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mondofacto - Online Medical Dictionary Category: Health and Medicine > Medical Dictionary Date & country: 26/01/2008, UK Words: 116197

self
1. The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality. 'Those who li …

self administration
Administration of a drug or chemical by the individual under the direction of a physician. It includes administration clinically or experimentally, by human or animal. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

self antigen
<immunology> The antigens of an organisms own cells and cell products are self antigens to the immune system of that organisn. ... Clones of immune cells reactive with self antigens are normally eliminated. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

self assembly
<biology> The property of forming structures from sub units (protomers) without any external source of information about the structure to be formed such as priming structure or template. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

self assessment (psychology)
Appraisal of one's own personal qualities or traits. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

self care
Performance of activities or tasks traditionally performed by professional health care providers. The concept includes care of oneself or one's family and friends. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

self cloning
<molecular biology> Any system in which inappropriate cell types or organisms are eliminated because they possess some character that allows them to die or to remove themselves from the system. ... Thus a transfected cell with genetic material including a drug resistance marker will be self cloning in the presence of the drug and nontransfecte …

self concept
A person's view of himself. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

self disclosure
A willingness to reveal information about oneself to others. ... (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 mutilation
The act of injuring one's own body to the extent of cutting off or permanently destroying a limb or other essential part of a body. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

self psychology
Psychoanalytic theory focusing on interpretation of behaviour in reference to self. This elaboration of the psychoanalytic concepts of narcissism and the self, was developed by heinz kohut, and stresses the importance of the self-awareness of excessive needs for approval and self-gratification. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

self replicating
<biology> Literally, replication of a system by itself without outside intervention. In practice often taken to refer to systems that replicate without the contribution of any information from outside the system. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

self splicing
<molecular biology> Self catalysed removal of group 5 introns, mediated by six paired conserved regions. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

self tolerance
The normal lack of the ability to produce an immunological response to autologous (self) antigens. A breakdown of self tolerance leads to autoimmune diseases. The ability to recognise the difference between self and non-self is the prime function of the immune system. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

self-accusation
A common psychiatric symptom, encountered most characteristically in agitated depression. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

self-analysis
Synonym for autoanalysis ... Attempted analysis, or psychoanalysis, of one's self. ... Synonym: self-analysis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

self-awareness
Realization of one's ongoing feeling and emotional experience; a major goal of all psychotherapy. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

self-care units
Rooms in health care facilities for patients who require a minimal level of care. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

self-centreedness
Synonym for autosynnoia ... A mental disorder in which one never has a thought not connected with oneself. ... Synonym: self-centreedness. ... Origin: auto-+ G. Synnoia, deep thought, fr. Syn, with + noeo, to think ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

self-commitment
Voluntary mental hospitalization. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

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) ...

self-curing resin
Synonym for autopolymer 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-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-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-infection
Synonym for autoinfection ... 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. ... …

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
Synonym for autognosis ... 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, en …

self-poisoning
Synonym for autointoxication ... 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-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 …

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 …

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) ...

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 reinforceme …

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 chi …

selfish DNA
<molecular biology> DNA that seemingly exists only for the sake of existing and is never expressed in the phenotype. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

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 harb …

selfness
Synonym for 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 th …

Selivanoff, Feodor
<person> Russian chemist, *1859. ... See: Selivanoff's test. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Selivanoff's test
Synonym for resorcinol 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) ...

