| isolated explosive disorder | A disorder of impulse control characterised by a single episode of failure to resist a violent, externally directed act which had serious impact on others. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| intermittent explosive disorder | <psychology> An uncommon disorder that begins in early childhood, characterised by repeated acts of violent, aggressive behaviour in otherwise normal persons that is markedly out of proportion to the event that provokes it. Synonym: dyscontrol, episodic dyscontrol syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| decompression, explosive | A sudden loss of pressure in a pressurised cabin, cockpit, or the like, so rapid as to be explosive. (12 Dec 1998) |
| explosive | 1. An explosive agent; a compound or mixture susceptible of a rapid chemical reaction, as gunpowder, or nitro-glycerine. 2. A sound produced by an explosive impulse of the breath; one of consonants p, b, t, d, k, g, which are sounded with a sort of explosive power of voice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| explosive decompression | Sudden severe expansion of gases due to a reduction in ambient pressure. Synonym: explosive decompression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| explosive speech | Loud, sudden speech related to injury of the nervous system. Synonym: logospasm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated | Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. Isolated point of a curve. <geometry> See Acnode. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| isolated abutment | A lone-standing tooth, or root, used as an abutment with edentulous areas mesial and distal to it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated dextrocardia | Dextrocardia with mirror transposition of the cardiac chambers but without displacement of the abdominal viscera. Synonym: type 2 dextrocardia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated dyskeratosis follicularis | warty dyskeratoma |
| isolated limb perfusion | <oncology, procedure> Chemotherapy treatment in which blood is taken from a patient, pumped through a machine that adds anticancer drugs to the blood, then returned to the limb being treated. (15 Oct 1997) |
| isolated parietal endocarditis | Fibrous thickening of the endocardium of the left ventricle without valvular involvement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated proteinuria | Proteinuria in a patient who is asymptomatic, has normal renal function and urinary sediment, and has no manifestation of systemic disease upon initial examination. (05 Mar 2000) |
| isolated system | <chemistry> A system which can exchange neither mass nor energy with its surroundings. (09 Jan 1998) |
| affective personality disorder | A disturbance of feelings or mood expressed as a milder form of depression and related emotional features that colour the whole psychic life and for which psychosocial stressors are believed to play the major role. (05 Mar 2000) |
| alcohol amnestic disorder | <psychiatry> A mental disorder with brain damage characterised by amnesia, compensatory confabulation, disturbance of attention, and peripheral neuritis. It is usually associated with alcoholism and dietary deficiencies. (12 Dec 1998) |