| 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) |
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| 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) |
| self-injurious behaviour | Behaviour in which persons hurt or harm themselves without the motive of suicide or of sexual deviation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| self-knowledge | Recognition of one's own character, tendencies, and peculiarities. Synonym: self-knowledge. Origin: auto-+ G. Gnosis, knowledge (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-limited | Denoting a disease that tends to cease after a definite period; e.g., pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-limited disease | A disease process that resolves spontaneously with or without specific treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-love | The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. "Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul." (Pope) Synonym: Selfishness. Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used in a twofold sense: 1. It denotes that longing for good or for well-being which actuates the breasts of all, entering into and characterising every special desire. In this sense it has no moral quality, being, from the nature of the case, neither good nor evil. 2. It is applied to a voluntary regard for the gratification of special desires. In this sense it is morally good or bad according as these desires are conformed to duty or opposed to it. Selfishness is always voluntary and always wrong, being that regard to our own interests, gratification, etc, which is sought or indulged at the expense, and to the injury, of others. "So long as self-love does not degenerate into selfishness, it is quite compatible with true benevolence." . "Not only is the phrase self-love used as synonymous with the desire of happiness, but it is often confounded with the word selfishness, which certainly, in strict propriety, denotes a very different disposition of mind." . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-poisoning | A disorder resulting from absorption of the waste products of metabolism, decomposed matter from the intestine, or the products of dead and infected tissue as in gangrene. Synonym: autotoxicosis, endogenic toxicosis, enterotoxication, enterotoxism, intestinal intoxication, self-poisoning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-pollination | <botany, plant biology> Pollen of one plant is transferred to the female part of the same plantor another plant with the same genetic makeup. (09 Oct 1997) |
| self-posited | Disposed or arranged by an action originating in one's self or in itself. "These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited." (Tyndall) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-positing | The act of disposing or arranging one's self or itself. "The self-positing of the molecules." (R. Watts) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-registering thermometer | A thermometer in which the maximum or minimum temperature, during the period of observation, is registered by means of a special appliance; in the clinical thermometer only the highest temperature is registered, usually by a steel bar above the column of mercury or by a segment of the mercury separated from the main column by a bubble of air; after the maximum temperature is registered, the bar or segment of mercury remains in place as the column of mercury contracts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-regulation | A three-stage strategy patients are taught to use in order to end risky health-associated behaviours such as smoking and overeating. 1. Self-monitoring (self-observation), the first stage in self-regulation involves the individual's deliberately attending to and recording his or her own behaviour; 2. Self-evaluation, the second stage, in which the individual assesses what was learned by self-monitoring, such as how often and where one smokes, and uses those observational data to establish health goals or criteria; 3. Self-reinforcement, the third stage, in which the individual rewards him/herself for each behavioural success on the road to that goal, thereby enhancing the chance of reaching it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| self-repelling | Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repel each other; as, gases are self-repelling. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| self-retaining catheter | A catheter so constructed that it remains in urethra and bladder until removed, e.g., indwelling catheter; Foley catheter. (05 Mar 2000) |