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Secondary care refer to services provided by medical specialists who generally do not have first contact with patients, such as dermatologists, cardiologist, urologists, physical therapist, etc.

Secondary Deviance a term which results from official labeling and from Association with others who have been so labeled.

Secondary gain refers to the sympathy and attention that a sick person receives from other people.

Secondary process thinking is a term in Psychoanalytic theory which refers to the kind of thinking involved in logical and rational problem solving.

Secondary Reinforcer refers to a stimulus that gains reinforcing properties because it is associated with a primary reinforcer.

Secondary reinforcers refer to rewards that derive their value from association with primary reinforcers.

A secondary risk factor is a characteristic (age, gender, race, body fatness) or behavior that increases the risk of coronary heart disease when primary risk factors are present.

Secondary sex characteristics refer to the physical traits that develop during puberty and signal sexual maturity.

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