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Exorcist syndrome
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Exorcist syndrome A sexual condition of repeatedly assaulting, stigmatizing, or punishing people who manifest symptoms or behavior that threaten to occur in oneself.
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Sexual
Pertaining to sex or, more particularly, the stimulation, responsiveness, and functions of the sex organs either alone or with one or more partners.
Condition
The term "condition" has a number of biomedical meanings including the following: 1.An unhealthy state, such as in "this is a progressive condition." 2.A state of fitness, such as "getting into condition." 3.Something that is essential to the occurrence of something else; essentially a "precondition." 4.As a verb: to cause a change in something so that a response that was previously associated with a certain stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus; to condition a person, as in behavioral conditioning.
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Exorcise
To expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
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Exhibitionism
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on evoking surprise, dismay, shock, or panic from a stranger by illicitly exhibiting an erotic part of the body, including the genitals. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is voyeurism, also known as being a "Peeping Tom". The condition of being responsive to, or dependent on the surprise, debasement, shock, or outcry of a stranger (usually female), unexpectedly exposed to the sight of the penis, in order to obtain one's erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The actual event may be replayed in a masturbation or coital fantasy.
Exigency theory
In psychology, the theory that, regardless of its determinants, human responsivity is contingent upon five universal exigencies of existence: Pairbondedness; Troopbondedness; Ycleptance, Abidance; and Foredoomance.
Exocrine
Pertaining to a gland with a duct through which its secretion, for example, tears or saliva, passes.
Exogenous
Produced from without.
Exorcise
To expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
Exorcist syndrome
Expiation
Atonement; penance.
Exteroceptive
Pertaining to a sensory organ that registers information from outside the body.
Extravasate
To seep through the skin, like drops of perspiration, or more accurately as plasma seeps through from the underlying capillaries to form droplets of lubrication on the adjoining vaginal mucosa.
Erection self-test
This is a test that determines the ability or inability to achieve an erection while sleeping.
Erection problems
An erection problem is the inability to get or maintain an erection that is firm enough for a man to have intercourse. You may be unable to get an erection at all, or you may lose the erection during intercourse before you are ready. If the condition persists, the medical term is erectile dysfunction.
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Sexual
Pertaining to sex or, more particularly, the stimulation, responsiveness, and functions of the sex organs either alone or with one or more partners.
Condition
The term "condition" has a number of biomedical meanings including the following: 1.An unhealthy state, such as in "this is a progressive condition." 2.A state of fitness, such as "getting into condition." 3.Something that is essential to the occurrence of something else; essentially a "precondition." 4.As a verb: to cause a change in something so that a response that was previously associated with a certain stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus; to condition a person, as in behavioral conditioning.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Exorcise
To expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Exhibitionism
A paraphilia of the solicitational/allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on evoking surprise, dismay, shock, or panic from a stranger by illicitly exhibiting an erotic part of the body, including the genitals. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is voyeurism, also known as being a "Peeping Tom". The condition of being responsive to, or dependent on the surprise, debasement, shock, or outcry of a stranger (usually female), unexpectedly exposed to the sight of the penis, in order to obtain one's erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. The actual event may be replayed in a masturbation or coital fantasy.
Exigency theory
In psychology, the theory that, regardless of its determinants, human responsivity is contingent upon five universal exigencies of existence: Pairbondedness; Troopbondedness; Ycleptance, Abidance; and Foredoomance.
Exocrine
Pertaining to a gland with a duct through which its secretion, for example, tears or saliva, passes.
Exogenous
Produced from without.
Exorcise
To expel or drive off an evil spirit with a special ritual; to deliver a person from being possessed by a demon.
Exorcist syndrome
Expiation
Atonement; penance.
Exteroceptive
Pertaining to a sensory organ that registers information from outside the body.
Extravasate
To seep through the skin, like drops of perspiration, or more accurately as plasma seeps through from the underlying capillaries to form droplets of lubrication on the adjoining vaginal mucosa.
Erection self-test
This is a test that determines the ability or inability to achieve an erection while sleeping.
Erection problems
An erection problem is the inability to get or maintain an erection that is firm enough for a man to have intercourse. You may be unable to get an erection at all, or you may lose the erection during intercourse before you are ready. If the condition persists, the medical term is erectile dysfunction.
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