| FPI | femoral pulsatility index; fluid percussion injury; formula protein intolerance; Freiburg Personalit... |
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| GULHEMP | general physique, upper extremity, lower extremity, hearing, eyesight, mentality, and personality |
| IPAT | Institute of Personality and Ability Testing; Iowa Pressure Articulation Test |
| JPI | Jackson Personality Inventory |
| KSP | Karolinska Scales of Personality; kidney-specific protein |
| schizoid personality | A disorder characterised by social withdrawal, emotional coldness or aloofness, and indifference to praise or criticism from others. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| schizoid personality disorder | An individual who is isolated, cold and indifferent. (27 Sep 1997) |
| schizotypal personality disorder | An individual who is eccentric with ideas, reference, magical thinking and suspicious. (27 Sep 1997) |
| schizotypical personality | A personality disorder characterised by eccentricities in thinking, appearance, and behaviour; although not psychotic, individuals with such a disorder have unusual ideas and have difficulty relating to others. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopathic personality | A personality disorder characterised by a continuous and persistent pattern of aggressive behaviour in which the rights of others are violated. See: psychopath, sociopath. Synonym: psychopathic personality. (05 Mar 2000) |
| histrionic personality | A personality in which a person, typically immature, dependent, self-centreed, and often vain, exhibits unstable, overreactive, and excitable behaviour intended to gain attention even though he or she may not be aware of this intent. (05 Mar 2000) |
| histrionic personality disorder | An individual who is dramatic, engaging, self-centreed and attention seeking. (27 Sep 1997) |
| shut-in personality | A person who responds inadequately to contacts with other people. (05 Mar 2000) |
| narcissistic personality | A psychoanalytic term meaning self-love. (12 Dec 1998) |
| narcissistic personality disorder | An individual with an inflated sense of self-importance. (27 Sep 1997) |
| neurasthenic personality | An obsolete term for a condition characterised by some of the following features: poor appetite or overeating, insomnia or hypersomnia, low energy or fatigue, low self esteem, poor concentration or difficulty making decisions, and feelings of hopelessness. In its most severe form it may become a chronic disturbance of mood called dysthymia (depressive neurosis) in which a depressive mood accompanies the features listed above. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dependent personality | A personality in which a person passively allows others to assume responsibility for making decisions affecting him/her, characterised by a lack of self-confidence and an inability to function independently. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dependent personality disorder | An individual who fears separation and engaging othhers to assume responsibility (27 Sep 1997) |
| syntonic personality | A stable personality, one characterised by even temperament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dual personality | A mental disturbance in which a person assumes alternately two different identities without either personality being consciously aware of the other. See: multiple personality. (05 Mar 2000) |