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Piblokto
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Piblokto A culture specific syndrome of Eskimos involving attacks of screaming, crying, and running naked through the snow.
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Culture
Growth of cells, tissues or embryos in vitro on an artificial nutrient medium in the laboratory.
Syndrome
A grouping of signs and symptoms, based on their frequent co-occurrence, that may suggest a common underlying pathogenesis, course, familial pattern, or treatment selection.
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Paranoid ideation
Ideation, of less than delusional proportions, involving suspiciousness or the belief that one is being harassed, persecuted, or unfairly treated.
Parasomnia
Abnormal behavior or physiological events occurring during sleep or sleep-wake transitions.
Persecutory delusion
A delusion in which the central theme is that one (or someone to whom one is close) is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or conspired against.
Perseveration
Tendency to emit the same verbal or motor response again and again to varied stimuli.
Phallic stage
The period, from about 21/2 to 6 years, during which sexual interest, curiosity, and pleasurable experience in boys center on the penis, and in girls, to a lesser extent, the clitoris.
Piblokto
Preconscious
Thoughts that are not in immediate awareness but that can be recalled by conscious effort.
Pregenital
In psychoanalysis, refers to the period of early childhood before the genitals have begun to exert the predominant influence in the organization or patterning of sexual behavior. Oral and anal influences predominate during this period.
Pressured speech
Speech that is increased in amount, accelerated, and difficult or impossible to interrupt. Usually it is also loud and emphatic. Frequently the person talks without any social stimulation and may continue to talk even though no one is listening.
Primary gain
The relief from emotional conflict and the freedom from anxiety achieved by a defense mechanism. Contrast with secondary gain.
Primary process
In psychoanalytic theory, the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious. This activity is marked by the free discharge of energy and excitation without regard to the demands of environment, reality, or logic.
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Culture
Growth of cells, tissues or embryos in vitro on an artificial nutrient medium in the laboratory.
Syndrome
A grouping of signs and symptoms, based on their frequent co-occurrence, that may suggest a common underlying pathogenesis, course, familial pattern, or treatment selection.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Paranoid ideation
Ideation, of less than delusional proportions, involving suspiciousness or the belief that one is being harassed, persecuted, or unfairly treated.
Parasomnia
Abnormal behavior or physiological events occurring during sleep or sleep-wake transitions.
Persecutory delusion
A delusion in which the central theme is that one (or someone to whom one is close) is being attacked, harassed, cheated, persecuted, or conspired against.
Perseveration
Tendency to emit the same verbal or motor response again and again to varied stimuli.
Phallic stage
The period, from about 21/2 to 6 years, during which sexual interest, curiosity, and pleasurable experience in boys center on the penis, and in girls, to a lesser extent, the clitoris.
Piblokto
Preconscious
Thoughts that are not in immediate awareness but that can be recalled by conscious effort.
Pregenital
In psychoanalysis, refers to the period of early childhood before the genitals have begun to exert the predominant influence in the organization or patterning of sexual behavior. Oral and anal influences predominate during this period.
Pressured speech
Speech that is increased in amount, accelerated, and difficult or impossible to interrupt. Usually it is also loud and emphatic. Frequently the person talks without any social stimulation and may continue to talk even though no one is listening.
Primary gain
The relief from emotional conflict and the freedom from anxiety achieved by a defense mechanism. Contrast with secondary gain.
Primary process
In psychoanalytic theory, the generally unorganized mental activity characteristic of the unconscious. This activity is marked by the free discharge of energy and excitation without regard to the demands of environment, reality, or logic.
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