| 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) |
| acute febrile illness | An illness of sudden onset that manifests with fever. (27 Sep 1997) |
| acute illness | A disease with an abrupt onset and usually a short course. (12 Dec 1998) |
| AIDS-defining illness | <immunology> One of a list of serious illnesses that occurs in HIV-positive individuals and is reason for an AIDS diagnosis according to the CDC's definition of AIDS. Among these conditions are PCP, MAC, AIDS dementia complex, AIDS wasting syndrome, invasive cervical cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma and CMV retinitis. (09 Oct 1997) |