| mental healing | The use of suggestion or faith to cure disease, particularly physical illness. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma | <tumour> Multiple skin tumours, most frequently on the head, each resembling a well-differentiated squamous carcinoma or keratoacanthoma; individual tumours resolve spontaneously after several months, leaving deep-pitted scars with irregular crenellated borders, and are usually replaced by additional new tumours; autosomal dominant inheritance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wound healing | Restoration of integrity to traumatised tissue. (12 Dec 1998) |
| healing | 1. Restoring to health; promoting the closure of wounds and ulcers. 2. The process of a return to health. 3. Closing of a wound. See: union. (05 Mar 2000) |
| healing by first intention | Healing by fibrous adhesion, without suppuration or granulation tissue formation. Synonym: primary adhesion, primary union. (05 Mar 2000) |
| healing by second intention | Delayed closure of two granulating surfaces. Synonym: secondary adhesion, secondary union. (05 Mar 2000) |
| healing by third intention | The slow filling of a wound cavity or ulcer by granulations, with subsequent cicatrization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| faith healing | A treatment utilised since antiquity based upon prayer and a profound belief in divine intervention in human affairs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| fracture healing | The physiological restoration of bone tissue and function after a fracture. It includes callus formation and normal replacement of bone tissue. (12 Dec 1998) |
| map distance | The degree of separation of two loci on a linkage map, measured in morgans or centimorgans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| genetic distance | <molecular biology> A way of measuring the amount of evolutionary divergence in two separated populations of a species by counting the number of allelic substitutions per locus that have cropped up in each population. (09 Oct 1997) |
| reduced interarch distance | An occluding vertical dimension which results in an excessive interocclusal distance when the mandible is in rest position, and in a reduced interridge distance when the teeth are in contact. (05 Mar 2000) |
| working distance free | <microscopy> The distance between the front lens of the objective and the coverslip (or uncovered object) when the lens is focused on the specimen. (05 Aug 1998) |
| pupillary distance | The distance between the centre of each pupil; the major reference points in measuring for fitting of spectacle frames and lenses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyperfocal distance | <microscopy> The nearest distance, h, at which a camera lens focuses the far distance (infinity). This gives the maximum depth of field, the nearest distance in focus is h/2. (05 Aug 1998) |