| approach-approach conflict | A situation of indecision and vacillation when an individual is confronted with two equally attractive alternatives. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| approach | 1. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. "The approach of summer." "A nearer approach to the human type." (Owen) 2. A access, or opportunity of drawing near. "The approach to kings and principal persons." (Bacon) 3. Movements to gain favor; advances. 4. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. 5. The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. 6. <botany> See Approaching. Origin: Cf. F. Approche. See Approach. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| approach-avoidance conflict | A situation of indecision and vacillation when the individual is confronted with a single object or event which has both attractive and unattractive qualities. (05 Mar 2000) |
| regressive-reconstructive approach | A form of psychotherapy in which regression, in order to resurrect some original psychic trauma, is an integral part of the treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| nomothetic approach | A frame of psychologic reference that attempts to provide norms and general principles of behaviour by the study of groups. (05 Mar 2000) |
| idiographic approach | The comprehensive study of an individual as a basis for understanding human behaviour in general. (05 Mar 2000) |
| craniofacial | Relating to both the face and the cranium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| craniofacial abnormalities | Congenital structural deformities, malformations, or other abnormalities of the cranium and facial bones. (12 Dec 1998) |
| craniofacial angle | The angle formed by the basifacial and basicranial axes at the midpoint of the sphenoethmoidal suture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| craniofacial appliance | A device used to immobilise and/or reduce mandibular or midfacial fractures. See: fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| craniofacial axis | A straight line passing through the mesethmoid, presphenoid, basisphenoid, and basioccipital bones. (05 Mar 2000) |
| craniofacial dysjunction fracture | A complex fracture in which the facial bones are separated from the cranial bones. Synonym: Le Fort III craniofacial dysjunction, Le Fort III fracture, transverse facial fracture. (05 Mar 2000) |
| craniofacial dysostosis | <paediatrics> A genetic disorder (autosomal dominant) characterised by abnormalities of the cranial sutures, widening of the skull, a high forehead, ocular hypertelorism, exophthalmos, beaked nose and hypoplasia of the maxilla Inheritance: autosomal dominant. (27 Sep 1997) |
| craniofacial fixation | Stabilization of facial fractures to the cranial base by direct wiring or by external skeletal pin fixation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| craniofacial notch | A defect in the osseous partition between the orbital and nasal cavities. (05 Mar 2000) |