| selenograph | N. A picture or delineation of the moon's surface, or of any part of it. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| selenographer | One skilled in selenography. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selenographic | Of or pertaining to selenography. Origin: Cf. F. Selenographique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selenographical | Of or pertaining to selenography. Origin: Cf. F. Selenographique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selenographist | A selenographer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selenography | The science that treats of the physical features of the moon; corresponding to physical geography in respect to the earth. "Accurate selenography, or description of the moon." Origin: Gr. The moon. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selenology | <study> That branch of astronomy which treats of the moon. Selenolog"ical. Origin: Gr. The mean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selenomethionine | <chemical> 2-amino-4-(methylseleno)butanoic acid. Diagnostic aid in pancreas function determination. Chemical name: Butanoic acid, 2-amino-4-(methylseleno)- (12 Dec 1998) |
| Selenomonas | A genus of bacteria of uncertain taxonomic affiliation, containing curved to crescentic or helical, Gram-negative, strictly anaerobic rods that are motile with an active tumbling motion. Several flagella are present in a tuft, often near the centre of the concave side. The type species, Selenomonas sputigena, is found in the human buccal cavity. Origin: G. Selene, moon, + monas, single (unit) (05 Mar 2000) |
| selenonium | <chemistry> A hypothetical radical of selenium, analogous to sulphonium. Origin: Selenium + sulphonium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self | 1. The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality. "Those who liked their real selves." "A man's self may be the worst fellow to converse with in the world." (Pope) "The self, the I, is recognised in every act of intelligence as the subject to which that act belongs. It is I that perceive, I that imagine, I that remember, I that attend, I that compare, I that feel, I that will, I that am conscious." (Sir W. Hamilton) 2. Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim. 3. Personification; embodiment. "She was beauty's self." (Thomson) Self is united to certain personal pronouns and pronominal adjectives to express emphasis or distinction. Thus, for emphasis; I myself will write; I will examine for myself; thou thyself shalt go; thou shalt see for thyself; you yourself shall write; you shall see for yourself; he himself shall write; he shall examine for himself; she herself shall write; she shall examine for herself; the child itself shall be carried; it shall be present itself. It is also used reflexively; as, I abhor myself; thou enrichest thyself; he loves himself; she admires herself; it pleases itself; we walue ourselves; ye hurry yourselves; they see themselves. Himself, herself, themselves, are used in the nominative case, as well as in the objective. "Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples." Self is used in the formation of innumerable compounds, usually of obvious signification, in most of which it denotes either the agent or the object of the action expressed by the word with which it is joined, or the person in behalf of whom it is performed, or the person or thing to, for, or towards whom or which a quality, attribute, or feeling expressed by the following word belongs, is directed, or is exerted, or from which it proceeds; or it denotes the subject of, or object affected by, such action, quality, attribute, feeling, or the like; as, self-abandoning, self-abnegation, self-abhorring, self-absorbed, self-accusing, self-adjusting, self-balanced, self-boasting, self-canceled, self-combating, self-commendation, self-condemned, self-conflict, self-conquest, self-constituted, self-consumed, self-contempt, self-controlled, self-deceiving, self-denying, self-destroyed, self-disclosure, self-display, self-dominion, self-doomed, self-elected, self-evolved, self-exalting, self-excusing, self-exile, self-fed, self-fulfillment, self-governed, self-harming, self-helpless, self-humiliation, self-idolized, self-inflicted, self-improvement, self-instruction, self-invited, self-judging, self-justification, self-loathing, self-loving, self-maintenance, self-mastered, self-nourishment, self-perfect, self-perpetuation, self-pleasing, self-praising, self-preserving, self-questioned, self-relying, self-restraining, self-revelation, self-ruined, self-satisfaction, self-support, self-sustained, self-sustaining, self-tormenting, self-troubling, self-trust, self-tuition, self-upbraiding, self-valuing, self-worshiping, and many others. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self administration | Administration of a drug or chemical by the individual under the direction of a physician. It includes administration clinically or experimentally, by human or animal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self antigen | <immunology> The antigens of an organisms own cells and cell products are self antigens to the immune system of that organisn. Clones of immune cells reactive with self antigens are normally eliminated. (18 Nov 1997) |
| self assembly | <biology> The property of forming structures from sub units (protomers) without any external source of information about the structure to be formed such as priming structure or template. (18 Nov 1997) |
| self assessment (psychology) | Appraisal of one's own personal qualities or traits. (12 Dec 1998) |