written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient
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(psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeutic
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(psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism represses emotional conflicts which are then converted into physical symptoms that have no organic ba…
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Psychiatry.(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations — one good and one bad
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Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and dete…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.A bursting out, or active display of any quality; an outburst; a brilliant display.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therap…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.Being in a state of health; enjoying health; hale; sound; free from disease; as, a healthy chid; a healthy plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: psychiatry, display, previously, inhibited, emotions.
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