| behavior | Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle. "A gentleman that is very singular in his behavior." (Steele) To be upon one's good behavior, To be put upon one's good behavior, to be in a state of trial, in which something important depends on propriety of conduct. During good behavior, while (or so long as) one conducts one's self with integrity and fidelity or with propriety. Synonym: Bearing, demeanor, manner. Behavior, Conduct. Behavior is the mode in which we have or bear ourselves in the presence of others or toward them; conduct is the mode of our carrying ourselves forward in the concerns of life. Behavior respects our manner of acting in particular cases; conduct refers to the general tenor of our actions. We may say of soldiers, that their conduct had been praiseworthy during the whole campaign, and their behavior admirable in every instance when they met the enemy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| escape | 1. To flee, and become secure from danger; often followed by from or out of. "Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind" (Keble) 2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. "Such heretics . . . Would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life." (Macaulay) 3. To get free from that which confines or holds; used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors. "To escape out of these meshes." (Thackeray) 1. The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape. "I would hasten my escape from the windy storm." (Ps. Lv. 8) 2. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression. "I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes." (Burton) 3. A sally. "Thousand escapes of wit." 4. The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody. Escape is technically distinguishable from prison breach, which is the unlawful departure of the prisoner from custody, escape being the permission of the departure by the custodian, either by connivance or negligence. The term escape, however, is applied by some of the old authorities to a departure from custody by stratagem, or without force. 5. An apophyge. 6. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid. 7. <physics> Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation. <engineering> Escape pipe, the wheel of an escapement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| escape beat | Escaped beat, an automatic beat, usually arising from the A-V junction or ventricle, occurring after the next expected normal beat has defaulted; it is therefore always a late beat, terminating a longer cycle than the normal. Synonym: escape contraction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape-capture bigeminy | Paired beats, each couplet consisting of an escape beat followed by a conducted sinus beat. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape conditioning | The technique whereby an organism learns to terminate unpleasant or punishing stimuli by making the appropriate new response which stops the delivery of such stimuli. Compare: avoidance conditioning. Synonym: escape training. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape contraction | Escaped beat, an automatic beat, usually arising from the A-V junction or ventricle, occurring after the next expected normal beat has defaulted; it is therefore always a late beat, terminating a longer cycle than the normal. Synonym: escape contraction. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape impulse | One or more impulse's (atrial, junctional, or ventricular) arising as a result of delay in the formation or arrival of impulses from the prevailing pacemaker. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape interval | The time between the last beat of the patient's basic rhythm (ectopic or sinus beat) and a beat from a spontaneous escape focus or the initial electronic pacemaker impulse (a preset interval in the circuitry); it may be either a shorter or a longer time period than the pulse interval. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape phenomenon | Failure of the pupil in an eye with optic neuritis to maintain constriction as both eyes are alternately stimulated with light. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape reaction | Innate response elicited by sensory stimuli associated with a threatening situation, or actual confrontation with an enemy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| escape rhythm | Three or more consecutive impulses at a rate not exceeding the upper limit of the inherent pacemaker; extreme range of impulse formation at the sinoatrial node is between 40 to 180 impulses per minute, that of the atrioventricular junction is normally 40 to 60 impulses per minute, and the normal rate of the ventricular myocardium (idioventricular rhythm) is 20 to 40 impulses per minute. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape training | The technique whereby an organism learns to terminate unpleasant or punishing stimuli by making the appropriate new response which stops the delivery of such stimuli. Compare: avoidance conditioning. Synonym: escape training. (05 Mar 2000) |
| escape ventricular contraction | An escape beat arising in the ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tumour escape | The ability of tumours to evade destruction by the immune system. Theories concerning possible mechanisms by which this takes place involve both cellular and humoral immunity, and also costimulatory pathways related to CD28 antigens and CD80 antigens. (12 Dec 1998) |