultimate salvation of all humans and even demons, thus rejecting the idea of eternal damnation. In a general philosophical sense, it represents the periodic return of the cosmos to its primordial pure state.