| AF | <cardiology> A condition where there is disorganised electrical conduction in the atria, resulting in ineffective pumping of blood into the ventricle. Acronym: AF (02 Jan 1998) |
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| AF1 deamidase | <enzyme> Deamidates af1 neuropeptide; isolated from ascaris suum Registry number: EC 3.5.1.- (26 Jun 1999) |
| AFB | acid-fast bacillus |
| AFC | <immunology> B-cells (plasma cells) that are dedicated to producing secreted antibodies. (09 Feb 1998) |
| afebrile | Without a fever (27 Sep 1997) |
| afetal | Without relation to a foetus or intrauterine life. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affect | The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves. (12 Dec 1998) |
| affect displacement | A shift of feeling from the object originally arousing it to some associated object. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affect display | Facial expressions, postures, and gestures indicating emotional states. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affect hunger | Emotional hunger for maternal love and feelings of protection and care implied in the mother-child relationship. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affect memory | The emotional element recurring whenever a significant experience is recalled. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affect spasms | Rarely used term for spasmodic attacks of laughing, weeping, and screaming, accompanied by marked tachypnea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| affected | 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. "His affected Hercules." (Chapman) 2. Inclined; disposed; attached. "How stand you affected his wish?" (Shak) 3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. "He is . . . Too spruce, too affected, too odd." (Shak) 4. Assumed artificially; not natural. "Affected coldness and indifference." (Addison) 5. <mathematics> Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| affection | 1. The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected. 2. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc, are affections of bodies. "The affections of quantity." "And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house." (Tennyson) 3. Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. "Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality." (Cogan) 4. A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children. "All his affections are set on his own country." (Macaulay) 5. Prejudice; bias. 6. <medicine> Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." 9. Passion; violent emotion. "Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend." (Spenser) Synonym: Attachment, passion, tenderness, fondness, kindness, love, good will. See Attachment, Disease. Origin: F. Affection, L. Affectio, fr. Afficere. See Affect. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| affective | Pertaining to mood, emotion, feeling, sensibility, or a mental state. (05 Mar 2000) |