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Idiopathic
Idiopathic Of unexplained origin, as in the development of a symptom or syndrome that is apparently spontaneously generated.
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Development
The process of growth and differentiation.
Symptom
A subjective manifestation of a pathological condition. Symptoms are reported by the affected individual rather than observed by the examiner.
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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Idiographic
Specific to the self and unique to one's own biography.
Idiosyncratic
Pertaining to one's individual and sujectively personal ideation, cognitions, affect, tastes, attitudes, habits and behaviors. As in fingerprints, irises, and DNA coding (except in identical twins) the term pertains to one's individuality in any specific measurable factor. Compare to phyletic.
Idiot savant
A person with gross mental retardation who nonetheless is capable of performing certain remarkable feats in sharply circumscribed intellectual areas, such as calendar calculation or puzzle solving.
Idiotype
The combined antigenic determinants (idiotopes) found on antibodies of an individual that are directed at a particular antigen; such antigenic determinants are found only in the variable region.
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Identification
The process of becoming like someone as a sequel to assimilating or copying that person's activities, behavior, and reactions. The term is applied especially to the differentiation of G-I/R (gender identity/role).
Ideogogic
In sex therapy, treatment that involves discussion of ideas and the meaning of one's behavior to other people who are affected by it.
Idiographic
Specific to the self and unique to one's own biography.
Ideological norm
The standard of what is normal as defined by those who, even though in a minority, exercise their authority to impose their own ideology and values on others whom they overpower.
Ideology
A set of ideas, beliefs, or principles to which a person or group adheres, lives by, and possibly dies for.
Idiopathic
Idiosyncratic
Pertaining to one's individual and sujectively personal ideation, cognitions, affect, tastes, attitudes, habits and behaviors. As in fingerprints, irises, and DNA coding (except in identical twins) the term pertains to one's individuality in any specific measurable factor. Compare to phyletic.
Imagery
In mental life, the collective representation of mental images or depictions of anything either perceived (perceptual imagery) or, if not actually present as a sensory stimulus, recognized in memory (memory imagery), or in dream, confabulation, or fantasy (fictive imagery). Imagery refers to a predominantly visual sensory modality of input.
Immutable
Long-lasting and unchangeable.
Imperative
The converse of adventive, in the sense of being obligatory in the development of all members of a species.
Impersonator
An actor or person who assumes the personality and plays the role of being somebody else.
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