| ESS | empty sella syndrome; endostreptosin; erythrocyte-sensitizing substance; euthyroid sick syndrome; ev... |
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| ICSS | intracranial self-stimulation |
| ISH | icteric serum hepatitis; in situ hybridization; internal self helper; International Society of Hemat... |
| LASA | linear-analogue self assessment |
| LASA-P | linear-analogue self-assessment-Pristman |
| self-awareness | Realization of one's ongoing feeling and emotional experience; a major goal of all psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| self care | Performance of activities or tasks traditionally performed by professional health care providers. The concept includes care of oneself or one's family and friends. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-care units | Rooms in health care facilities for patients who require a minimal level of care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-centreedness | A mental disorder in which one never has a thought not connected with oneself. Synonym: self-centreedness. Origin: auto-+ G. Synnoia, deep thought, fr. Syn, with + noeo, to think (05 Mar 2000) |
| self cloning | <molecular biology> Any system in which inappropriate cell types or organisms are eliminated because they possess some character that allows them to die or to remove themselves from the system. Thus a transfected cell with genetic material including a drug resistance marker will be self cloning in the presence of the drug and nontransfected cells will die. (18 Nov 1997) |
| self-commitment | Voluntary mental hospitalization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self concept | A person's view of himself. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-conjugate | <geometry> Having the two things that are conjugate parts of the same figure; as, self-conjugate triangles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-control | 1. Self-regulation of one's behaviour in accordance with personal beliefs, goals, attitudes and societal expectations. 2. Use by an individual of active coping strategies to deal with problem situations, in contrast to passive conditioning strategies which do things to the individual and require no action by the person. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-curing resin | Autopolymerizing resin, any resin that can be polymerised by chemical catalysis rather than by the application of heat; used in dentistry for dental restoration, denture repair, and impression trays. Synonym: activated resin, cold cure resin, cold-curing resin, quick cure resin, self-curing resin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-differentiation | Differentiation resulting from the action of intrinsic causes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self disclosure | A willingness to reveal information about oneself to others. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-discovery | In psychoanalysis, the freeing of the repressed ego in a person raised to be submissive to those around him. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-efficacy | An individual's estimate or personal judgment of his or her own ability to succeed in reaching a specific goal, e.g., quitting smoking or losing weight or a more general goal, e.g., continuing to remain at a prescribed weight level. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-evaluation programs | Educational programs structured in such a manner that the participating professionals, physicians, or students develop an increased awareness of their performance, usually on the basis of self-evaluation questionnaires. (12 Dec 1998) |