slovodefinícia
psychosis
(encz)
psychosis,psychóza n: Zdeněk Brož
Psychosis
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Psychosis \Psy*cho"sis\, n. [NL. See Psycho-.]
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1. Any vital action or activity. --Mivart.
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2. (Med.) A disease of the mind; especially, a functional
mental disorder, that is, one unattended with evident
organic changes.
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psychosis
(wn)
psychosis
n 1: any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is
lost or highly distorted
podobné slovodefinícia
manic-depressive psychosis
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manic-depressive psychosis, n:
metempsychosis
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metempsychosis,stěhování duší Zdeněk Brož
polyneuritic psychosis
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polyneuritic psychosis, n:
psychosis
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psychosis,psychóza n: Zdeněk Brož
schizophrenic psychosis
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schizophrenic psychosis, n:
senile psychosis
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senile psychosis, n:
manic-depressive psychosis
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manic-depressive psychosis \manic-depressive psychosis\ n.
(Med.),
A mental disorder characterized by alternating episodes of
mania and depression.

Syn: bipolar disorder, manic depression, manic depressive
illness.
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metempsychosis
(gcide)
Palingenesis \Pal`in*gen"e*sis\, Palingenesy \Pal`in*gen"e*sy\,
n. [Gr. ?; pa`lin again + ? birth: cf. F. paling['e]n['e]sie.
See Genesis.]
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1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued
existence in different manner or form.
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2. Hence: The passing over of the soul of one person or
animal into the body of another person or animal, at the
time of the death of the first; the transmigration of
souls. Called also metempsychosis.
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3. (Biol.) That form of development of an individual organism
in which in which ancestral characteristics occurring
during its evolution are conserved by heredity and
reproduced, sometimes transiently, in the course of
individual development; original simple descent; --
distinguished from cenogenesis (kenogenesis or
coenogenesis), in which the mode of individual
development has been modified so that the evolutionary
process had become obscured. Sometimes, in Zoology, the
term is applied to the abrupt metamorphosis of insects,
crustaceans, etc. See also the note under
recapitulation.
[1913 Webster +PJC]Metempsychosis \Me*temp`sy*cho"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ?
beyond, over + ? to animate; ? in + ? soul. See
Psychology.]
The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death
of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living
body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of
souls. --Sir T. Browne.
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Metempsychosis
(gcide)
Palingenesis \Pal`in*gen"e*sis\, Palingenesy \Pal`in*gen"e*sy\,
n. [Gr. ?; pa`lin again + ? birth: cf. F. paling['e]n['e]sie.
See Genesis.]
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1. A new birth; a re-creation; a regeneration; a continued
existence in different manner or form.
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2. Hence: The passing over of the soul of one person or
animal into the body of another person or animal, at the
time of the death of the first; the transmigration of
souls. Called also metempsychosis.
[PJC]

3. (Biol.) That form of development of an individual organism
in which in which ancestral characteristics occurring
during its evolution are conserved by heredity and
reproduced, sometimes transiently, in the course of
individual development; original simple descent; --
distinguished from cenogenesis (kenogenesis or
coenogenesis), in which the mode of individual
development has been modified so that the evolutionary
process had become obscured. Sometimes, in Zoology, the
term is applied to the abrupt metamorphosis of insects,
crustaceans, etc. See also the note under
recapitulation.
[1913 Webster +PJC]Metempsychosis \Me*temp`sy*cho"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ?
beyond, over + ? to animate; ? in + ? soul. See
Psychology.]
The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death
of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living
body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of
souls. --Sir T. Browne.
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