| psychomotor performance | The coordination of a sensory or ideational (cognitive) process and a motor activity. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| psychomotor retardation | Slowed psychic activity or motor activity, or both. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychomotor seizure | <neurology> Seizures with elaborate and multiple sensory, motor, and/or psychic components. A common feature is the clouding of consciousness and amnesia for the event. Some clinical manifestations may include more complex behaviours like burst of anger, emotional outbursts, fear or automatisms. The EEG often reveals spike discharges in the temporal lobe during sleep. (27 Sep 1997) |
| psychomotor tests | Psychological test's which, although based on other psychological processes (e.g., sensory, perceptual), require a motor reaction such as copying designs, building blocks, or manipulating controls. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychoneuroimmunology | <study> The study of the connection between the mind and the immune system, incorporating methods to use the bodys inherent healing abilities. (16 Dec 1997) |
| psychoneurosis | 1. A mental or behavioural disorder of mild or moderate severity. 2. Formerly a classification of neurosis that included hysteria, psychasthenia, neurasthenia, and the anxiety and phobic disorders. Origin: psycho-+ G. Neuron, nerve, + -osis, condition (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychoneurosis maidica | <disease> A niacin deficiency disease (pellagra) caused by improper diet and characterised by skin lesions, gastrointestinal disturbances and nervousness. Depression, dermatitis, dementia and diarrhoea are common symptoms. (27 Sep 1997) |
| psychoneurotic | Pertaining to or suffering from psychoneurosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychonomic | Relating to psychonomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychonomy | A rarely used term referring to the branch of psychology concerned with the laws of behaviour. Origin: psycho-+ G. Nomos, law (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychonosology | The classification of mental illnesses and behavioural disorders. Synonym: psychiatric nosology. Origin: psycho-+ G. Nosos, disease, + logos, study (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychonoxious | Rarely used term for:1. Having an unfavorable effect on the emotional life and reactions mediated by higher levels of the central nervous system; may be endogenous or exogenous. 2. Denoting persons or situations that elicit fear, pain, anxiety, or anger in an individual. Origin: psycho-+ L. Noxius, harmful (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopannychism | The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. Psychopannychism. Origin: Psycho- + Gr. To spend all night long, all + night. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| psychopath | Former designation for an individual with an antisocial type of personality disorder. See: antisocial personality, sociopath. Origin: psycho-+ G. Pathos, disease (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychopathic | Relating to or characteristic of psychopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |