| self-seeking | Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish. The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| self-statement | Involves instructing patients to substitute positive thoughts for such negative ones as I cannot stand this or How much longer will this go on ? (16 Dec 1997) |
| self-stimulation | 1. <neurology> A technique for electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves, spinal cord, or brain by the patient himself to relieve pain. 2. <psychology> Central stimulation, usually electrical, of the brain, which is administered by the animal's pressing a bar or switch; the stimulation may result in negative or positive reinforcement. (12 Dec 1998) |
| selfish | 1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc, in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. "They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions." (Cudworth) "In that throng of selfish hearts untrue." (Keble) 2. <ethnology> Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. "Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers." (Fleming) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfish DNA | <molecular biology> DNA that seemingly exists only for the sake of existing and is never expressed in the phenotype. (09 Oct 1997) |
| selfishly | In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfishness | The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. "Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love." (Sir J. Mackintosh) Synonym: See Self-love. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfism | Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfist | A selfish person. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfless | Having no regard to self; unselfish. "Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount As high as woman in her selfless mood." (Tennyson) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selfness | The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. "Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love." (Sir J. Mackintosh) Synonym: See Self-love. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Selivanoff's test | A test for fructosuria; fresh urine treated with resorcinol in acid gives a red precipitate in the presence of fructose; the precipitate should form a red solution in ethanol. Synonym: Selivanoff's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Selivanoff, Feodor | <person> Russian chemist, *1859. See: Selivanoff's test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sell | 1. To transfer to another for an equivalent; to give up for a valuable consideration; to dispose of in return for something, especially for money. "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor." (Matt. Xix. 21) "I am changed; I'll go sell all my land." (Shak) Sell is corellative to buy, as one party buys what the other sells. It is distinguished usually from exchange or barter, in which one commodity is given for another; whereas in selling the consideration is usually money, or its representative in current notes. 2. To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray. "You would have sold your king to slaughter." (Shak) 3. To impose upon; to trick; to deceive; to make a fool of; to cheat. To sell one's life dearly, to cause much loss to those who take one's life, as by killing a number of one's assailants. To sell (anything) out, to dispose of it wholly or entirely; as, he had sold out his corn, or his interest in a business. Origin: OE. Sellen, sillen, AS. Sellan, syllan, to give, to deliver; akin to OS. Sellian, OFries. Sella, OHG. Sellen, Icel. Selja to hand over, to sell, Sw. Salja to sell, Dan. Slge, Goth. Saljan to offer a sacrifice; all from a noun akin to E. Sale. Cf. Sale. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sella | 1. A seat for a rider, usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle. 2. A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc. 3. A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc. 4. A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar. 5. <machinery> A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support. 6. <zoology> The clitellus of an earthworm. 7. The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors. <medicine> Saddle bar, any thin plicated bivalve shaell of the genera Placuna and Anomia; so called from its shape. Synonym: saddle oyster. Origin: OE. Sadel, AS. Sadol; akin to D. Zadel, G. Sattel, OHG. Satal, satul, Icel. Sothull, Dan. & Sw. Sadel; cf. Russ. Siedlo; all perh. Ultimately from the root of E. Sit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor |
SSRI. A type of drug that is used to treat depression. SSRIs slow the process by which serotonin (a substance that nerves use to send messages to one another) is reused by nerve cells that make it. This increases the amount of serotonin available for stimulating other nerves.
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| selenium |
An essential dietary mineral.
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| selection bias |
An error in choosing the individuals or groups to take part in a study. Ideally, the subjects in a study should be very similar to one another and to the larger population from which they are drawn (for example, all individuals with the same disease or condition). If there are important differences, the results of the study may not be valid.
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| selective arteriography |
radiography of a specific vessel which is opacified by a medium introduced directly into it, usually via a catheter.
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| selective culture |
one grown on a medium, usually solid, that has been supplemented to encourage the growth of a single species of microorganism. It may also include substances that inhibit the growth of other species.
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| SEL | entirely of a single color throughout |
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| SEL | control of one's behavior |
| SEL | the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself |
| SEL | characteristic of false pride |
| SEL | in a conceited manner |
| SEL | attempting to get personal recognition for yourself (especially by unacceptable means) |
| SEL | an admission that you have failed to do or be something you know you should do or be |
| SEL | owned up to |
| SEL | freedom from doubt |
| SEL | showing poise and confidence in your own worth |
| SEL | excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior |
| SEL | aware of yourself as an individual or of your own being and actions and thoughts |