| corrective emotional experience | Reexposure under favourable circumstances to an emotional situation with which one could not cope in the past. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| emotional | Pertaining to the emotions. (18 Nov 1997) |
| emotional age | A measure of emotional maturity by comparison with average emotional development. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional amenorrhoea | Amenorrhoea caused by a strong emotional disturbance, e.g., fright, grief. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional amnesia | A numbness of feeling and emotion whose aetiology is psychological. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional attitudes | Attitudes expressive of any of the great passions; e.g., anger, lust. Synonym: emotional attitudes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional deprivation | Lack of adequate and appropriate interpersonal or environmental experiences, or both, usually in the early developmental years. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional disease | See: mental illness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional disorder | See: mental illness, behaviour disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional disturbance | See: mental illness, behaviour disorder. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional leukocytosis | An abnormally high white blood cell count that is thought to be related only to an emotional disturbance. (05 Mar 2000) |
| emotional overlay | The emotional or psychological concomitant of an organic disability. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bayley Scales of Infant Development | A psychological test used to measure the developmental progress of infants over the first two and one-half years of life; consists of three scales: mental, motor, and behaviour record. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bone development | Gross development of bones from foetus to adult. It includes osteogenesis, which is restricted to formation and development of bone from the undifferentiated cells of the germ layers of the embryo. It does not include osseointegration. (12 Dec 1998) |
| maxillofacial development | The process of growth and differentiation of the jaws and face. (12 Dec 1998) |