| isolation |
a state of separation between persons or groups the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others a feeling of being disliked and alone (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it a country's withdrawal from international politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"
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| isolation-perfusion technique |
a technique for administering high doses of a chemotherapy agent to a region while protecting the patient from toxicity: the blood flow of the region is isolated, as by application of a tourniquet to an extremity, and the region is perfused by means of a pump-oxygenator; the drug is added to the perfusate, which may be heated by a heat exchanger to provide hyperthermia.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspz...
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| isolation |
1. The process of getting an organism in pure culture. 2. The pure culture itself. (17)
Ãâó: ppathw3.cals.cornell.edu/glossary/Defs_I.htm
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| isolation |
Separation of an ill person who has a communicable disease (eg, SARSpatient) from those who are healthy. Isolation prevents transmission of infection to others and also allows for the focused delivery of specialized health care to ill persons.
Ãâó: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/sars/guidance/core/app2.htm
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| isolation |
A defense mechanism operating unconsciously central to obsessive-compulsive phenomena in which the affect is detached from an idea and rendered unconscious, leaving the conscious idea colourless and emotionally neutral.
Ãâó: www.indianpsychiatry.com/Glossary.htm
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