| NPD | narcissistic personality disorder; natriuretic plasma dialysate; negative pressure device; Niemann-P... |
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| NS | natural science; Neosporin; nephrosclerosis; nephrotic syndrome; nervous system; neurological surger... |
| PD | Doctor of Pharmacy; Dublin Pharmacopoeia; interpupillary distance; Paget disease; pancreatic duct; p... |
| PDD | pervasive developmental disorder; platinum diamminodichloride [cisplatin]; primary degenerative deme... |
| SRD | service-related disability; Society for the Relief of Distress; Society for the Right to Die; sodium... |
| 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) |
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| 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) |
| self-examination | The inspection of one's own body, usually for signs of disease (e.g., breast self-examination, testicular self-examination). (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-fertilization | <botany> The fertilization of a flower by pollen from the same flower and without outer aid; autogamy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-fertilized | <botany> Fertilized by pollen from the same flower. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-heal | <botany> A blue-flowered labiate plant (Brunella vulgaris); the healall. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-help devices | Devices, not affixed to the body, designed to help persons having musculoskeletal or neuromuscular disabilities to perform activities involving movement. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-help groups | Organizations which provide an environment encouraging social interactions through group activities or individual relationships especially for the purpose of rehabilitating or supporting patients, individuals with common health problems, or the elderly. They include therapeutic social clubs. (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-infection | 1. Reinfection by microbes or parasitic organisms on or within the body that have already passed through an infective cycle, such as a succession of boils, or a new infective cycle with production of a new generation of larvae and adults, as by the nematode Strongyloides stercoralis or the cestode Hymenolepsis nana. 2. Self-infection by direct contagion as with parasite eggs passed in the infectious state transmitted by fingernails (anal-oral route), as with the pinworm, Enterobius vermicularis. Synonym: autoreinfection, self-infection. (05 Mar 2000) |