| primary process | In psychoanalysis, the mental process directly related to the functions of the primitive life forces associated with the id and characteristic of unconscious mental activity; marked by unorganised, illogical thinking and by the tendency to seek immediate discharge and gratification of instinctual demands. Compare: secondary process. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| process | <chemistry> A change from one state to another. (09 Jan 1998) |
| process assessment | An evaluation procedure that focuses on how care is delivered, based on the premise that there are standards of performance for activities undertaken in delivering patient care, in which the specific actions taken, events occurring, and human interactions are compared with accepted standards. (12 Dec 1998) |
| process heat | Heat used in an industrial process rather than for space heating or other housekeeping purposes. (05 Dec 1998) |
| process schizophrenia | An obsolete term for those forms of severe schizophrenic disorders in which chronic and progressive biologic conditions in the brain are considered to be the primary cause and in which prognosis is poor as well, with insidious onset at a young age, as contrasted with reactive schizophrenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| xiphoid process | <anatomy> Composed of cartilage at the inferior aspect of the sternal body. (27 Sep 1997) |
| secondary process | In psychoanalysis, the mental process directly related to the learned and acquired functions of the ego and characteristic of conscious and preconscious mental activities; marked by logical thinking and by the tendency to delay gratification by regulation of the discharge of instinctual demands. Compare: primary process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pterygospinous process | A sharp projection from the posterior edge of the lateral pterygoid plate of the sphenoid bone. Synonym: processus pterygospinosus, Civinini's process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sentinel spinous process fracture | Fracture of the spinous process with undetected deeper fracture's of the vertebral arch. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pyramidal process | The portion of the palatine bone passing lateral and posterior from the angle formed by the vertical and horizontal plates. Synonym: processus pyramidalis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sheath of styloid process | A crest of bone (edge of the tympanic portion of the temporal bone) running from the front and medial side of the mastoid process to the spine of the sphenoid; it splits to ensheath the base of the styloid process. Synonym: vagina processus styloidei, vaginal process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sheath process of sphenoid bone | A thin lamina of bone that extends medially under the body of the sphenoid bone from the medial lamina of the pterygoid process; it articulates with the vomer and the palatine bone. Synonym: processus vaginalis ossis sphenoidalis, sheath process of sphenoid bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| short process of malleus | A short projection from the base of the manubrium of the malleus, attached firmly to the drum membrane. Synonym: processus lateralis mallei, processus brevis, short process of malleus, tuberculum mallei. (05 Mar 2000) |
| siemens-martin process | See Open-hearth process, etc, under Open. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| slender process of malleus | A slender spur running anteriorward from the neck of the malleus toward the petrotympanic fissure. Synonym: processus anterior mallei, Folli's process, follian process, long process of malleus, processus gracilis, processus ravii, Rau's process, Ravius' process, slender process of malleus. (05 Mar 2000) |