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 oth …

sella
Synonym for saddle ... 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 w …

sella turcica
<anatomy> A transverse depression crossing the midline on the superior surface of the body of the sphenoid bone and containing the pituitary gland. It is named 'turkish saddle' from its resemblance to the saddle used by turks. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

sellar
Relating to the sella turcica. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sellenders
Synonym for sallenders ... <veterinary> An eruption on the hind leg of a horse. ... Alternative forms: sellanders, and sellenders] 'On the inside of the hock, or a little below it, as well as at the bend of the knee, there is occasionally a scurfy eruption called 'mallenders' in the fore leg, and 'sallenders' in the hind leg.' (Youatt) ... Origi …

Sellick, Brian
<person> 20th century British anaesthetist. ... See: Sellick's manoeuvre. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Sellick's manoeuvre
<anaesthetics> Pressure applied to the cricoid cartilage, to prevent regurgitation during tracheal intubation in the anaesthetised patient. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

Selye, Hans
<person> Austrian endocrinologist in Canada. ... Lived: 1907-1982. ... See: adaptation syndrome of Selye. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

SEM
Synonym for standard error of the mean ... A statistical index of the probability that a given sample mean is representative of the mean of the population from which the sample was drawn. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

sem 5
<molecular biology> Cell signalling gene of Caenorhabditis elegans that encodes a protein (228 residues) with SH2 and SH3 domains and that acts in vulval development and sex myoblast migration. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

semantic aphasia
<neurology> Aphasia in which objects are correctly named; there is little disturbance in the articulation of words. Individual words are understood, but the broader meaning of what is heard cannot be grasped. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semantic differential
Analysis of word concepts by the association of polar adjectives, e.g., good-bad, with the concept, father. The adjectives are usually scaled in 7 steps. The subject's placement of the concept on the adjectival scale indicates the connotative meaning of the concept. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

semantics
The relationships between symbols and their meanings. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

semblative
resembling ...

Semelaigne
Georges, 20th century French paediatrician. ... See: Debre-Semelaigne syndrome, Kocher-Debre-Semelaigne syndrome. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semelincident
<immunology> An obsolete term that means happening once only; said of an infectious disease, one attack of which confers permanent immunity. ... Origin: L. Semel, once, + incido, to happen, fr. Cado, to fall ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semen
<biology> Ejaculate. The fluid released at orgasm which contains sperm and secretions from the prostate gland. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...

semen analysis
<gynaecology> Laboratory examination of semen to check the quality and quantity of sperm. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...

semen preservation
<gynaecology> Methods of preserving semen. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...

semenuria
<urology> The excretion of urine containing semen. ... Synonym: seminuria, spermaturia. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semi
<prefix> A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent. ... The prefix semi is joined to another word either with the hyphen or without it. In this book the hyphen is omitted except before a capital letter; as, semiacid, semiaquatic, semi-Arian, semiaxis, se …

semi-apochromatic objective
<microscopy> A compromise, in the correction for chromatic and spherical aberration, between achromatic and apochromatic objectives, such as a fluorite objective. ... (05 Aug 1998) ...

semi-closed anaesthesia
Inhalation anaesthesia using a circuit in which a portion of the exhaled air is exhausted from the circuit and a portion is rebreathed following absorption of carbon dioxide. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semi-closed circle
A circuit for administration of an inhalation anaesthetic in which partial rebreathing with carbon dioxide absorption is combined with loss from the circuit of a portion of respired gases through valves. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semi-open anaesthesia
<anaesthetics> Inhalation anaesthesia in which a portion of inhaled gases is derived from an anaesthesia circuit while the remainder consists of room air. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semi-vegetarian
A vegetarian who consumes dairy products, eggs, chicken, and fish, but does not consume other animal flesh. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semialdehyde
The monoaldehyde of a dicarboxylic acid, so called because half the COOH groups of the original acid are reduced to the aldehyde while the other half are unchanged; e.g., glutamic acid gamma-semialdehyde, OHC-CH2CH2CH(NH3)+-COO-. ... Many semialdehyde's are intermediates in the biosynthesis and metabolic degradation of amino acids (e.g., l-proline, …

semiautonomous
Of systems or processes that are not wholly independent of other systems or processes. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...

