| 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) |
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| 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 concept | A person's view of himself. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self disclosure | A willingness to reveal information about oneself to others. (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 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 psychology | Psychoanalytic theory focusing on interpretation of behaviour in reference to self. This elaboration of the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and the self, was developed by heinz kohut, and stresses the importance of the self-awareness of excessive needs for approval and self-gratification. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self replicating | <biology> Literally, replication of a system by itself without outside intervention. In practice often taken to refer to systems that replicate without the contribution of any information from outside the system. (18 Nov 1997) |
| self splicing | <molecular biology> Self catalysed removal of group 5 introns, mediated by six paired conserved regions. (18 Nov 1997) |
| self tolerance | The normal lack of the ability to produce an immunological response to autologous (self) antigens. A breakdown of self tolerance leads to autoimmune diseases. The ability to recognise the difference between self and non-self is the prime function of the immune system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-accusation | A common psychiatric symptom, encountered most characteristically in agitated depression. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-acting | Acting of or by one's self or by itself; said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-analysis | Attempted analysis, or psychoanalysis, of one's self. Synonym: self-analysis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-awareness | Realization of one's ongoing feeling and emotional experience; a major goal of all psychotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |