| BPsTh | Bachelor of Psychotherapy |
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| IFMP | International Federation for Medical Psychotherapy |
| IPT | immunoperoxidase technique; immunoprecipitation; interpersonal psychotherapy; isoproterenol |
| psychother | psychotherapy |
| PT | pain threshold; parathormone; parathyroid; paroxysmal tachycardia; part time; patient; pericardial t... |
| specific dynamic action | The increase of heat production caused by the ingestion of food, especially of protein. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| nondirective psychotherapy | Psychotherapy in which the therapist follows the lead of the patient during the interview rather than introducing her or his own theories and directing the course of the interview. See: client-centreed therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| suggestive psychotherapy | Psychotherapy utilizing the influence and authority of the therapist. See: directive psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| supportive psychotherapy | Psychotherapy aiming at bolstering the patient's psychological defenses and providing him or her reassurance, as in crisis intervention, rather than probing provocatively into his or her conflicts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| directive psychotherapy | Psychotherapy utilizing the authority of the therapist to direct the course of the patient's therapy, as contrasted with nondirective psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dyadic psychotherapy | A psychotherapeutic session involving only two persons, the therapist and the patient. Compare: group psychotherapy. Synonym: individual therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic aorta | Abnormally marked pulsations of aorta. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic compliance of lung | The value obtained when lung compliance is estimated during breathing by dividing the tidal volume by the difference in instantaneous transpulmonary pressures at the ends of the respiratory excursions, when flow in the airway is momentarily zero; this value deviates markedly from static compliance in patients in whom resistances and compliances are not uniform throughout the lung (i.e., uneven time constants). (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic computed tomography | Computed tomography with rapid injection of contrast medium, usually with sequential scans at only one or a few levels; used to enhance the vascular compartment. Synonym: dynamic CT. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic CT | Computed tomography with rapid injection of contrast medium, usually with sequential scans at only one or a few levels; used to enhance the vascular compartment. Synonym: dynamic CT. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic demography | A study of the functioning of a community, including statistical records. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic disease | A physical disorder with no known or detectable organic basis to explain the symptoms. See: behaviour disorder, neurosis. Synonym: dynamic disease, functional disease, functional illness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dynamic equilibrium | Balance A condition in which no further net change is occuring in a system, and free energy is minimimal. (09 Oct 1997) |
| dynamic focusing | <microscopy> An automatic focusing adjustment of the electron beam in high-quality cathode-ray or video image pickup tubes. The beam is made to land with the properly shaped minimum-sized spot regardless of its position in the raster scan (05 Aug 1998) |
| dynamic force | <radiobiology> Typically defined as the ability to do work. Power is the rate at which work is done, or the rate at which energy is changed. Work characterises the degree to which the properties of a substance are transformed. Energy exists in many forms, which can be converted from one to another in various ways. Examples include: gravitational energy, electrical energy, magnetic and electric field energy, atomic binding energy (a form of electrical energy really), nuclear binding energy, chemical energy (another form of electrical energy), in addition to these forms of potential energy there are also kinetic energy (energy due to motion), and thermal energy (heat, a form of kinetic energy where the motion is due to thermal vibrations/motions), and so on. (09 Oct 1997) |