Biology
Literally meaning: =selfishness
- Schizoid
Term: schizoid Literally meaning: ?split type ? Origin: Anc Greek?????/schiso(=slash, divide)+(-??????)/-oides(=-oid, prefix meaning ?like?, ?type?, ?form?) Coined/Historyin 1908 by a Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in order to...
- Echopraxia
Term: echopraxia (echomotism)Literally meaning: "sound action?Origin: Anc Greek???/echo(=echo) > ???/eche(=sound) >????/achoe(=hearing)??????/praxis(=action)Coined/HistoryEchopraxia is is closely related to echolalia the involuntary repetition...
- Coeliac Disease
Term : coeliac (disease) Origin: Ancient Greek coelia> kilia(=belly) Coined: by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (2th cen AD) as kiliakos. Later Samuel Jones Gee (1839 ? 3 1911) an English physician in 1888, published the first complete modern description...
- Week Twelve: Vaccination And Public Health
Parents' Roles in Immunization The one thing that I really regret as a mom is not having more input for my kids' immunization schedule. I was at a stage in my life when I just blithely trusted the wisdom of western medicine. As a consequence,...
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Week one: Introducing Myself Arriving late to my first trimester of acupuncture school, I find myself more than a little discombobulated. But, in a nutshell, here is where I have been: I grew up and went to school(s) back east. Moved to California and...
Biology
autism
Term: autism
Literally meaning: =selfishness
Origin: Anc Greek
?????/autos(=self)
+ -ismos (suffix of action)
Coined: In 1912 by Swiss psychiatrist Paul Bleuler (1857-1939) concerning two autistic psychopaths. American psychiatrist Leo Kanner(1896-1981) and Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger (1906-1980) used the term in its modern sense in English
Definition:
Autism is a developmental disability that affects the way in which people understand and react to the world around them such as a lack of understanding and awareness of other people's emotions and feelings. Autism is often referred to as a "spectrum disorder," meaning that the symptoms of autism can present themselves in a variety of combinations, ranging from mild to quite severe.
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comments and refferences: Asperger syndrome is a type of autism
- Schizoid
Term: schizoid Literally meaning: ?split type ? Origin: Anc Greek?????/schiso(=slash, divide)+(-??????)/-oides(=-oid, prefix meaning ?like?, ?type?, ?form?) Coined/Historyin 1908 by a Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in order to...
- Echopraxia
Term: echopraxia (echomotism)Literally meaning: "sound action?Origin: Anc Greek???/echo(=echo) > ???/eche(=sound) >????/achoe(=hearing)??????/praxis(=action)Coined/HistoryEchopraxia is is closely related to echolalia the involuntary repetition...
- Coeliac Disease
Term : coeliac (disease) Origin: Ancient Greek coelia> kilia(=belly) Coined: by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (2th cen AD) as kiliakos. Later Samuel Jones Gee (1839 ? 3 1911) an English physician in 1888, published the first complete modern description...
- Week Twelve: Vaccination And Public Health
Parents' Roles in Immunization The one thing that I really regret as a mom is not having more input for my kids' immunization schedule. I was at a stage in my life when I just blithely trusted the wisdom of western medicine. As a consequence,...
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Week one: Introducing Myself Arriving late to my first trimester of acupuncture school, I find myself more than a little discombobulated. But, in a nutshell, here is where I have been: I grew up and went to school(s) back east. Moved to California and...