| self-fertilization | <botany> The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| self-fertilized | <botany> Fertilized by pollen from the same flower. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-heal | <botany> A blue-flowered labiate plant (Brunella vulgaris); the healall. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-help devices | Devices, not affixed to the body, designed to help persons having musculoskeletal or neuromuscular disabilities to perform activities involving movement. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-help groups | Organizations which provide an environment encouraging social interactions through group activities or individual relationships especially for the purpose of rehabilitating or supporting patients, individuals with common health problems, or the elderly. They include therapeutic social clubs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self incompatibility | <plant biology> Inability of pollen grains to fertilize flowers of the same plant or its close relatives. Acts as a mechanism to ensure out breeding within some plant species, for example in the case of the S gene complex in Brassicas. (18 Nov 1997) |
| self-infection | 1. Reinfection by microbes or parasitic organisms on or within the body that have already passed through an infective cycle, such as a succession of boils, or a new infective cycle with production of a new generation of larvae and adults, as by the nematode Strongyloides stercoralis or the cestode Hymenolepsis nana. 2. Self-infection by direct contagion as with parasite eggs passed in the infectious state transmitted by fingernails (anal-oral route), as with the pinworm, Enterobius vermicularis. Synonym: autoreinfection, self-infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-injurious behaviour | Behaviour in which persons hurt or harm themselves without the motive of suicide or of sexual deviation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-knowledge | Recognition of one's own character, tendencies, and peculiarities. Synonym: self-knowledge. Origin: auto-+ G. Gnosis, knowledge (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-limited | Denoting a disease that tends to cease after a definite period; e.g., pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-limited disease | A disease process that resolves spontaneously with or without specific treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-love | The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. "Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul." (Pope) Synonym: Selfishness. Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used in a twofold sense: 1. It denotes that longing for good or for well-being which actuates the breasts of all, entering into and characterising every special desire. In this sense it has no moral quality, being, from the nature of the case, neither good nor evil. 2. It is applied to a voluntary regard for the gratification of special desires. In this sense it is morally good or bad according as these desires are conformed to duty or opposed to it. Selfishness is always voluntary and always wrong, being that regard to our own interests, gratification, etc, which is sought or indulged at the expense, and to the injury, of others. "So long as self-love does not degenerate into selfishness, it is quite compatible with true benevolence." . "Not only is the phrase self-love used as synonymous with the desire of happiness, but it is often confounded with the word selfishness, which certainly, in strict propriety, denotes a very different disposition of mind." . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self medication | The self administration of medication not prescribed by a physician or in a manner not directed by a physician. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self mutilation | The act of injuring one's own body to the extent of cutting off or permanently destroying a limb or other essential part of a body. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-poisoning | A disorder resulting from absorption of the waste products of metabolism, decomposed matter from the intestine, or the products of dead and infected tissue as in gangrene. Synonym: autotoxicosis, endogenic toxicosis, enterotoxication, enterotoxism, intestinal intoxication, self-poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |