| self-positing | The act of disposing or arranging one's self or itself. "The self-positing of the molecules." (R. Watts) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| self-registering thermometer | A thermometer in which the maximum or minimum temperature, during the period of observation, is registered by means of a special appliance; in the clinical thermometer only the highest temperature is registered, usually by a steel bar above the column of mercury or by a segment of the mercury separated from the main column by a bubble of air; after the maximum temperature is registered, the bar or segment of mercury remains in place as the column of mercury contracts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-regulation | A three-stage strategy patients are taught to use in order to end risky health-associated behaviours such as smoking and overeating. 1. Self-monitoring (self-observation), the first stage in self-regulation involves the individual's deliberately attending to and recording his or her own behaviour; 2. Self-evaluation, the second stage, in which the individual assesses what was learned by self-monitoring, such as how often and where one smokes, and uses those observational data to establish health goals or criteria; 3. Self-reinforcement, the third stage, in which the individual rewards him/herself for each behavioural success on the road to that goal, thereby enhancing the chance of reaching it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-repelling | Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-retaining catheter | A catheter so constructed that it remains in urethra and bladder until removed, e.g., indwelling catheter; Foley catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-seeking | Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish. The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-statement | Involves instructing patients to substitute positive thoughts for such negative ones as I cannot stand this or How much longer will this go on ? (16 Dec 1997) |
| self-stimulation | 1. <neurology> A technique for electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves, spinal cord, or brain by the patient himself to relieve pain. 2. <psychology> Central stimulation, usually electrical, of the brain, which is administered by the animal's pressing a bar or switch; the stimulation may result in negative or positive reinforcement. (12 Dec 1998) |
| selfish | 1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc, in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. "They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions." (Cudworth) "In that throng of selfish hearts untrue." (Keble) 2. <ethnology> Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. "Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers." (Fleming) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfish DNA | <molecular biology> DNA that seemingly exists only for the sake of existing and is never expressed in the phenotype. (09 Oct 1997) |
| selfishly | In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfishness | The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. "Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love." (Sir J. Mackintosh) Synonym: See Self-love. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfism | Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfist | A selfish person. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfless | Having no regard to self; unselfish. "Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount As high as woman in her selfless mood." (Tennyson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |