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Free association
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Free association In psychoanalytic therapy, spontaneous, uncensored verbalization by the patient of whatever comes to mind.
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Free Mammary Artery Graft
When the surgeon removes the mammary artery from its origin to use as a bypass graft.
Free mont Medical Center
Free mont Medical Center is a hospital in Freemont, California (USA).
Free radical
Any molecule that contains an unpaired electron. Free radicals are unstable and will extract electrons from other biological molecules, which generates more free radicals.
Free Radical
A destructive fragment of oxygen produced as a byproduct when cells use oxygen to burn fat.
Freeman Cancer Institute
The Freeman Cancer Institute is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri, United States.
Freeman Health System
Freeman Health System is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri (USA).
Freeman Heart Institute
The Freeman Heart Institute is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri, United States.
Freeman Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
The Freeman Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri, United States.
Freeport Health
Freeport Health is a hospital in Freeport, Illinois (USA).
Freeway space
Distance between the upper and lower teeth with the lower jaw in rest position.
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Flooding
Implosion. A behavior therapy procedure for phobias and other problems involving maladaptive anxiety, in which anxiety producers are presented in intense forms, either in imagination or in real life. The presentations, which act as desensitizers, are continued until the stimuli no longer produce disabling anxiety.
Folie à deux
A shared psychotic disorder between 2 people, usually people who are mutually dependent upon each other.
Formal thought disorder
An inexact term referring to a disturbance in the form of thinking rather than to abnormality of content. See blocking; loosening of associations; poverty of speech.
Formication
The tactile hallucination or illusion that insects are crawling on the body or under the skin.
Fragmentation
Separation into different parts, or preventing their integration, or detaching one or more parts from the rest. A fear of fragmentation of the personality, also known as disintegration anxiety, is often observed in patients whenever they are exposed to repetitions of earlier experiences that interfered with development of the self. This fear may be expressed as feelings of falling apart, as a loss of identity, or as a fear of impending loss of one's vitality and of psychological depletion.
Free association
Fusion
The union and integration of the instincts and drives so that they complement each other and help the organism to deal effectively with both internal needs and external demands.
First responder
The first level of EMS certification. They are normally the first to arrive on scene, and activate the appropriate level of EMS response.
Faint
Temporary loss of consciousness because of an insufficient blood supply to the brain.
Fallopian tube
The tubal passageway connecting the ovary to the uterus.
Familial cholesterolemia
An inherited disorder causing abnormally high levels of cholesterol in the blood.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Free Mammary Artery Graft
When the surgeon removes the mammary artery from its origin to use as a bypass graft.
Free mont Medical Center
Free mont Medical Center is a hospital in Freemont, California (USA).
Free radical
Any molecule that contains an unpaired electron. Free radicals are unstable and will extract electrons from other biological molecules, which generates more free radicals.
Free Radical
A destructive fragment of oxygen produced as a byproduct when cells use oxygen to burn fat.
Freeman Cancer Institute
The Freeman Cancer Institute is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri, United States.
Freeman Health System
Freeman Health System is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri (USA).
Freeman Heart Institute
The Freeman Heart Institute is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri, United States.
Freeman Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
The Freeman Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine is a hospital in Joplin, Missouri, United States.
Freeport Health
Freeport Health is a hospital in Freeport, Illinois (USA).
Freeway space
Distance between the upper and lower teeth with the lower jaw in rest position.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Flooding
Implosion. A behavior therapy procedure for phobias and other problems involving maladaptive anxiety, in which anxiety producers are presented in intense forms, either in imagination or in real life. The presentations, which act as desensitizers, are continued until the stimuli no longer produce disabling anxiety.
Folie à deux
A shared psychotic disorder between 2 people, usually people who are mutually dependent upon each other.
Formal thought disorder
An inexact term referring to a disturbance in the form of thinking rather than to abnormality of content. See blocking; loosening of associations; poverty of speech.
Formication
The tactile hallucination or illusion that insects are crawling on the body or under the skin.
Fragmentation
Separation into different parts, or preventing their integration, or detaching one or more parts from the rest. A fear of fragmentation of the personality, also known as disintegration anxiety, is often observed in patients whenever they are exposed to repetitions of earlier experiences that interfered with development of the self. This fear may be expressed as feelings of falling apart, as a loss of identity, or as a fear of impending loss of one's vitality and of psychological depletion.
Free association
Fusion
The union and integration of the instincts and drives so that they complement each other and help the organism to deal effectively with both internal needs and external demands.
First responder
The first level of EMS certification. They are normally the first to arrive on scene, and activate the appropriate level of EMS response.
Faint
Temporary loss of consciousness because of an insufficient blood supply to the brain.
Fallopian tube
The tubal passageway connecting the ovary to the uterus.
Familial cholesterolemia
An inherited disorder causing abnormally high levels of cholesterol in the blood.
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