semicanal
A half canal; a deep groove on the edge of a bone which, uniting with a similar groove or part of an adjoining bone, forms a complete canal. ... Synonym: semicanalis. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicanal for tensor tympani muscle
<anatomy> Semicanal of the tensor muscle of the tympanum; the superior division of the canalis musculotubarius containing the tensor tympani muscle. ... Synonym: semicanalis musculi tensoris tympani. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicanal of auditory tube
The inferior division of the musculotubal canal which forms the bony part of the auditory (eustachian) tube. ... Synonym: semicanalis tubae auditivae. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicanalis
Synonym: semicanal. ... Origin: L. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicanalis tubae auditivae
Synonym for semicanal of auditory tube ... The inferior division of the musculotubal canal which forms the bony part of the auditory (eustachian) tube. ... Synonym: semicanalis tubae auditivae. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicartilaginous
Composed partly of cartilage. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicircular
1. Forming a half circle or an incomplete circle. ... 2. <anatomy> Semicircular canals, certain canals of the inner ear. ... Synonym: semiorbicular. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicircular canal
<anatomy> Three membranous semicircular tubes contained in the bony labyrinth of the inner ear. They are concerned with equilibrium and the interpretation of the bodys position in space. ... The three canals are set anterior, posterior, and lateral, at right angles to each other and are situated superior and posterior to the vestibule. ... Each …

semicircular ducts
Synonym for semicircular canal ... <anatomy> Three membranous semicircular tubes contained in the bony labyrinth of the inner ear. They are concerned with equilibrium and the interpretation of the bodys position in space. ... The three canals are set anterior, posterior, and lateral, at right angles to each other and are situated superior and p …

semicircular line
Synonym for arcuate line of rectus sheath ... A crescentic line, not always clearly defined, which marks the lower limit of the posterior layer of the sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle. ... Synonym: linea arcuata vaginae musculi recti abdominis, Douglas' line, linea semicircularis, semicircular line. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicircular line of Douglas
A crescent-shaped line that defines the end of the posterior fascial sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicoma
Synonym for semicomatose ... An imprecise term for a state of drowsiness and inaction, in which more than ordinary stimulation may be required to evoke a response, and the response may be delayed or incomplete. ... Synonym: semiconscious. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicomatose
An imprecise term for a state of drowsiness and inaction, in which more than ordinary stimulation may be required to evoke a response, and the response may be delayed or incomplete. ... Synonym: semiconscious. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semiconductor
A metalloid, in one form or another, that conducts electricity more easily than a true nonmetal but less easily than a metal; e.g., silicon, germanium. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semiconscious
Synonym for semicomatose ... An imprecise term for a state of drowsiness and inaction, in which more than ordinary stimulation may be required to evoke a response, and the response may be delayed or incomplete. ... Synonym: semiconscious. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semiconservative
The process of replicating DNA in which the two strands remain intact, separate, are copied and one parental strand goes to each daughter cell. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semiconservative replication
<molecular biology> The system of replication of DNA found in all cells in which each daughter cell receives one old strand of DNA and one strand newly synthesised at the preceding S phase. ... Replication in which a double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) produces two daughter dsDNA, each of which contains one of the original chains and one newly synthes …

semicrista
A small or imperfect ridge or crest. ... Origin: semi-+ L. Crista, crest, tuft ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semicrista incisiva
Synonym for nasal crest ... The midline ridge in the floor of the nasal cavity, formed by the union of the paired maxillae and palatine bones; the vomer attaches to the crest. ... Synonym: crista nasalis, semicrista incisiva. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semidecussation
Incomplete decussation such as occurs in the human optic chiasm. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semidirect leads
Synonym for chest leads ... Those in which the exploring electrode is on the chest overlying the heart or its vicinity. ... Synonym: precordial leads, semidirect leads. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semiflexion
The position of a joint or segment of a limb midway between extension and flexion. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...

semihorizontal heart
Loosely refers to the heart's electrical axis when this is directed at approximately 0°. As cardiac position, recognised in the electrocardiogram when the QRS complex in lead aVL resembles V6 while that in aVF is small algebraically or absolutely. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...